Sooky Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 I'm rather looking forward to this now... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooky Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 Well, what can I say... Queued up from 8:30am and got speaking to some really lovely fans - a couple of which who had been to all the UK dates - and the time passed fairly quickly until we got inside around 4pm. Then from 18:20 until 21:50, The Boss rocked Wembley with an outstanding setlist, starting with just him and a piano for a tour debut of Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street and then into his set with the band which included 41 Shots (which I thought I'd missed out on after Hampden), which was immediately followed by The River and The Promised Land. His first encore then started with Jungleland - which I was thrilled about - before ending it all with a solo acoustic version of Thunder Road. He also played Tougher Than The Rest as a tribute to Muhammad Ali. Highlights included him spending about 5 minutes trying to remember how to play I'll Work For Your Love - a sign request that clearly isn't played very often! - taking a pint of beer from a girl in the front row and downing the whole thing during Spirit In The Night, whilst she looked on absolutely raging at the fact her £5.50 pint had been stolen. Main highlight was probably a ginger bearded Scotsman stood right beside me who put on a Courtney Cox wig and got to dance with Bruce during Dancing In The Dark. Was pleased for him considering he was in tears during 41 Shots and Jungleland! This was the third time I've see him, after the last 2 tours at Hampden, but this was probably the most special of the lot. What a night. What a man. What a band! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamJags Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 Taking a look at his setlist, looks like you got the best set of the European leg of the tour! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francesc Fabregas Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 Jungleland and Candy's Room, my word. That looks like a tremendous set. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearwithme Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 Wish he'd played those two at Hampden though it was still an excellent show. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooky Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 (edited) Just if anyone was interested, you can buy the MP3 download of any of the UK shows for $10 on his website, or you can also get the CD or better quality audio downloads for more. I just purchased the Wembley concert on MP3, the sound quality is fairly decent actually. Edited July 29, 2016 by Sooky 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 Just if anyone was interested, you can buy the MP3 download of any of the UK shows for $10 on his website, or you can also get the CD or better quality audio downloads for more. I just purchased the Wembley concert on MP3, the sound quality is fairly decent actually. Bought the Glasgow one, sound quality is excellent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goanjock Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 New to the forum but we were there......lucky enough to get into the front section and what an amazing gig 8-) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted August 28, 2016 Share Posted August 28, 2016 Just when you think he might be getting near retirement, he breaks his own record for his longest American show twice in a week. Last Tuesday they did a 3hr 52min show at MetLife Stadium, then followed it up on Thursday in the same venue by going 7 minutes longer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul-r-cfc Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 He's got a biography coming out next month. That'll be getting bought 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 He's got a biography coming out next month. That'll be getting bought There's an accompanying album to go with it called Chapter and Verse which includes some unreleased stuff from his first bands the Castiles and Steel Mill. They played 4 hours 1 minute at Metlife last night. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YER SISTERS YER MAW Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 (edited) Just ordered the new biography from Amazon. It's been getting rave reviews;https://www.amazon.co.uk/Born-Run-Bruce-Springsteen/dp/1471157792 Edit-Oops, f**ked up the link Edited October 5, 2016 by YER SISTERS YER MAW 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul-r-cfc Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Oooohh, I'll need to get that ordered 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountyFan Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 The autobiography is outstanding. It's a wonderful piece of writing, forget the fact it's the boss. He's arguably as good an author as he is a songwriter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iminavest Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapelhall chap Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 On 10/5/2016 at 20:57, CountyFan said: The autobiography is outstanding. It's a wonderful piece of writing, forget the fact it's the boss. He's arguably as good an author as he is a songwriter. Just about 2/3 of the way through and it is a very revealing insight to how long it took to make it (financially). His dealing with feelings of depression and his honest assessment of how difficult he often made relationships is instructive. The description of the making of albums is great to read. Don't always like all his work since first buying into him in the early 80s ( I don't get Tom Joad) but as a child of the folk era in the early sixties I loved the Seeger Sessions. I vary between the rock sounds of guitar bands with the more acoustic material but he is the Boss 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YER SISTERS YER MAW Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Anyone own this? Seems like a decent price. https://www.theworks.co.uk/p/music-books/springsteen---album-by-album/9781780978352?wgu=5922_116019_15470155016855_e9b94515d7 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozam76 Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 (edited) I'm a huge Springsteen fan; without being maniacally so. I've always struggled to get into his super-early stuff (Greetings...), and the least said about his last couple of albums the better. I've long thought that his concert at Hammersmith Odeon in 75 was probably the one that I'd put before any other. The one I wish I was around to see. It always seemed to me to be the performance he was born to do. Well, not now. I've just watched Springsteen on Broadway. The full thing is also available to listen to as an album. Hands down it is the rawest, most soulful, most emotional, almost elegiac thing I've ever seen. A lot of it dovetails nicely with the book which is incredible in itself, especially his own audio description. His performances of My Father's House, The Wish and Born In The USA (where he intersperses the lyrics with stories of his father, mother and young friends respectively), are just incredible. As I get older, and as the world that I see seems to get ever closer to DEFCON:Fucked, I find it ever harder to get enthused about stuff. This performance is an exception. THE exception. Watch it. Please. Edited January 9, 2019 by mozam76 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonsrock Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Watched this on Netflix the other night, exceptional and I’m not a huge Springsteen fan 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Capital Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 I thought Tenth Avenue Freeze Out was brilliant. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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