Rochester 31st October 2012 - show 73

Ontario Beach Park in Rochester is home to the only antique carousel in the country never to have been moved from its original location.

Tonight's concert was postponed from last night making this Bruce's first Halloween concert for 20 years.

Backstreets  tells us:-

The rescheduled show on Halloween night in Rochester absolutely captured the spirit of the holiday, as the E Street Band walked onstage to spooky noises being played on the PA, the stage lit in blue, and thudded solidly into the live premiere of "A Night With the Jersey Devil."

I loved Monster Mash when I was a kid. I don't think I'm quite old enough to remember the original release in 1962 but my brother certainly owned a copy of the single.  The rendition tonight was played as a sign request but it seems Bruce had an inkling. 

He remarked that coming up to the show, he was thinking about what might be the greatest Halloween song of all time. "This probably isn’t it!" As the band readied themselves, Bruce joked that "we, cleverly, may have rehearsed it this afternoon at soundcheck! How did we know somebody would have this sign?" Set to a reggae/ska beat with a lively horn riff, this version of the Bobby "Boris" Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers classic was also particularly notable for Bruce's adoption of the mock Transylvanian accent for the line "Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?" and the priceless lyric change: “when you get to my door / tell them the boss man sent you.”

Just in case someone reads this in many years time I had better explain that the postponement came about because of travel problems in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. She hit land in New Jersey on the evening of 29th October and caused tremendous damage along the Jersey Shore and into New York City.  From the stage before My City Of Ruins Bruce said:-


"We wish you a happy Halloween, but we are a rock 'n' roll band form the Jersey Shore, and tonight we carry a lot of sadness in our hearts. This was originally a song about my adopted hometown struggling to get on its feet — it struggled for 25 years, a quarter century, while we watched for Asbury to come back. And we are very proud to say over the past decade, it has risen up and flourished in a way I wasn’t ever sure I'd see in my lifetime. And it will do so again!"

"We're a band that you can't separate from the Jersey shore — still basically a glorified bar band... at your service! So we're gonna do this tonight from our hometown to your hometown. We'll send this out to all the people working down there: the police officers, the firemen, and also to the Governor, who has done such a hard job this past week."

The full set list is here. A few of my favourites in there.  

	Pittsburgh 27/10/12 Time 8.18 to 11.28	Rochester  31/10/12 Time 8.15 to 11.15
1	Don’t Look Back (2)	A Night With The Jersey Devil (1)
2	Candy’s Room (12)	We Take Care Of Our Own (73)
3	The Ties That Bind (18)	Wrecking Ball (73)
4	Streets Of Fire (3)	Out In The Street (37)
5	Hungry Heart (31)	Death To My Hometown (73)
6	We Take Care Of Our Own (72)	My City Of Ruins (73)
7	Wrecking Ball (72)	Spirit In The Night (43)
8	Death To My Hometown (72)	Monster Mash (1)
9	My City Of Ruins (72)	Something In The Night (6)
10	Spirit In The Night (42)	Atlantic City (12)
11	Pretty Flamingo (1)	Jackson Cage (6)
12	Talk To Me (6)	She’s The One (25)
13	Adam Raised A Cain (5)	Cover Me (4)
14	Because The Night (30)	Downbound Train (9)
15	She’s The One (24)	Shackled And Drawn (57)
16	Working On The Highway (36)	Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (73)
17	Shackled And Drawn (56)	Drive All Night (4)
18	Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (72)	Radio Nowhere (10)
19	The Rising (61)	Badlands (65)
20	Badlands (64)	Land Of Hope And Dreams (49)
21	Land Of Hope And Dreams (48)	Jersey Girl (2)
22	Racing In The Street (36)	Thunder Road (42)
23	Born To Run (72)	Born To Run (73)
24	Glory Days (20)	Detroit Medley (4)
25	Light Of Day (3)	Dancing In The Dark (73)
26	Dancing In The Dark (72)	Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (72)
27	Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (71)
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