Bradford Pearson

Bruce Springsteen live = life complete

I'm speechless. The best show of my life, and it was put on by a 60 year-old man.

30 songs. Three and a half hours. Straight. If I can do anything for 3 1/2 straight hours when I'm 60, I expect a damn medal.

I honestly wish I could express just how fantastically soul-exploding last night's sold out show in Baltimore was, but I can't. I guess that's why I'm not a music journalist.

All I can say is they played the whole "Born to Run" album, start to finish. From the opening harmonica of "Thunder Road," to the closing piano notes of "Jungleland." Oh, and that was in the middle of 22 other songs. Just for, you know, fun.

1. Wrecking Ball
2. Prove It All Night
3. Hungry Heart
4. Working On A Dream
5. Thunder Road
6. Tenth Avenue Freezeout
7. Night
8. Backstreets
9. Born To Run
10. She's the One
11. Meeting Across the River
12. Jungleland
13. Waiting On A Sunny Day
14. Spirit In the Night
15. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (request)
16. E Street Shuffle (request)
17. For You (solo piano)
18. Radio Nowhere (request)
19. My Love Will Not Let You Down
20. Long Walk Home
21. The Rising
22. Badlands

Encores
23. Ramrod (request)
24. Hard Times
25. Land of Hope and Dreams
26. American Land
27. Dancing In the Dark
28. Rosalita
29. Higher and Higher
30. Glory Days

I honestly don't know if I will ever go to a better show. And, somehow, I'm not even sad about that.

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Posted by Bradford Pearson at 7:36 PM