Toronto 24th August 2012 - show 57

Toronto is also known as Hollywood North, as it is the third largest film and television production venue in the world after Los Angeles and New York.

credit Tom Pandi - taken from http://www.examiner.com/slideshow/bruce-springsteen-the-wrecking-ball-tour-toronto#slide=51940176

So The Toronto faithful seem pretty pleased with their show.

I've been trying to recall every Springsteen concert I've seen, and I've come to the conclusion this was the best show I've seen since the late 1970s says this reviewer.  

I like this piece which is quite funny ...

Bruce Springsteen inspires a weird, wild-eyed species of fanaticism amongst people you’d never expect to witness getting fanatical over a rock ‘n’ roll show, and that is a healthy thing.

I’m referring to people of a certain, boomer-ish age, in particular - yep that's me and Mike- although by no means was the fired-up mob of 40,000-ish on hand for Springsteen and the E-Street Band’s Wrecking Ball tour touchdown the Rogers Centre on Friday night at all limited to lifelong fans orbiting around his own age of 62 years.

It is a kick, however, to see folks your parents’ age excitably carting homemade Bristol board signs into a baseball stadium like they’ve suddenly reverted to age 13 and are on their way to see Justin Bieber for the first time...

I like this paragraph from the same article.

...And that, in a nutshell, is probably why Springsteen has endured all these years: he can make you believe rock ‘n’ roll is the most important thing in the world all over again — even if, shame on you, you stopped believing years ago — because, whenever you see him perform, it seems pretty clear that rock ‘n’ roll is still the most important thing in the world to him.

And the final sentence :-

Hang onto that feeling, hang onto rock ‘n’ roll. Bruce Springsteen has and he’s doing OK.

So here is the set list.  Unusual start I think. Perhaps Bruce felt he needed to get the crowd going with a couple of well known sing-a-long tunes.  Followed by Sherry which is another song in the same vein but, I suspect, less well known. 

No premiers but Bruce did play the Mona intro to She's The One. Here I show my ignorance again as this means nothing to me!

Surely the highlight must've been Incident On 57th Street. 

Well our man was certainly pleased with the reception he got. brucespringsteen.net says 

As Bruce came off the stage after three hours and 37 minutes, he said to his team, “That was the greatest audience we have ever had in Toronto.” 

	Foxboro 18/08/12 Time 8.10 to 11.28	Toronto 24/08/12 Time 8.05 to 11.45
1	My Love Will Not Let You Down (6)	Working On The Highway (27)
2	Night (7)	Hungry Heart (18)
3	Out In The Street (28)	Sherry Darling (3)
4	Hungry Heart (17)	We Take Care Of Our Own (57)
5	We Take Care Of Our Own (56)	Wrecking Ball (57)
6	Wrecking Ball (56)	Death To My Hometown (57)
7	Death To My Hometown (56)	My City Of Ruins (57)
8	My City Of Ruins (56)	Spirit In The Night (31)
9	Spirit In The Night (30)	Thundercrack (6)
10	Open All Night (1)	Jack Of All Trades (48)
11	Growin’ Up (3)	Murder Incorporated (11)
12	Lost In The Flood (2)	Prove It All Night (19)
13	Because The Night (24)	Candy’s Room (9)
14	She’s The One (18)	She’s The One (19)
15	Working On The Highway (26)	Darlington County (14)
16	Shackled And Drawn (40)	Shackled And Drawn (41)
17	Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (56)	Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (57)
18	Racing In The Street (8)	Incident On 57th Street (3)
19	The Rising (52)	The Rising (53)
20	Radio Nowhere (8)	Badlands (50)
21	Badlands (49)	Land Of Hope And Dreams (39)
22	Jungleland (2)	We Are Alive (48)
23	Born To Run (56)	Thunder Road (31)
24	Bobby Jean (13)	Born To Run (57)
25	Dancing In The Dark (56)	Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) (10)
26	Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (55)	Dancing In The Dark (57)
27	Drift Away (1)	Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (56)
28	Twist And Shout (18)	Twist And Shout (19)
29		Glory Days (16)
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