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Zod

I keep scoping out Seattle tickets, but there super expensive.. I'll keep checking to see if they get better.   I haven't even seen platinum tickets for the pit, just one pair of resell tickets for $1000/ticket.

Hoping they come to Vancouver next year.

I've seen Springsteen twice.  First time I had a massive fever with bronchitus but tried to tough it out.  It was an amazing show, but I literally sat down in the middle of the pit with two songs to go because I was in bad shape.   2nd show was the Wrecking Ball tour, and I count that as a top 5 show I've ever seen.  It was so good.   I'd like to see another show

helplessdancer

rear stage $250 now. i'm gonna wait this one out... for a long while

the number of people reselling tickets for profit is clearly out of control.   proof.  

GB281198

https://youtu.be/GsTKEQzLkmw

mrussel1

Tunnel of Love meets the Commodores.  

CROJAM95

pretty good Stern interview....went by too fast....The Clarence stuff got me choked up

Bentleyspop

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1590454005804814338?t=oTJS3a_bcWX53hyv4hXDtg&s=19

mickeyrat

https://apnews.com/article/celebrity-music-entertainment-tampa-19eb75b89815edb52b78a8dfdf27c1e4

 

Celebrity Clarence Clemons Roy Bittan Nils Lofgren Garry Tallent Tampa Max Weinberg Patti Scialfa Bruce Springsteen

Exuberant Springsteen, E St. Band launch 1st tour in 6 years

By CURT ANDERSON

2 Feb 2023

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — It's been six years since Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band embarked on a major tour.

Judging by the first show Wednesday night in Tampa, Florida, you'd never know it. The Boss and his band served notice they are back.

At just under three hours, it wasn't quite one of the marathon performances the 73-year-old Springsteen is best known for. But kicking off with “No Surrender” and finishing with a solo acoustic “I'll See You In My Dreams,” Springsteen was in fine voice, and his big band matched his energy.

There were 19 musicians on the Amalie Arena stage at various points during the show, including the core of Springsteen's wife, singer Patti Scialfa, bandana-wearing guitarist Stevie Van Zandt, fellow guitarist Nils Lofgren, drummer Max Weinberg, bassist Garry Tallent and keyboardist Roy Bittan.

Missing of course was the original “Big Man,” sax player Clarence Clemons, who died in 2011. But his nephew Jake Clemons didn't miss a beat and ripped off some gorgeous solos throughout the night. He was backed by a brass section that rounded out the big sound.

The 28 songs included favorites like “Born To Run,” “Glory Days," “Rosalita,” “Promised Land” and “Backstreets.” Yet six songs came from Springsteen's 2020 album “Letter To You,” and left unplayed at least for this performance was the classic “Thunder Road.”

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There was only one song from “The River,” which his 2017 tour played in its entirety. That was the exuberant “Out In The Street.” And the closing acoustic song “Dreams” was a staple of his “Springsteen On Broadway” performances.

Springsteen's devoted fans ate it all up, with 20,000 people in the arena standing for almost the entire show. For them, a performance by the Boss is a kind of religious experience that simply must be sought out.

“This is a ray of light. This is something we've been waiting for,” said Billy Himmelrich, who came over from Delray Beach.

His wife, Shelly, took it a step further: “I listen to his music all the time. In a way, he's my spiritual leader.”

Springsteen didn't have a whole lot to say to his fans, ripping instead through song after song with little banter. But he did acknowledge his age — and theirs, too.

“At 15, it's all tomorrows. And at 73, it's a whole lot of yesterdays,” Springsteen said. “That's why you've got to make the most of right now.”

And Springsteen delivered. His energy was as high as ever, venturing into the crowd and even conducting the brass section at one point. He shredded numerous guitar solos, and almost every song seemed epic, like a couple of dozen encores strung together.

It's clear he and the band just want to play. Fifty years after his first two albums were released — and before “Born To Run” made him a superstar — Springsteen may not jump as high, but when he raises his arms, everyone else must as well.

Springsteen doesn't have to “Prove It All Night,” but that's what he does. He's sold around 140 million albums, won 20 Grammys, an Oscar and a Tony award. Few artists can match those accomplishments.

And now it's on to the rest of the 31-date U.S. tour, which ends with a homecoming April 14 in New Jersey. From there, it's off to Europe, starting with an April 28 show in Barcelona, Spain.

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This story has been corrected to say Jake Clemons is Clarence Clemons’ nephew.

mrussel1

There's no one like Bruce. 

nicknyr15

mrussel1 said:

There's no one like Bruce. 

Never seen him but absolutely must find a way to catch him in my area without having to sell an organ this spring. Not looking likely though 

Zod

I keep looking for decently priced Seattle tickets to pop up, but I think I'll be SOL, they'll probably keep showing as platinum until the week of the show, then probably see the odd face value pair that's not a nosebleed.  At which point it will be to late to book the time of work to travel to Seattle.

He's Amazing though.  I put PJ and Springsteen as my two favourite live Artists.  They mixed up the sets, have a helluva live presence, ravenous fans, and mix up the set every night.  Good stuff

Spiritual_Chaos

Backstreets is shutting down in response to greedy-Bruce

Zod

It's a bit interesting.  Before Dynamic pricing, promoters would sell tickets directly to scalpers to increase the revenue they could make on a show (which allowed them to pay the band more).   When they did it that way, scalpers got all the hate.   Artists didn't want to create a reputation of being greedy.   Things like TM and Scalpers shielded them from the hate.   Now with platinum pricing there's no escaping it.

Gern Blansten

It's a strange issue....I like the idea of the artist getting the premium rather than a scalper but damn....shit is getting crazy.

TM is a monopoly but I do wonder how others can compete. True competition would be multiple sellers trying to sell tickets to the same show. The database for a show has to exist in one server so I'm not even sure how that would work.

Maybe the feds should just regulate it like a utility.

JOEJOEJOE

Gern Blansten said:

It's a strange issue....I like the idea of the artist getting the premium rather than a scalper but damn....shit is getting crazy.

TM is a monopoly but I do wonder how others can compete. True competition would be multiple sellers trying to sell tickets to the same show. The database for a show has to exist in one server so I'm not even sure how that would work.

Maybe the feds should just regulate it like a utility.

In the UK, there are multiple primary ticket vendors that each get an allotment of tickets for most shows. 

RatherStarved

Anyone got 1-2 extra Bruce Buffalo?

Spiritual_Chaos

Why can I get a Bruce ticket for 100-120 dollars in Sweden, when its a million dollars in the US…

Happy to see him again next summer. 

Hi!

 Cheapest ticket for Detroit is $140 (before fees) in upper deck behind stage. Upper deck side stage, you’re looking at like 400+. I may go if I can get out of work on time to make the drive, weather, mood, ect.  

I listened to the Tampa show on nugs the other day, sounded amazing. 

nicknyr15

Wish there was some more “letter to you tunes” in the set 

Zod

The cheapest ones I can find in Seattle are behind the stage for 225 USD.   Everything is resellers (I'm actually surprised that there's not many platinum tickets).  I had a bad experience at the 2013 PJ show at Key Arena sitting upper deck behind the show (the lighting rig blocked most of the view of the front of the stage, all I could really see is Matt C. Drumming).

I think I'll keep holding onto hope he comes and plays Vancouver, but usually bands play Vancouver right before/after they play Seattle, as there's not that many cities to play here.   I've noticed less bands making that trek since covid started (even though I don't think there's any rules for crossing the border anymore).

ComeToTX

Going in Austin next week. It’ll be my first time so I’m pretty pumped.