Ahh, the sting of losing my job yesterday hits even harder with this announcement..

Apr 1 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion at San Jose Feb 2
Apr 3 Glendale, CA Jobing.com Center Feb 2
Apr 5 Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center Feb 7
Apr 7 Tulsa, OK BOK Center Feb 7
Apr 8 Houston, TX Toyota Center Feb 7
Apr 10 Denver, CO Pepsi Arena Feb 2
Apr 15 Los Angeles, CA LA Memorial Sports Arena Feb 2
Apr 21 Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden Feb 2
Apr 22 Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden Feb 2
Apr 24 Hartford, CT XL Center Feb 2
Apr 26 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena Feb 2
Apr 28 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Spectrum Feb 2
Apr 29 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Spectrum Feb 2
May 2 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum Feb 6
May 4 Hempstead, NY Nassau Veterans Mem. Col. Feb 2
May 5 Charlottesville, VA John Paul Jones Arena Feb 2
May 7 Toronto, ONT Air Canada Centre Feb 6
May 8 University Park, PA Bryce Jordan Center Feb 2
May 11 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center Feb 2
May 12 Chicago, IL United Center Feb 2
May 14 Albany, NY Times Union Center Feb 2
May 15 Hershey, PA Hersheypark Stadium Feb 2
May 18 Washington, DC Verizon Center Feb 2
May 19 Pittsburgh, PA Mellon Arena Feb 2
May 21 E. Rutherford, NJ Izod Center Feb 2
May 23 E. Rutherford, NJ Izod Center Feb 2

man, those two shows at the spectrum are going to be epic.

After Springsteen and The Dead play there, they are tearing down the building. RIP.

Toronto and Albany for sure.

And Boston.

Is there going to be a presale?

I may just go to Bonnaroo (assuming, and only assuming, I can go for free) this year to see Bruce, Robyn Hitchcock, and Booker T with DBT (all heavily rumored acts). If there's one or two more acts I really want to see when they announce the full lineup it'll be worth it to put up with the hippies.

April 4 will be Springsteen sighting mania here in Austin. I'mma try to go, having never seen him live yet.

i saw max weinberg come out of a port-o-john at a festival once

Aaaaaaand, just got my ticket. Hot damn, holy shit. April 5 will be EPIC.

Didn't even try for DC. Sold out in minutes...or did it (ticketmaster scam)? Sucks.

albany and toronto and bonnaroo
bay bay

Just got tickets...amazing seats, less than face, gotta love it
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0333268805

Well, I'm happy to report that the Boss is still the best ever.

Played for around 3 hours and was all over the place. No Patti for this show. She's still recuperating from a fall from a horse apparently. He dedicated "Kingdom of Days" to her. It's one from the new album and I wasn't too crazy about it but the other new songs he did were good live ("Outlaw Pete", "Working on a Dream", "The Wrestler"). "The Wrestler" was particularly moving live. Just him singing with Nils playing an acoustic.

For those that have been to one of his shows the past couple of years you know that he's taken to taking requests from the audience via homemade posters that people bring with them. He'll pull a bunch of the posters up on stage and then pick one, show it to the band, and then count it off.

This tour people have started making requests for covers trying to stump the band. So far this tour has seen ZZ Tops' I"m Bad, I'm Nationwide", Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated", and Social Distortion's "Bad Luck.

Last night he pulled one up that said "96 Tears WILL STUMP THE E STREET BAND". Bruce's reaction was "they think they're gonna stump the E Street Band!?!? You think they don't know 96 FUCKING TEARS!??!"......"ONE TWO THREE FOUR....." and they went into it. That's why they're the best. After that he pulled another poster out and put it up front on stage and they played "Trapped". First time for this tour according to some blogs.

We also got JUNGLELAND last night! He told a great story about some 17-18 year old guys coming up to him at some pizza joint around '97 or '98 in Freehold, NJ and telling him that they were big fans of him and the E Street band but that they had never been able to see them live together. He said that was the seed that was planted that eventually led to them getting back together so they could play songs like "Jungleland". He then went into the song saying "this was for the young 'uns out there".

They played a 4 song encore and it looked like it was over until Bruce came back out and starts yelling "IT AIN'T OVER ATLANTA! IT AIN'T OVER ATLANTA!" before tearing into "Detroit Medley". Just ridiculous.

Guy never fails to deliver. He's the best I've ever seen.


Setlist:


Badlands
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Outlaw Pete
She's the One
Working on a Dream
Radio Nowhere (w/ Jay Weinberg)
Seeds (w/ Jay Weinberg)
Johnny 99 (w/ Jay Weinberg)
The Ghost of Tom Joad (w/ Jay Weinberg)
Raise Your Hand
96 Tears
Trapped
Waitin' on a Sunny Day
The Promised Land
The Wrestler
Jungleland
Kingdom of Days
Lonesome Day
The Rising
Born to Run

ENCORE:

Hard Times
Tenth Avenue Freeze-out
Land of Hope and Dreams (w/ Jay Weinberg)
American Land (w/ Jay Weinberg)
Detroit Medley - Devil With a Blue Dress-> Good Golly Miss Molly -> CC Rider -> Devil With a Blue Dress

Nice, Derris. It's reading this that makes me realize I NEED to see this guy.

great setlist...wish I could have gone.

he did trapped last time he was in town...nothing that special...would have loved to see the 96 Tears cover.

Damn, Badlands>Darkness opener? Hot!

YES.

i'm back in boss mode after reading that. 10 days til toronto.

This is awesome:

The Atlantic reports that the WH COS actually persuaded Bruce Springsteen to play "Hava Nagila."

Goldblog reader Clifford Mendelson, who made the now-famous "Hava Nagila" sign, was seated two rows behind Emanuel (and near David Brooks and Andrea Mitchell and other such luminaries in an apparently all-Jewish section of the Verizon Center), courtesy of Bruce himself, who met Mendelson at the Arizona Biltmore hotel a few weeks back (I'm omitting some of the shaggy-dog qualities of Mendelson's story in order to get to the heart of the matter). In any case, Mendelson, a Springsteen fanatic, knew that Bruce would probably play Stump the Band, and, like many other concert-goers, he decided to bring a sign with him. "Hava Nagila" was chosen in deference to his daughter, a 14-year-old student at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Md.

"My daughter didn't want to go because of homework, so I figured she needed a Jewish excuse to go to the concert. I made the 'Hava Nagila' sign - I'm in the mortgage credit market, so there's not a hell of a lot for me to do these days - and we brought it to the concert," he said. "I made it like the Torah, two sticks on each side."

He went on with his tale: "I didn't have the sign up when Bruce came to our side of the stage, but I held it up and Patti (Bruce's wife) sees it, and Roy Bittan sees it - he's Jewish - and he gives me a fist pump. But I've got to get it up to the stage. Bruce then looked our way and saw it and he points at me. Rahm Emanuel turns around and sees it and he loves it and grabs the sign. He hands it to a Secret Service agent who handed it up to Bruce and then they played it."

He continued, "I turned to Rahm Emanuel and I said, `The least I can do for you as a great public servant is buy you a beer,' and he said `I'll take a light beer.' I mean, what a night."

News story of the day...would have been great if they lifted Emmanuel in the chair.