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Bruce Springsteen review – after half a century, still having the time of his life

Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Springsteen and the E Street Band feel like a bar band that can’t believe their luck to be playing a stadium – and the enthusiasm is infectious

E arly on in a show that tops out close to three hours, Bruce Springsteen does a guitar solo. He is joined at the front of the stage by saxophonist Jake Clemons, the nephew of Springsteen’s late stage foil Clarence Clemons. Jake stares at Springsteen’s fingers, apparently gawping in amazement at the dexterity of his playing. Then he closes his eyes and rests his head on Springsteen’s shoulder as he continues playing.

It’s a small moment that seems to sum up the continued appeal of Springsteen when in the company of his most celebrated backing band. It’s simultaneously hokey – could it be rehearsed? – and, with its echo of the pose struck by Springsteen and Jake’s uncle on the cover of 1975’s Born to Run, oddly moving.

A careful balance between the knowingly hammy and the earnest is very much what the E Street Band live experience is about: tonight’s show encompasses both Springsteen ripping his shirt open and hysterically enquiring whether Edinburgh “believes in the faith and the power and the holiness of rock’n’roll and introducing an acoustic version of Last Man Standing with a heartfelt eulogy for a member of the band he joined as a teenager. And, like the sheer length of their sets and the stagey cross talk routine that Springsteen and guitarist Steven Van Zandt indulge in towards the end of their performance (“Stevie! I think it’s time to go home!” “I don’t wanna go home!”, etc etc) it loudly telegraphs the sensation that this band are still having the time of their lives on stage, 51 years into their career.

For all the world knows, it might be icy silences, decades-old resentments and bitter arguments about money all the way to the dressing rooms, but under the spotlights, they invariably give off the air of people who are there because they desperately want to be there, a bar band that can’t quite believe their luck to be playing a stadium, despite the fact that they’ve been playing stadiums since the early 80s. Solos are spun out on a lengthy version of Kitty’s Back – a jazz-rock outlier in Springsteen’s oeuvre, from 1974’s The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle – as if it’s their solitary chance to grab the limelight rather than a nightly occurrence. It could all be for real or it could be a shtick, but even if it’s the latter, it’s infectious.

Infectious enough to carry the audience through a gig that unspools from a breathless opening – one song after another, delivered without pause, the selection leaping between decades while keeping the intensity roaring – into stuff such as Kitty’s Back and a cover of the Commodores’ Nightshift that semi-successfully attempts to dig past the original’s slick 80s gloss and retrieve an old-fashioned gospel-soul song from beneath it. And quite possibly infectious enough to convert the less committed observer, despite the fact that the set really isn’t designed for the uncommitted. The first song familiar to anyone who only knows the hits arrives an hour and 45 minutes in with Because the Night. The smashes – Thunder Road, Born to Run, Dancing in the Dark – are reserved for the show’s conclusion, which makes the opening sound like a band gently pacing themselves. Born in the USA concludes with a frantic, climactic drum solo and crashing guitars, with Springsteen yelling encouragement at drummer Max Weinberg, as if he’s somehow fearful that Born in the USA wasn’t sufficiently rousing and anthemic to start off with.

Then again, you wonder if there’s anyone uncommitted, or who only knows the hits in attendance. The bellows of “Broooooce!” never abate regardless of whether he’s excavating Candy’s Room from the recesses of 1978’s Darkness on the Edge of Town or powering thorough Glory Days. As the night wears on, the stage-side screens cut from the band to the crowd ever more frequently. You’d expect both to look a little wilted, but they don’t: it’s difficult to know who looks more euphoric.

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Given the location, this is the biggest possible thing you could do. Was it even a glimmer of possibility in your mind at the very beginning? No, definitely not. But what we hoped would happen, and it actually did, was we knew we would have bands that Bruce loves, like Social Distortion, because we love those bands. Our hope was always that he would come and sit in.

I work with Bruce a lot, so we see each other fairly often. We text occasionally and stuff. And so I told him, we have this festival with Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Social Distortion, and it’s gonna be great. This was our first year, 2018. I said, “You should come through,” and he was like, “Yeah, that sounds cool.” And I waited a couple months and reminded him again. Then day one, Ben Harper comes on the stage, and it’s absolutely beautiful. The sun is setting, the moon is rising on the other side, it’s just packed with people. And he plays “Atlantic City.” I’m like, “Oh my god.”

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How did he end up on this year’s line-up? So this time around, we were looking for our headliners, and he was going to be on the East Coast, and his tour was going to end on the 13th of September. So we’re like, “Oh man, this looks like a good opportunity to hit him up.” And I happen to be over his place. And I said, “Man, I was looking at your schedule, and we would love to have you at our Sea.Hear.Now show,” and he’s like, “Yeah, that’d be cool.” And I said, “Can I have my guy reach out to your guy?” He just was laughing, and he said yeah.  Then later I was back in the studio, and he just turned to me at one point and he was like, “I’m gonna do the thing on the beach. I’m going to Sea.Hear.Now. I want to bring the band on the beach. This could be incredible.”

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Right before Bruce on Sunday night, you’ve got Trey Anastasio and the Gaslight Anthem. Bruce is close with Brian Fallon from Gaslight, and has played with Phish before. I assume you’re hoping some kind of collaboration might take place. Yeah, I mean, it’s happened before. It is kind of a family block party in a sense right now, because Trey is from Princeton. Trey texted me and was so overjoyed, and he told me his first concert ever was [Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band] in 1978 at the Jadwin Gymnasium in Princeton. He was 14 years old, and I think his sister brought them to the show. He’s just like, “You gotta be kidding me. This is amazing.” And you know, Gaslight into Bruce — it’s insane. It’s a New Jersey dream right there.

What was your greatest Bruce in Asbury moment up until now? I would have to say my favorite moment for myself was the [annual benefit concert] Light of Day [in January 2020]. Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers were headlining, and Joe and I have become really good friends. He says to me, “You coming through tonight?” I was like, “Yeah,” and he was like, “you should bring your harp.” So I show up and I go backstage and he’s got his whole setlist there, and he had four Houserockers songs, and then it was Bruce [songs] for the rest of the show. And he’s finding a song for me to play on, and he points to the Bruce section. I was like, “Oh, God, all right.” So he says, “Let’s do ‘Murder Inc.,’ and we’re gonna do it in E,” or whatever it was. I’m like, “Oh, geez.”

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So anyway, they start the band, and Bruce gives me the nod. I basically say to myself, well, I’m either going to pee my pants or I’m gonna just lean into this thing and play my ass off. So I just leaned into it. And we did a nine-minute version of “Pink Cadillac,” and he threw me a bunch of solos and he was just having the time of his life. It was just way too funny. If you had a dream song for Trey to come on with Bruce, what would it be? Trey wants to bring his big band to Asbury Park, with a whole horn section and a percussionist. And I know that Trey loves “Kitty’s Back.”

As it happens, that’s my pick as well. So let’s put that out in the universe. 

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The producer of Curb Your Enthusiasm has joked that Larry David appeared to “manifest” Bruce Springsteen’s postponed tour after the US rock star appeared in an episode of the hit comedy series.

In the “Lawn Jockey” episode, which aired on 11 February, David is praised by the Boss for becoming a liberal hero after he unknowingly opposes a Georgia 2021 voting law that makes it illegal to provide food or water to voters waiting in line at the polls.

Springsteen is so impressed by Larry’s (David) stance that he asks to meet the Seinfield creator in real life. However, when they sit down for a meeting, things quickly go wrong. Just before Larry cuts the conversation short, he accidentally mixes up his and Springsteen’s water glasses.

The following day, he falls ill with Covid-19, and learns via a TV announcement that Springsteen also has the illness, and is blaming him for the cancellation of several shows on his tour. With the revelation that one of the world’s most popular musicians is now in danger, Larry is suddenly very unpopular.

In a classic case of life imitating art, Springsteen ended up postponing three of his shows in one week “due to illness” less than a year after shooting the episode. In April 2023, he and his wife, Patti Scialfa then came down with Covid; he was forced to postpone further shows in August after being “taken ill”.

“Bruce got sick and had to cancel his tour, and I just turned to Larry and said, ‘You have an amazing ability to manifest negative things,’” Curb’s executive producer Jeff Schaffer told The Hollywood Reporter .

“I remember going, ‘Oh my God, it’s exactly what we did.’ In the show, we say he had complications so his health was really at risk. It played out just like we said, which I feel terrible about!”

He added: “The good news is [Springsteen] got better, and he was hilarious. Happy ending.”

Schaffer teased that the Boss could return for the last ever episode of the show, which will air this week on 7 April.

Springsteen told fans in September that he had been forced to postpone his remaining 2023 shows while he recovered from peptic ulcer disease , a condition that causes ulcers to form in the stomach or small intestine, which in turn can lead to heartburn, nausea and stomach pain.

He is currently back out on tour after rescheduling his 2023 shows, which are now taking place from mid-March through to mid-April, then mid-August through to mid-September.

“Thanks to all my friends and fans for your good wishes, encouragement, and support,” he said in a statement in December, announcing the new tour dates.

“I’m on the mend and can’t wait to see you all.”

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Music + concerts, music + concerts | bruce springsteen dazzles in a marathon 3 hour and 20 minute show at the kia forum on thursday.

Bruce Springsteen has talked of life and mortality as themes of the world tour that he and the E Street Band kicked off a year ago, and in the setlist Thursday, April 4 for the first of two shows at the Kia Forum there were plenty of of songs that reflected those feelings.

But at the end of the night, after 32 songs over three hours and 20 minutes, it’s the living that shined brightest through his time on stage, and the joy — of Springsteen, his band, and fans alike — that lingered after the final notes faded.

It’s been eight years since Springsteen last played Southern California . His long run on Broadway took a few years. The pandemic claimed a few more. And then, when he was scheduled to stop here in December, peptic ulcer disease forced the postponement of the Forum shows, and left Springsteen worried whether he’d ever sing again.

Any doubts about his vim and vigor vanished quickly in a show that ran a half hour longer than most on this tour,  which saw Springsteen at 74 as impossibly energized as ever.

Bruce Springsteen, right, performs with E Street Band members guitarist Nils Lofgren, Jake Clemons on saxophone, Soozie Tyrell on violin and drummer Max Weinberg, rear, during the first of two sold out shows at the Kia Forum in Inglewood on Thursday night April 4, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Bruce Springsteen, right, performs with E Street Band member saxophonist Jake Clemons during the first of two sold out shows at the Kia Forum in Inglewood on Thursday night April 4, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform during the first of two sold out shows at the Kia Forum in Inglewood on Thursday night April 4, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Bruce Springsteen, left, and E Street Band members drummer Max Weinberg and Stevie Van Zandt, right, perform during the first of two sold out shows at the Kia Forum in Inglewood on Thursday night April 4, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Bruce Springsteen opens his show during the first of two sold out shows at the Kia Forum in Inglewood on Thursday night April 4, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Bruce Springsteen, right, performs with E Street Band members Jake Clemons on saxophone and drummer Max Weinberg, rear, during the first of two sold out shows at the Kia Forum in Inglewood on Thursday night April 4, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Bruce Springsteen, left, and E Street Band member Stevie Van Zandt, right, perform during the first of two sold out shows at the Kia Forum in Inglewood on Thursday night April 4, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg perform during the first of two sold out shows at the Kia Forum in Inglewood on Thursday night April 4, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

An airliner flies over the Kia Forum that is lit up for the first of two sold out Bruce Springsteen shows in Inglewood on Thursday night, April 4, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

“Boom Boom” opened the show with a bang, the bluesy John Lee Hooker cover getting Springsteen and the 17 members of his band revved up for the night to come. Two songs later, the opening notes of “Prove It All Night” got a roar from the crowd for the fan favorite off “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” and from that point, the songs flowed one after another, separated only by Springsteen counting off the tempo before each new number.

The E Street Band remains one of the great bands in rock history, with guitarist Steven Van Zandt, bassist Gerry Tallent, pianist Roy Bittan, and drummer Max Weinberg going back 50 years or so with the Boss. Guitarist Nils Lofgren and singer-guitarist Patti Scialfa, Springsteen’s wife, are the new kids with only 40 years in the band.

Their tight, intuitive playing sets the base for Springsteen to go where he likes. Slow it down for “Trapped.” No problem. Pick up the pace on “Two Hearts”? Van Zandt joins Springsteen on a shared microphone, singing harmonies, their faces inches apart, as they have for half a century.

After “The Promised Land,” the second of three “Darkness” tracks in the show, Springsteen announced Scialfa was in the house, and brought her out to sing a pair of songs with him. “Tougher Than the Rest,” a slow-burning romance, saw them harmonizing closely as Springsteen shifted from a low solo on his blonde Telecaster to harmonica for the finish. “Fire” was playful, fun, and a little bit sexy, Springsteen and Scialfa clearly having a blast with the number.

Each night on tour Springsteen plucks a sign from the audience to play an unexpected request. On Thursday, that arrived on the stage in the form of a white bedsheet spray-painted with black letters so hard to read Springsteen made a joke about it. The song, “Jole Blon,” was gorgeous, a Cajun-inflected traditional number that featured Soozie Tyrell on fiddle and Charles Giordano on accordian.

While “Born To Run” provided the most songs in the show with five — we’ll be getting to those soon, be patient! — the oldest songs often prompted the biggest responses from the crowd. “Spirit in the Night,” from Springsteen’s 1973 debut, “Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.” was the first show-stopper of the night, its jazzy R&B giving Springsteen and the band, including saxophonist Jake Clemons, a chance to stretch and vamp a little.

“My City of Ruins,” from “The Rising,” shifted from the ecstasy of “Spirit” to a slower gospel soul, with Springsteen testifying most directly on thoughts of mortality.

“I know there’s a lot of us out there that are missing somebody special,” he said during a mid-song break to address the crowd. “Now I don’t know where we go when all of this is over. I just know what remains. And the only thing we can guarantee tonight is that if you’re here, and we’re here, then those that we are missing are here with us tonight.”

Two songs later, he finished the somber midpart of the show with a mostly solo acoustic guitar performance of “Last Man Standing,” a song inspired by the death of the last member of his first teenage band. “Death brings a certain clarity of mind,” Springsteen said by way of introduction. “And grieving is the price we pay for love.”

At that point, barely halfway through the show, things shifted toward the light and the living. “Backstreets,” from “Born To Run,” still has a melancholy feel, but its protagonist lives with his memories of young love and the places they used to travel, with Bittan’s piano part the secret sauce to its beauty.

“Because The Night,” which Springsteen gave to Patti Smith to record in the late ’70s, was reclaimed as a hard rocker that wrapped up with glorious guitar solo from Lofgren. “She’s The One” walloped its Bo Diddley beat in a primal rock ‘n’ roll rhythm.

The main set climaxed with “Badlands,” a Springsteen classic from the ’70s about a restless young man with dreams bigger than his life, and “Thunder Road,” one of his greatest numbers, which opened with the crowd singing loudly on the slow first verse before Springsteen and the band launched it to a huge finish.

At this point we’ve reached the encore, which Springsteen fans know means another 50 minutes of music, with one hit dropped after another.

After “Land of Hope and Dreams” opened it up, “Born To Run,” symphonic rock ‘n’roll hymn, exploded from the stage, the arena lights up now for fans to sing along. “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight),” another early favorite, remains a joyful song of desire, and a chance for Springsteen and the band to take flight into extended versions. Here it wrapped up with Springsteen, Van Zandt, Lofgren, Tyrell and Clemons dancing and goofing at the end of a short ramp into the pit.

“Dancing In The Dark” is one of the sweetest simple pop songs that Springsteen’s ever written. “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” saw him circle the pit, singing from a ramp at its edge to the fans in the floor seats. And “Twist and Shout” was a rock and roll party.

The 17 musicians walked off the stage then, with Springsteen giving them a pat on the back or handshake, telling them “good job” as if they were punching out at the end of a shift at the factory. He is the Boss, and he’s a good boss, too.

Then, one last encore, solo on stage with his acoustic guitar, singing “I’ll See You In My Dreams.” Or maybe on Sunday night, when he returns to the Kia Forum, as full of life as ever he was.

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In college I took a trip to New York City. I did all the great jazz bars, and I lucked out and got one ticket at the Uris Theatre to see Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald … and my idol, Frank Sinatra. I found myself sitting one row behind this strange, baldheaded guy in a huge sable coat and big — I mean really big — glasses: Elton John. He was eating the concert up.

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My wife and I have been married for over 45 years. She’s been a huge Rod Stewart fan since her teenage years, and we always went to his live shows when living (for most of our lives) in the D.C. area. However, my wife has battled recurring bouts of cancer the past nine years, and her last surgery left her permanently partially paralyzed and wheelchair-bound.

Before that last surgery, and some seven years ago, I actually won two tickets to see her beloved “Rod.” Unfortunately, my wife was still feeling the effects of chemo and turned them down. Believing this might be the last time in her lifetime to see him, I kept urging her to attend the show, but she just wasn’t up to it.

Fast-forward seven years, and although my wife is cancer-free, she’s paralyzed. I see that the 79-year-old Stewart is on tour and scheduled to appear in our retirement hometown of Tampa, and this time, I don’t give my wife the choice: I just buy the unbelievably expensive tickets and surprise her. I wheel her into the theater, we sit in the handicapped area, and we could not believe how great of a two-plus-hour show Stewart put on. He sang all the hits, he had a fantastic band, and his energy level and voice were those of a 40-year-old! Stewart always had that distinctive gravely voice, and it serves him well as he approaches 80. That was most likely our last Stewart concert … but you never know. It was great to see how happy he made my wife.

Don Katzen , Tampa, Fla.

‘Like rock-and-roll church’

Bruce Springsteen. Dec. 15, 1978. Winterland Ballroom. San Francisco. I went because one of my younger brothers had been talking so much about Springsteen. I was a jazz snob and went only because it was a last chance to step foot inside the legendary Winterland arena; it was to close forever later that month.

Three songs in, I was hooked. It was like rock-and-roll church: promise, hope and salvation delivered with such conviction that even today I feel the magic. Many Springsteen shows later, there is still nothing like Winterland in ’78.

Felix Contreras , Silver Spring, Md.

A near-death experience

One of my husband’s favorite bands was Yes. My husband was an accomplished bass player himself. Yes was coming to D.C. at the Warner Theatre on July 15, 2014, so I got us tickets. What my husband didn’t know was I got us front-row seats and backstage passes to meet the band. He sat right in front of Chris Squire the entire show. The next year, Squire died in Phoenix. My husband was so grateful I got those tickets.

Brenda Lawhorn , Florence, S.C.

A dude in the nude

A guy, completely naked, with a circle of people around him, dancing to “Space/Fire on theMountain” at a Grateful Dead show at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia in the early ’80s.

Harry Freed , Philadelphia

A priceless splurge

Bob Marley with his acoustic guitar and a spotlight on a bare stage at the Stanley Theatre in Pittsburgh singing “Redemption Song” a little more than a week before he died in 1981. I was a young lawyer whose client had just paid her. I used the money to buy the ticket, and the performance was the best that I ever saw. It broke my heart that he died soon after; I didn’t know that he was even sick with cancer. The song was a blessing to me.

Charlene Newkirk , Pittsburgh

Storming the Beatles

The Beatles, Cleveland Municipal Stadium, August 1966. “Revolver” had just come out — er, “dropped.” The crowd was so electrified that people knocked down the snow fences around the field and stormed the stage. I was caught up in the wave. And there they were, live, right up on the stage in front of me. Smiling, playing and thanking us ! It was more than the music; it was the magic. For one brief shining musical moment, never to appear ever again.

George DeBolt , Pittsburgh

Unexpected guest stars

The National Symphony Orchestra was playing Respighi’s “Pines of Rome” at the Wolf Trap concert venue. Late in the third movement, “The Pines of the Janiculum,” the composer calls for a recording of a nightingale to be played over the orchestra’s quiet strings. On this magical evening, the taped nightingale song inspired the songbirds of Vienna, Va., to raise their own voices and join in the music. As dusk fell, the concert hall was surrounded with live birdsong. This was in the late-1980s.

Laura Bligh , Vienna, Va.

A beer with das band

Berlin seeing my favorite band, Cage the Elephant, in a small grungy club that held about 300 people as one of the first shows of their Social Cues tour. I was right at the stage, and Brad Shultz shared his beer with me, and his brother Matt, the frontman, sang part of “Tokyo Smoke” right into my phone while he was down on the floor in front of me. Most memorable concert moment ever!

Rhonda Van Cleve , Tucson

I’ve seen him 48 times but never forgot the first.

The moment most burned into my memory involved an artist I saw on a whim on July 9, 1978. He and his band were broadcast on July 7 on my favorite local station. I was driving with a high school friend named Sherry, and I recall saying, “This guy sounds pretty good. You want to drive to San Diego on Sunday and see him?” She agreed, so Sunday afternoon, we made the 100-mile drive to the San Diego Sports Arena, bought tickets at the door for $5.75 each and settled in to our upper-view seats. It’s a rather small arena, so even up in the cheap seats, we had a good view.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band hit the stage with no opening act but played with an urgency and passion I’d never seen from a performer or band before. Grabbing his microphone with a long, long cable, he jumped off the stage into the crowd. While the band played, he worked his way across the floor of the arena, occasionally stopping to trade choruses with random fans. The whole time, he never missed a beat, interacting and singing with the fans along the way.

I’d never seen anything like this. My other musical heroes performed from high up, above all the mortals in the crowd. But this guy broke that wall. He wasn’t speaking down to us — he was one of us. My jaw hit the floor. I was watching someone who understood living in uncertain times and trying to sort out who you are and what you aspire to be. Last week, I saw my 48th Springsteen concert in that same arena in San Diego.

Jon Trask , Garden Grove, Calif.

Two daughters. Two shows.

I will never forget sitting with my teen daughter at the Rolling Stones in the mid-1980s. Seeing their energy and hearing their music in person is a memory we talk about often. Then, in 2023, another daughter and I saw Adele in concert, satisfying a wish from first hearing her music.

Susan Bescher , Des Moines

Tattoos, tables and Tahoe

I am a huge Chris Isaak fan — I’ve seen him on average once a year since 1994. I even have his guitar tattooed on my arm. In the late ’90s, I saw one of his performances in a Lake Tahoe showroom. He enjoys doing crowd work, and his mom was in attendance, sitting in the banquette behind my table. After he said hello and introduced her to the audience, the ladies at the next table over asked him to pose for a picture. Chris proceeded to climb up and stand on my table (with his guitar!) and sing to me as part of posing for the picture. I felt so special!

I said hello to him the next year in Seattle — he recognized me and lamented that the venue didn’t have any tables to sing to me from. Such a gentleman, and absolutely priceless memories.

Jenn Alvin , Portland, Ore.

An origin story

Many years ago, my wife and I went to see Kenny Rogers at the Westbury Music Fair in New York during his 1989 Christmas tour. His opening act was a young solo artist who sang, played the guitar and wore a cowboy hat. He serenaded the audience with a number of songs, but the one I remember was a cover of the Don McLean song “Vincent.” It was simply amazing, and I remember it to this day. Tender and sweet. His voice rang clear and heartfelt. I turned to my wife and said, “Wow. This guy is awesome. I think he’s gonna make it.” Turns out I was right: Garth Brooks did pretty well!

Dan Pechtol , Lakewood Ranch, Fla.

The making of a legend

My musical tastes differ from Marc Thiessen’s, but I completely agree with the philosophy of concertgoing. I have always remembered seeing Joan Sutherland singing “Lucia di Lammermoor” in Cleveland when the Metropolitan Opera was on tour in spring 1961. I was 15, and my aunt took me to see “La Stupenda” featuring Sutherland’s spectacular leading-role debut with the Met. I still see her gliding down an enormous staircase during “The Mad Scene.” She stopped the show right there. The applause was, well, stupendous. She became a legend. And I was hooked on opera forever. If it touches your heart, then follow your heart, and see your beloved performers live onstage as often as you can!

Jan Childress , McLean, Va.

His voice was ‘raw’ and ‘forever’

The best was Tony Bennett at the cavernous Winspear Opera House, April 26, 2018, in Dallas. It began with the minor spectacle of the chandelier disappearing into the ceiling and then the lights went out. Then, Tony and his daughter. His final song, he told us, was special. Then, he put his mic down on the piano his daughter was at and sang, raw, just him with no backup music and no electronic reinforcement. Just his own voice in the immensely quiet hall gently floating up to us in the ozone seating section. Whoa! That’s forever.

Stanley Olivarez , Santa Fe, N.M.

Ella, the queen

In another life, I had my 15 minutes of fame as a smooth jazz D.J. at a radio station in Orlando. So many incredible artists — Herbie Hancock, George Benson, Grover Washington Jr., Dave Brubeck (we share the same birthday), Al Jarreau, Joni Mitchell — players who could really play and singers who could really sing. I was privileged to introduce a great many of them onstage or at least meet them backstage. Though I regret not meeting Miles Davis before he died, I did meet and shake the hand of Ella Fitzgerald. I’m telling you, it was like meeting the Queen of England — only without all the Order of the British Empire bowing nonsense. She performed her entire set singing from a wheelchair, but so what? The standing ovation she received was loud, sustained, enthusiastic and unforgettable.

Ed Pasha , Arlington, Va.

It’s more than live music. It’s community.

I saw 34 concerts in 2023. I’m a Duran Duran superfan and follow them around on tour. My parents started taking me to live shows when I was 7. I won tickets to see the Bee Gees when I was 9 because I stuffed the raffle box at a local store without my mom knowing it.

I go alone, and I go with friends. I make friends at every show I go to.

See the bands you love. The communal experience is fabulous.

Jolie Lindley , Las Vegas

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• Badlands Play Video
• Streets of Fire Play Video
• It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City Play Video
• Darkness on the Edge of Town Play Video
• Spirit in the Night Play Video
• Independence Day Play Video
• The Promised Land Play Video
• Prove It All Night Play Video
• Racing in the Street Play Video
• Thunder Road Play Video
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• Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town ( Harry Reser and His Orchestra  cover) Play Video
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• Mona / Preacher's Daughter / She's the One / I Get Mad Play Video
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• You Can't Sit Down ( Phil Upchurch Combo  cover) Play Video
• Quarter to Three ( Gary “U.S.” Bonds  cover) Play Video

Note: released on DVD/Blu-Ray as part of the Darkness on the Edge of Town deluxe box-set in 2010

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'American Skin (41 Shots)' and 'The Ghost Of Tom Joad' were performed for the first time since 2017 and 2016 respectively

Bruce Springsteen has enlisted the help of Tom Morello to perform two songs for the first time on his ongoing tour – see the performances below.

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This past weekend (April 7), Springsteen brought the ongoing Springsteen & E Street 2024 tour to the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, California. Springsteen and co. kicked off the night with ‘Open All Night’, which marked the first time the track was performed on this current tour, as well as the first time it’s been played live since 2014. During the same show, he also performed ‘Sherry Darling’ for the first time during the current tour.

Later during the show, Springsteen invited Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave fame to make two more tour debuts in the form of 2001’s ‘American Skin (41 Shots)’ and 1995’s ‘The Ghost Of Tom Joad’. Besides marking the first time these songs were performed during the 2024 tour, April 7 was also the first time that they have been played live in a long while.

‘American Skin (41 Shots)’ was last performed live as a full band in 2017, while ‘The Ghost of Tom Joad’ was last performed with the E Street Band in 2016. Watch fan-shot footage of the Morello-assisted ‘The Ghost of Tom Joad’ below.

In other Bruce Springsteen news, the Boss recently took part in Mark Knopfler’s star-studded charity re-recording of ‘Going Home’ , which starred the likes of  Queen ‘s  Brian May , Bruce Springsteen ,  Black Sabbath ’s Tony Iommi,  Eric Clapton ,  Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood  and many more.

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He also  made a cameo appearance in a recent episode of  Curb Your Enthusiasm , and  announced details of a career-spanning compilation, titled ‘Best Of Bruce Springsteen’   – due for release on Friday, April 19 via Sony Music.

Later this summer, The Boss is set to return to this side of the pond for  his 2024 UK and Ireland tour  – find any remaining tickets  here .

it has also been reported that The Bear and The Iron Claw star Jeremy Allen White is seemingly set to portray a young Springsteen in an upcoming film that will chronicle The Boss making his beloved ‘Nebraska’ album .

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Former E Street Band touring member Tom Morello reunited with  Bruce Springsteen at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California on Sunday (April 7th), joining the Boss on guitar for “The Ghost of Tom Joad” and “American Skin (41 Shots).”

Marking the 2024 tour debuts of both songs, it was also Springsteen’s first time playing “The Ghost of Tom Joad” and “American Skin (41 Shots)” with the E Street Band since 2016 and 2017, respectively. Watch fan-shot footage of both performances below.

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Echoing Springsteen’s Thursday night show at Kia Forum , his wife, Patti Scialfa , came on stage for performances of “Tougher Than the Rest” and “Fire.” Other notable songs in the setlist included “The Promised Land,” “Hungry Heart,” “Backstreets,” and Springsteen’s first performance of “Open All Night” in a decade.

Per usual, the encore was stacked with classics like “Born to Run,” “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight),” “Glory Days,” and “Dancing in the Dark.” See the full setlist below.

Springsteen and the E Street Band are slated to tour throughout North America, the UK, and Europe for much of the remainder of 2024. Grab your seats for North American dates here and international shows here .

Morello and Springsteen have been occasional collaborators since 2008, when the Rage Against the Machine guitarist first joined Springsteen and the E Street Band on stage. The following year, Morello was a special guest during Springsteen’s closing set at the 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert at Madison Square Garden.

After playing guitar on two tracks from Springsteen’s 2012 album,  Wrecking Ball , Morello filled in for E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt during the Australian leg of the supporting tour. He followed up by contributing heavily to the 2014 album High Hopes — including a re-recording of “The Ghost of Tom Joad” — and once again stood in for Van Zandt on the “High Hopes Tour.”

In 2021, Morello recruited Springsteen and Eddie Vedder for a cover of AC/DC’s Highway to Hell,” which appears on his solo album,  The Atlas Underground Fire .

Bruce Springsteen Setlist Open All Night (First time since 2014) Lonesome Day Prove It All Night Two Hearts Ghosts Letter to You The Promised Land Death to My Hometown Tougher Than the Rest (with Patti Scialfa) Fire (with Patti Scialfa) Hungry Heart Sherry Darling (Tour debut, sign request) Spirit in the Night My City of Ruins Nightshift (Commodores cover) Last Man Standing (Acoustic with Barry Danielian on trumpet) Backstreets Because the Night (Patti Smith Group cover) Wrecking Ball American Skin (41 Shots) [with Tom Morello] (Tour debut, first time with the E Street Band since 2017) The Ghost of Tom Joad (with Tom Morello) [Tour debut, first time with the E Street Band since 2016] The Rising Badlands Thunder Road

Encore: Born to Run Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) Glory Days Dancing in the Dark Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out Detroit Medley

Encore 2: I’ll See You in My Dreams (Solo acoustic)

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Jetlag? What jetlag?

Bruce Springsteen certainly seemed no worse for wear after making two quick cross-country flights over the last few days before playing what turned out to be a dynamite show at Chase Center in San Francisco on Thursday.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer performed Monday in San Diego then zoomed back East to make a guest appearance (with fellow troubadour Maggie Rogers) at a show by country star Zach Bryan at Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Wednesday night.

Then it was right back to the West Coast in time to play the first of two sold-out shows at the home of the Golden State Warriors.

The next gig is on Sunday, which gives Springsteen time to — oh, I don’t know — perhaps fly to Kauai for fish tacos before returning to Chase for Night 2.

And if he does decide to do just that, well, you can rest assured that he’ll still deliver the goods for Bay Area fans on Easter Sunday.

That’s why he’s The Boss.

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The 74-year-old Springsteen was in nothing short of legendary form as he led his mighty E Street Band through a 29-song show that absolutely captivated the approximately 16,500 fans in attendance for three hours.

He’d draw from a wide selection of his songbook, touching upon 11 of his studio albums. There were a few debuts for this 2024 tour — which, granted, is only a few dates old at this point — as well as the favorites fans can pretty much expect to hear at every Springsteen show these days.

Backed by 17 people onstage — including a versatile horn section and excellent backing vocalists — the bandleader opened the show right around 7:45 p.m. with “Something in the Night,” one of five songs that he’d pull from the classic 1978 platter “Darkness on the Edge of Town.”

The song — which was being played live for the first time on this tour — proved to be a bit of a mellow starter, but things would quickly heat up as The Boss turned to 2002’s “The Rising” for a powerful version of “Lonesome Day.”

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The next two offerings, “Ghosts” and “Two Hearts,” were both solid, but the show reached a whole new level when Springsteen and company unleashed “Prove It All Night.” The tune, another “Darkness on the Edge of Town” standout, featured the first prominent sax work from Jake Clemons (who is the nephew of the late E Street legend Clarence Clemons) as well as some really aggressive and muscular guitar playing from the bandleader himself.

They’d keep the party rolling in high gear with the defiant “Born in the U.S.A.” anthem “No Surrender” before thrilling the audience with the tour debut of “Atlantic City,” delivering a full-band version that shared the lyrics — and not much else — with the stark solo recording originally found on 1982’s “Nebraska.”

Springsteen’s voice was on point throughout the night, showing no signs of the medical condition that originally forced him to postpone these Chase shows — which were originally scheduled for last December — as well as other dates. The star did bring up the subject about 80 minutes into the show, which was first time he paused to really talk to the crowd all evening.

“My belly hurt so bad, I couldn’t sing,” explained Springsteen, who underwent treatment for peptic ulcer disease. “Every time I went to sing, my belly ached. When I went to do anything, my belly ached. Then it ached some more. So, we couldn’t make it. But I’m glad to be back tonight.”

The last third of the main set was all A-list material, as the singer rolled through “Backstreets,” “Because the Night,” “She’s the One,” “Wrecking Ball,” “The Rising” and “Badlands” before closing, some 130 minutes after he started the show, with the always-popular “Thunder Road.”

The 18 musicians would take their well-deserved bows, but then, instead of leaving the stage, it was right back to business as they rolled through a generous encore highlighted by “Land of Hope and Dreams” (another tour debut), “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” and, of course, “Born to Run.”

“San Francisco!” Springsteen exclaimed as the encore drew to a close. “I want you to go home tonight and then I want you to wake up tomorrow morning and I want you to tell everybody that you see that you that you’ve just seen the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, earth-shocking, hard-rocking, booty-shaking, earth-quaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making legendary E Street Band.”

Consider it done, Boss.

1. “Something in the Night”

2. “Lonesome Day”

3. “Ghosts”

4. “Two Hearts”

5. “Prove It All Night”

6. “No Surrender”

7. “Atlantic City”

8. “Death to My Hometown”

9. “Letter to You”

10. “The Promised Land”

11. “Hungry Heart”

12. “Spirit in the Night”

13. “Nightshift”

14. “Racing in the Street”

15. “Last Man Standing”

16. “Backstreets”

17. “Because the Night”

18. “She’s the One”

19. “Wrecking Ball”

20. “The Rising”

21. “Badlands”

22. “Thunder Road”

23. “Land of Hope and Dreams”

24. “Born to Run”

25. “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)”

26. “Bobby Jean”

27. “Dancing in the Dark”

28. “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”

29. “I’ll See You in My Dreams”