Bruuuuuuce!
Oct. 3rd, 2007 12:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanOpening night?
Kicked Ass.
He went on late, even for Bruce (nobody believes the '7:30 on the tickets, but he didn't take the stage until almost 8:20). But hey, opening night. Our seats were fabulous -- side view but close enough that we didn't need the video screens at all. And as I pointed out, we know what everyone looks like, anyway.
It was, we determined early, a guitar night. A rockin' guitar night. A rockin' wall of sound guitar night. The boys were on. The girls were on. The audience was on. We had us a party. The days of the extended shows (three hours, four hours, more) are gone never to return (Clarence is not only the Big Man, he's the Old Man, and even Bruce was showing the strain on occasion) but it was 2+ hours of high octane rock'n'roll.
Three moments of note, for me: in "Lonesome Day" when the chorus goes "it's all right/it's all right/it's all right" -- for the first time ever while hearing that song, it was all right. Everything was all right (it's off THE RISING and has obvious memories and connotations). Likewise, "The Rising," while still having the power to make me cry with two lines ("holy pictures of our children/dancing in a sky filled with light"), has gone from being a song of pain to an anthem of survival. And three -- "Thundercrack" is still one of my all time favorite boogie-till-you-drop songs, and led into "Born to Run" so well it's almost criminal.
And, okay, fourth, and fith, and... oh hell. The band rocked. The crowd rocked. In fact, I suspect all of Hartford rocked, by association. And for a while there, I felt like I had the energy of a 20-something without losing any of the life-memories of a 40 year old, and let me tell you, that's a good place to be a Springsteen fan.
for those who like the playlist:
Radio Nowhere
The Ties That Bind (a most excellent version)
Lonesome Day
Gypsy Biker
Magic
Reason to Believe
Night
She's the One (rockin' like a rockin' thing)
Livin' in the Future (the show gets political)
The Promised Land (a natural follow-through, and a good shake-up, tone-wise)
Town Called Heartbreak
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Darlington County (parTEE!)
Devil's Arcade
The Rising
Last to Die
Long Walk Home
Badlands
(the encore was brought on, not by the usual "bruuuuuuuuuce' from the crowd, but all of us continuing the "phhhhhaaaaaayohhhhhhh" chorus even after they left the stage, until they came back It was fun.)
Girls in Their Summer Clothes
Thundercrack (you could tell who the old line fans were, because we were on our feet before the first note was all the way into the air. Duuuuude.)
Born to Run (blew the roof off. and the band wasn't bad, either)
Waitin' on a Sunny Day
American Land
As I said, a (relatively, for Bruce) short show, but an excellent start to the tour. Can't wait to see him next week in Jersey...
but now I must go splat. Very very tired.
Kicked Ass.
He went on late, even for Bruce (nobody believes the '7:30 on the tickets, but he didn't take the stage until almost 8:20). But hey, opening night. Our seats were fabulous -- side view but close enough that we didn't need the video screens at all. And as I pointed out, we know what everyone looks like, anyway.
It was, we determined early, a guitar night. A rockin' guitar night. A rockin' wall of sound guitar night. The boys were on. The girls were on. The audience was on. We had us a party. The days of the extended shows (three hours, four hours, more) are gone never to return (Clarence is not only the Big Man, he's the Old Man, and even Bruce was showing the strain on occasion) but it was 2+ hours of high octane rock'n'roll.
Three moments of note, for me: in "Lonesome Day" when the chorus goes "it's all right/it's all right/it's all right" -- for the first time ever while hearing that song, it was all right. Everything was all right (it's off THE RISING and has obvious memories and connotations). Likewise, "The Rising," while still having the power to make me cry with two lines ("holy pictures of our children/dancing in a sky filled with light"), has gone from being a song of pain to an anthem of survival. And three -- "Thundercrack" is still one of my all time favorite boogie-till-you-drop songs, and led into "Born to Run" so well it's almost criminal.
And, okay, fourth, and fith, and... oh hell. The band rocked. The crowd rocked. In fact, I suspect all of Hartford rocked, by association. And for a while there, I felt like I had the energy of a 20-something without losing any of the life-memories of a 40 year old, and let me tell you, that's a good place to be a Springsteen fan.
for those who like the playlist:
Radio Nowhere
The Ties That Bind (a most excellent version)
Lonesome Day
Gypsy Biker
Magic
Reason to Believe
Night
She's the One (rockin' like a rockin' thing)
Livin' in the Future (the show gets political)
The Promised Land (a natural follow-through, and a good shake-up, tone-wise)
Town Called Heartbreak
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Darlington County (parTEE!)
Devil's Arcade
The Rising
Last to Die
Long Walk Home
Badlands
(the encore was brought on, not by the usual "bruuuuuuuuuce' from the crowd, but all of us continuing the "phhhhhaaaaaayohhhhhhh" chorus even after they left the stage, until they came back It was fun.)
Girls in Their Summer Clothes
Thundercrack (you could tell who the old line fans were, because we were on our feet before the first note was all the way into the air. Duuuuude.)
Born to Run (blew the roof off. and the band wasn't bad, either)
Waitin' on a Sunny Day
American Land
As I said, a (relatively, for Bruce) short show, but an excellent start to the tour. Can't wait to see him next week in Jersey...
but now I must go splat. Very very tired.
