East Rutherford 22nd September 2012 - show 67

Jennifer Brown/The Star Ledger

Most of the reviews of tonight's show feature the delay because of the weather.  To summarise - the audience were not allowed to go to their seats because of fear of lightening. Perhaps this was just meant to be, as the late start allowed those lucky fans to celebrate Bruce's birthday with him.

Stan Goldstein describes the celebrations :-

... Bruce's mom Adele, his oldest sister Ginny, Patti Scialfa's mother and brother, plus Maureen Van Zandt came out with a huge birthday cake. This time Steven led the fans in singing "Happy Birthday." Bruce blew out the candles and then started cutting up the cake. The first piece went to his "first fan" Obie who was in the front row. Both Bruce and Steven introduced Obie. "She was following me when she was 16" Bruce said.
Several other fans in the front of the pit got pieces of cake personally delivered by Bruce. He would have brought out even more, except he ran out of plates.

So a very short post today and no YouTube clips out there yet. Perhaps the concert goers are still asleep.

Here are the set lists from all three shows.

	East Rutherford 19/09/12 Time 8.30 to 12.24	East Rutherford  21/09/12 Time 8.28 to 11.37	East Rutherford 22/09/12 Time 10.27 to 1.55
1	Shackled And Drawn (49)	Living On The Edge Of The World (1)	Out In The Street (33)
2	Prove It All Night (24)	Out In The Street (32)	The Ties That Bind (16)
3	The Ties That Bind (15)	Night (8)	Cynthia (1)
4	Hungry Heart (25)	Hungry Heart (26)	Badlands (59)
5	We Take Care Of Our Own (65)	No Surrender (19)	Who’ll Stop The Rain (7)
6	Wrecking Ball (65)	Lost In The Flood (4)	Cover Me (3)
7	Death To My Hometown (65)	We Take Care Of Our Own (66)	Downbound Train (8)
8	My City Of Ruins (65)	Wrecking Ball (66)	We Take Care Of Our Own (67)
9	Spirit In The Night (37)	Death To My Hometown (66)	Wrecking Ball (67)
10	E Street Shuffle (17)	My City Of Ruins (66)	Death To My Hometown (67)
11	Jack Of All Trades (55)	Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street (10)	My City Of Ruins (67)
12	Human Touch (3)	Jole Blon (1)	It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City (5)
13	Johnny 99 (20)	This Little Girl (1)	Jole Blon (2)
14	Darlington County (20)	From Small Things (1)	This Little Girl (2)
15	Working On A Highway (32)	Talk To Me (5)	Pay Me My Money Down (4)
16	Easy Money (18)	This Depression (4)	Janey Don’t You Lose Heart (2)
17	The Promised Land (37)	Shackled And Drawn (50)	In The Midnight Hour (1)
18	Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (65)	Mary’s Place (1)	Into The Fire (1)
19	Mansion On The Hill (1)	Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (66)	Because The Night (27)
20	Racing In The Street (10)	Incident On 57th Street (4)	She’s The One (22)
21	The Rising (57)	Rosalita (15)	Working On The Highway (33)
22	Badlands (58)	Rocky Ground (34)	Shackled And Drawn (51)
23	Land Of Hope And Dreams (44)	Born To Run (66)	Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (67)
24	We Are Alive (54)	Ramrod (5)	Meeting Across The River (1)
25	Thunder Road (39)	Bobby Jean (14)	Jungleland (5)
26	Born To Run (65)	Dancing In The Dark (66)	Thunder Road (40)
27	Rosalita (14)	Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (65)	Rocky Ground (35)
28	Dancing In The Dark (65)	American Land (12)	Born To Run (67)
29	Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (64)		Glory Days (18)
30	Twist And Shout (25)		Seven Nights To Rock (17)
31			Dancing In The Dark (67)
32			Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (66)
33			Twist And Shout (26)

East Rutherford 21st September 2012 - show 66

Night 2 then - does the 'night 2 rule' apply when it's the filling in a three night sandwich?

It Appears it might do. Blogness on the Edge of Town describes the SETLIST (to end all setlists?) and goes on to announce Ladies and gentlemen … It appears Fenway 2 is no longer the show to beat.


A couple of interesting facts in this review for those of you who like such things:-


last night (Sept. 21), he opened the second of his three-night stand at MetLife Stadium in E. Rutherford, N.J. with ‘Living on the Edge of the World,’ a 32-year-old song which he had never before played live.

But perhaps the biggest surprise came at the end of the main set, when Springsteen followed up a rare performance of ‘Incident on 57th Street’ with ‘Rosalita (Come Out Tonight),’ which is how they appeared on 1974′s ‘The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle.’ That sequence has been performed fewer than ten times in the nearly 40 years since the album’s release.

A bit more about Living On The Edge Of The World from Backstreets :-


The show opened with a live premiere, a rough, loose, and fun "Living on the Edge of the World" that found Bruce coming down front... and completely forgetting the lyrics. Luckily there was a sheet of paper with the lyrics taped down there. Bruce tore it from the floor and read from it for the rest of the song, in good spirits the whole time. At the end of the song, he ripped up the lyric sheet in a moment of comic frustration. This was more fun than it sounds, and though Bruce said it "would have been even better if we got it right," well, ragged and right was good enough.

I like this story of the show. It's a little snapshot of a Springsteen concert rather than a review of the set list. A few snippets here:-

When you go to MetLife Stadium or The Izod Center, exit strategy is important.   With the perfect spot, we unloaded the two chairs for my wife Marie and myself and a little table for our small tailgating feast of roast beef sandwiches with provolone.  

Everyone has a story of a show or song and you all sit around sharing everything, food, drink and new friendships, short friendships, but friendships none the less.

We had great sight lines to the stage that was about 110 yards away.   Everything on the stage looked like it was set up for an ant concert.  But with binoculars and the big screens, we had pretty decent views that weren’t so bad

What I noticed immediately was there were a lot of newbies and we have learned that is never good.  Other than the four folks in front of us, we were in a very dead energy section.

My highlight of the night would have been Jole Blon and the Backstreets review describes one of those only-at-a-Springsteen-show moments :-

Bruce found a "Jole Blon" sign from the crowd, claiming that he had seen the sign for some 94 shows in a row. It certainly was a familiar sight to tour followers. He went down front to the sign-bearer: "How long have you been waiting for this song?" "All my life!" she screamed. From the shots of her on the video screen, it was worth the wait.

So here is the full set list

	East Rutherford 19/09/12 Time 8.30 to 12.24	East Rutherford 21/09/12 Time 8.28 to 11.37
1	Shackled And Drawn (49)	Living On The Edge Of The World (1)
2	Prove It All Night (24)	Out In The Street (32)
3	The Ties That Bind (15)	Night (8)
4	Hungry Heart (25)	Hungry Heart (26)
5	We Take Care Of Our Own (65)	No Surrender (19)
6	Wrecking Ball (65)	Lost In The Flood (4)
7	Death To My Hometown (65)	We Take Care Of Our Own (66)
8	My City Of Ruins (65)	Wrecking Ball (66)
9	Spirit In The Night (37)	Death To My Hometown (66)
10	E Street Shuffle (17)	My City Of Ruins (66)
11	Jack Of All Trades (55)	Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street (10)
12	Human Touch (3)	Jole Blon (1)
13	Johnny 99 (20)	This Little Girl (1)
14	Darlington County (20)	From Small Things (1)
15	Working On A Highway (32)	Talk To Me (5)
16	Easy Money (18)	This Depression (4)
17	The Promised Land (37)	Shackled And Drawn (50)
18	Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (65)	Mary’s Place (1)
19	Mansion On The Hill (1)	Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (66)
20	Racing In The Street (10)	Incident On 57th Street (4)
21	The Rising (57)	Rosalita (15)
22	Badlands (58)	Rocky Ground (34)
23	Land Of Hope And Dreams (44)	Born To Run (66)
24	We Are Alive (54)	Ramrod (5)
25	Thunder Road (39)	Bobby Jean (14)
26	Born To Run (65)	Dancing In The Dark (66)
27	Rosalita (14)	Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (65)
28	Dancing In The Dark (65)	American Land (12)
29	Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (64)
30	Twist And Shout (25)
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