Kansas City 17th November 2012 - show 79

Kansas City is home to one of the tallest, largest and fastest roller coasters in the world at the city’s World of Fun amusement park.

Apparently there was a protest outside The Sprint Centre before tonight's show. The Kansas City Star tells us:-

That church from Topeka that preaches the blasphemy of (among other things) rock and roll exercised its freedom of speech across the street from the Sprint Center on Saturday night. But the more spiritual and evangelical expressions of the heart and soul occurred inside the arena, where for more than three hours Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band unleashed a show for the ages. It was one steeped in love, respect, compassion, sorrow, elation, grief and regret and one that rocked, stirred and inflamed the congregation from the floor to the rafters nearly all night...

...There could be no better ending to this evening, which preached a few sermons: that that life survives the deepest of sorrows; that the heart may not forget but it does heal and forgive and discover redemption and salvation; and that, if you’re going to hand-paint signs for public display, better they promote music and love than hatred and intolerance.

Here's a review from a blogger who was pretty happy with his night:-

The beautiful part of attending ANY Bruce Springsteen concert is being able to wake up the next day and say, “That was the best Springsteen show I have ever seen!”  Well, friends—last night’s show in Kansas City WAS the best Springsteen show I have ever seen. 

And the set list of that show is here.

I'm not familiar with Kansas City.  According to Wikipedea it's a rhythm and blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in 1952.

	Omaha  15/11/12 Time 8.21 to 11.27	Kansas City 17/11/12 Time 8.20 to 11.23
1	Reason To Believe (1)	Kansas City (1)
2	Johnny 99 (22)	Prove It All Night (26)
3	Atlantic City (15)	Candy’s Room (13)
4	Hungry Heart (35)	She’s The One (28)
5	We Take Care Of Our Own (78)	Hungry Heart (36)
6	Wrecking Ball (78)	We Take Care Of Our Own (79)
7	Death To My Hometown (78)	Wrecking Ball (79)
8	My City Of Ruins (77)	Death To My Hometown (79)
9	Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street (12)	My City Of Ruins (79)
10	Sherry Darlin’ (5)	The E Street Shuffle (21)
11	Lost In The Flood (6)	Fire (3)
12	State Trooper (1)	Incident On 57th Street (6)
13	Trapped (15)	Because The Night (33)
14	Open All Night (5)	Cover Me (6)
15	Shackled And Drawn (62)	Downbound Train (10)
16	Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (78)	I’m On Fire (6)
17	Raise Your Hand (8)	Shackled And Drawn (63)
18	Highway Patrolman (1)	Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (79)
19	Backstreets (12)	Raise Your Hand (9)
20	Badlands (70)	The Rising (64)
21	Land Of Hope And Dreams (53)	Badlands (71)
22	Thunder Road (44)	Land Of Hope And Dreams (54)
23	Born To Run (78)	Light Of Day (4)
24	Dancing In The Dark (78)	My Beautiful Reward (1)
25	Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (1)	Born To Run (79)
26	Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (77)	Dancing In The Dark (79)
27		Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (2)
28		Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (78)
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Omaha 15th November 2012 - show 78

The Lied Jungle located in Omaha is the world's largest indoor rain forest.

So our first review says:-

Springsteen knows how to keep an audience enthralled. It was one of the best show's I've seen, even better than his 2008 show here. 

The first 'Santa' of the tour gets a mention here

... up came the “Did Santa come to Omaha?” sign and the Santa hat and then suddenly Bruce realized that this was going to be a problem, trying to ho ho ho, and — “Big Man! We need you!”, he cried out.

Clearly this had not been thought about or rehearsed or soundchecked (although Ed Manion had no problem pulling off the horn solo); what hadn’t been worked out was who was going to do Clarence’s lines in the song, which are not trivial, and he hadn’t thought about it once before tonight. It was beautiful and sad... The fact that Bruce hadn’t thought about it until now is beautiful, and it is why I would like to punch anyone who thinks that Bruce needs to cut “Tenth” from the setlist; we are still missing Clarence, it is a very big hole, and it will remain that way for some time yet.

Here's the set list. To celebrate being in Nebraska there are ... a lot of songs from 'Nebraska'

	St Paul 12/11/12 Time 8.22 to 11.25	Omaha  15/11/12 Time 8.21 to 11.27
1	I’m A Rocker (4)	Reason To Believe (1)
2	Hungry Heart (34)	Johnny 99 (22)
3	No Surrender (21)	Atlantic City (15)
4	Night (9)	Hungry Heart (35)
5	Loose Ends (3)	We Take Care Of Our Own (78)
6	Something In The Night (7)	Wrecking Ball (78)
7	Stolen Car (1)	Death To My Hometown (78)
8	We Take Care Of Our Own (77)	My City Of Ruins (78)
9	Wrecking Ball (77)	Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street (12)
10	Death To My Hometown (77)	Sherry Darlin’ (5)
11	My City Of Ruins (77)	Lost In The Flood (6)
12	E Street Shuffle (20)	State Trooper (1)
13	Pay Me My Money Down (5)	Trapped (15)
14	Devils And Dust (1)	Open All Night (5)
15	Youngstown (13)	Shackled And Drawn (62)
16	Murder Inc (22)	Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (78)
17	She’s The One (27)	Raise Your Hand (8)
18	Shackled And Drawn (61)	Highway Patrolman (1)
19	Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (77)	Backstreets (12)
20	The Rising (63)	Badlands (70)
21	Badlands (69)	Land Of Hope And Dreams (53)
22	Land Of Hope And Dreams (52)	Thunder Road (44)
23	Jungleland (7)	Born To Run (78)
24	Born To Run (77)	Dancing In The Dark (78)
25	Dancing In The Dark (77)	Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (1)
26	Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (76)	Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (77)
27	American Land (13)
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St Paul 12th November 2012 - show 77

St Paul is the capitol of Minnesota although Minneapolis is the State's largest city.

Most Bruce Springsteen shows are great. Some are a little more special than others. Monday night in St. Paul, Minn., from accounts I've gotten from friends who were there, was one of those special nights.  So says Stan Goldstein in his review. 

The 'second night' rule is certainly evident again here.  Seven songs in before we get to We Take Care Of Our Own !

There are over 4900 reviews of Wrecking Ball Tour shows on Ticketmaster. Obviously the opinions are hardly unbiased, as most people who go to the shows are already fans. They make great reading anyway and somehow it's very satisfying to have someone else affirm your own feelings.

Anyway a review of today's show goes like this:-

For the second night of St. Paul/Mpls. concert stop Bruce turned it up a notch! The tone for this concert was so different from the Sun show. From Jungle Land, E-street shuffle, downing a beer, Wrecking ball, to the Rising, what a show. He was smiling and running around the stage area like a man half his age. The new horn section was AWESOME. The sax solos did not miss a beat. I have been to 15 Bruce concerts and again I found something new to talk about. He is the ultimate live performer. Thanks for the new memories Bruce and I hope there will be many more to follow. I was spent at the end of the 3 hour show. I can hardly wait for him to return. You bet I will attend as many shows as he is willing to put on.
Favorite moment: Jungle land and Bruce enjoying a cold one
Setlist: Ramrod, Hungry Heart, No Surrender, ??, Night, Something in the NIght, Stolen car, We take Care of our own, Wrecking Ball, Death to my Hometown,Rise -up, E-street Shuffle, Bury my money Down, Devils and Dust, Youngstown, Murder Inc., Candies Room, Shackel and drawn, Waiting on a sunny day, Rising, Badlands, Land of Hope and Dreams, Jungleland, Born to Run, Dancing in the Dark, 10 th Ave freeze out, American land

Here's the set list which you may notice has one or two difference from the one above.

	St Paul 11/11/12 Time 8.16 to 11.18	St Paul 12/11/12 Time 8.22 to 11.25
1	We Take Care Of Our Own (76)	I’m A Rocker (4)
2	Wrecking Ball (76)	Hungry Heart (34)
3	Out In The Street (39)	No Surrender (21)
4	Death To My Hometown (76)	Night (9)
5	My City Of Ruins (76)	Loose Ends (3)
6	Spirit In The Night (46)	Something In The Night (7)
7	It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City (7)	Stolen Car (1)
8	Hungry Heart (33)	We Take Care Of Our Own (77)
9	Jack Of All Trades (58)	Wrecking Ball (77)
10	Atlantic City (14)	Death To My Hometown (77)
11	Savin’ Up (1)	My City Of Ruins (77)
12	Open All Night (4)	E Street Shuffle (20)
13	Darlington County (25)	Pay Me My Money Down (5)
14	Two Hearts (10)	Devils And Dust (1)
15	Shackled And Drawn (60)	Youngstown (13)
16	Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (76)	Murder Inc (22)
17	Long Walk Home (2)	She’s The One (27)
18	Badlands (68)	Shackled And Drawn (61)
19	Thunder Road (43)	Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (77)
20	If I Should Fall Behind (3)	The Rising (63)
21	Rocky Ground (37)	Badlands (69)
22	Born To Run (76)	Land Of Hope And Dreams (52)
23	Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) (19)	Jungleland (7)
24	Dancing In The Dark (76)	Born To Run (77)
25	Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (75)	Dancing In The Dark (77)
26		Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (76)
27		American Land (13)
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 and ... as Stan Goldstein says  Take a watch of "Devils & Dust" it's just chilling. Wow!