Ken Gargett Posted February 11, 2014 Author Posted February 11, 2014 this one is for Ken beautiful version brilliant. i see that for the concerts in adelaide, tonight and tomorrow, the temperature is expected to be 43C!!@! holy crap. be interesting to see how much energy he has left after that. for our non-metric friends, 110F.
OZCUBAN Posted February 11, 2014 Posted February 11, 2014 That's not what you want hear bad in anybody's language it was bad enough in Perth and it only got to 36 for the 1st concert still better than freezing your arse off in Jersey
Ken Gargett Posted February 11, 2014 Author Posted February 11, 2014 the first adelaide concert. 31 songs. not bad in 43C heat! wow! Summertime Blues (Eddie Cochran cover) (Tour Premiere) Detroit Medley (Tour premiere, Sign request "For Danny & Clarence R.I.P.") Badlands My Love Will Not Let You Down (Tour Premiere) High Hopes (The Havalinas cover) Just Like Fire Would (The Saints cover) We Take Care of Our Own Wrecking Ball Death to My Hometown Jack of All Trades Human Touch (Tour Premiere) Spirit in the Night Back in Your Arms (Tour Premiere, Sign request) Heaven's Wall Darkness on the Edge of Town Prove It All Night (w/ '78 intro) Mary's Place (Tour Premiere) This Is Your Sword (Sign request, via a letter) Darlington County (Bruce facing behind the stage seats and performing the song facing them) Shackled and Drawn Waitin' on a Sunny Day The Ghost of Tom Joad (w/ Tom Morello on shared vocals) The Rising Encore: Highway to Hell (AC/DC cover) Born to Run Ramrod (Sign request) Dancing in the Dark Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out Shout (The Isley Brothers cover) Encore 2: If I Should Fall Behind (Tour Premiere, Solo acoustic) Thunder Road (Solo acoustic)
OZCUBAN Posted February 11, 2014 Posted February 11, 2014 Cool set 43.c I cannot believe this guys stamina
OZCUBAN Posted February 12, 2014 Posted February 12, 2014 I wonder what the numbers in red mean (might be a stupid question)
Ken Gargett Posted February 13, 2014 Author Posted February 13, 2014 Was a bit concerned I might have got a bit carried away and over-hyped the concert. I figured he could not be as good as last year but if he played some classics and we had some fun, I’d be happy. Adelaide is a small-ish hall. About 6,000, so much more intimate than last year. It had been horrendously hot (I should mention we had a fantastic lunch – stars, the 85 Bolly, 82 Barolo, 59 Rioja). A 43C day and at 12.40am, it was still 33C! So the hall goes completely dark for kick off. Bruce's voice - “I thought yesterday was hot. What the F... goes on here”! Lights come on – the entire band of about 16 with all the instruments (except the drums/pianos etc) all burst into the old Motown “Heatwave” hit. Sensational. Then it just got better and better. If it gets better than this, I’d like to know how! Backstreets and Jungleland on the same night! Went almost 3 1/2 hours and looked like he could have done another few hours. Not bad. Only hiccup was when he jumped on the piano to sing, started off then just lost it, laughing hopelessly. No one knew what was happening. Band playing. Eventually they stopped. When he finally stopped laughing, explained that he accidently stood on the keyboard and broke the piano. Looked like a little kid caught stealing cookies. I thought he couldn’t top She's the One followed by Backstreets but Jungleland followed by Born to Run did it. If he'd stopped after Backstreets, I would still have thought I got my money's worth. She's the One was amazing. The duelling guitars in High Hopes. Tom Morello with Ghost of Tom Joad was just beyond imagining. The River, 41 Shots, Pay Me My Money Down. All brilliant. First time he has ever played Hunter of Invisible Game. And the finish, Thunder Road by himself, was extraordinary. The big screen flashed around and half the crowd was in tears. I did take some photos, lots of photos, but not sure how they'll work as dropped my camera in a plate of pigs trotters. Don't ask Impossibly, he is even better than last year. Set list (Love Is Like a) Heat Wave (Martha and The Vandellas cover) (Tour premiere) Jackson Cage (Tour premiere) She's the One Backstreets (Tour premiere) Cover Me (Tour premiere) High Hopes ( cover) Just Like Fire Would (The Saints cover) Hungry Heart Better Days (Tour premiere, Sign request) The Promised Land (Sign request) The River American Skin (41 Shots) Long Walk Home (Tour premiere) Pay Me My Money Down ( cover) Shackled and Drawn Radio Nowhere Lonesome Day The Ghost of Tom Joad (w/ Tom Morello on shared vocals) Badlands Encore: Hunter of Invisible Game (World premiere) Jungleland (Tour premiere) Born to Run Raise Your Hand (Eddie Floyd cover) (Tour premiere) Dancing in the Dark Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out Rockin' All Over the World (John Fogerty cover) (Tour premiere) Encore 2: I'll Work for Your Love (Solo acoustic) <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?song=Thunder+Road">Thunder Road (Solo acoustic) 1
OZCUBAN Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 From all accounts Ken it seems this was the best show of the tour so far the set list is great even Played dome Quo I believe great stuff
Ken Gargett Posted February 15, 2014 Author Posted February 15, 2014 just heard from a mate at melb. eddie veeder did darkness and bruce has announced he will play the entire born in the usa album
OZCUBAN Posted February 15, 2014 Posted February 15, 2014 If you compared Bruce to one of those classic bottles of red what would he be ?? I know you said the 03 convert was the best you had ever seen this was my first time and not having anything to compare it to but still was the best concert I have ever seen followed by the Eagles and the Dixie chicks And I hope it's not my last lets hope he is as addicted s we are lol
OZCUBAN Posted February 15, 2014 Posted February 15, 2014 Nothing like patriotism still for my mind with such a back catalogue bit of a waste IMHO Sorry for the multiple posts earlier bloody useless taps talk lol
Ken Gargett Posted February 15, 2014 Author Posted February 15, 2014 If you compared Bruce to one of those classic bottles of red what would he be ?? I know you said the 03 convert was the best you had ever seen this was my first time and not having anything to compare it to but still was the best concert I have ever seen followed by the Eagles and the Dixie chicks And I hope it's not my last lets hope he is as addicted s we are lol no, no. the one i thought was by far the best i'd seen was 2013, not the 2003 concerts. and i think the one in adelaide topped it. but every report i've seen says these latest are all even better. some photos from adelaide (no, i didn't take them).
Ken Gargett Posted February 15, 2014 Author Posted February 15, 2014 If you compared Bruce to one of those classic bottles of red what would he be ?? he would have to be a 1945 romanee conti or perhaps 45 la tache.
Ken Gargett Posted February 16, 2014 Author Posted February 16, 2014 2nd melb concert. does t just keep getting better? Born in the U.S.A. Badlands Lucky Town (Tour premiere) Roulette (Tour premiere) Growin' Up (Tour premiere (full band), w/ extended story in mid section) Wrecking Ball Death to My Hometown High Hopes (The Havalinas cover) Just Like Fire Would (The Saints cover) Lost in the Flood (Tour premiere, Sign request) Spirit in the Night Born to Run Thunder Road Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out Night Backstreets (w/ Sad Eyes interlude) Born to Run She's the One Meeting Across the River (Tour premiere) Jungleland Heaven's Wall Waitin' on a Sunny Day The Rising The Ghost of Tom Joad (w/ Tom Morello on shared vocals) Land of Hope and Dreams Encore: We Are Alive Ramrod Bobby Jean Dancing in the Dark Twist and Shout (The Top Notes cover) Encore 2: This Hard Land
backslide Posted February 16, 2014 Posted February 16, 2014 Since you guys like Bruce so much, how about checking out david hasselhoff. It's nearly identical
Ken Gargett Posted February 16, 2014 Author Posted February 16, 2014 you do realise that as a moderator, i can have you killed, dismembered and buried in an unmarked grave for such blasphemy. 2
OZCUBAN Posted February 17, 2014 Posted February 17, 2014 One to silence the critics ,much better than the Album version slowing it down does wonders From the first night in Perth 5.2.14
Ken Gargett Posted February 17, 2014 Author Posted February 17, 2014 One to silence the critics ,much better than the Album version slowing it down does wonders From the first night in Perth 5.2.14 i'd heard that was a great version!! sadly, only way to silence critics is for them to see him live. it never fails.
Ken Gargett Posted February 17, 2014 Author Posted February 17, 2014 a mate of mine took his wife to make her happy - flew from perth to melb as he missed tickets there. not a bruce fan but he is a serious muso - seen clapton, stones and so but a great fan of the old guitarists. always banging on about some bloke called green. just got an email from him. we have a convert!!!! "Un be-f******-lievable. Greatest entertainment event I have seen. I take back all (well most) of when you have said in the past." 1
Ken Gargett Posted February 17, 2014 Author Posted February 17, 2014 a mate's blog. stu gregor On Saturday night I saw Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band play AAMI Stadium in Melbourne. It was, by absolute miles, the best concert I have ever seen. It was incredible on so many levels. I will attempt to do it some justice but I won’t even get close. The fact is if you have any interest in music, even a passing curiosity about what this Springsteen phenomenon is all about, you simply have to see it, hear it and feel it to believe it. And trust me, I’m not even one of those weird Springsteen fans – this was my third concert – spread over 29 years! It went something like this. Band walks on stage at 7.50pm, a perfect Melbourne Saturday night. Springsteen is last to appear (there are 18 in the band – it’s a BIG band) and casual as hell, Springsteen introduces Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) and they launch straight into Highway to Hell. You literally have chills. And then it’s straight into Darkness on the Edge of Town from Springsteen’s 1978 album of the same name. It’s a completely epic song and you can imagine a young Vedder growing up and never imagining in his wildest dreams that one day he would be on stage with Bruce singing the important verses of this once in a generation song in front of 30,000 people in a corner of the world he probably didn't know existed. Vedder is 49 – about the same as everyone in the crowd. Springsteen, of course, is 64. Bald blokes, fat blokes, a sprinkling of younger types – sure Bruce has plenty of female fans, millions of course, but I just kept feeling how rare an experience it was. We blokes were “owning” it – in our daggy dancing, poor fathering, over-drinking, middle aged way. Because you see, Springsteen is a strangely masculine thing. The two blokes I went with, Watto and his mate Tim, are both from Townsville. The first time they saw Bruce was 1985 at the QE2 stadium in Brisbane. They took a 23 hour bus ride down and then back home for the gig. That **** bonds two blokes forever. Nowadays one lives in Sydney and is a leading light in music management, the other is an academic living in Melbourne’s west. Springsteen bonds them. Springsteen bonds blokes. Blokes with crap jobs, blokes from small towns, blokes who grow up a bit bloody confused about chicks and life and what the hell it’s all about. Springsteen is a poet, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, and for more than 40 years he’s spoken to us all. Even those of us from the “Badlands” of Sydney’s north shore. Blokes last night were hugging each other, they were drinking quite a lot of beer and they were dancing like it was 1985. A couple of times I was mesmerized by a bloke behind me, probably 50, dancing like no-one was watching. All over the place. Worse dancer than me. Bloody hilarious yet totally beautiful in a very, very strange way. Sometimes beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder... But back to Springsteen. A lot of blokes, a lot of us, no matter whether we are 20 or 50, still struggle to make sense of it all. Still wonder whether our glory days are behind or in front of us, or whether we really ever lived up to what we promised ourselves we would achieve back when Born in the USA was top of the charts. But this is not melancholy. Quite the opposite. The night was truly euphoric. It was joyful – at times it really felt a bit messianic. An hour into the show Bruce casually announced that next he was going to play Born in the USA – the album not the song, in its entirety – from start to finish. There was just this feeling, this uprising that made my heart, my spirit soar. Even Watto, who has seen him more than 20 times on four continents, shook his head, pissed himself laughing and said something like “Can you bloody believe it?” Nope. You can’t believe it until you are there feeling it. Most people know the concerts go for more than three hours, that he might just be the fittest 64 year old on the planet, that the music is brilliant, tight, unadorned and simply incredible, that guys like Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine are happy to play third fiddle to The E Street Band’s two legendary guitarists Steve Van Zandt and Nils Lofgren. That the late great Clarence Clemons’ nephew Jake now OWNS the saxophone solos that made his uncle the most famous sax player on the planet, Clinton aside. I know what I heard and I know what I saw. What truly took me by surprise however is what I FELT. And what I still feel today. That music, that a rock concert, that a musician can really create a transformative experience. I know, I know, I will go back to being the same sloppy husband and average employer tomorrow but today I feel a bit different. I know that I’m taking my wife to the concert in the Hunter Valley next weekend and I know she doesn’t get the whole Springsteen thing. But one thing I am certain of is that when the first chords of Born to Run start up and her husband punches his fist and sways from side to side and sings every word like he means it ...well for six minutes at least – she might understand and maybe even love me just a little bit more. And then the lament of Thunder Road… hopefully the jubilation of Jungleland... I will be feeling exultant, bullet-proof, ten foot tall... and then, almost inevitably, I will tread on a foot or knock over a glass of wine, say the most impossibly wrong thing, maybe even lose the car keys... and life will return to normal. But I will still have had my three and a bit hours of awesomeness with Bruce and 10,000 blokes who I’m pretty sure have just been through exactly the same thing.
OZCUBAN Posted February 17, 2014 Posted February 17, 2014 We'll said so very eloquent in a "Blokey" sort of way ,my wife didn't really like Springsteen apart from the few songs from "Born in the USA" But after she said it was the best concert she had ever seen,and I was of a similar ilk ,but as you can see from this thread I have seen the light ,and possibly been blinded by it ,pardon the pun "ITS LIKE A MAGIC TRICK BUT ITS NOT A TRICK ,ONE AND ONE MAKE THREE" Thanks for posting Ken
OZCUBAN Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 FEBRUARY 19, 2014 Notes from the road: Sydney It’s Sydney. It’s raining. Traffic is at a standstill, and it’s the middle of the working week. By 8pm, all of that bad stuff is checked at the door. Allphones Arena is a rock and roll cauldron. It’s Bruce Springsteen’s only Sydney date and the mood in the room is heating up. On stage, a single spotlight hits Bruce as the band carves out a familiar riff. ‘Wednesday just won’t go/Thursday goes too slow … I’ve got Friday on my mind’. The arena erupts and Bruce and the E Street Band kick out the jams on a rocking cover of the Easybeats’ clarion call against the drudgery of the working week. It’s showtime and then band dive headlong into Out In The Street. They’ve arrived in fifth gear and, taking cues from the crowd, Bruce grabs a sign that reads, “Cadillac Ranch“. Steven excels on guitar and it’s going to be one of those nights. Suddenly Wednesday is feeling a helluva lot like Friday. “High Hopes” comes next and the song has earned is spot as a touchstone of the set. The Reverend Everett grooves with Bruce’s acoustic guitar while Tom Morello shows early signs of being on fire tonight. The Saints’ “Just Like Fire Would” gathers intensity every time it’s played. Now it’s garnishing widespread radio support in Australia, the audience are all too willing to sing the choruses back to the band. “Spirit In The Night” sees Bruce sitting at the foot of the stage to tell an anecdote, but first he reminds us he’s ‘gonna be sixty-*******-five’ and he’s seen ‘a lot of things in fifty years of travelling’. What he hadn’t seen, prior to Sydney, was an intuitive toilet seat that heralds your arrival by raising its’ lid. Seeing this as a ‘mystical sign’, the crowd are asked ‘can you feel the spirit?’ The answer is a resounding ‘yes’. Crowd surfing back to the main stage Bruce admits it was a ‘hairy ‘ ride and thanked the audience ‘for not killing me’. Ed ‘The Thin Man’ Manion shines on sax all night. “Spirit” is one of his many standouts. Sadly, Jake Clemons’ father, Bill Clemons, also a musician, passed away and Jake has made an emergency trip to the states. Fans had been speculating all day as to whether Bruce would turn on the heat with another full-album show. He didn’t let us down and Sydney was treated to “Darkness On The Edge Of Town“, performed, in its’ entirety. The piece was fantastic and highlights, apart from the songs themselves, included Bruce’s singing, harp playing and searing guitar work. “Badlands” was possibly the most incendiary of the tour. Bruce has called the album his ‘samurai record’ with good reason. “Something In The Night” featured superb piano from Roy Bittan, and then there was Nils Lofgren’s incredible solo on “Prove It All Night“. Add to the mix “Racing In The Street“, “Candy’s Room“, “Factory” and “Promised Land” and you’re looking at a master-class in both detailed Americana portraiture and song writing. “Darlington County” was almost a counter punch against the intensity of Darkness. With it’s opening riff, which now resembles the bastard song of Honky Tonk Women, the song sent Bruce off into the stalls … skolling beer and eating potato chips. “Shackled And Drawn” was followed by a joyous “Waitin’ On A Sunny Day” which featured, arguably, the youngest guest vocalist of the tour and “Ghost Of Tom Joad“: where Morello played lead guitar like he was experiencing an out of body experience. “Land Of Hope And Dreams” concluded the main set and then Bruce threw the audience a brilliant curve ball: a cover of INX’s “Don’t Change“. INXS, on the back of a mini-series based on their career, are currently enjoying the #1 album slot in Australia. With its chiming riff, “Don’t Change” took the audience by surprise initially and then had everyone singing the chorus. The song led into a thrilling “Born To Run“. The house lights were up. The band were in full flight and then… the wheels fell off. Bruce called a halt and the E Streeters hit it again. Bruce was doing Townsend style windmills – before pretending to strangle Steven and concluding, ‘That’s the fastest we ever played that *******er!’ “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” was followed by a version of “Shout” that was so life affirming it was worthy of a visitation from the late/great Johnny O’Keefe himself. On stage with just an acoustic guitar Bruce played Surprise, Surprise as a birthday request from Eddie who’s just turned ‘23’. Bruce admitted at the same age, having written “Blinded By The Light“, ‘my brain was ******* scrambled at the time’. As Shout took us into a frenzy, Bruce took the show in completely the opposite direction only two songs later. A pump organ was brought on stage for a mesmerising reading of Suicide’s “Dream Baby Dream“. “From Darkness On The Edge Of Town” to the covers and his own material: Springsteen proves, yet again, that in 2014, he is simply peerless. -Sean Sennett
Drguano Posted August 2, 2014 Posted August 2, 2014 It took a while but I finally got around to posting a rare photo of Mr. Springsteen's organic didgeridoo solo.
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