Bruce Springsteen Forum

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The last U.S. tour stop of 2007 would prove to be Danny Federici’s final show as a full-time member of the E Street Band. Boston ’07 is a fitting farewell to Phantom Dan and catches Bruce and the band firing on all cylinders at the height of the Magic tour. Rich with core album tracks including “Radio Nowhere,” “Gypsy Biker,” “Livin’ In The Future” and “Girls In Their Summer Clothes,” Boston also features the tour debuts of “This Hard Land” and “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” with Peter Wolf.

Prove it all Night, Out in the Street, 10th Avenue Freeze-Out, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Independence Day, Who’ll Stop the Rain, Two Hearts, Promised Land, The River, Badlands, Thunder Road, Cadillac Ranch, Sherry Darling, Hungry Heart, Fire, You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch), Wreck on the Highway, Racing in the Street, Backstreets, Ramrod, Rosalita, Born to Run, Detroit Medley, Rockin’ All Over the World

Factory, Prove it all Night, Out in the Street, 10th Avenue Freeze-Out, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Independence Day, Who’ll Stop the Rain, Two Hearts, Promised Land, This Land is Your Land, The River, Badlands, Thunder Road, Cadillac Ranch, Sherry Darling, Hungry Heart, Fire, You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch), Wreck on the Highway, Racing in the Street, Backstreets, Ramrod, Rosalita (Come Out Tonight), Born to Run, Detroit Medley, Rockin’ All Over the World, Twist and Shout

Factory, Prove it all Night, Out in the Street, 10th Avenue Freeze-Out, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Independence Day, Who’ll Stop the Rain, Two Hearts, The Promised Land, This Land is Your Land, The River, Badlands, Thunder Road, Cadillac Ranch, Sherry Darling, Hungry Heart, Fire, You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch), Point Blank, Racing in the Street, Backstreets, Ramrod, Rosalita, Born to Run, Detroit Medley, Rockin’ All Over the World

Factory, Prove it all Night, The Ties that Bind, Out in the Street, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Independence Day, Who’ll Stop the Rain, Two Hearts, Promised Land, This Land is Your Land, The River, Badlands, Thunder Road, Cadillac Ranch, Sherry Darling, Hungry Heart, Fire, You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch), Wreck on the Highway, Racing in the Street, Backstreets, Ramrod, Rosalita (Come Out Tonight), Born to Run, Detroit Medley, Rockin’ All Over the World

High Hopes, Badlands, No Surrender, Death to My Hometown, Hungry Heart, Spirit in the Night, Burning Love, (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, Atlantic City, Johnny 99, American Skin (41 Shots), The Promised Land, Because the Night, I’m On Fire, Downbound Train, Shackled and Drawn, Waiting on a Sunny Day, The Ghost of Tom Joad, The Rising, Land of Hope and Dreams, The Wall, Point Blank, Born in the USA, Born to Run, Dancing in the Dark, 10th Avenue Freeze Out, Shout, Thunder Road (Solo Acoustic)

The Ghost Of Tom Joad, Adam Raised A Cain, Strait Time, Highway 29, Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Murder Incorporated, Nebraska, It’s The Little Things That Count, Sell It And They Will Come, Brothers Under The Bridge, Born In The USA, Dry Lightning, Spare Parts, Youngstown, Sinaloa Cowboys, The Line, Balboa Park, Across The Border, Bobby Jean, This Hard Land, Streets Of Philadelphia, Galveston Bay, The Promised Land

Meet Me In The City, The Ties That Bind, Sherry Darling, Jackson Cage, Two Hearts, Independence Day, Hungry Heart, Out In The Street, Crush On You, You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch), I Wanna Marry You, The River, Point Blank, Cadillac Ranch, I’m A Rocker, Fade Away, Stolen Car, Ramrod, The Price You Pay, Drive All Night, Wreck On The Highway, Prove it All Night, My Love Will Not Let You Down, Badlands, Backstreets, Because the Night, The Rising, Thunder Road, Born to Run, Dancing in the Dark, Rosalita (Come Out Tonight), 10th Avenue Freeze-Out, Shout

The Ghost Of Tom Joad, Adam Raised A Cain, Straight Time, Highway 29, Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Johnny 99, Nebraska, Pilgrim In The Temple Of Love, Red Headed Woman, Brothers Under The Bridge, Born In The USA, Dry Lightning, Spare Parts, Youngstown, Sinaloa Cowboys, The Line, Balboa Park, Across The Border, Bobby Jean, This Hard Land, Streets Of Philadelphia, Galveston Bay, The Promised Land

Run Through The Jungle, Prove It All Night, The Ties That Bind, Darkness On The Edge of Town, Independence Day, Who’ll Stop The Rain, Two Hearts, The Promised Land, Out In The Street, This Land Is Your Land, The River, Badlands, Thunder Road, Cadillac Ranch, Sherry Darling, Hungry Heart, Because The Night, You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch), Wreck On The Highway, Racing In The Street, Backstreets, Candy’s Room, Ramrod, Rosalita (Come Out Tonight), Can’t Help Falling In Love, Born To Run, Detroit Medley, Rockin’ All Over The World

When I first got the letter I was to be inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame, I was a little suspicious. A New Jersey Hall of Fame? I don’t know, does New York have a Hall of Fame? Does Connecticut have a Hall of Fame? I mean, maybe they don’t think they need one.

But then I thought, well, let me see: Albert Einstein, Bruce Springsteen…My mother’s really going to like that part. She’s here tonight. It’s her birthday, so there you go, Mom. It’s the only time those two names are going to be mentioned in the same sentence, so I’m going to enjoy it.When I was recording my first album, the record company spent a lot of money taking a lot of pictures of me in New York City. But something didn’t feel quite right. I was w

alking down the boardwalk one day, stopped at a souvenir stand and pulled out a postcard that said “Greetings from Asbury Park.” I remember thinking, “Yeah, that’s me.” Down south there was Patti Smith; right here in Newark was George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, great musicians.

With the exception of a few half-years in California, my family and I have raised our kids here. We have a big Italian-Irish family, and I found my own Jersey girl here – thank you, Patti! In the end, I just found something deeply resonant in holding the hands of my kids on the same streets where my mom held my hand, swimming in the same ocean and taking them to visit the same beaches I did as a child. It was also a place that really protected me. It’s been very nurturing. I could take my kids down to Freehold, throw them up on my shoulders and walk along the street with thousands of other people on Kruise Night with everybody just going, “Hey Bruce…” That was something that meant a lot to me, the ability to just go about my life. I was protected here, by the people here. And I really appreciated that.

You get a little older now, and you get those crisp fall days that come in September and the beginning of October. My friends and I, we slip into the cool water of that Atlantic Ocean. These days, you take note that there’s a few less of your friends swimming alongside of you as each year passes. But something about being in one place your whole life: they’re all still around you in the water. I look towards the shore and I see my two sons and my daughter pushing their way through the waves. And on the beach there’s a whole batch of new little kids running away from the crashing surf… like time itself.

That’s what New Jersey is for me. It’s a repository of time on earth. My memory, the music I’ve made, my friendships, my life…It’s all buried here in a box somewhere in the sand down on the Jersey Shore. I can’t imagine having it any other way.

Let me finish with a Garden State benediction. Rise up my fellow New Jerseyans, for we are all members of a confused but noble race. We, of the state that will never get any respect. We, who bear the coolness of the forever uncool. The chip on the shoulders of those with forever something to prove. And even with this wonderful Hall of Fame, we know that there’s another bad Jersey joke just around the corner.But fear not! Fear not! This is not our curse, it is our blessing. For this is what imbues us with our fighting spirit. That we may salute the world forever with the fabulous Jersey state bird, and that the fumes from our great northern industrial area to the ocean breezes of Cape May fill us with the raw hunger, the naked ambition and the desire not just to do our bes

t, but to stick it in your face. Theory of relativity anybody? How about some electric light with your day? Or maybe a spin to the moon and back? That’s right. And that is why our fellow Americans in the other 49 states know that when the announcer says, “And now, in this corner, from New Jersey…” they better keep their hands up and their heads down, because when that bell rings, we always come out swinging.

Thank you, friends, family…God bless the Garden State!

Badlands, Adam Raised A Cain, Outlaw Pete, Candy’s Room, Working On A Dream, Seeds, Johnny 99, Roulette, The Ghost Of Tom Joad, Raise Your Hand, You Really Got Me, Spirit In The Night, Gypsy Biker, Waitin’ On A Sunny Day, The Promised Land, The Wrestler, Kingdom Of Days, Radio Nowhere, Lonesome Day, The Rising, Born To Run, Hard Times (Come Again No More), Thunder Road, 10th Avenue Freeze-Out, Land Of Hope And Dreams, American Land, Detroit Medley

The River, Adam Raised A Cain, Straight Time, Highway 29, Darkness On The Edge of Town, Johnny 99, Mansion On The Hill, The Wish, Red Headed Woman, Two Hearts, When You’re Alone, Open All Night, Used Cars, Born In The USA, The Ghost of Tom Joad, Sinaloa Cowboys, The Line, Balboa Park, Across the Borger, Growin’ Up, This Hard Land, My Hometown, Racing In The Street, The Promised Land, In Freehold

This memorable homecoming stop on the Joad tour sees Springsteen return to Freehold and his parochial school, St. Rose of Lima. Joined by special guests Patti Scialfa and Soozie Tyrell, Bruce reminisces and tears up the set list for nine tour debuts, including “The River,” “Two Hearts” “Racing in the Street,” a rare “When You’re Alone” and the only tour performances of “Open All Night,” “Used Cars” and “My Hometown.” The show wraps with “Freehold,” an uproarious paean penned for the occasion.

New York City Serenade, Spirit in the Night, I Sold My Heart to the Junkman, Does this Bus Stop at 82th Street?, It’s Hard to be a Saint in the City, The E Street Shuffle, Havin’ A Party, Kitty’s Back, Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)

The E Street Shuffle, New York City Serenade, Spirit in the Night, Born to Run, 4th of July Asbury Park (Sandy), It’s Hard to be a Saint in the City, Kitty’s Back, For You, Rosalita (Come Out Tonight), Let the four Winds blow, Twist and Shout

Growing Young With Rock and Roll
But tonight there is someone I can write of the way I used to write, without reservations of any kind. Last Thursday, at the Harvard Square theatre, I saw my rock’n’roll past flash before my eyes. And I saw something else: I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time.

This Hard Land, The Rising, Lonesome Day, No Surrender, Candy’s Room, Darlington County, Empty Sky, You’re Missing, Waiting On A Sunny Day, Spirit In The Night, Worlds Apart, Badlands, Out in the Street, Mary’s Place, The Promised Land, Racing In The Street, Into The Fire, Bobby Jean, Ramrod, Born To Run, Glory Days, My City Of Ruins, Land Of Hope And Dreams, Dancing In The Dark

Follow That Dream, Prove It All Night, Out In the Street, 10th Avenue Freeze-Out, Darkness On The Edge of Town, Independence Day, Who’ll Stop The Rain, Two Hearts, The Promised Land, This Land Is Your Land, The River, Badlands, Thunder Road, Cadillac Ranch, Sherry Darling, Hungry Heart, Because the Night, You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch), Wreck On the Highway, Racing In The Street, Backstreets, Candy’s Room, Ramrod, Point Blank, Rosalita (Come Out Tonight), Born to Run, Detroit Medley, Rockin’ All Over The World