Bobtalk

March 5, 1986
Tokyo, Japan
Nippon Budokan
Concert

Thank you. That was a recent hit of mine. Ha-ha. I'll play you an old time song I wrote about fifty years ago, during my protest period. I'm still in that period. I suppose everybody else is too. I know some of you are. Anyway this one I wrote a while back. It still holds up, so I still sing it. It's called Masters Of War.

Thank you. I happened to be here before, so I know a lot of people know me, but right now I want to introduce you to one of America's last great Rock and Roll bands, certainly my favorite. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. (after Masters Of War)

This is a song I wrote a while back about a man who died before his time. Did a lot of things that a lot of people weren't too pleased with. And when they gave him a real rough time for doing it, and he <inadible> in a kind of a strange way, they just did away with it. But that was about twenty years ago. Now today people are doing just the same things he did only they're not doing it as good, but they’re making a lot of money doing it, they’re living in nice big houses, and they’re being very successful at it. So, sometimes you know you got to be incredibly, incredibly ????. I wrote this song a while back specially for him. (before Lenny Bruce)

I was over in England one time doing a press conference. And that was the first time I ever gave a press conference where I didn't want to answer any of the questions. I didn't answer any of 'em. From that point on I stopped answering questions. People wanna know just all about your personal life you know, where I came from anyway. That’s very impolite. Anyway I wrote this thing here. Try to have my say again, I don’t know if it ever reached anybody who's supposed to reached, actually got hurt, but it made me feel better to write it. (before Ballad Of A Thin Man)

Thank you. Domo, domo, domo. Anyway, everybody must get stoned. You know that can be taken a couple of different ways. Quite a few of my songs can be taken quite a bunch of different ways really. At least two or three. Well, here's one, actually the first for me, that’s can’t be taken but one way. (before Seeing The Real You At Last)

I wanna thank Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for backing me up tonight. On the keyboards, give him a warm hand, Benmont Tench. On the drums, please, Mr. Stan Lynch. On the bass guitar, Howie Epstein. Playing lead guitar tonight, Michael Campbell. And I especially want to thank Mr. Tom Petty himself. [starts song] Oh, and my girl singers there, sorry about that, I sing, they go every place with me. You got to clap for them too. (before Like A Rolling Stone)

Thank you. All right. Gotta get out of here now. Got to hit the road. Ha-ha. Don’t know where we gonna go but ... it’s past my bedtime. All right, anyway I wanna sing a song about my hero. Everybody’s got their own special hero, where I come from we got, <calls from the audience> ... excuse me? ... anyway, all kinds of heroes where I come from, John Wayne, Clark Gable, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen. Anyway I don't care nothing about none of those people, I got my own hero. I wanna sing about my hero now. (before In The Garden)

All right. I’ll sing an old song for you that used to be on the radio one time. You don’t hear songs like that on the radio anymore, that's for sure. (before I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know)

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