Neben dem Klassiker von "The River", welcher im alten Forum von Ragman schon mal übersetzt wurde, ist das hier auch sehr interessant, im Hinblick auf seine (früheren) familiären Verhältnisse!
taken from:
http://www.iai.csic.es/users/fseco/storiesdarkness.htm
Growin' Up (The Roxy Theater, Los Angeles, CA, July 7, 1978)
There I was one night as a normal guy and then there I was the next night goddamnit I was still just a normal guy.
Well I stood stone like at midnight...
I think, I ain't sure, but I think that my mother and father and my sister they here again tonight. Are you guys out there? You over there? For six years they been following me 'round California trying to get me to come back home. Hey ma! Give it up, ma! Gimme a break! They're still... [fan yells "Where are they?"] I don't know, they're over there somewhere. But they're still trying to get me to go back to college. Every time I come in the house, you know, "It's not too late, you could still go back to college" they told me. I said all right, all right.
But it's funny 'cos when I was growin' up there were two things that were impopular in my house. One was me and the other one was my guitar. And my father 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, like, heating ducts... it was just open like 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 to 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, never the Fender guitar, the Gibson guitar, it was always the goddamned guitar. Whenever he stuck his head on my door that's all I hear "Turn down the goddamned guitar." He was trying to get me to be a lawyer and it was funny 'cos when I was in a motorcycle accident when I was seventeen 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 ??? and he later became mayor, anyway, he looked at me] and he said "Oh man I gotta defend this?". I looked about just about exactly the same way that I look right now.
And I remember we were going to the court the day of the suit like I got, I'm like in the right, I just got hit and my legs 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, just for being there I guess. But anyway my father always said "You know, you should be a lawyer, you know, you get a little something for yourself" and my mother and my sister said "No no no he should be, he should be an author, he should write books." You know, it's a good life if you can get a little something for yourself. But like they didn't understand was that I wanted everything. [fan: "you got it"]. And... so one of you guys want a lawyer and the other one want an author, well tonight you'se are both just gonna have to settle for rock'n'roll.
SeeYou
Thommy