Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

[judyblue110]

48 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

 

😄 Me and the Mrs would be happy, maybe another 20 or so people.

 

I'd be delighted!

[CharlotteB]

17 hours ago, efcfanwirral said:

As fans it's great, but most people there were casual fans at best, so the atmosphere was pretty much dead until Born to Run. I was front pit about 10 rows from the front, can only imagine what it was like further back...

 

Hungry heart, Born in the USA, Bobby Jean, I'm on Fire probably would've helped but even then, with a 2 hour 45 minute set, it's probably just not the right place for him. I've learnt that by taking people who aren't that interested to see him, they just get very bored. 

 

Id still be unsure if he played Glastonbury again, and I definitely would encourage those who go with me who have only a passing interest to go elsewhere 

 

The atmosphere was electric where I was stood (not particularly close), and there were very few leavers (I know because I was dying for the loo and would've gone if it was gappy 😂). Just shows how different the experience can be. I'd recommend him to someone who'd never eat his stuff and expect them to be converted by the end.

[CaledonianGonzo]

On 10/25/2024 at 12:33 PM, 49Lawson said:

Wouldn't you have thought they'd have picked a few different shows for the songs instead of only focusing on a couple?

 

On 10/25/2024 at 2:48 PM, Dark Star said:

Bruce Inc. have done the zero expense spared approach with this. It's just the tracks available via Nugs.net with no extra work done. Random selection of shows that things have been taken from too. 

 

The album on Spotify seems to be selected to mostly match the movie e.g. the Backstreets footage is also from Hyde Park.

[efcfanwirral]

7 hours ago, CharlotteB said:

 

The atmosphere was electric where I was stood (not particularly close), and there were very few leavers (I know because I was dying for the loo and would've gone if it was gappy 😂). Just shows how different the experience can be. I'd recommend him to someone who'd never eat his stuff and expect them to be converted by the end.

It's the people who have heard his stuff but don't like it that aren't converted I find!

[Dark Star]

14 hours ago, judyblue110 said:

 

Aim high I guess! 😆 If we start negotiations there we may get 1 song.

Having watched Road Diary now, I noticed that Tucson Train was on some of the setlists that were knocking about when they were rehearsing in the theatre in Red Bank. 
 

19 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Still remains bonkers, in part because very few surprises on that level seemed to then emerge at all over the rest of the tour. I wonder if, had he not been forced to break after Sunderland, the rhythms would have further changed.

So Young & In Love, Janey Needs A Shooter, If I Were The Priest, Frankie Fell In Love, Rainy Night In Soho... all rehearsed the day before the Cardiff show and all appeared at least once on the tour. I think we got all of those over the course of the tour. What would be really good is for the section from Backstreets onwards to be shaken up a bit, even if it's same songs in a different order. 

[NorthernSoul52]

They were performed, but they mostly came early on, didn't they? After the Sunderland break, things calmed down again. 

[NorthernSoul52]

First look at Jeremy Allen White. 

[NorthernSoul52]

An update in an interview from Springsteen acknowledged there are no current dates scheduled for Australia, citing Patti's health, which is understandable.

 

Had kind of expected him to do a run there next February, but seems to not be the case, Cannot see him getting there on this tour now, mostly because I assume the '23/'24/'25 run wraps after Europe next year, unless he goes to close up in New Jersey and the Atlantic seaboard again.

[judyblue110]

10 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

An update in an interview from Springsteen acknowledged there are no current dates scheduled for Australia, citing Patti's health, which is understandable.

 

Had kind of expected him to do a run there next February, but seems to not be the case, Cannot see him getting there on this tour now, mostly because I assume the '23/'24/'25 run wraps after Europe next year, unless he goes to close up in New Jersey and the Atlantic seaboard again.

 

He doesn't acknowledge there are no current dates, just that they haven't been able to so far this tour but they'll definitely be playing there. "Show a little faith..." 😄

 

With shows planned for Canada, parts of Europe and the UK through to mid-2025, every Australian fan wants to know when we’ll see the great man on these shores again.

 

“Well, we certainly will be there at some point,” Springsteen says. “I’d like to have gone last year or this year. But we’ve had a variety of complications. One, Patti’s health has been an issue for us as a family. That’s had a lot to do with how and when we book places, and how we can get some place, and how we cannot get some place at a given moment.

 

“We’ve got such great, great fans in Australia,” he says, staring down the barrel of his computer and sending a message out to the faithful. “Folks, I love you. We’ll be coming out there to see you eventually. We’ve just had so many great times down there.”

 

[NorthernSoul52]

3 hours ago, judyblue110 said:

 

He doesn't acknowledge there are no current dates, just that they haven't been able to so far this tour but they'll definitely be playing there. "Show a little faith..." 😄

 

With shows planned for Canada, parts of Europe and the UK through to mid-2025, every Australian fan wants to know when we’ll see the great man on these shores again.

 

“Well, we certainly will be there at some point,” Springsteen says. “I’d like to have gone last year or this year. But we’ve had a variety of complications. One, Patti’s health has been an issue for us as a family. That’s had a lot to do with how and when we book places, and how we can get some place, and how we cannot get some place at a given moment.

 

“We’ve got such great, great fans in Australia,” he says, staring down the barrel of his computer and sending a message out to the faithful. “Folks, I love you. We’ll be coming out there to see you eventually. We’ve just had so many great times down there.”

 

Won't be in 2025, I'd imagine though - and while I have hopes we'll see them again (and again and again!), I just expect that 2026 will be potentially something away from the E Street Band.

 

Of course, they could just play thirty gigs a year from now until they drop, but we'll see.

[judyblue110]

7 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Won't be in 2025, I'd imagine though - and while I have hopes we'll see them again (and again and again!), I just expect that 2026 will be potentially something away from the E Street Band.

 

Of course, they could just play thirty gigs a year from now until they drop, but we'll see.

 

No need to imagine! Just wait and see. 👀 

[NorthernSoul52]

14 hours ago, judyblue110 said:

 

No need to imagine! Just wait and see. 👀 

 

[NorthernSoul52]

Since we were discussing the emotional impact the other day:

 

 

[parsonjack]

On 10/29/2024 at 10:11 AM, NorthernSoul52 said:

Won't be in 2025, I'd imagine though - and while I have hopes we'll see them again (and again and again!), I just expect that 2026 will be potentially something away from the E Street Band.

 

Of course, they could just play thirty gigs a year from now until they drop, but we'll see.

With 'Deliver Me From Nowhere' slated for release late 2025 I wonder if we could see some low key solo shows taking place....albeit unlikely to be outside US I admit.  

 

As per 'Nebraska' itself Springsteen could of course let it arrive and pass with no fanfare or promotion by himself, but given his more openness to discussing his own mortality of late it wouldn't surprise me to see him do something off the back of it. 

[NorthernSoul52]

Just now, parsonjack said:

With 'Deliver Me From Nowhere' slated for release late 2025 I wonder if we could see some low key solo shows taking place....albeit unlikely to be outside US I admit.  

 

As per 'Nebraska' itself Springsteen could of course let it arrive and pass with no fanfare or promotion by himself, but given his more openness to discussing his own mortality of late it wouldn't surprise me to see him do something off the back of it. 

Part of me did wonder if the film's late release next year would pave the way for a clutch of solo shows to... well, not so much promote it, but possibly celebrate Nebraska. If he wanted to coin it in the simple way, book a few large halls - the RAH would be a great example - and deliver a two-hour show with the record as its centrepiece. A lot of people would fork over very large amounts of money for that.

 

Alternatively, do a paired approach - just him and Roy, perhaps.

[efcfanwirral]

1 hour ago, parsonjack said:

With 'Deliver Me From Nowhere' slated for release late 2025 I wonder if we could see some low key solo shows taking place....albeit unlikely to be outside US I admit.  

 

As per 'Nebraska' itself Springsteen could of course let it arrive and pass with no fanfare or promotion by himself, but given his more openness to discussing his own mortality of late it wouldn't surprise me to see him do something off the back of it. 

I'd love studio recordings of the Nebraska songs as they're played live as a sort of bonus disc on some sort of re release. 

[NorthernSoul52]

I've always assumed most "live" versions of Nebraska material with the E Street Band is very close to how they would have been cut in the electric sessions, Johnny 99 and Atlantic City in particular.

 

Electric Nebraska feels like the next holy grail to be fair. It exists, but it's whether we see it in Bruce's lifetime or not, I think.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Recall the ESB deploying absolutely rollicking versions of Open All Night about 10 years back.

[The Nal]

6 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

I've always assumed most "live" versions of Nebraska material with the E Street Band is very close to how they would have been cut in the electric sessions, Johnny 99 and Atlantic City in particular.

 

Electric Nebraska feels like the next holy grail to be fair. It exists, but it's whether we see it in Bruce's lifetime or not, I think.

 

He says it's the album that represents him the most so maybe he doesn't want to dilute that with the full band version. 

[NorthernSoul52]

Perhaps so. But we'll see if he does shift on it or not.

 

The electric version of Reason to Believe this year was debuted in Dublin. Remember sitting in a pub thinking that it sounded like he was playing the riff to Spirit in the Sky - and low and behold, there's definitely a touch of that in its interpretation.

[OllieMadd]

Dread to think how much I would pay for Nebraska, or any Bruce acoustic at the RAH. It wouldn't be pretty.

[NorthernSoul52]

I could see a few "intimate" shows, but then again, doing three nights at Co-op Live may scratch that itch. It has been seldom since the Wrecking Ball era that he's done indoor shows in Europe full-stop.

 

Australia getting multi-night arena runs was snazzy stuff.

[Quark]

On 10/26/2024 at 11:00 PM, Gnomicide said:

 

😄 Me and the Mrs would be happy, maybe another 20 or so people.

I really like Western Stars!

[NorthernSoul52]

There are some lovely tunes on Western Stars, but I won't say that I actively find myself craving them at an E Street Show.

 

They'd be a surprise to be sure, and probably a welcome one if they were deployed.

[The Nal]

20 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

The electric version of Reason to Believe this year was debuted in Dublin.

 

Yeah the highlight of the gig. Heard him rehearse it for an hour in the queue. 

 

I think he actually did play Spirit in the Sky. And John Lee Hooker.