There I was one night....just a normal guy....and then....there I was....the next night....goddamn, I was still just a normal guy ....
(....) I think....I ain't sure.....but I think....my mother and father and my sister, they´re here again tonight....hey, are you guys out there?....they´re over there?....for six years they've been following me around California, trying to get me to come back home.
...hey Ma, give it up, huh....give me a break!....they still chuckles) (someone in the crowd: ´Where are they ?´) I don´t know, they´re over there somewhere but (someone in the crowd: ´Get them to take a bow´) you know, they´re still trying to get me to go back to college....every time I come into the house, you know, ´It´s not too late, you can still go back to college´, they tell me....I say ´Alright, alright, Ma´....but it´s funny ´cause.....when I was....growing up.... there were two things that were unpopular in my house.....one was me....and the other one was my guitar (chuckles) and my father, he used to sit in the kitchen, and we had this grate, like, the heat´s supposed to come through, except it wasn´t hooked up to any, any, like, heating ducts, it was just open, straight down to the kitchen and there was a gas-stove right underneath it....and when I used to start playing, he used to turn on the gas-jets and try to smoke me out of my room.....I´d end up out on, out on the roof or something..... and he used to always refer to this guitar, you know, never ´Fender guitar´, ´Gibson guitar´, it was always the ´Goddamn guitar´....every...he stuck his head in my door, that´s all I´d hear ´Turn down that goddamn guitar´....he used to try to get me to be a lawyer and it was funny ´cause I was in a motorcycle accident when I was 17 and, like, this cat just, you know, ran head on into me and then got out and yelled at me for ruining his Cadillac ....and we had, like, a suit, a legal suit and my father took me down to this lawyer in town, his name was Billy Boyle and he later became mayor, which, and anyway, I went down there and he looked at me and he said ´Oh man, I gotta defend this?´, I looked about, just about exactly the same way I look right now and, uh (chuckles) and like I remember we were going to court, right, the day of the suit, like, I got, I´m like in a wreck, I just got hit, my leg´s messed up, and I remember my lawyer telling me ´If I was the judge, I´d find you guilty´, you know....I don´t know for what, for being, just for being there, I guess, you know (chuckles)(?) but anyway....my father´d always say ´You know, you should be a lawyer, you know, you get, get a little something for yourself´, you know, and my mother ....you know, she used to say ´No, no, no, no, he should be, he should be an author, he should write books, you know, you should, that´s a good life, you can get a little something for yourself´, but like what they didn't understand was, was that I wanted everything....(a woman yells: ´You got it´) and....so, you guys, one of you guys wanted a lawyer and the other one wanted an author, well, tonight youse are both just gonna have to settle for rock´n´roll...."
