East Rutherford Wednesday 4th April 2012 - show 9

No travelling today

Let's start with Stan Goldstein's review.

Bruce Springsteen pays tribute to Clarence Clemons during "Tenth Avenue Freeze-out" on the mini-stage at the back of the pit at Wednesday night's Izod Center show. -photo by Ron Ring

Here's a quote

So far, on every show on this tour, the final song has been "Tenth Avenue Freeze-out" which has included a powerful, silent tribute to Clarence. Every time Bruce gets to the line "When the change was made uptown and the Big Man joined the band" the band stops playing and Bruce urges the crowd on, for at least 90 seconds to just cheer as loudly as they can.

On Wednesday, Bruce ran to the mini-stage at the back of the floor pit (where he starts his crowd surfing from earlier) and when he got to that line, he stopped and the video screens showed video and pictures of Clarence throughout his E Street career. It was so moving and as Bruce again urged the crowd on (for almost a good two minutes), this time just had so much more meaning with the pictures of Clarence shown.

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Another quote from Stan's piece.

...one of the shorter shows on the tour, but definitely one of the best, maybe the best so far of the nine shows.

What do you think?

Three set lists again tonight.  First one of the tour and the two Meadowlands nights to compare.

Atlanta 18/03/12 Time 8.10 to 10.44	East Rutherford 03/04/12  Time 8.26 to 11.15	East Rutherford 04/04/12 Time 8.22 to 10.59
We Take Care Of Our Own	We Take Care Of Our Own (8)	We Take Care Of Our Own (9)
Wrecking Ball	Wrecking Ball (8)	Wrecking Ball (9)
Badlands	Badlands (5)	The Ties That Bind (1)
Death To My Hometown	Death To My Hometown (8)	Death To My Hometown (9)
My City Of Ruins	My City Of Ruins (8)	My City Of Ruins (9)
The E Street Shuffle	So Young And In Love (1)	Candy’s Room (1)
Jack Of All Trades	E Street Shuffle (3)	Johnny 99 (1)
Seeds	Jack Of All Trades (8)	Jack Of All Trades (9)
Easy Money	Seeds (3)	Jackson Cage (2)
Waitin' On A Sunny Day	Prove It All Night (3)	She’s The One (3)
The Promised Land	Easy Money (8)	Easy Money (9)
The Way You Do The Things You Do	Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (8)	Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (9)
634 -5789	The Promised Land (7)	The Promised Land (8)
Shackled And Drawn	The Way You Do The Things You Do (8)	Racing In The Street (1)
Lonesome Day	634 - 5789 (8)	The Way You Do The Things You Do (9)
The Rising	American Skin (41 Shots) (5)	634 - 5789 (9)
We Are Alive	Because The Night (3)	The Rising (9)
Thunder Road	The Rising (8)	We Are Alive (9)
Rocky Ground	We Are Alive (8)	Thunder Road (9)
Land Of Hope And Dreams	Thunder Road (8)	Trapped (3)
Born To Run	Rocky Ground (8)	Rocky Ground (9)
Dancing In The Dark	Out In The Street (2)	Ramrod (1)
American Land	Born To Run (8)	Born To Run (9)
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out	Dancing In The Dark (8)	Dancing In The Dark (9)
	Land Of Hope And Dreams (7)	Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (9)
	Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (8)

Never been a big fan of Johnny 99 but really liking this version.