Bruce Springsteen performs Bob Dylan’s Forever Young live with the birthday boy himself at the opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in 1995.
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Mumford & Sons - I’m on Fire (Calgary, AB 21/05/2013)
The Weight - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s tribute to Levon Helm (05/02/12 Newark, NJ.)
Today is the first anniversary of his death.
I posted a recording of Bruce Springsteen covering “I Sold My Heart To The Junkman” yesterday and in it I talked about how much I loved hearing Ernest “Boom” Carter. This recording is from the very same show and is actually the song they played immediately after “…junkman”. This of course is “Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?”. Ernest brings such an driving energy to this tune and if you listen closely, every once in a while you can totally pick up on that same vibe found in parts of the “Born To Run” studio recording. Ernest recorded the drums for Born To Run and then decided to leave with David Sancious to purse other musical ventures ( ” D’OH ” ) But getting to hear Ernest play live with Bruce and on another song other than Born To Run really gives you an idea of what a different feel his presence gave Bruce’s music. I love the heavier approach they took with this.
*Sorry for the shit audio quality
As you know, Bruce Springsteen’s 2012 Wrecking Ball Tour is quickly coming to an end. Bruce has played more than 90 shows, 100′s of songs, in over 15 countries since the beginning of the tour on March 18, 2012. For those fans lucky enough to have witnessed one (or several) of his concerts this year, you know Bruce and the E Street Band are firing on all cylinders – it’s miraculous to consider the fact that this 63-year-old is probably at the height of his long concert career.
Read what journalist and blogger Peter Chianca had to say about Bruce and the tour:
The themes of this tour — loss, living with ghosts, bringing new faces into the fold, moving on while honoring the past, a refusal to go gentle into that good night — have made it one of the most moving and satisfying Springsteen tours ever. The depth and breadth of the material, the willingness to dive head first into uncharted waters and Springsteen’s amazing, seemingly indefatigable drive, energy and devotion to the audience never cease to amaze. By the end of the eight-song encore, with Springsteen feigning (?) exhaustion and his perennial sideman Steven Van Zandt prowling over him with a wet sponge to revive him for two more songs, band and crowd were one – a huge, sweaty, smiling mass of rock ’n’ roll redemption.
Peter Chianca Blogness on the Edge of Town
To help relive and capture the amazing memories of this year’s tour, we are offering a superb selection of six live concert photos from various cities on the tour schedule.
The images were taken by super-fan Dan Reiner and are beautiful, high-quality 8” x 10” colour photographs. Anyone who purchases a copy of the limited edition book The Light in Darkness will receive an original photograph* as a special bonus. We have only printed 5 of each image so they will probably not last very long.
Click here to order your copy of The Light in Darkness, and claim one of these collectible photos now: The Light in Darkness
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Check out Backstreets for the full story on Hard Rock Calling officials pulling the plug on Bruce & Sr Paul McCartney at the Hyde Park show. Regardless of the sad, pathetic ending, this was one of the greatest shows in E Street Band history, we’re proud and honoured to have been there. (And really rather embarrassed about our country’s miserable Health & Safety-&-No-Fun-Please-We’re-British Police.)
Bruce Springsteen - Live in Paris (Wednesday 4th July 2012)
Frenzy in Firenze: Yes, that’s exactly where I was last night (a couple of rows in front of the photographer’s spot). As the dude says in the Backstreets review: “This is not a singer. This is a religion.”
Setlist:
Badlands
No Surrender
We Take Care of Our Own
Wrecking Ball
Death to My Hometown
My City of Ruins
Spirit in the Night
Be True
Jack of All Trades
Trapped
Prove It All Night
Honky Tonk Woman/Darlington County
Burning Love
Working on the Highway
Shackled & Drawn
Waitin’ on a Sunny Day
Apollo Medley
The River
The Rising
Backstreets
Land of Hope and Dreams
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Rocky Ground
Born in the U.S.A.
Born to Run
Hungry Heart
Seven Nights to Rock
Dancing in the Dark
Tenth Avenue Freeze-out
Twist and Shout
Who’ll Stop the Rain?
