Bobtalk

June 21, 1986
Austin, Texas
The Frank Erwin Center, University Of Texas At Austin
Concert

Thank you. We have a very special (inaudible) in the house tonight. We'll play a song (inaudible) Actually, he did it too. (before We Had It All)

Is there a full moon tonight or is it just me? (before When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky)

OK all right. I ran into some trouble backstage over what I said before. I didn't mean everybody's got to pay for a ticket all the time. Because I play free shows too sometimes. Well it was a song about critics and all that. It was an argument that critics could go to a show and ask all the people what they thought of the show. Rather than what he thinks of the show. Maybe, something like that. I'm not sure what I mean actually. Maybe someday things will change. And it usually does. I just thought it out. I used to come here, to Austin. Used to come to Austin. Used to stay at the place on 7th Trinity, but the house is gone. Anyway... (after Rainy Day Women #12 & 35)

Well, I want to thank Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers for backing me up tonight. Give them a hand. You know how good they are... On the keyboards, Benmont Tench. On the lead guitar, Michael Campbell. On the drums, Stan Lynch. Playing the bass guitar, Howie Epstein. I especially wanna thank Mr. Tom Petty himself. Great performer, should be around a while. (before In The Garden)

OK now. I'd like to say right now that I have my own Heartbreakers. I wanna introduce you to them now. Queen Esther Marrow, Madelyn Quebec, Louise Bethune and Carolyn Dennis. Been with me now a long time. (before Knockin' On Heaven's Door).

All right. Thank you. Right now I wanna introduce a band needs no introduction at all. I wanna introduce them anyway. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. (after Masters Of War).

All right. We got a song for you... wrote a song for (inaudible) sometimes the truth can be stranger than fiction. (before Band Of The Hand).

All right. Ricky Nelson, he did a lot of my songs so I'm gonna do one of his called Lonesome Town.

All right, well, this is a song I wrote a while back. People can always take it the wrong way. Anyway, I was writing this one about people. Critics, people who are critics. I never minded anybody saying anything they wanted as long as they paid for a ticket. People who get in free and then have the bad raps on me, I always felt something was wrong with that. Anyway I don't want to make a big deal... ha, ha. People asking me all the time drivin' me crazy. Anyway so I wrote this a while back. It's as old as the hills. I always do it every tour so here it is. I usually play it every show, not every tour. (plays Ballad Of A Thin Man) All right, one more time now... Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.

All right now. Ha, ha... Tom was talking about before how nice it was for him to be with me, but I got to tell you, really it is the situation reversed. It's a very big, wide privilege to play with this band. I wanna acknowledge that. (before Like A Rolling Stone)

All right now. We gonna do, we got a lot of Ray Charles fans here tonight. We'll do this one. (before Unchain My Heart)

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