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April 19, 1974




sadly , i remember ticketron .

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/mu ... 6597625515


THE Boss is back. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have hit the stage at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.
Tonight's show is the first in the Australian leg of the Wrecking Ball world tour, which has already earned universal acclaim as ''the greatest live act in the world.''

It also marks the first Australian tour by The Boss and the E Street Band in a decade



Read more: http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/mu ... z2NWE2mvqZ

Bruce still World Premiering

http://www.nj.com/springsteen/index.ssf ... econd.html


Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played their second show in Brisbane, Australia on Saturday and Bruce started with a world peremiere.
"High Hopes" featured in the 1996 documentary "Blood Brothers" kicked off the 23-song, three-hour-and-seven minute show. "High Hopes" was released on a promotional EP that year. It's a cover song (written by Tim Scott) and was recorded by Bruce during the "Greatest Hits" sessions in 1995.

It was soundchecked before Thursday's show and also on that evening's set list, but not played,

"We Take Care of Our Own" was not played, that's a first for this tour. "The Promised Land" was played in the second slot at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.

Here's video of Bruce playing "High Hopes" to open the show. Nice job Everett Bradley and Tom Morello:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 7ksWwv3GtQ


Crowd surfing is back, Bruce surfed during "Out in the Street."

How bout this this nice four-pack: "Incident on 57th Street," "The River," "Atlantic City," and "Open All Night." Other highlights were "Racing in the Street" and a solo acoustic "Blinded by the Light" to kick off the encores.

Set list:

Show began at 7:46 p.m. local time (14 hours ahead of New Jersey, ticket time was 7 p.m.)

1. High Hopes (world premiere)
2. The Promised Land
3. Wrecking Ball
4. Death To My Hometown
5. Out In The Street
6. My City of Ruins
7. Spirit In The Night
8. Incident on 57th Street
9 The River
10. Atlantic City
11. Open All Night
12. Darlington County
13. Shackled & Drawn
14. Waitin' On A Sunny Day
15. Racing In The Street
16. Badlands
17. The Ghost of Tom Joad
18. Land of Hope & Dreams

19. Blinded By The Light (solo acoustic)
20. Born To Run
21. Bobby Jean
22. Dancing In The Dark
23. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out

Over at 10:53 p.m.

Next show: Monday at the Allphones Arena in Sydney, Australia, the first of three shows in five nights at that venue.

Nils Lofgren@nilslofgren
Backstage, Brisbane. Not a place to drop a contact lense. Rocked out.

Nils pic.twitter.com/AulhwidMlZ — at Brisbane Entertainment Centre.

this is so sad. I've seen so many rehearsal shows here,
as well as The Rising on The Today Show,
and The Seeger Sessions Band on Good Morning America ( railing ).



ANOTHER TURN FOR THE WORSE FOR ASBURY'S CONVENTION HALL
Asbury Park's historic Convention Hall — site of dozens of Bruce Springsteen/E Street Band rehearsals and concerts (as well as high-profile Today Show broadcasts for The Rising) will close to public events on May 1 due to fire code issues, and its already uncertain future now looks even bleaker.

Backstreets recently reported about potential structural damage to the building resulting from Asbury Park master developer Madison Marquette's removal of copper panels from the building's exterior (and their subsequent theft), and about ongoing problems with the building's fire safety. Then came "Superstorm" Sandy, which further worsened the already deteriorating infrastructure of the 90-plus-year-old building (damage assessments have not been officially released).

Now the Asbury Park Sun reveals that the failure of the city of Asbury Park and property owner Madison Marquette to resolve Convention Hall's fire code issues could have dire consequences for the future of the building.

In the Sun’s report, Asbury Park Fire Chief Kevin Keddy explains that a 2006 update to the New Jersey fire code requires public facilities to install sprinkler systems. To keep the building open Madison Marquette, which has been paying monthly fines as a result of fire code violations, bought some time by signing a consent order with the city that requires sprinklers to be installed by 2015 as long as consistent progress toward that goal could be demonstrated.

But despite Madison Marquette's willingness to proceed with other projects in the waterfront redevelopment zone — a recent bond issue deal its partner iStar Financial reached with the city would purportedly finance several future construction projects — the developer is pleading poverty when it comes to one of the city's most recognizable landmarks (the Convention Hall complex is on both the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places). Madison Marquette is declaring that unless a workable financial solution is found, the building will remain closed.

In the Sun piece, the company's senior vice president Anselm Fusco states that “The requirement to install sprinklers in nearly all of historic Convention Hall is very expensive — we've received quotes for the work in excess of $1 million. The building is costly to operate — it runs at a significant loss every year — and to invest so much additional capital in this situation is not economically feasible."

Convention Hall, a building central not just to the careers of Bruce Springsteen and other prominent Asbury Park musicians but to the musical history of the city itself, will be temporarily closed on May 1 because of the sprinkler issue. Other structural issues remain, the cost to repair them unknown and certainly steep. Every day these problems are not addressed, every day the building is not repaired, it falls further into decay. Additionally, every day it is not used, it slips further from public consciousness. And any of these might eventually be the reason Convention Hall — like Palace Amusements, the Baronet Theater and so many other historic Asbury Park landmarks — could one day be demolished.