Bobtalk

July 27, 1986
Morrison, Colorado
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Concert

We just learned here tonight that this little theatre here was built in the thirties, right? It’s the WPA or something like that. Unemployment. All men unemployed at the time they built this theatre, ain't that right? (before Ballad Of A Thin Man)

OK. We're gonna do this song here. I'd like to dedicate this song to all the people being punished right now for doing good things. Instead of bad things. You hear most of the time about people being punished for doing bad things, but every once in a while someone gets punished for doing good things. (before In The Garden)

All right now. Was that on the cutting edge ha-ha? What's the cutting edge? Anyone like to live on the cutting edge? Newspaper people like to live on the cutting edge. At the end of a blade, cutting edge. Tom and I are gonna sing an old song for you now. They kind they don't write anymore, wish they did. An it's about a man who thinks he knows it all. (before I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know)

Ah, Ricky Nelson, he did a lot of my songs. I'd like to do one of his. This is called Lonesome Town.

All right Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are. Who's on the keyboards? What's his name? Benmont, man, Benmont Tench from South Florida. That's Mike Campbell on lead guitar. On the drums, Stan Lynch. All right, on the bass guitar from Tucson, Arizona, Howie Epstein. Not a lot of people here from out of Tucson I thought. Anyway the man himself right here I especially wanna thank Mr. Tom Petty. I like to say hello to those two guys way up on top of that hill there. Hmm, .... all right I also have my own Heartbreakers. I have to introduce them to. That's Queen Esther Marrow and Carolyn Dennis. Louise Bethune and Madelyn Quebec. (before Like A Rolling Stone)

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