WOW - Springsteen set the bar pretty high for PJ

RyGuy

I know that not everyone here is a huge Springsteen fan, but you have to respect the show he put on for his final night at the Spectrum - three hours, twenty minutes of gloves-off straight up rockin' and rollin.'

Here's the whole setlist - which, by the way, included Born in the USA in full. The challenge has been issued to PJ, here's hoping they blow the E-Street Band out of the water

The Price You Pay
Wrecking Ball
Out in the Street
Hungry Heart
Working on a Dream
Born in the U.S.A.
Cover Me
Darlington County
Working on the Highway
Downbound Train
I'm on Fire
No Surrender
Bobby Jean
I'm Goin' Down
Glory Days
Dancing in the Dark
My Hometown
The Promised Land
The River
Long Walk Home
The Rising
Born to Run
Higher and Higher
* * *
Spirit in the Night
Loose Ends
Kitty's Back
American Land
Save the Last Dance for Me
Waitin' on a Sunny Day
Thunder Road
Rosalita

G Force

Excellent. Ed won't want to be topped.

How the hell is Ed's voice going to hold up for these shows? I predict by Halloween he's all fucked up. In which case I hope he gets all drunk with us and wears a costume and makes a mess of the show. I'd be happily entertained with that. Keep it tight on the 30th though Ed.

theboxerorthebag

that is a beautiful set list.

BustedDownPretext wrote:

I know that not everyone here is a huge Springsteen fan, but you have to respect the show he put on for his final night at the Spectrum - three hours, twenty minutes of gloves-off straight up rockin' and rollin.'

Here's the whole setlist - which, by the way, included Born in the USA in full. The challenge has been issued to PJ, here's hoping they blow the E-Street Band out of the water

The Price You Pay
Wrecking Ball
Out in the Street
Hungry Heart
Working on a Dream
Born in the U.S.A.
Cover Me
Darlington County
Working on the Highway
Downbound Train
I'm on Fire
No Surrender
Bobby Jean
I'm Goin' Down
Glory Days
Dancing in the Dark
My Hometown
The Promised Land
The River
Long Walk Home
The Rising
Born to Run
Higher and Higher
* * *
Spirit in the Night
Loose Ends
Kitty's Back
American Land
Save the Last Dance for Me
Waitin' on a Sunny Day
Thunder Road
Rosalita

High Fidelity 2000

That is an amazing set list! Out in the Street, Promised Land, and Rosalita... I'd kill to hear Bruce & E Street play those songs. Not to mention all of Born in the USA... but CLOSING with Rosalita!? Amazing. And only one song form the last album... even THEY know it sucks. When you'd rather play (and the audience would rather hear) your entire album from 25 years ago, that's gotta be a sign. I really liked Magic, but Working on a Dream has maybe 3 good songs, and at least 3 that are really, really horrible. I have never seen Bruce (except his solo tour in the mid 90s, which was killer), but what a great time to be a fan. After they WERE playing a lot of the new album at the beginning of the tour, they've really wrapped up the tour nicely.

And you're right, Ed's voice is not going to hold up for all 4 nights of Philly. They did a good job spacing them out a bit, but the 31st is gonna be rough for sure. What a run though... I'd kill to go to all 4 of those shows, too.

The thing with Pearl Jam is they need to follow REM's lead (yes, I know PJ plays way longer shows)... REM put out an album full of short songs too, but they said "Since the songs are shorter, we play more songs live." At most of the last few shows, it seems like quantity wise, they're the same as the Pearl Jam shows of the past, but other than San Diego (I'm guessing, here), it doesn't seem like they were all that lengthy time-wise. Johnny Guitar and some of those songs are 2 1/2 to 3 minutes... they should play TWO to count it as ONE on the setlist.

31 songs on the Bruce setlist, and I bet not one of them is under 3 minutes. And remember, most of that band is probably now in their SIXTIES.

Gary Carter

High Fidelity 2000 wrote:

That is an amazing set list! Out in the Street, Promised Land, and Rosalita... I'd kill to hear Bruce & E Street play those songs. Not to mention all of Born in the USA... but CLOSING with Rosalita!? Amazing. And only one song form the last album... even THEY know it sucks. When you'd rather play (and the audience would rather hear) your entire album from 25 years ago, that's gotta be a sign. I really liked Magic, but Working on a Dream has maybe 3 good songs, and at least 3 that are really, really horrible. I have never seen Bruce (except his solo tour in the mid 90s, which was killer), but what a great time to be a fan. After they WERE playing a lot of the new album at the beginning of the tour, they've really wrapped up the tour nicely.

umm he's been doing full albums the last few shows of this tour and has been playing alot from the new album. so no they don't know it sucks. :roll:

wow joe torre was at the spectrum last night. very cool.

mrpink90

they opened with The Price You Pay, a song from The River that hadnt been played live since 1981!

Not sure what the PJ equivalent of that would be, opening with Bugs? haha

BeerBaron

BustedDownPretext wrote:

I know that not everyone here is a huge Springsteen fan, but you have to respect the show he put on for his final night at the Spectrum - three hours, twenty minutes of gloves-off straight up rockin' and rollin.'

Here's the whole setlist - which, by the way, included Born in the USA in full. The challenge has been issued to PJ, here's hoping they blow the E-Street Band out of the water

The Price You Pay
Wrecking Ball
Out in the Street
Hungry Heart
Working on a Dream
Born in the U.S.A.
Cover Me
Darlington County
Working on the Highway
Downbound Train
I'm on Fire
No Surrender
Bobby Jean
I'm Goin' Down
Glory Days
Dancing in the Dark
My Hometown
The Promised Land
The River
Long Walk Home
The Rising
Born to Run
Higher and Higher
* * *
Spirit in the Night
Loose Ends
Kitty's Back
American Land
Save the Last Dance for Me
Waitin' on a Sunny Day
Thunder Road
Rosalita

Hmm ... that's 31 songs. Doesn't seem THAT long to me ... wasn't LA4 31 songs? Does Bruce have fairly long songs on average compared to PJ?

bazzer

BustedDownPretext wrote:

Here's the whole setlist - which, by the way, included Born in the USA in full.

Here's me reading this thinking "they usually play an abridged version of this song?" D'oh!

RyGuy

BeerBaron wrote:

Hmm ... that's 31 songs. Doesn't seem THAT long to me ... wasn't LA4 31 songs? Does Bruce have fairly long songs on average compared to PJ?

It's 31 songs, but the show clocked in at three hours and twenty minutes. Much longer than any PJ show - on this tour, at least.

covered in bliss

didn't Springsteen announce months ago that born to run would be played every show?

Sorry but I doubt vedder will WANT to out-do one of his idols. That would be kind of weird, wouldn't it?

What if PJ plays the same setlist every night? Now THAT would be a first-time-ever!!! LMAO!

pandora

cover me awesome song- never got to see it live
or pink cadillac or I'm on Fire
their atlanta show kind of sucked a few years back
I thought
just a whole lotta arm banging

Solat13

BustedDownPretext wrote:

BeerBaron wrote:

Hmm ... that's 31 songs. Doesn't seem THAT long to me ... wasn't LA4 31 songs? Does Bruce have fairly long songs on average compared to PJ?

It's 31 songs, but the show clocked in at three hours and twenty minutes. Much longer than any PJ show - on this tour, at least.

It was amazing last night. One of the top 5 shows I have ever seen. Didn't leave the stage till 11:45 shattering the 11 pm curfew.

I saw two 3 hour plus Bruce shows in a week. I've seen 2 three hour plus shows by PJ out of 48 shows. I can't wait to see what PJ pulls out for these.

crazygeo

I saw him the first night last week for the first time...i have to admit the guy was amazing...crowd surf

But, Pearl jam..this should be into my 10th shows for me...whoa!

JaneNY

mrpink90 wrote:

they opened with The Price You Pay, a song from The River that hadnt been played live since 1981!

Not sure what the PJ equivalent of that would be, opening with Bugs? haha

That would be nice to see (The Price You Pay) - I might have seen it on the 1980 tour, but I can't really remember!
Regarding PJ, they don't have as extensive catalog as Bruce (yet!) so they don't have as many 'haven't been played since xxxx' songs yet, but I'm sure they will get there.

force-10

Hey philly people and everyone who will go to philly for the PJ shows:

I envy your guts, in a good way. Did any of you know that the day after John Lennon was killed, Springsteen put up an amazing show at the wachovia?

"One of the most memorable performances came on the night of December 9, 1980. After learning of the assassination of John Lennon following a performance there the night before, Bruce Springsteen opened the show with a statement regarding Lennon and said "it’s a hard thing to come out and play but there’s just nothing else you can do." With members of the E Street Band in tears, Springsteen and his band put on 34-song marathon which ended nearly 3 and 1/2 hours later with a scorching version of Twist and Shout."

Have fun! Fuck the phillies (I hope they win the WS), go see PJ!!!

SomethingCreative

TipJammer wrote:

How the hell is Ed's voice going to hold up for these shows?

he could quit smoking for one instead of embracing it like some sort of challenge

Solat13

I didn't realize this until just now, but Springsteen's first arena show he headlined was at the Spectrum almost 33 years ago - October 25, 1976.

No wonder he put on a helluva show last night.

mca47

Great set Bruuuuuuuuce!!!!


Wish I could have been there!


Anyways, I really doubt PJ will put up those numbers, but then again...they are playing 4 shows.

PJ has played 3 hour+ shows only a handful of times. Bruce does it at least 25% of the time.


I hope PJ blows the roof of the fuckin' place!!

By the way...F Philly!

Taft

And why is thread in The Porch and not Other Music????

Paul Andrews

My one and only Springsteen show was at Giant's Stadium - the final show there. It was a brilliant performance and I'm only a casual Springsteen fan. After seeing Pearl Jam rip the roof off at LA3 and LA4 it was a great follow up. Unfortunately my next night was KISS at MSG and they sucked ball - spectacular, but missing the heart and soul of the PJ and BS shows. Stanley is an idiot.

Bruce played Born in the USA in its entirety and it was excellent - one of the albums that really changed my view of music in the 80s when i was in high school. It intorduced me to The River, Darkness and other brilliant works from Springsteen. What was really good was how some of the songs were (only) slightly different in tempo or arrangement from the album - "Downbound Train" was probably the highlight from the album on the night - so full of emotion and dispair (I'm sure we've all been there). But then again, No Surrender and Bobby Jean rocked about as hard as Born To Run. I just could not stop thinking of Regan and his misreading of the song Born In The USA during its performance. The show will go down as one of the best I have seen. I'm converted.

After seeing the two acts within a few days of each other, I feel they are both the best at what they do - some similarities, some differences but the same integrity. Maybe Bruce and The E-Street Band is at a place today where PJ will be in 20 or so years. Whatever the comparisons, I think both bands give 100% and fire the belly of their audiences. I felt the same love and comraderie in both crowds and the same admiration and respect for the audience from the performers. To see parents with their kids at the shows - and even grandparents at the Springsteen show, I get the feeling both acts cross over the generation gaps and are held in such high regard by their fans, that passing the love onto their kids is a special thing. None of this I felt at KISS who I feel should give up. Having said that - I'm looking forward to Ace Frehley's solo tour of Australia.

As to how can PJ top his Spectrum shows, I really don't think they have to. They just have to go out and perform to their usual standard and everyone will leave happy. We are fans of one of the best band on the face of the earth - let's be happy with that.

High Fidelity 2000

SomethingCreative wrote:

TipJammer wrote:

How the hell is Ed's voice going to hold up for these shows?

he could quit smoking for one instead of embracing it like some sort of challenge

Quote of the year right there! Thank you! That interview pissed me off where he said something about "I drink like there's a faucet over my head and smoke like a chimney. It it's a challenge, here's what I'm gonna do to make it even harder." Pair that with the part in the last DVD where he's holding a lit cigarette saying "I wish I could find the magical cure for my throat" or whatever. And Ed thinks Bush voters were stupid...