Bruce Springsteen. The E Street Band. Asbury Park, NJ. My Jersey Girl. The Beach. The Boardwalk. The Sand. The Surf. The Moon. The Music. Will I ever recover? It's unlikely.
We have seen Bruce five times on this tour including Dallas, Ferrara IT, and MetLife last year and in Dublin back in May. Each of those shows were memorable, but the setlists were very similar with a thread of mortality as the E Street Band ages.
SHN was a revival with a curated setlist for the ages which was full of joy, fun and pure emotion from his hometown crowd. This was epic from the first chord of Lonesome Day and dancing with my own Jersey girl to Jersey Girl on the sand in AP was the best way to end an amazing weekend.
I texted someone that night that he had dropped all the mortality 💩 and that it was glorious. I got choked up just reading your post. I’ve been seeing Bruce since I was 19 (49 years) and this was the most memorable show I’ve ever seen. Thank you for taking me back there (my BTX name, back in the day, was “Salt”, so I appreciated your salt reference. :)
"As someone who—no disrespect, Bruce—heard enough of the “Born in the U.S.A.” album in the 1980s to last me this and my next lifetimes, I wasn’t crushed that The Boss didn’t play any songs from that blockbuster release." But he did. He played Bobby Jean and Dancing in the Dark.
We have seen Bruce five times on this tour including Dallas, Ferrara IT, and MetLife last year and in Dublin back in May. Each of those shows were memorable, but the setlists were very similar with a thread of mortality as the E Street Band ages.
SHN was a revival with a curated setlist for the ages which was full of joy, fun and pure emotion from his hometown crowd. This was epic from the first chord of Lonesome Day and dancing with my own Jersey girl to Jersey Girl on the sand in AP was the best way to end an amazing weekend.
Tim! Well said and here’s to a night that is unlikely to ever unfold again! Ain’t life grand?
I texted someone that night that he had dropped all the mortality 💩 and that it was glorious. I got choked up just reading your post. I’ve been seeing Bruce since I was 19 (49 years) and this was the most memorable show I’ve ever seen. Thank you for taking me back there (my BTX name, back in the day, was “Salt”, so I appreciated your salt reference. :)
"As someone who—no disrespect, Bruce—heard enough of the “Born in the U.S.A.” album in the 1980s to last me this and my next lifetimes, I wasn’t crushed that The Boss didn’t play any songs from that blockbuster release." But he did. He played Bobby Jean and Dancing in the Dark.