{"id":2344,"date":"2012-08-18T18:41:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T23:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2014-01-10T20:59:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T01:59:38","slug":"review-bruce-springsteen-and-the-e-street-band-wrecking-ball-tour-gillette-stadium-my-hometown-saturday-august-18-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/?p=2344","title":{"rendered":"Review: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band \/ Wrecking Ball Tour \/ Gillette Stadium (My hometown) \/ Saturday, August 18, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2348\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2348\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/03-Springsteen-2012-Glilette1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2348\" title=\"03 Springsteen 2012 Glilette\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/03-Springsteen-2012-Glilette1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/03-Springsteen-2012-Glilette1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/03-Springsteen-2012-Glilette1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from our seats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><em>by Robert Gillis 8\/2012<\/em><br \/>\nAnother beautiful night for a Boss show in my hometown!<\/p>\n<p>Our seats were in B2 which is behind the pit and behind &#8220;A&#8221; but not bad at all. I didn\u2019t care, I just wanted to be there. The stadium looked pretty full.<\/p>\n<p>From the start (8:10) it was obvious this was going to be another great show. I was on my feet the entire time, jumping up and down like a little kid, going bonkers. Got my &#8220;Wrecking Ball&#8221; shirt beforehand and never left for a pretzel &#8212; just wanted to keep experiencing it, and again, so nice not to have to take set list notes anymore but just enjoy the show.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I LOVED that Bruce addressed the crowd all night as, &#8220;FOXBORO!&#8221; and not &#8220;Boston.&#8221; He\u2019s called us, &#8220;Boston&#8221; at Great Woods (Comcast Center) and Gillette before. We\u2019re Foxboro baby!<\/li>\n<li>Loved that Springsteen says he\u2019s planning to keep playing for decades more: &#8220;We need some youth out here because we plan to be out here another thirty-forty years! They\u2019re gonna have to drag me off here!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>LOVED the comment about how the band has traveled by plane and bus and train and even by &#8220;a fucking boat&#8221; and that he got sea sick!<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s fun to stand on the field in Gillette (even though it\u2019s covered) but there is NONE of the &#8220;sacred ground&#8221; feeling of Fenway. I like Gillette but it\u2019s just a stadium.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Onto the show!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My Love Will Not Let You Down&#8221; was a GREAT choice for an opener and I knew we were in a for a great night. Guys behind us were drunk but I felt, not obnoxiously so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Night&#8221; &#8212; and I\u2019m already jumping up and down screaming. BTR is a tremendous album and Night is just classic. I have such love for BTR and &#8220;Night&#8221; is one the all-time favorites!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Out in the Street&#8221; &#8212; Lots of crowd interaction and handshakes. E Street horns really add a lot to the show! &#8220;Uh-oh, yeah, yeah, yeah!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hungry Heart&#8221; &#8212; Summer hit time and the crowd is into it!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We Take Care of Our Own&#8221; &#8212; LOVE it. An instant anthem classic. I really think it\u2019s one of the best songs Springsteen has written in years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wrecking Ball&#8221; &#8212; And he mentions the Giants and then says, &#8220;I feel your pain,&#8221; to the good natured boos!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Death to My Hometown&#8221; &#8212; I really like the Irish music in this one; it\u2019s so much better live and so relevant to what\u2019s going on now. And a great dance song, surprisingly. Like the &#8220;Revolutionary War&#8221; flutes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2351\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/081219_StevenMarlin_MarlinPhoto321.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2351\" title=\"081219_StevenMarlin_MarlinPhoto32\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/081219_StevenMarlin_MarlinPhoto321-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/081219_StevenMarlin_MarlinPhoto321-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/081219_StevenMarlin_MarlinPhoto321.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Backstreets.com \/ Steven Marlin Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;My City of Ruins&#8221; &#8212; Beautiful. &#8220;&#8230;originally about the rebirth of my adopted hometown, since then it\u2019s about a lot of other things but now about Ghosts, Ghosts, walking beside is reminding us how precious life is. Dedicated to all our ghosts and the ghosts of the E Street Band.&#8221;\u00a0 ROLL CALL!\u00a0 &#8220;Are we missing anybody?&#8221; \u00a0 Bruce the preacher! We are missing people, but the next generation is doing very well. It\u2019s interesting that after Danny passed, they did the tributes and had his accordion on the stage, and that was it, while the tribute to the Big Man is so much bigger. But of course, as Bruce put it, the loss of the Big Man was, &#8220;elemental.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Spirit in the Night&#8221; &#8212; I figured this one out before much of the crowd and just went bonkers. LOVED how Jake sat with Bruce at the end of this one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Open All Night&#8221; &#8212; Collecting signs; what\u2019s our key? Steve isn\u2019t sure&#8230; &#8220;This man has no request, just &#8212; let\u2019s go horns!&#8221; Really spotlighted the horns and the entire band.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Growin&#8217; Up&#8221; &#8212; Did Jake miss the cue? Bruce handled the &#8220;horn&#8221; part on his guitar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lost in the Flood&#8221; &#8212; Took a while to recognize; I need to listen to the first two albums more often.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because the Night&#8221; &#8212; Never seen this one live; well done.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s the One&#8221; &#8212; And I\u2019m crazy again; just one of all-time favorite LIVE songs. Finally some harmonica!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Working on the Highway&#8221; &#8212; Lot of fun; it\u2019s such a goofball throwaway song on BITUSA but so great live. Horns add a lot to this one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shackled and Drawn&#8221; &#8212; More Irish influence and VERY well done; one of the better songs on WB. I really like how this song feature\u2019s Cindy. She\u2019s VERY talented. GREAT commentary on current events.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Waiting&#8217; on a Sunny Day&#8221; &#8212; The kid Bruce picked was a little guy with glasses who didn\u2019t know the words besides &#8220;Waiting&#8221; but we gave him a huge round of applause.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Racing in the Street&#8221; &#8212; OMFG Roy\u2019s coda to this was scorching, breathtaking {insert superlatives here} Dedicated to Jonathan Kraft and &#8220;pops:&#8221; &#8220;Thank you for their generosity to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2353\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2353\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/081219_StevenMarlin_MarlinPhoto21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2353\" title=\"081219_StevenMarlin_MarlinPhoto21\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/081219_StevenMarlin_MarlinPhoto21-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/081219_StevenMarlin_MarlinPhoto21-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/081219_StevenMarlin_MarlinPhoto21.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Backstreets.com \/ Steven Marlin Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;The Rising&#8221; &#8212; Soozie makes such a mark on the Springsteen\u2019s music and God I love this song.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Radio Nowhere&#8221; &#8212; A surprise especially because Springsteen missed the first verse completely!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Badlands&#8221; &#8212; Lights up and everyone crazy.<\/p>\n<p>[Encore]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jungleland&#8221; &#8212; We\u2019re all out mental at this point; it\u2019s a religious experience and Jake NAILED the sax part so critical to this one. GOD I love this song!\u00a0 It&#8217;s rare to hear it live and it&#8217;s AWESOME.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Born to Run&#8221; &#8212; It\u2019s BTR, what can I say?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bobby Jean&#8221; &#8212; Have not heard it live in a while!\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a fun note: On the Springsteen Live 75\/85 CD, the version of &#8220;Bobby Jean&#8221; was recorded during my VERY first Springsteen concert in NJ in 1985!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dancing in the Dark&#8221; &#8212; Bruce danced with two women, a young girl with a sign saying it was her first show (she was nervous) and another woman whose kids had a sign saying, &#8220;Dance with our Mom!&#8221; It was awe-inspiring.\u00a0 We bumped into them afterward; they were in heaven!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tenth Avenue Freeze-out&#8221; &#8212; The final image of Clarence is sad, haunting, and he is so missed. But the video tribute is perfect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Drift Away&#8221; &#8212; Um, OK.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Twist and Shout&#8221; &#8212; Nice way to end the show on a joyous note.<\/p>\n<p>The show was incredible; it couldn&#8217;t beat this week&#8217;s Fenway II but not much could.\u00a0 So good to see Bruce again and here&#8217;s hoping the tour continues into 2013!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Robert Gillis 8\/2012 Another beautiful night for a Boss show in my hometown! Our seats were in B2 which is behind the pit and behind &#8220;A&#8221; but not bad at all. I didn\u2019t care, I just wanted to be there. The stadium looked pretty full. From the start (8:10) it was obvious this was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backstreets","category-bruce-springsteen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}