One Last Concert Report...
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lagilmanAnd thus last night was my 4th and final-this-tour-I-think Springsteen concert. Tailgate at the new, incredibly ugly Stadium at the Swamplands was pretty awesome. We should have brought another bottle of wine, and I need a better camp chair, but awesome nonetheless, especially since we got to hear the (long and detailed) sound check rising from the stadium and got a preview of some of the songs (raising hopes that we'd get both "Cynthia" and "Meeting Across the River."). Oh, and the mostly-on-fire Dumpster. The Swamplands has its own fire department? Cool.
Barefoot Girl happened to be wearing boots and drinking cheap wine, but the warm summer rain part we got, eventually.
We also got a rainbow for our suffering.
We met up with Bob and Deb Greenberger, and wandered over into the stadium around 7:15.
There was some confusion about finding our seats, because the layout of and signage in the new stadium is crap, but we eventually wandered over to the right area and... huh. There is a sign that indicates our seats are that way, but it requires getting our tickets scanned again at the "Chase Club" door entrance. Really?
Really. Awesome!
(you walk through into a nicely appointed lounge area with food courts, a full bar [much better beer and spirits than the main hallways] and a meh but pretty wine bar down at the other end, and windows that look out into the stadium and comfy lounge seats and tables... and then you go out the doors into the stadium bowl and the seats are comfy and PADDED. Pure luck we got these tix but i guess we can say that my ticket karma once again did not suck. Also, these seats must be REALLY nice during football games. The "Lexus Club" was opposite us on the west side of the Stadium)
This was the view from our seats. Not too shabby.
And then just as we were waiting for the show to begin, they sent us out of our seats for a weather delay - lightning in the area. Yay for the club seats! Hanging out in the club was a hell of a lot more enjoyable than wandering around the concourse for one...two hours, as the rain came down and the lightning warnings remained in effect. Finally the stadium started tweeting updates, and a reassurance that they DID plan on the show going on, and then at 10pm they let us go back to our seats and... at 10:20 Bruce and the band come out and he says "I think I've just invited 55,000 people to my birthday party!"
(his birthday was the next day - but since we were starting late, we all knew we'd be seeing his birthday in with him).
Anyway. That happened. 10:30pm to 2AM, complete with rain, cake, and fireworks. And "Meeting Across the River" which yeah, was lacking Clarence but Jake NAILED Jungleland, so I'm still so very very happy. And a special appearance from the Boss's Mom, singing backup on "Twist and Shout."
And did we mention cake? Bruce was trying to run slices out to members of the audience in the pit, which was very funny and oh so doomed to failure. "We need 55,000 more fucking plates!"
Setlist:
Out in the Street (rocking like a rockin' thing)
The Ties that Bind ("Stevie!" he calls, and you KNOW what's up)
Cynthia (Happy fangirl is Happy)
Badlands
Who'll Stop the Rain (at this point, it actually WASN'T raining)
Cover Me
Downbound Train
We Take Care of our Own
Wrecking Ball
Death to My Hometown
My City of Ruins
It's Hard to be a Saint in the City (complete with "there I was, 22 years old and taking the bus into NYC to the record company, me and my guitar..")
Jole Blon (with Gary U.S. Bonds)
This Little Girl (with Gary U.S. Bonds)
Pay Me My Money Down (I was all...what? waitaminiute! woo!)
Janey Don't You Lose Heart
In the Midnight Hour (likewise a lot of woo!ing)
Into the Fire
Because the Night
She's the One
Working on the Highway
Shackled and Drawn
Waitin' on a Sunny Day
Meeting Across the River (near-bliss)
Jungleland (more bliss)
* * *
Thunder Road
Rocky Ground
Born to Run
Glory Days (complete with the required hamming)
Seven Nights to Rock (entire stadium was up and boogieing, and never mind how late it was)
Dancing in the Dark
Tenth Avenue Freeze-out (with Gary U.S. Bonds)
Twist and Shout (with Gary U.S. Bonds, Adele Springsteen)
So yeah: not a Top 5 show, but in terms of Experience? Pretty Damned Awesome. I still wish I'd been at the Friday night show, too, because that sounded like fun, but having a Birthday Show rocks. :-)
Barefoot Girl happened to be wearing boots and drinking cheap wine, but the warm summer rain part we got, eventually.
We also got a rainbow for our suffering.
We met up with Bob and Deb Greenberger, and wandered over into the stadium around 7:15.
There was some confusion about finding our seats, because the layout of and signage in the new stadium is crap, but we eventually wandered over to the right area and... huh. There is a sign that indicates our seats are that way, but it requires getting our tickets scanned again at the "Chase Club" door entrance. Really?
Really. Awesome!
(you walk through into a nicely appointed lounge area with food courts, a full bar [much better beer and spirits than the main hallways] and a meh but pretty wine bar down at the other end, and windows that look out into the stadium and comfy lounge seats and tables... and then you go out the doors into the stadium bowl and the seats are comfy and PADDED. Pure luck we got these tix but i guess we can say that my ticket karma once again did not suck. Also, these seats must be REALLY nice during football games. The "Lexus Club" was opposite us on the west side of the Stadium)
This was the view from our seats. Not too shabby.
And then just as we were waiting for the show to begin, they sent us out of our seats for a weather delay - lightning in the area. Yay for the club seats! Hanging out in the club was a hell of a lot more enjoyable than wandering around the concourse for one...two hours, as the rain came down and the lightning warnings remained in effect. Finally the stadium started tweeting updates, and a reassurance that they DID plan on the show going on, and then at 10pm they let us go back to our seats and... at 10:20 Bruce and the band come out and he says "I think I've just invited 55,000 people to my birthday party!"
(his birthday was the next day - but since we were starting late, we all knew we'd be seeing his birthday in with him).
Anyway. That happened. 10:30pm to 2AM, complete with rain, cake, and fireworks. And "Meeting Across the River" which yeah, was lacking Clarence but Jake NAILED Jungleland, so I'm still so very very happy. And a special appearance from the Boss's Mom, singing backup on "Twist and Shout."
And did we mention cake? Bruce was trying to run slices out to members of the audience in the pit, which was very funny and oh so doomed to failure. "We need 55,000 more fucking plates!"
Setlist:
Out in the Street (rocking like a rockin' thing)
The Ties that Bind ("Stevie!" he calls, and you KNOW what's up)
Cynthia (Happy fangirl is Happy)
Badlands
Who'll Stop the Rain (at this point, it actually WASN'T raining)
Cover Me
Downbound Train
We Take Care of our Own
Wrecking Ball
Death to My Hometown
My City of Ruins
It's Hard to be a Saint in the City (complete with "there I was, 22 years old and taking the bus into NYC to the record company, me and my guitar..")
Jole Blon (with Gary U.S. Bonds)
This Little Girl (with Gary U.S. Bonds)
Pay Me My Money Down (I was all...what? waitaminiute! woo!)
Janey Don't You Lose Heart
In the Midnight Hour (likewise a lot of woo!ing)
Into the Fire
Because the Night
She's the One
Working on the Highway
Shackled and Drawn
Waitin' on a Sunny Day
Meeting Across the River (near-bliss)
Jungleland (more bliss)
* * *
Thunder Road
Rocky Ground
Born to Run
Glory Days (complete with the required hamming)
Seven Nights to Rock (entire stadium was up and boogieing, and never mind how late it was)
Dancing in the Dark
Tenth Avenue Freeze-out (with Gary U.S. Bonds)
Twist and Shout (with Gary U.S. Bonds, Adele Springsteen)
So yeah: not a Top 5 show, but in terms of Experience? Pretty Damned Awesome. I still wish I'd been at the Friday night show, too, because that sounded like fun, but having a Birthday Show rocks. :-)
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Date: 2012-09-24 03:22 am (UTC)Hey, no Hungry Heart, that's unusual too!
Sounds like a great show! (I may be the only person who follows you more for your Springsteen posts than the Urban Fantasy.)
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Date: 2012-09-25 11:12 am (UTC)I had thought, after the few opening songs, that we were going to get a night of "all the old stuff I like and don't often get to play." But Bruce knows he has fans from all albums, and I suspect doesn't want to disappoint the newer ones by playing stuff they don't know/love as much....?
Man, I'd pay double for an evening of "unknowns" and non-hits, tho.