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The Other Eras Tour: 9 Thoughts on Bruce Springsteen at Madison Square Garden

By Brian Hiatt

Brian Hiatt

After a two-hour-plus main set that slammed home themes of mortality and impermanence and the way of all flesh, Bruce Springsteen reemerged on Madison Square Garden’s stage Saturday night, April 1, for his usual lengthy encore, and announced “something special for New York City.” He pointed over at Soozie Tyrell, who began a dead-on recreation of one of rock’s few canonical violin melodies, over piano from all-time-great arpeggio purveyor Roy Bittan. They eased the E Street Band into the 11-minute-long, 48-year-old mini-rock-opera “Jungleland,” played and sung with enough muscle and drama and soaring perfection to momentarily make the rest of the show’s messages seem like a lie. Death? Impossible. Decline? Not tonight.

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Still, he could mix it up a bit more. Besides the “Jungleland” addition, there is one near-wildcard slot in the setlist, filled at MSG with his taut-as-ever, if overused over the years, reworking of Jimmy Cliff’s “Trapped” (at the previous stop on the tour, it was “Darkness on the Edge of Town” in that slot, which would’ve been more welcome). In the actual Eras Tour, Taylor Swift has a truly rotating song slot, offering a chance to slip the deepest of cuts into the set every night. With Springsteen’s vast catalog, including the entire, as-yet-unplayed-before-a-paying-audience Western Stars album from 2019 (that title track, one of his best-ever songs, should kill live), slipping in one real obscurity every night certainly couldn’t hurt. There’s other songs, too, including “Johnny 99,” that seem eminently swappable on any given night.

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Max Weinberg, who has the greatest physical challenge of anyone in the band as a 71-year-old arena-rock drummer, has been preparing for this tour practically since the last one ended in 2017, and his feel, groove, and sense of time seemed subtler than ever. A shades-wearing Garry Tallent was, as always, impossibly locked into Weinberg’s kick drum, even as the arena’s inevitable muddiness sometimes meant he was more felt than heard. It’s always fun to figure out what parts Nils Lofgren — now a simultaneous Crazy Horse member and E Streeter — is adding to the mix, from a fancy rhythm guitar-bit on “No Surrender” to a chops-enhanced version of a guitar break originated by Springsteen on “Rosalita.”

This tour’s extra horns and singers only enhanced the show — with just a couple of exceptions. The horn section, in particular, is most welcome when it’s doing something interesting, which is often, as on the New Orleans breaks of “Johnny 99,” on the twin songs from The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle , and of course “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.” It only feels superfluous when the players are roped into recapitulating, and almost overpowering, signature riffs during two encore hits, “Dancing in the Dark” and “Glory Days.” 

Jake Clemons is a miracle. Springsteen’s songs evoked ghosts throughout the evening, and Clemons invoked one just in his playing and presence. His big-lunged tenor sax tone has always had an uncanny resemblance to his late uncle Clarence Clemons’ otherwise singular sound. But at the Garden, after more than a decade in the band, Jake sounded more like his late predecessor than ever, even as, at age 43, he continued to bring his own youthful-by-E-Street standards energy to the stage. From the start, the other 21st-century replacement for a departed E Streeter, skilled keyboardist Charlie Giordano, has seemed less wedded to Danny Federici’s organ parts. But then again, Federici himself was rarely wedded to his own studio parts on any given night.

Even if some of the crowd had trouble staying in the moment, Springsteen never did.  He still shut his eyes in utter immersion as he sang “Badlands” for the 1,229th time, and still drew energy from the audience in some eerie yet very real way. (Yes, that number is correct, per Brucebase .) He still has some surprises left on guitar, with his solo on “Kitty’s Back” noticeably straying from his usual harmonic vocabulary to match his horn players’ more adventurous note choices. And his voice continues to do that weird thing where it somehow sounds stronger towards the end of the show than at the beginning.

It’s “sways,” damn it. Newly aware of the mildly ludicrous debate over whether Mary’s dress sways or waves on “Thunder Road,” Springsteen is now singing “sways” with exaggerated clarity and a huge smile.

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Madison Square Garden Set List

“No Surrender” “Ghosts” “Prove It All Night” “Letter to You” “The Promised Land” “Out in the Street” “Candy’s Room” “Kitty’s Back” “Nightshift” “Trapped” “The E Street Shuffle” “Johnny 99” “Last Man Standing” “Backstreets” “Because the Night” “She’s the One” “Wrecking Ball” “The Rising” “Badlands” “Jungleland” “Thunder Road” “Born to Run” “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)” “Glory Days” “Dancing in the Dark” “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” “I’ll See You in My Dreams”

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Bruce Springsteen Kicks Off 2023 Tour: Video, Pictures, Set List

Bruce Springsteen launched his 2023 tour tonight in Tampa, Fla., marking his first live performance with the E Street Band in close to six years.

“Good evening, Tampa!” he declared as he stepped on stage, greeted by thunderous applause from the fans in attendance. From there, Springsteen jumped straight into opening song “No Surrender,” the side two opener from 1984's Born in the U.S.A.

He then proceeded to deliver material from throughout his career. Early on the set featured some of Springsteen's more recent tunes, such as "Ghosts" and "Letter to You" from 2020's Letter to You . Two other songs from that album made their live debut this night: "Last Man Standing," which he delivered solo acoustic and "Burnin' Train."

Watch Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Perform 'No Surrender'

He also performed his rendition of "Nightshift," the Commodores classic he covered on 2022's Only the Strong Survive .

After 21 songs, Springsteen took a breather, only to return for an encore featuring many of his most beloved hits. "Born to Run," "Glory Days" and "Dancing in the Dark" ramped up the energy, with the Boss then closing his night with a solo acoustic rendition of "I'll See You in My Dreams."

Pictures and the full set list from the performance can be found below.

Springsteen's last concert with the E Street Band took place on Feb. 25, 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand, though he has participated in some other projects since then — he launched  Springsteen on Broadway  in the fall of 2017, co-hosted a podcast with former President Barack Obama and released three albums, 2019's Western Stars , Letter to You and Only the Strong Survive .

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"I'm going to consider myself lucky if I lose just a year of touring life," Springsteen said to  Rolling Stone  in 2020, about six months into the pandemic. "Once you hit 70, there's a finite amount of tours and a finite amount of years that you have. And so you lose one or two, that's not so great. Particularly because I feel the band is capable of playing at the very, very, very top, or better than, of its game right now. And I feel as vital as I've ever felt in my life. ... It's not being able to do something that is a fundamental life force, something I've lived for since I was 16 years old."

Springsteen will continue touring across the U.S. in the coming months, and then bring the show to Europe for a string of dates that begin on April 28 in Barcelona. He'll then return to the States for a second North American leg that starts in August.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, 2/1/23, Amalie Arena, Tampa

1. "No Surrender" 2. "Ghosts" 3. "Prove It All Night" 4. "Letter to You" 5. "The Promised Land" 6. "Out in the Street" 7. "Candy's Room" 8. "Kitty's Back" 9. "Brilliant Disguise" 10. "Nightshift" (Commodores cover) 11. "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)" (Ben E. King cover) 12. "The E Street Shuffle" 13. "Johnny 99" 14. "Last Man Standing" 15. "House of a Thousand Guitars" 16. "Backstreets" 17. "Because the Night" (Patti Smith Group cover) 18. "She's the One" 19. "Wrecking Ball" 20. "The Rising" 21. "Badlands" 22. "Burnin' Train" 23. "Born to Run" 24. "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" 25. "Glory Days" 26. "Dancing in the Dark" 27. "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" 28. "I'll See You in My Dreams"

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Bruce Springsteen setlist 2024: Every song he sang at world tour relaunch in Phoenix

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band relaunched their world tour in downtown Phoenix on Tuesday night.

The night allowed for a journey through his catalog, from his first album, "Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.," to 2022's "Only the Strong Survive," a collection of soul and R&B covers.

The return came after Springsteen and the E Street Band cut the trek short in 2023  on the advice of Springsteen’s doctors as the star was treated for peptic ulcer disease , a potentially serious gastrointestinal condition.

At the time, Springsteen issued a statement saying, "Over here on E Street, we're heartbroken to have to postpone these shows. ... We'll be back to pick these shows up and then some. Thank you for your understanding and support. We've been having a blast at our US shows and we’re looking forward to more great times. We'll be back soon."

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He also appeared at the 81st Golden Globe Awards (where he was nominated for best original song for "Addicted to Romance"), alongside Darlene Love to present her with a platinum record for "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)," and multiple events at the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music on the campus of Monmouth University in New Jersey.

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Bruce Springsteen setlist 2024: Every song he played in Phoenix

Here's every song Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played at Footprint Center in downtown Phoenix on March 19, 2024.

"Lonesome Day"

"No Surrender"

"Two Hearts" (with snippet of “It Takes Two” by Marvin Gaye/Kim Weston)

"Darlington County"

"Prove it All Night"

"Darkness on the Edge of Town"

"Letter to You"

"The Promised Land"

"Spirit in the Night"

"Don't Play That Song (You Lied)" (Ben E. King cover)

"Night Shift" (Commodores cover)

"Mary’s Place"

"Last Man Standing"

"Backstreets"

"Because the Night"

"She’s the One"

"Wrecking Ball"

"The Rising"

"Thunder Road"

"Born to Run"

"Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)"

"Glory Days"

"Dancing in the Dark"

"Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out"

"Twist and Shout" (The Top Notes/Isley Brothers/Beatles cover by sign request)

"I'll See You in My Dreams"

Contributing: Jay Stahl, USA TODAY

Set List: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band 2023-2024 Tour

In September 2023, Bruce Springsteen was forced to postpone the remainder of his tour so that he could recover from peptic ulcer disease—doctor’s orders. Thankfully, by early 2024, he was back to his rock god self and able to pick up right where he left off. He relaunched his tour with a show in Phoenix on March 19, during which he apologized to the crowd for any “inconvenience.” (As if anyone in that deafening crowd could be mad at the Boss!). The nearly 30-song set includes fan favorites like “Born to Run” and “Dancing in the Dark,” along with a few surprise covers (the Phoenix date featured “Nightshift” by The Commodores and “Twist and Shout” by The Beatles). Springsteen is joined as usual by The E Street Band, a full horn and brass section, and four backup singers, and will play dozens of rescheduled shows in Los Angeles, D.C., Calgary, and more, before wrapping in Vancouver in November.

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Review: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band make a triumphant return to the Wells Fargo Center

Springsteen and the E Streeters 25 song set included “Thunder Road”, “Born To Run”, and "Glory Days."

It wasn’t until the fifth song that I got goose bumps.

That was after Bruce Springsteen walked onstage Thursday at the Wells Fargo Center and greeted his fans with a robust “Philly! My people!” He then counted off the intro to “No Surrender,” a song that suggests that if you keep the faith with yourself and your community, rock and roll just might save your life.

That kicked off a joyous 2-hour-45-minute sold-out show that was Springsteen and the E Street Band’s first in South Philadelphia in nearly seven years. It also marked the resumption of a tour in which three previous dates were postponed due to an undisclosed illness.

So after going without a Springsteen concert for the longest stretch since he made his bones in the Philadelphia market half a century ago, ardent supporters who aged along with the 73-year-old songwriter — a friend of mine in the category himself described the crowd as “a lot of old white people”—were left to wonder if Thursday’s show was even going to happen.

Was the Boss ready to come back to work?

He was. And he had plenty of work to do. The euphoria among fans after last year’s announcement of the E Street Band’s return to touring was mixed with sticker shock outrage, when Ticketmaster’s “dynamic pricing:” model resulted in some tickets selling for as much as $5,000.

And many fans were as dismayed by the unapologetic response to the controversy by Springsteen’s manager Jon Landau and the Boss himself, who said “if there’s any complaints on the way out, you can have your money back.”

So was there any reason to demand a refund after Thursday’s show? Not by any right minded individual. Does the Boss still have it? Of course he does.

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Springsteen and the E Streeters — whose membership swelled to 18 strong when all five horn players and four back up singers were on stage — delivered a rousing, frequently moving, emotionally rich 25-song show.

(Springsteen’s wife, singer-guitarist Patti Scialfa, was absent, as she has been on many nights of this tour. No explanation of the illness that led to show postponements was given. Was it Springsteen himself who was ill? At times he did sound a little hoarse.)

There were moments when my crisis of faith cracked. “Letter To You,” the title track to the 2020 album in which he addresses fans trying “to summon all my heart finds true” rang a little hollow in the wake of the ticket kerfuffle.

And I wish that when Springsteen sang “poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and king ain’t satisfied till he rules everything” exorbitant ticket prices didn’t come to mind. I’d prefer to simply be pumping my fist in the air and shouting along to the line that has encapsulated the crux of the Springsteen world view since 1978: “It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive!”

But really, the Boss and band had me all-in by that fifth song, which was “The Promised Land,” also from 1978′s Darkness on the Edge of Town. During that instrumental break before the final verse I got all tingly.

When the saxophone part played by Jake Clemons — whose uncle Clarence was Springsteen’s right hand “Big Man” until his death in 2011 — gave way to the bandleader’s harmonica solo, and then the line about blowing away “the lies that leaves you lost and broken hearted” it clicked. Something masterful was happening.

The evening later peaked with Springsteen and his comic foil and musical consigliere Steven Van Zandt mugging for the camera on a goofy, ecstatic “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight).” That was part of a seven song encore that kept the party going with “Glory Days,” “Dancing In the Dark” and “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out.”

But this was a Springsteen show, so it was also a serious affair, an expertly constructed set that held together with thematic unity. Songs from various stages of Springsteen’s bountiful career held tight to friendship, love and community as bulwarks against the world at large and the inevitable ravages of the passage of time.

That started with “No Surrender,”: written in his early 30s and addressed to Van Zandt, with whom “we swore blood bothers against the wind, now I’m ready to grow young again.”

It was there in other Born in the U.S.A. songs from “Glory Days” (“I hope when I get old I don’t sit around thinking about it, but I probably will”) to “Dancing in the Dark,” sitting around getting older, realizing the joke’s on him.

Even in “Wrecking Ball,” a song inspired by the demolition of a football stadium that got booed at the mention of the New York Giants, a metaphor about resilience was found: “We know that come tomorrow, none of this will be here / So hold tight to your anger, and don’t fall to your fears.”

The show included no special just-for-Philly additions, though Springsteen did thank the crowd at the end of the night, saying “Philadelphia has meant so much to the E Street Band for so long.”

“Kitty’s Back” and “The E Street Shuffle” two loose, shambling cuts from the 1973′s The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle — an album dear to the heart of longtime fans — were performed as part of the regular set list. Both featured the five man horn section anchored by Clemons and benefited from percussionist Anthony Almonte, who added accents to the straight-ahead drummer of Max Weinberg.

Curtis King Jr., who was joined by Lisa Lowell, Ada Dyer and Michelle Moore on backup vocals, sang brightly, stepping out with Springsteen to duet on “Nightshift,” the Commodores cover on the Boss’ new Only the Strong Survive album.

Two more highlights: “Johnny 99,” from 1982′s Nebraska , was reshaped as a rollicking roadhouse workout showcasing the horns. That was oddly jaunty considering it’s about a murderer requesting his own execution. And the cover of reggae great Jimmy Cliff’s “Trapped” was precise and powerful, fitting nicely into the familiar Springsteen motifs of claustrophobia and escape.

With the delay due to the COVID shutdown and the ticket talk, one thing that’s been lost is that this tour, while chock full of treasured standouts like “Prove It All night” and “Backstreets” is in support of Letter To You , a rock-solid late career release whose subject is the joys and sorrows accrued over a lifetime of playing music.

The figure that haunts the album is George Theis, the leader of Springsteen’s first group, The Castiles. He was the subject of the solo acoustic show closer “I’ll See You In My Dreams,” which conveyed the lovely notion of the dead living on in our internal lives.

Theis’ death in 2018 left Springsteen as the sole surviving member of The Castiles, the group he joined as a teenager to begin what he called “the greatest adventure of my life: playing in my first rock and roll band.”

It also inspired “Last Man Standing” the tender Letter To You song that was at the absolute center of Thursday night’s show. In his spoken intro, Springsteen talked about the clarity of thought that came over him standing at Theis’ deathbed.

“At 15, everything is tomorrow and hello, hello, hello. And as time passes, there are a lot more goodbyes,” he said. “It reminds you how important living every moment of your life is. So be good to your loved ones, be good to yourselves and be good to this world of ours.” In other words, as a pretty good songwriter once put it, remember this: “It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive.”

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band return to Philadelphia to play Citizens Bank Park on Aug. 16 and 18. Tickets are available at Phillies.com/Springsteen .

Bruce Springsteen’s Philadelphia set list, March 16 2023 at the Wells Fargo Center

“No Surrender”

“Prove It All Night”

“Letter To You”

“The Promised Land”

“Candy’s Room”

“Kitty’s Back”

“Nightshift”

“The E Street Shuffle”

“Johnny 99″

“Last Man Standing”

“Backstreets”

“Because The Night”

“She’s The One”

“Wrecking Ball”

“The Rising”

(The band takes a bow, but does not leave the stage)

“Thunder Road”

“Born To Run”

“Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)”

“Glory Days”

“Dancing In the Dark”

“Tenth Avenue Freeze Out”

“I’ll See You In My Dreams”

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• 29. I'll See You In My Dreams 40 2 3 32 0 0

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Bruce Springsteen’s 3-Hour-20-Minute Show at L.A.’s Forum Resets the Bar for Epic Bossiness: Concert Review

By Chris Willman

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But “Wrecking Ball” remains a key moment in his set, not for how sentimental it makes us feel about basketball barns, but for how it makes us feel about us, its true intended subject. Like a lot of the standby songs and commentaries on his 2023 tour and now (following a sick-day pause) the ‘24 outing, this particular standout has to do with his most recurring theme of recent years, live and on record: the thin veil between life and death. In Springsteen’s advanced view of mortality, we’re all dumps-that-jump, in a manner of thinking. And he’s come back from enforced hiatus to throw us the best party, or wake, we could possibly have.

Springsteen hasn’t spoken so much publicly about the condition that took him off the road for six months, and which caused these particular L.A. dates to be postponed for four. But something about his first Forum show Thursday caused him to get a little bit chattier about the malady.

“We’re sorry we missed you last time,” he said during a spoken interlude in the middle of an epic version of “Tenth Avenue Freezeout,” being performed as the show’s penultimate number  after the setlist had already passed the three-hour point. “I hope we didn’t put you out too much. But, man,” he elaborated, “I had the worst motherfucking bellyache you could ever imagine.”

“When I sang, my belly ached,” he said.

“When I did anything, my belly ached,” he continued.

Bruce Springsteen has fire in the belly. Lucky for him and everyone else, it’s back to being a fire that does not consume.

At a length of three hours and 20 minutes, Springsteen’s opening Forum show pretty much set the bar for not gentle into that good Thursday night. Its 200-minute running time was 40 minutes longer than most other sets of his lately, all of which already test and transcend what a guy in his early 70s who recently recovered from illness ought to be pulling off. It’s reductive, though, to focus too much on the running time, which makes it feel like an endurance test or marathon. Yes, every minute added onto a show beyond the tour mean confers some kind of badge of pride on attendees, and it’s great fun to start doing the numbers as a show begins to expand… but the miracle is not just that he endures.

The miracle is that he bobs and weaves with a dynamic setlist that needs that much expansiveness to sufficiently cover multiple moments of sorrow or grief and “Twist and Shout” (should you be so lucky to get that bonus track as a celebration of life, as Thursday’s crowd did).

As fans have already noted during these first few weeks of the 2024 touring resumption, the setlists tend to be only about 75% set in stone. That’s to say, they’re much looser than when the E Street Band hit the road again in 2023, closer to how they used to be in legendary days of yore. For anyone who likes to go to more than one show on a tour, or just for anybody who enjoys knowing they’re in the presence of some free-spiritedness, this flexibility is a godsend.

Given that the surprises each night are added onto the surety of some of the most powerful song sequences he’s ever constructed for a tour, a 2024 Bruce Springsteen show is really something that gives “overstuffed” a good name.

Most of his shows on this show have opened with “Lonesome Day,” which is nearly an overture for the conflicted lyrical feelings that will come up in the emotionally dynamic hours to come. But occasionally he’ll start off with a ringer in advance even of that opener. Thursday, it was a cover of John Lee Hooker’s “Boom Boom,” which ain’t nothing but primal — the blues as filtered through a “Nuggets” sensibility. He hadn’t done this oldie since 2016, which augured well for tour premieres and oddities.

Would an oldie this obscure count among the highlights of a three-hour-plus set that includes an inordinate amount of the best rock songs ever written? On the face of it, no. Or yes, for that segment of fans that lives for the idea of audibles being called.

The biggest surprise of the night: the return of Patti Scialfa, who performed on a few 2023 shows and then disappeared from public view. (“Where’s Patti?” isn’t quite up there with “Where’s Shelly?,” but it still remained a question.) Now we knew, without the FBI being called in: His bride is just living her post-E-Street life, happy to show up for a cameo instead of being tied to a recurring gig. “My baby’s back!,” Springsteen exclaimed, kicking off the first of two numbers the couple performed as a team. The recently rare “Tougher Than the Rest” featured Scialfa leaning in close on their single mic for harmony, followed by “Fire.” That number, Springsteen said, hadn’t been played “in a long time. We did do it on Broadway,” he clarified, but “Patti’s never done it.” By which he possibly meant never performed it as a full-on duet; his wife unexpectedly got the first verse of this ‘70s perennial all to herself. (Patti as a Pointer Sister, to name the group that really made the song famous? Live long enough, and all sorts of things can happen.)

The bones of the set were otherwise mostly intact. “Prove It All Night” follows “Lonesome Day” at the beginning, as a promise. But sometimes it seems like rock ‘n’ roll’s power as an elixir won’t be enough, if you’re reallly following how an underlying narrative develops.

“Ghosts” and “Letter to You,” both from the album of the latter name, overtly introduce the theme of loss, so often returned to. Then the mournful hits keep coming, as pointed segues. “My City of Ruins,” whose “Rise up” chorus barely disguises just how sad it is, goes in for more than 10 minutes, with cheerful chatter, as Bruce introduces the band, followed by bittersweet moments dedicated to the group’s fallen members. That in memoriam segued into a cover of the Commodores’ ‘80s hit “Nightshift,” which pays homage to soul music’s lost ‘60s and ‘70s greats, including Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson.

The soul memorial led into “Last Man Standing,” his song about realizing he was the last surviving member of his original band — a song so solemn it’s performed just by Springsteen and a solitary trumpeter, who might as well be playing “Taps.” From there, much of the crowd is relieved to hear Springsteen singing something as light as “Backstreets”… or is it? “Until the end… until the end…,” he sang, drawing one line out into a chant. It’s a “Born to Run”-based suite that has finally, after 49 year, turned into the requiem it was apparently always meant to be.

And then, as this emotionally fraught show drew closer to a close, we got the Three Stooges. That is, during the go-for-broke joy of “Rosalita,” there was a moment when the otherwise stone-faced Little Steven Van Zandt drew close to Springsteen and they indulged in some Larry, Curly and Moe-style face-poking, prodding, mugging and noise-making.

Springsteen has put on a tour that is the most bittersweet show on earth, until it finally settles for being the happiest, and occasionally even goofiest… and then turns heartbreaking again for the final encore. The most abrupt segue might be the final one, when, having climaxed with “Tenth Avenue” and (on this particular night) “Twist and Shout,” he sent the rest of the band off to their sleep while he serenaded the crowd with a completely solo number, “I’ll See You in My Dreams,” boldly sending the audience out thinking again about loved ones they’ve lost, if with a ballad that feels like a comforting lullaby. By the end of the show, he’s kept all these things in balance enough that any of these notes feel like they could be an honest place to land, whether it’s with an Isley Brothers tent revival or a heart-rending ode to creating memories as a means of cheating death.

Given his stage mastery, was it possible Springsteen was moving even himself with this show? It’s probably risky i to parse exactly what emotions a showman this great might be spontaneously feeling. The most deeply emotional moments are deeply baked into the tour. As always, he gave the much-quoted speech about his old friend and bandmate George Theiss’ passing, about the clarity that death brings the living. This should be rote for Springsteen by now, given how little variation he introduces into the homily, as he retells it. Yet his closed eyes looked moist enough as he eulogized his teenaged soulmate once again Thursday night. Honestly, it could also just have been perspiration (even though his face didn’t look that sweaty in the closeups seen on the two big screens for the rest of the show).

Either way, sweat or tears, it was working, like it’s always worked for a few generations now. “You’ll need a good companion for this part of the ride,” Springsteen sang toward the end of the show in “Land of Hope of Dreams,” part of the tumult of climactic numbers. Maybe he didn’t mean that line as an actual rock ‘n’ roll direct-sales pitch at the time he wrote it, but he sure keeps living up to it.

(For Variety ’s review of Springsteen’s San Diego concert March 25, click here .)

Boom Boom Lonesome Day Prove It All Night Trapped Two Hearts Ghosts Letter to You The Promised Land Tougher Than the Rest (with Patti Scialfa) Fire (with Patti Scialfa) Hungry Heart Jole Blon Spirit in the Night No Surrender My City of Ruins Nightshift Last Man Standing Backstreets Because the Night She’s the One Wrecking Ball The Rising Badlands Thunder Road Land of Hope and Dreams Born to Run Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) Bobby Jean Dancing in the Dark Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out Twist and Shout I’ll See You in My Dreams

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Bruce Springsteen 'literally couldn't sing at all' while dealing with peptic ulcer disease

Bruce Springsteen 's bout with peptic ulcer disease made him doubt whether he'd ever sing again.

The Boss said as much on SiriusXM's E Street Radio with Jim Rotolo in an interview that aired Thursday.

“I had the stomach problem and one of the big problems was I couldn't sing,” Springsteen, 74, said. “You sing with your diaphragm. You know, my diaphragm was hurting so badly that when I went to make the effort to sing it was killing me. So I literally couldn't sing at all. That lasted for two or three months.”

In September, the legendary rocker announced the E Street Band's shows that month would be postponed so he could treat his symptoms from peptic ulcer disease. A few weeks later, he rescheduled shows for the remainder of the year.

“During the course of it before people told me 'Oh, it's going to go away' and 'You're going to be OK,'" Springsteen told the radio station.

“You're thinking like, 'Hey, am I going to sing again?' This is one of the things I love to do the best, the most, and right now I can't do it. I found some great doctors and they straightened me out, and I can't do anything but thank them."

Things may have been straightened out, but not before Springsteen's health issues came to a head at the Foxborough, Massachusetts, and East Rutherford, New Jersey, shows in late August and early September.

“The last four shows, I was playing really ill,” Springsteen said. “So that was Foxborough, which was a great show, and the three Meadowlands shows, which were all, really, the band playing at its best and in front of a great New Jersey audience and a great Boston audience. But I was really not well.

“I had a little medication in me that got me up there and kept me up there for the rest of the night. You know, once you’re onstage, you’re letting it go, no matter what. You’re playing as hard as you can and they ended up being great shows. But I knew, when I came off after the last Meadowlands show, that’s the last one while I’m sick.”

Bruce Springsteen 2024 setlist: Every song he sang at the world tour relaunch in Phoenix

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's rescheduled 2024 shows mark 'a new tour'

The Springsteen and E Street Band tour last year was marked by several postponements.

Two shows at Citizens Bank Ballpark last August were postponed due to the Boss “having been taken ill,” according to Springsteen's social media handles. Three other 2023 shows — March 9 at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio; March 12 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut; and March 14 at the MVP Arena in Albany, New York — were also postponed due to an undisclosed illness.

All the shows have been rescheduled .

The 2023 tour was also marked by the illness of band members due to COVID-19. Steven Van Zandt, Nils Lofgren, Jake Clemons, Soozie Tyrell and Lisa Lowell all missed shows.

“When we first started that tour, every night somebody else was out. So I go into soundcheck and I have to find out who's missing and then I have to rearrange the stage or all of the arrangements of the songs to cover for that person,” Springsteen said. “Eddie Manion stepped up and covered for Jake Clemens on the saxophone. I brought Anthony Almonte to the front when Steve (Van Zandt) couldn't make it. Nils (Lofgren) couldn't make it another night. Susie (Tyrell) missed another night, Lisa (Lowell) — I mean it was just one after another.

"The only thing, we were blessed was Max (Weinberg) didn't fall. Garry (Tallent) didn't fall. Your rhythm section. And our two keyboardists were there. So as long as we had those people we could do a show.”

Springsteen is viewing the 2024 tour as a new tour and not an extension of the 2023 tour. That means more flexibility with the setlists, he said.

“There will be some things from last year's tour that will hold over some of my basic themes of mortality and life and those things I'm going to keep in the set, but I think I'm going to move around the other parts a lot more. So there’ll be a much wider song selection going on," he said.

Springsteen and the E Street Band relaunched the tour March 19 in Phoenix; the tour has 52 shows scheduled through November 2024.

This article originally appeared on Asbury Park Press: Bruce Springsteen 'literally couldn't sing at all' while dealing with peptic ulcer disease

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