Bruce Springsteen-Light of Day Concert Last Night

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I tried to get tickets to this show, but they were sold out by then. I missed a good one it seems. Oh and notice the part I highlighted. :D

LINK: Bruce Springsteen plays fun, loose 2-hour set at Light of Day in Asbury Park on Saturday night | NJ.com

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It's a show fans lucky to be at the sold-out Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park on Saturday night will not soon forget.
Bruce Springsteen played for close to two hours with Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers at part of Light of Day 12 to benefit Parkinson's Disease.
Springsteen also played with two other artists and played a magical acoustic "Incdent on 57th Street" before joining Joe Grushecky and his band.
By the time, the show ended at 2:10 a.m., with the crowd singing along on an acoustic "Thunder Road," fans walked away knowing they had just witnessed a great night of music.
It was a fun, loose and determined Springsteen performing a 16-song set. He looked ready and set to begin his world tour with the E Street Band coming up in two months.
Bruce's first appearance of the evening was when he joined Garland Jeffreys for "Wild in the Streeet."
He later joined Willie Nile for a very powerful "One Guitar."
Springsteen began his own set shortly after midnight on acoustic guitar with
1. Incident on 57th Street
Crowd was singing along. Very well done.
Bruce left the stage and Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers came on to perform
East Carson Street
Bruce then came back on stage to join the band for
2. Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce played to the crowd and was right down to the edge of the stage.
3. Never be Enough Time
A Grushecky song. Bruce and Joe traded lead vocals.
4. Adam Raised a Cain
Bruce welcome the crowd to Light of Day and then took some tequila and "blessed the crowd" up front.
"I got here early and got to see a lot of good music tonight. Willie Nile, John Eddie they just get better and better," Springsteen said of two of the evening's early performers.
"Then to see an acoustic Southside Johnny (Southside Johnny and the Poor Fools had played earlier). It was a shock to the system to see Southside on guitar. There's something wrong with that picture."
Springsteen then introduced the next song by saying "this is something I began writing for 'Darkness on the Edge of Town' and I just finished it."
5. Save my Love
6. Talk To the King
After finishing, Bruce talked about Grushecky and the Houserockers being disappointed that their Pittsburgh Steelers were knocked out of the NFL playoffs last week. But he continued "tomorrow, there's going to be a Big Blue train! I got a feeling" referring to the Giants playing the Packers on Sunday.
7. Atlantic City
Bruce asked the crowd three times "Are we coming back?" during the song. First time I've ever seen him do that. With his new album reportedly being "angry" with the current state of affairs, I wonder if this is one of the themes we'll see on the upcoming tour.
8. Johnny 99
This was a lot of fun. Bruce was all over the stage and playing to the people up front. He jumped up next to the piano and started playing it with his foot and then his butt. He later jumped up on the drumer riser and leaned back onto the drum kit. He was having a good time.
9. I'm not Sleeping
A song he wrote with Grushecky.
10. Because the Night
Bruce brought three of the evenings earlier performers -- John Eddie, Garland Jeffreys and Willie Nile -- up to sing background.
Before playing the next song, Bruce said "I'm usually it bed by now. I still got one (child) in the house and I'm making pancakes. I'm a short-order cook. In addition to the guitar, I'm still a chauffeur and a short-order cook.
"And when I step off the stage, I have a red-headed woman who reminds me of that!"
11. Waiting on a Sunny Day
Bruce jumped into the audience. He went back a couple rows and one point dove head first into the crowd and then dove backward. He laster played up on the drum riser again.
12. Pumping Iron
Max Weinberg came out to play the drums for the remainder of the show starting with:
13. Light of Day
The theme of the entire four-days of shows in Asbury Park.
Many of the night's musicians joined in for this.
After the song, Light of Day founder Bob Benjamin of Highland Park joined Bruce onstage. Bruce asked Bob how they met and Bob said it was in Buffalo at the start of the "Darkness' tour in 1978.
"I was at the hotel being a stalker," Benjamin said.
Bruce said he was selling merchandise for the first time on that tour and asked Bob about what he should sell ("what did I know?"). He also remembered Bob asking him if he saw that "Elvis Costello had said something bad about him in an article."
14. The Promised Land
Great version.
A birthday cake was brought out for Benjamin and Bruce led a singalong of "Happy Birthday."
Benjamin then spoke how Light of Day has grown "from a concert to a festival."
15. Twist and Shout
Always fun.
16. Thunder Road (acoustic)
This has been the way Bruce has closed the few shows that he has done the past couple of years. Will be interesting to see if he does it on the upcoming E Street Band tour.
This was the ninth time (out of 12 years) that Springsteen has performed at a Light of Day show.
 

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OMG! Loved Bruce for so long, and no sign yet that he's really flagging (apart from the totally hideous beyond belief 'Working on a Dream' CD, which makes a great beer mat in my den but IMO has few other redeeming uses or qualities!) That looks like a hell of a show anyway, though it has to feel odd for him playing without Clarence. I can't wait for the show in Manchester in June.
 

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:heheh: @ your comments about WOAD. Not my favorite either but I don't feel as strongly about it as you do. :D

The show last night looked amazing and I'm so pissed I didn't try to get tickets sooner than I did. Watch, I'll get them for next year and Bruce won't show. :bonk:

Hopefully we hear soon about the tour and what will be done in Clarence's place. He will be missed.
 

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:heheh: @ your comments about WOAD. Not my favorite either but I don't feel as strongly about it as you do. :D

The show last night looked amazing and I'm so pissed I didn't try to get tickets sooner than I did. Watch, I'll get them for next year and Bruce won't show. :bonk:

Hopefully we hear soon about the tour and what will be done in Clarence's place. He will be missed.

I expect poetry from Bruce, for me he's the greatest songwriter/rock poet since Dylan at his peak, it was the lyrical banality of WOAD that shocked me, there's 3 stunning songs on the album (Last Carnival, Lucky Day, The Wrestler) but the rest is just so poor by his standards, take that song 'Surprise Surprise'...

Well surprise, surprise, surprise
Yeah surprise, surprise, surprise
Well surprise, surprise, come on open your eyes
And let your love shine down

Well surprise, surprise, surprise
Yeah surprise, surprise, surprise
Well surprise, surprise, come on open your eyes
And let your love shine down

and so on and so on....

And this from the great genius who wrote the Astbury Park, Born to Run, and Darkness albums?

Still, we forgive him anything, you look like a great fan, so hi again! I nearly had a Bruce sig but then I saw yours and decided I cant compete with that!

See ya!
 

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I'm a huge Bruce fan! But if you ever decide to change your signature, I personally would welcome seeing a Bruce one for yours. :grinthumb

Looking forward to discussing the new album with you when it comes out. And of course the tour as well. :)
 

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From last night...Thunder Road. The audience sings the entire song along with Bruce. Amazing. Be careful if watching at work. Bruce uses colorful language in the beginning. :D

 

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I'm a huge Bruce fan! But if you ever decide to change your signature, I personally would welcome seeing a Bruce one for yours. :grinthumb

Looking forward to discussing the new album with you when it comes out. And of course the tour as well. :)

Absolutely JG - can't wait for the new album.

Tell you what, there, just for you I changed my sig!!!...though it's not a patch on your ace Bruce sig, and I've put him up there with my other joint #1 all time favourite singer/songwriter, so I have Bruce 'The Boss' Springsteen and Van 'The Man' Morrison.

Love that Thunder Road clip, that's what I meant about Bruce being a poet, and it was never better demonstrated than in Thunder Road, nobody for my money ever wrote lyrics that send a shiver down your spine quite like ...

"There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away,
They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
In the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they're gone on the wind, so Mary climb in
It's a town full of losers and we're pulling out of here to win"

Love it :grinthumb
 

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