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meme

meme wrote:

He played it in Italy in 2003

dedicated it to Patti on their anniversary date in Florence.

Astird

JaneNY wrote:

It was a lot of fun. I must say I felt young in this particular pit. I didn't get there early enough to be in the upfront pit section, but I was halfway in the GA section right behind it. Fabulous show, as Bruce always does. Nice to hear some tracks I haven't heard in many years (my first show was 1978). Adam Raised a Cain and The Ties that Bind are favorites of mine.

Really really cool to have the Arcade Fire people there. Gotta go finish some work.

I don't know you, but when I saw that a PJ person was driving up for the show I changed into my pj shirt. I never ended up taking off my jacket but i left it open , but I thought someone might notice the surfboard logo at some point in line...oh well

http://www.youaintnopicasso.com/2007/10/15/video-bruce-springsteen-arcade-fire-keep-the-car-running/ Bruce with AF

JaneNY

MurphyJesus wrote:

I don't know you, but when I saw that a PJ person was driving up for the show I changed into my pj shirt. I never ended up taking off my jacket but i left it open , but I thought someone might notice the surfboard logo at some point in line...oh well

Oh gosh! Sorry I didn't see you - were you in the pit? (I was in the GA section behind the pit - I wanted to be in the pit, but I had to drive home from Philly Sunday to drop off my daughter (400 miles) BEFORE setting out to Ottawa 90 miles away! It was a long day. I had on a Tiger Army shirt with a black hoodie and skinny jeans - we had just gone to see Tiger Army/Street Dogs in Philly Saturday night, so it was a rushed weekend and I didn't get to Ottawa before 6:45 as hard as I tried! Totally worth it though.

p.s. wow - cool video!!!!! thanks for the link!

Bathgate66

Setlist:
Radio Nowhere
Night
Lonesome Day
Gypsy Biker
For You
Magic
Reason to Believe
Candy's Room
She's the One
Livin' in the Future
The Promised Land
Town Called Heartbreak
Incident on 57th Street
Darlington County
Devil's Arcade
The Rising
Last to Die
Long Walk Home
Badlands
* * *
Girls in Their Summer Clothes
Thundercrack
Born to Run
Dancing in the Dark
American Land


manhattans ready
and waitin'

JaneNY

Oh! For You. I'm gonna cry. It is one of my totally totally favorite songs.

Astird

JaneNY wrote:

Oh gosh! Sorry I didn't see you - were you in the pit? (I was in the GA section behind the pit - I wanted to be in the pit, but I had to drive home from Philly Sunday to drop off my daughter (400 miles) BEFORE setting out to Ottawa 90 miles away! It was a long day. I had on a Tiger Army shirt with a black hoodie and skinny jeans - we had just gone to see Tiger Army/Street Dogs in Philly Saturday night, so it was a rushed weekend and I didn't get to Ottawa before 6:45 as hard as I tried! Totally worth it though.

p.s. wow - cool video!!!!! thanks for the link!

I was there at 2 and got no. 20 for the pit line but the people who got there later got in. I was right up against the rail in the GA area in the pit though.

I'm still on a natural high from it.

My one complaint was the no camera thing. I was in a perfect position for once to take amazing pictures dammit.

Bathgate66

MurphyJesus wrote:

My one complaint was the no camera thing. I was in a perfect position for once to take amazing pictures dammit.

bruce has his own security at every show ,independant from each particular venues security- their sole purpose is cameras and video-ing. It is long known about the no camera policy ,......

you need to " sneak " your pics , sparingly, throughout the show.
dont get caught, and dont let them see the flash ! ( disable the flash mechanisms if youre able to , it will prolong your picture taking life at the bruce show) You need to be very crafty in order to capture decent pictures-

dont sweat it, some pics usually surface one way or the other after each show. .

Poncier

Bathgate66 wrote:

bruce has his own security at every show ,independant from each particular venues security- their sole purpose is cameras and video-ing. It is long known about the no camera policy ,......

you need to " sneak " your pics , sparingly, throughout the show.
dont get caught, and dont let them see the flash ! ( disable the flash mechanisms if youre able to , it will prolong your picture taking life at the bruce show) You need to be very crafty in order to capture decent pictures-

dont sweat it, some pics usually surface one way or the other after each show. .

I got some decent ones in '99 with a disposable camera. The beauty of scoring 4th row seats in the pre-GA days.

Astird

Bathgate66 wrote:

bruce has his own security at every show ,independant from each particular venues security- their sole purpose is cameras and video-ing. It is long known about the no camera policy ,......

you need to " sneak " your pics , sparingly, throughout the show.
dont get caught, and dont let them see the flash ! ( disable the flash mechanisms if youre able to , it will prolong your picture taking life at the bruce show) You need to be very crafty in order to capture decent pictures-

dont sweat it, some pics usually surface one way or the other after each show. .

I know, I didn't even bother in the position i was in. I was right on the rail with lots of space in front of me with 2 guards facing our way the whole time. At the last Bruce show in 2005 I sneaked a pic and almost got assaulted by one of the venue people who is actually a family friend lol. The more you pay for a ticket the less you can do it seems.

I saw Patti Smith a few weeks ago...ticket was $35.00 and there was no problem for recording or cameras. Love that.

Just found this: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=166668

Bathgate66

MurphyJesus wrote:

I know, I didn't even bother in the position i was in. I was right on the rail with lots of space in front of me with 2 guards facing our way the whole time. At the last Bruce show in 2005 I sneaked a pic and almost got assaulted by one of the venue people who is actually a family friend lol. The more you pay for a ticket the less you can do it seems.

I saw Patti Smith a few weeks ago...ticket was $35.00 and there was no problem for recording or cameras. Love that.

Just found this: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=166668

i love to snap pics also-
but at the same time i can respect the fact that Bruce doesnt like scumbags ( such as scalpers or ebayers ) making profit on his image or work.

Bathgate66

Bruce Springsteen: The Rolling Stone Interview
The E Street Band chief talks about making his most romantic record since "Born to Run"

Joe LevyPosted Oct 17, 2007 6:09 AM



This afternoon, Bruce Springsteen has a lot on his mind. There is the matter of band rehearsals and the thirty-seven-date world tour that he will soon start. There is the new album he has made, Magic, his third release in the past eighteen months. There is also the subject matter of that album, weighty stuff like the direction of our democracy and party stuff that recalls the days when sparks first flew on E Street more than three decades ago. And there is something else as well: His oldest son's soccer game starts at 4:30.
Springsteen's life at fifty-eight revolves around family and music. It was not always this way. For a long time, there was only the music. And then, for a while, only the family. The balance he's achieved — and the creative roll he's been on, four albums in the past five years — is relatively recent. "I spent about ten years where I had no destination, exactly," he says, referring to the time during which he moved to Los Angeles, settled into his second marriage and began a family. He and wife Patti Scialfa have three children, Evan, 17, Jessica, 16, and Sam, 13.

The ten years Springsteen mentions roughly line up with the period during which the E Street Band was idle, from 1988 to 1999. During that time, Springsteen redefined his career and his music more radically than any major artist save Bob Dylan, the eternal trickster. Having reached the level of mass success that his music and ambition always demanded, Springsteen pulled back. His subject matter went first inward and then outward. The most personal albums he ever made — Lucky Town and Human Touch — were, as he's pointed out, his happiest and least successful. In 1995, The Ghost of Tom Joad, a literary album with a political bent — Raymond Carver meets Woody Guthrie — followed the birth of his youngest child. He had gone, in seven years, from stadiums to arenas to theaters, a man alone with an acoustic guitar.

In 1999, a few months shy of his fiftieth birthday, Springsteen went on tour with the E Street Band for the first time in more than a decade. As it always had, the band put flesh and muscle behind the words, reconnecting Springsteen to the rock and soul that had first been the wellspring of his music. This is clear when I watch the band rehearse for its current tour at Convention Hall in Asbury Park, New Jersey — an arena band gathering in a room the size of a high school gymnasium to stretch out before a long run. In that familiar voice full of gravel, Springsteen traces Sam Cooke-style melodic runs in the air.

Magic returns to the spirit of Asbury Park with a big sound Springsteen hasn't pursued since Born to Run. "Lately, I've had a little romance with my oldest stuff," he says. "There was a lot of freeness in it. When you start and when you finish — that's when the pressure is off. In the beginning, you're too unknown, you're not really competing with people. And at this point, I'm not competing with 50 Cent or trying to get on MTV. I'm playing for myself and my band and my audience." As he explains when we sit down to talk backstage at Convention Hall, Magic uses the boardwalk sounds of the past to put across the feeling of the present: "the uneasiness of these very uneasy times." Often when he speaks, Springsteen laughs midsentence, as if he's embarrassed to be taking himself this seriously. But not when he talks about the course the country has taken under George W. Bush or the war in Iraq. Then the laughter stops.

The record starts with "Radio Nowhere," a song about a guy out on the road looking for a connection.
It's an end-of-the-world scenario — he's seeing the apocalypse. All communications are down: "Trying to find my way home/All I heard was a drone bouncing off a satellite/Crushing the last lone American night." That's my business, that's what it's all about — trying to connect to you. It comes down to trying to make people happy, feel less lonely, but also being a conduit for a dialogue about the events of the day, the issues that impact people's lives, personal and social and political and religious. That's how I always saw the job of our band. That was my service. At this point, I'm in the middle of a very long conversation with my audience.

And what are you hearing from their side of the conversation? A lot of different things. "I like the old Bruce better. . . ." [Laughs] It's an ongoing dialogue about what living means. It's not like a one-on-one dialogue. It's more what you feel back from them. You create a space together. You are involved in an act of the imagination together, imagining the life you want to live, the kind of country you want to live in, the kind of place you want to leave to your children. What are the things that bring you ecstasy and bliss, what are the things that bring on the darkness, and what can we do together to combat those things? That's the dialogue I have in my imagination when I'm writing. I have it in front of me when I'm performing.

It's an organic, living thing. There's something subtly different being said on a nightly basis. But you're attempting to define and have impact upon the world and the life you're living. I can't do it by myself. I need my audience. It'll be a lifelong journey by the time that I'm done.

Bathgate66

October 17 / New York, NY / Madison Square Garden

Notes: A solid, fun show for night one at the Garden. Springsteen wasn't in man-on-a-mission mode, he just seemed to be enjoying himself thoroughly. Not to suggest there wasn't plenty of power on that stage: "Backstreets" kicked ass, and the "Reason"/"Adam"/"She's the One" trifecta is hard to deny. But there was just more of the relaxed feel that comes with this kind of "friends and family" show. Spotted in the crowd: James Gandolfini, The Killers, and Bono (who was rumored for a guest spot, but didn't leave his seat all night).

At the end of "Girls in Their Summer Clothes" Bruce dropped a Beach Boys reference (besides the song itself), saying, "I wish they all could be New York City girls...." And he cast his mind back to his early days in the city for "Thundercrack": "This was our show closer when we first played Max's Kansas City. It was us and the Wailers -- that was a good bill." I'll say. During "Dancing in the Dark," Bruce hollered, "C'mon, Stevie -- let's dance!" And Steve didn't disappoint, going right into the Monkey. It was that kind of night.

-Photographs by A.M. Saddler


Setlist:
Radio Nowhere
The Ties That Bind
Lonesome Day
Gypsy Biker
Magic
Reason to Believe
Adam Raised a Cain
She's the One
Livin' in the Future
The Promised Land
Brilliant Disguise
Backstreets
Darlington County
Devil's Arcade
The Rising
Last to Die
Long Walk Home
Badlands
* * *
Girls in Their Summer Clothes
Thundercrack
Born to Run
Dancing in the Dark
American Land



Highlights :

The Ties That Bind-

didnt expect this one, enjoyed it very much . Lots of audience participation the entire show - this one hasd lots of " La-La-La-La-La-La's " .


Adam Raised A Cain

Man is this one song I so wanted to hear- and wow how powerful this song is . I so want to hear a full pearl jam cover this song someday , the guitarwork could easily be handled by Stone , Mike, & even Ed. Nils was nto it, as was Bruce, and of course the remainder of the E Streeters. The placement in the set was genius, between the new and revived Reason To Believe ( it is so obvious that Bruce is enjoying this foot stomper nightly- im glad he decided to only usde the bulletmic for the final verse, as opposed to the old way where he used the bulletminc the entire song . ) & then Shes The One . Niiiiiiice !
W O W ! !



Backstreets

what to say, what to say .
Perhaps the best song ever recorded and written by Bruce & ESB . Irregardless of whos on the ivory , ( I have seen this played with Bruce at the piano , and also with The Professor at the piano ) -- Either way , its an undisputed masterpiece. Bruces vocals were on the money , as was the entire ESB for this bring-down-the-house and slay the crowd piece. !




Songs I wouldnt miss if removed from the setlist- and stowed away somewhere of Bruces choosing- so long as we dont hear them again till the next tour : ( another words- enough of these already - they take the wind out of the sails of the crowd and kills the momentum )

do we really need both Lonesome Day and The Rising ?
dont get me wrong- i love both of them- but fresh off the most recent tour before Magic- isnt it time to break out some others- or at least choose between 1 or the other at this point ? Call me selfish ,...

Brilliant Disguise--
catchy little tune- but c'mon Bruce- its about a bad relationship and its not exactly cheery, i say dump it .

Darlington County- eh

Dancing In The Dark--
wheres Courtney Cox ?
Or if you're going to make us deal with this again and again, at least pick a fine looking lady from the crowd each night and do the dance thing onstage- give us something of variation in this song at least -
its nothing more then a sign that the band needs a rest and the end of the show is approaching.

JaneNY

Bathgate66 wrote:

Dancing In The Dark--
wheres Courtney Cox ?
Or if you're going to make us deal with this again and again, at least pick a fine looking lady from the crowd each night and do the dance thing onstage- give us something of variation in this song at least -
its nothing more then a sign that the band needs a rest and the end of the show is approaching.

I think it, like Born to Run will be played at most shows as they were his biggest radio hits (though Glory Days was pretty big too) - those songs are kind of like the counterpart of Jeremy for Pearl Jam, or Head Like a Hole for NIN. You have probably found as I did that there are plenty of people at Bruce shows that 1) have never seen ESB before, and 2) don't know much of his music besides the abovementioned songs. You saw how the crowd erupts during it.

I am very jealous you heard Brilliant Disguise! It is one of my favorites. I loved the Tunnel of Love record, though I'd have wanted to hear Tunnel of Love even more.

Aaaah I wish I was going to be at MSG tonight!

ashtrayrock

Nothing tops the spirituality of Land Of Hope & Dreams for me

The church isn't happening, this time around, like it was on the Rising tour

Don't get me wrong...it's still a good tour, but...

meme

Bathgate66 wrote:

October 17 / New York, NY / Madison Square Garden


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-Photographs by A.M. Saddler


Setlist:
Radio Nowhere
The Ties That Bind
Lonesome Day
Gypsy Biker
Magic
Reason to Believe
Adam Raised a Cain
She's the One
Livin' in the Future
The Promised Land
Brilliant Disguise
Backstreets
Darlington County
Devil's Arcade
The Rising
Last to Die
Long Walk Home
Badlands
* * *
Girls in Their Summer Clothes
Thundercrack
Born to Run
Dancing in the Dark
American Land



Highlights :

The Ties That Bind-

didnt expect this one, enjoyed it very much . Lots of audience participation the entire show - this one hasd lots of " La-La-La-La-La-La's " .


Adam Raised A Cain

Man is this one song I so wanted to hear- and wow how powerful this song is . I so want to hear a full pearl jam cover this song someday , the guitarwork could easily be handled by Stone , Mike, & even Ed. Nils was nto it, as was Bruce, and of course the remainder of the E Streeters. The placement in the set was genius, between the new and revived Reason To Believe ( it is so obvious that Bruce is enjoying this foot stomper nightly- im glad he decided to only usde the bulletmic for the final verse, as opposed to the old way where he used the bulletminc the entire song . ) & then Shes The One . Niiiiiiice !
W O W ! !



Backstreets

what to say, what to say .
Perhaps the best song ever recorded and written by Bruce & ESB . Irregardless of whos on the ivory , ( I have seen this played with Bruce at the piano , and also with The Professor at the piano ) -- Either way , its an undisputed masterpiece. Bruces vocals were on the money , as was the entire ESB for this bring-down-the-house and slay the crowd piece. !




Songs I wouldnt miss if removed from the setlist- and stowed away somewhere of Bruces choosing- so long as we dont hear them again till the next tour : ( another words- enough of these already - they take the wind out of the sails of the crowd and kills the momentum )

do we really need both Lonesome Day and The Rising ?
dont get me wrong- i love both of them- but fresh off the most recent tour before Magic- isnt it time to break out some others- or at least choose between 1 or the other at this point ? Call me selfish ,...

Brilliant Disguise--
catchy little tune- but c'mon Bruce- its about a bad relationship and its not exactly cheery, i say dump it .

Darlington County- eh

Dancing In The Dark--
wheres Courtney Cox ?
Or if you're going to make us deal with this again and again, at least pick a fine looking lady from the crowd each night and do the dance thing onstage- give us something of variation in this song at least -
its nothing more then a sign that the band needs a rest and the end of the show is approaching.

That's funny... DArlington County, Dancing, and Brilliant Disguise, together with The Rising were highlights for me

I loved this show. It's been 19 years since my first...
I can go years without listening to him and all the lyrics I grew up with and learned English on just come back to me.

I still remember almost twenty years ago, an Italian highschooler on a study exchange in British South Africa... "yeah, she's nice, but she talks like a dock worker from New Jersey "

HOOKER

nice set! Cant wait to see him in la.

Bathgate66

its pretty safe to assume that Bruce will be " Man-On-A-Mission" mode tonight ( 2nd night ) at the Garden.

Unfortunately tickets are extremely hard to come by, scalpers outside MSG were asking anywhere from 300- 650 bucks ( for GAs ) .

Ridiculous

guess thats the price we pay .


B r o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o c e !

Bathgate66

Bruce Regains Magic Touch At MSG

BRUCE REGAINS 'MAGIC' TOUCH AT GARDEN


The Boss performs at Madison Square Garden. October 18, 2007 -- WHILE the Bruce Springsteen tour featuring his recent CD "Magic" has been anything but, the Boss and his E Street sidekicks found their mojo last night at Madison Square Garden.

Click Here For a Photo Gallery Of The Boss

Compared to the spotty concert last week on home turf at the Meadowlands, peppered with technical bugs and derailed by a lackluster audience, the Garden gig was a total triumph for E Street - together with the Boss for their first full-scale tour in five years.

At the Garden, the band was all confidence; the concert flow was powerful and steady; and everyone from Bruce on down was determined to make a great show.

They did.

As he has at most of the stops on the tour, Springsteen checked the Garden's vital signs at the start of the show with the screamed-out question: "Is there anybody alive out there? Is there anybody alive?"

On cue, the sold-out house roared. and the band launched into "Radio Nowhere" the power rocker off of "Magic."

That opening number was a near-perfect introduction to what followed during the 21/2-hour performance. All the elements of a classic Springsteen were in place, from the muscular musical interaction between band and man, to the Boss' gut-busting vocals, during which he clamped his eyes shut and contorted his mug.

As "Radio" raged, drummer Max Weinberg was a machine who tracked Springsteen's moves so precisely that each of the Boss' steps landed on a beat. Guitar ace Steven Van Zandt showed he's more than just a pretty TV mobster, with some very flashy six-string fretwork.

He also sang well, even as he suffered the spray when he and Bruce shared a lone microphone center stage.

Then there was the Big Man - Clarence Clemons - who did a Gabriel-sax solo that brought the house down.

And that was just the first song.

The rest of the set was as good or better, from "The Ties That Bind" to "Adam Raised a Cain" to one of the best versions of "Promised Land" that's ever battered the Garden.

The set also mixed in a load of new "Magic" material, some of it familiar enough to conjure a sense of déjà vu. That happened when the band played the very political "Livin' in the Future," which, in concert, sounded remarkably close to the Bruce classic "Tenth Avenue Freeze-out."

When Bruce and company are hitting on all cylinders, as they did last night, few acts in music can come close to matching their ability to rock an arena. It was as if 58-year-old Springsteen was trying to prove all night that he and his pals can still stay tightly wound for an entire concert - just like when they were kids.

dan.aquilante@nypost.com

DOSW

Oh boy, one of the only regrets about the Philly shows was that I didn't get to hear either Darkness or Backstreets. But oh well, they were still amazing nights.

They opened me up to a few songs that I haven't listened to much before also.... songs like Reason to Believe, Thundercrack, and Darlington County are all songs that I now LOVE but didn't know about before.

Bathgate66

Magic,” by the way, would seem the obvious choice for Album of the Year at the next Grammys. Songs from “Magic” like the title track, "Devil’s Arcade," "Last to Die" and "Living in the Future" fit very well into the live Springsteen show. The audience actually sang along to a new song, “The Girls in Their Summer Clothes.” Later, Bono was overheard telling Springsteen manager Jon Landau that that was the album’s hit.