Springsteen was awesome. Played a ton of songs. The band is incredibly tight, no surprise there. Morello was really good to, but Nils is still the best guitarist on that stage.
Twenty two song main set and five song encore. Started at about 8
2 and played until 10:50. The encore break may have been one minute, but it might have been as little as 30 seconds...we'll say 45 seconds to split the difference. That he and his long running band members can still do this at this level in the mid-70s is crazy. That they are still doing as well as ever, is mind-blowing.
Bruce and his band are fighting a good fight, spreading the word on the growing problems in our nation, how it affects us and the world, and pulling no punches. His voice sounds great, as strong as ever without as much high range, but that was never his thing. Spot on pitch.
First Springsteen, but hopefully not my last. The boys really enjoyed it too. My youngest, Milo, is a HUGE folk music fan and we agreed that Bruce is essentially a folks singer that uses a full rock band to complete the sound in his head. That the band closed with Dylan's Chimes of Freedom and that the closing house music was Woody's This Land Is Your Land pounded home where Bruce is coming from.
