1988-09-21 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, CA

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Scheduled: 14:00 Local Start Time ??:?? / End Time ??:??

Info & Setlist | Venue

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"Jungleland" is played for the second and final known time this tour; it will not be heard again before 1999. Joan Baez once again joins, and Bono guests on "Chimes of Freedom", which unusually includes the "mad mystic hammering" verse, and "Get Up, Stand Up".

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On Stage

Pre-Set

• Bruce Springsteen
• Joan Baez
• Tracy Chapman
• Peter Gabriel
• Youssou N'Dour
• Sting

With Sting

• Sting
• Delmar Brown
• Jeff Campbell
• Mino Cinelu
• Kenny Kirkland
• J.T. Lewis
• Branford Marsalis
• Dolette McDonald
• Tracy Wormworth

Show

• Bruce Springsteen
• The E Street Band
  • Roy Bittan
  • Clarence Clemons
  • Danny Federici
  • Nils Lofgren
  • Patti Scialfa
  • Garry Tallent
  • Max Weinberg

• Joan Baez (Guest)
• Bono (Guest)
• Tracy Chapman (Guest)
• Peter Gabriel (Guest)
• Youssou N'Dour (Guest)
• L. Shankar (Guest)
• Sting (Guest)

Setlist

Pre-Set GET UP, STAND UP With Sting EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE Show BORN IN THE U.S.A. THE PROMISED LAND COVER ME THE RIVER CADILLAC RANCH WAR MY HOMETOWN JUNGLELAND THUNDER ROAD GLORY DAYS BORN TO RUN RAISE YOUR HAND CHIMES OF FREEDOM GET UP, STAND UP

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Performances

^{incl. Rehearsals.}

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• 1988-09-21 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, CA
• 1985-10-02 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, CA
• 1985-09-30 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, CA
• 1985-09-29 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, CA
• 1985-09-27 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, CA

Cancelled

• 1985-09-26 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, CA

Gallery

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Media

Recording

Audience tape. Four recording sources circulate. The first is a transfer from master tapes ^{(Mark Persic)}, released on CDR 'Los Angeles 88'. A second source from a first generation tape ^{(Mike Millard/JEMS)} was released in September 2015. A third source was released the same month from a first generation tape transfer ^(mjk5510), this source also includes Bruce's guest appearance on Sting's "Every Breath You Take". A fourth source is available from the master tapes ^(MalcolmB). All four sources are very good to excellent quality. Released on CD 'The Greatest Rockstar In The World' ^{(Eat A Peach)}, the Millard source was released on CDR 'Human Rights Now In L.A.' ^{(Midnight Dreamer)}.

Storyteller

Intro to "The River"
´´Yeah….gonna get a little help on this song….I’d like to introduce a man that’s finally encouraged me to go into my acting career, we’re gonna get together and do a remake of Abbott and Costello Goes to Mars…..I’d like to bring out my new best friend…..Sting…..”

Intro to "My Hometown"
´´How you doing out there tonight ? (cheers)…..got the weather with us….(?)….when I was a kid, I got a sense of so many things from rock’n’roll music…..I got a sense….a sense of life …..what living could be about…..and a sense of fun and of good times….. high spirits….got a sense of sex….a sense of possibility….but most of all, I think I got a sense of freedom….on all those early rock’n’roll records, I listened to the singers….they had some sense of freedom …..I think that the best rock’n’roll has always made that….one….transcendant moment of freedom…..well….in the end that’s why we’re here tonight….´cause Human Rights violations aren’t just something that happen a thousand miles away around the world…..when you pass that homeless man or woman on the street…..there are Human Rights being violated….when people in this very city are deprieved of their economic and social rights….there are Human Rights being violated…. now tonight you have the opportunity to let the voice of your hometown be heard all around the world…..you got an opportunity to let the voice of freedom…..and decency sound just a little bit louder….and most of all, you got an opportunity to break out of that isolation that burdens us so much here in the United States and to join the world community….that’s what Amnesty International is about….use your freedom to help others win their freedom…..so….take the stand, join Amnesty International and let freedom ring…..”

Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi.

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