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Includes Springsteen news and information about Backstreets Magazine, a long-running fanzine. Congratulations to Bob Dylan on being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The following is a passage from Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography Born To Run. Bob Dylan is the father of my country. Highway 61 Revisited and. Backstreets. com: 2. Setlists (Aug- Sep) November 1 / Theater at Madison Square Garden / New York, NYNotes: Bruce Springsteen made his tenth annual appearance at the Stand Up for Heroes benefit in New York, which supports our wounded servicemen and servicewomen through the Bob Woodruff Foundation. Also on the bill: Louis C. K., Jim Gaffigan, Jerry Seinfeld, and Jon Stewart. Springsteen performed four songs solo acoustic (with jokes interspersed) and alone raised $2. Cadillac ride with the Boss, a hot dog and hamburger feast at Jersey Freeze, and, once again, his mother's lasagna. As has become the new normal over the previous nine shows, the band opened the evening yet again with . Tonight it was loose and languorous. It felt like the end of summer, Bruce vamping, . Tight and compact, his intro solo was executed with precision, strong, almost linear. And then, as Bruce brought the guitar neck down for the last time, the band came thundering right into place and the body of the song kicked in. There are so many of those moments to watch at a Springsteen show, but this one was breathless as you followed the solo, waiting for that moment of, well, climax. The power of the arrival of the band was a declaration of intent: the E Street Band is here and ready for business. It was almost a second opener. The now- familiar '7. Darkness night) featured Bruce in prime storytelling, end- of- tour summational mode. He offered versions of many of the tales he's been telling over the last few weeks, presumably inspired by what we'll soon be able to read in Born to Run. A tale of living above the beauty salon in Asbury Park prefaced ! There's nothing we can play on the radio!' So I went home; I got out my rhyming dictionary, and I looked out my window. And I saw Mad Dog Vincent Lopez in a tirade on the street in front of me! He was assaulting a young man for taking his parking place. But let's not overlook the performances of the actual songs. The music marshalled attention and what felt like an impossible silence throughout the stadium at the second to last verse: Johnny sitting on the fire escape, Garry Tallent oh- so- effortlessly providing both the bottom and the melody to move Bruce through the song. You felt the seasons change; you knew summer was gone. And then, that tumble once again into . Unlike many of the shows this leg, the signs didn't just map to what he'd already decided he wanted to play. The signs resulted in a surprisingly passionate . That level of driving power would continue into . By the time he reached that last . There were many excited shouts of anticipation, to which Bruce responded, laughing, . Despite this being a tour closer, the mood tonight was buoyant, loose, celebratory. Bruce's unmistakable cackle would be heard multiple times, and he grinned ear to ear pretty much nonstop. The mood was matched by the rest of the band, whose expressions ranged from delighted to bemused, especially at moments like Bruce miscalculating how long it would take him to run back to the pit divider for . That resulted in yet another delighted cackle when the line was delivered at a volume that met his satisfaction. He said he wanted to try something different. It felt like Bruce was reinterpreting it for himself right in front of us, figuring it out as he went along. The band kept watching him with an eagle eye the way they always have to, waiting for him to cue them in. The song felt like that last warm week after Labor Day, when the tourists are gone and the locals get the beach to themselves. Plenty of fans held their hands up in solidarity alongside Jake Clemons' gesture of silent protest. But again, as it should be, . They've meant a tremendous amount to us, I can't tell you how much we appreciate you folks coming out and seeing us tonight. It's an amazing thing to see all the people who still support your music after all these years. So along with all of you, I've had to live through the election campaign, and I gotta say, it's gotta be one of the ugliest I've ever seen. And there was just a lot of speaking to our worst angels. You let those things out of the bottle, all that ugliness — the genie doesn't go back in the bottle so simple. Anyway, I'm going to do this with that in mind. This is 'Long Walk Home'. It's something that never gets old, the hoots of joy and satisfaction from the old timers who are happy to hear it one more time, and the smiles and high- fives between the kids in their 2. It is ritual and remembrance and so much about the reason we are all here. It wouldn't be a Springsteen show in Boston without Peter Wolf showing up, which he did for . Then the sequined cape comes out. The becaped Boss crawls down the stairs, still holding a guitar, and actually sits on the top step of said stairs. It is a great bit of showmanship that hearkens back to the music that influenced every single person on that stage, and it is gratifying to watch this bit of rock 'n' roll history preserved. Speaking of rock 'n' roll history: the big surprise was next, as those unmistakable chords heralded . It would be the perfect ending, the absolute right decision, the crowd singing loud and proud, the band smiling approval across the stage, Bruce continuing the tradition, Bruce tying his music back to its roots, making that explicit connection once again. Of course: it's time for . Bruce reminds us, as though we'd ever forget: . Before the show even began, there was a lot to distinguish this penultimate stop on the 2. River Tour: not only was it a return to the stage where the nine- month trek kicked off in January, it was also a rare arena stop at this point on the tour, and most significantly, the first time Bruce and the E Street Band would play a concert on September 1. This was a radically different setlist and performance — more than two hours went by before a single song repeated from the January show. With the full River sequence just a dot in the rearview mirror, Springsteen combined the 1. Even if sorta by proxy. Trouble in the heartland, to be sure.. The first of four songs in a row from The. Rising, . But given Sunday's occasion — and the immediate confirmation that Bruce and the band would be marking it — it was a powerful moment up there with the biggest setlist surprises. That was the case with the cathartic . Springsteen stood still at center stage to deliver the heartrending vocal, and the years melted away. Don't Bruce me right now. The moment of tension stretched out: would it be a fifth song from The Rising? This leg's amazing run of early material not forgotten, Bruce took us further back in the next bit of time travel to the New York and New Jersey of the early '7. I've got my busted- up old guitar. I'm going to New York City for my big record label audition. I'm shitting my pants! I get out, I go to the office of John Hammond, one of the greatest record executives of all time.. I sit down in my chair, and I say: I had skin like leather and the diamond- hard look of a cobra.. Bruce took us even further back in the time machine (after saying one more time, . It's almost like the guy's been writing his memoirs or something. There I was, stranded in my little town, in 1. Shortly after the disappearance of the dinosaurs. Very unfriendly place, little New Jersey town in 1. And I was a little bit of a frrreak! So I had to find something — I needed something I could do. Something I could do that would make me feel good. So I was looking for something else. And I walked past a Western Auto store that sold guitars and car parts, and I saw this old, funky, acoustic guitar in the window. And I knew to get that guitar I was gonna have to work! So I want to my aunts and uncles, my Uncle Warren came out, showed me how to cut the hedges with the shears, mow the lawn.. I painted the house across the street. Tarred the roof in mid- summer heat, 9. And that was the last honest work I ever did. I went downtown, I picked out that guitar, I took it home, and I started to practice. Until soon, I picked it up one day, and it went.. Well, you know how it went. Goosebumps as the band rumbles in and Bruce is off to take his vacations in the stratosphere. I think that's the title of my next album! And still time for a bit of River history too, on The River Tour, eschewing go- tos like . Bruce and the band's call to . Rather than leading the band into the setlisted . Performed in this stripped- down fashion for the first time, the lyric was heard loud and clear, and one of Springsteen's greatest modern verses was met with the applause it deserves. Which of course was provided. It was one of those nights when Springsteen seemed to grow younger as the night went on, shedding years and gaining energy. The man was moonwalking during the encore and giddy enough during . But in the moment, you knew what he meant. That's how it felt.- Christopher Phillips reporting - photographs by Guy Aceto - video clips by Nick Dominic. OHSetlist: New York City Serenade (with strings)Into the Fire. Lonesome Day. You're Missing. Mary's Place. Darkness on the Edge of Town. Does This Bus Stop at 8. Street? It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City. Growin' Up. Spirit in the Night. Lost in the Flood. Kitty's Back. Incident on 5. Street. Rosalita. Light of Day (with Joe Grushecky and Johnny Grushecky)Streets of Fire. American Skin (4. Shots)The Promised Land. Cadillac Ranch. I'm a Rocker. Downbound Train. Because the Night. My City of Ruins. The Rising. Badlands* * *. Long Walk Home (solo acoustic)Backstreets. Born to Run. Dancing in the Dark. Tenth Avenue Freeze- out. Shout. Bobby Jean September 9 / Citizens Bank Park / Philadelphia, PANotes: It might already be September, but the weather and the E Street Band cooperated to create a hot summer night at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia Friday evening. It was warm and sultry in the twilight as the string section once again took their places on the riser behind Roy Bittan before the band entered, Bruce came onstage, and the unmistakable introduction of .
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