Glendale 6 December 2012 - show 85

When I hear/see Glendale I always think of Jessie James robbing the Glendale Train.  The Seeger Sessions were quite educational it seems!!

For the reviews I'll start with examiner.com :-

Normally when an artist plays songs from their latest release, it’s time for that bathroom or get another beer break. Not so when Springsteen launched into “Wrecking Ball’s “ “We Take Care of Our Own,” Wrecking Ball,” and “Death to My Hometown.” The new songs were greeted with the fervor of the old, with fans singing along. Of course listening to the poignancy of Springsteen’s lyrics, it’s difficult not to remain transfixed.

This reminds me of 10 Things Mick Jagger has learned  His number 10 is - Nobody wants to hear songs from your new album. Well perhaps your fans only want to hear the old stuff, Mick, but Springsteen Fans embrace the new alongside the classics.

Anyway back to the review from examiner.com and their final paragraph:-

There is nothing ordinary about Bruce Springsteen and his concert performance along with the E Street Band only proves it. Given how often he ventures fearlessly into the crowd and tolerates their hugs and handshakes, how he embraces the audience’s song requests, how he gives it his all for over three hours and how he can lead those in attendance as an evangelical preacher one moment and be one of their own in the next, it is easy to see why Springsteen holds the appeal he does. Besides, somebody has to keep breaking the rules for us.

Always good to get a review from a laker on Greasy Lake. He finishes with:-

There's not much else for me to say.  The first time I saw Bruce in 1975 at my college in Oswego, New York, was probably the best concert I ever saw, and a life-changing event for me.  Other shows I've seen have been almost as great, some may even have been better.  But I don't think any of them since that very first time have been as special for me as Thursday night in Glendale was.  I didn't know I could still feel that way at the ripe old age of 54.  But I was wrong.  Thank you, Bruce.  

Hmmm - what about this then? The review is OK but I'm not sure about :-

This wasn't as intense as some performances I've seen. I heard one of those obnoxious hardcore fans who travel show to show (Springsteen jokingly called them "stalkers" on Thursday) complain that the Anaheim show earlier in the week was better. 

Oh dear! Does he mean us?

On to the set list with the Surprise opener - sorry couldn't resist it.

	Anaheim 4/12/12 Time 8.23 to 11.47	Glendale 6/12/12 Time 8.18 to 11.23
1	Land Of Hope And Dreams (59)	Surprise Surprise (1)
2	Adam Raised A Cain (7)	No Surrender (23)
3	Streets Of Fire (5)	I’m A Rocker (6)
4	Hungry Heart (41)	Hungry Heart (42)
5	We Take Care Of Our Own (84)	Prove It All Night (27)
6	Wrecking Ball (84)	Trapped (16)
7	Death To My Hometown (84)	Lost In The Flood (7)
8	My City Of Ruins (84)	We Take Care Of Our Own (85)
9	Spirit In The Night (50)	Wrecking Ball (85)
10	The E Street Shuffle (24)	Death To My Hometown (85)
11	Long Time Coming (1)	My City Of Ruins (85)
12	Reason To Believe (2)	Be True (4)
13	This Depression (6)	Light Of Day (5)
14	Darkness On The Edge Of Town (11)	Darlington County (29)
15	Bad Luck (1)	Shackled And Drawn (69)
16	Because The Night (36)	Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (85)
17	Darlington County (28)	The Way You Do The Things You Do (29)
18	Shackled And Drawn (68)	6345789 (29)
19	Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (84)	The Rising (68)
20	Raise Your Hands (13)	Badlands (77)
21	Ghost Of Tom Joad (7)	Thunder Road (48)
22	Badlands (76)	Incident on 57th Street (7)
23	Thunder Road (47)	Born To Run (85)
24	Jungleland (8)	Dancing In The Dark (85)
25	Born To Run (84)	Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town (8)
26	Dancing In The Dark (84)	Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (84)
27	Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town (7)
28	Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (83)
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