Scheduled: 19:30 Local Start Time ??:?? / End Time ??:??
"Open All Night", "Badlands", "All Or Nothin' At All", the tour's lone "Ninety-Nine And A Half (Won't Do)", "Real Man" and "Tougher Than The Rest" are added to the 30-song set - longest of the tour to date. First ever performances in the U.S. for "All Or Nothin' At All" and "Real Man". "Open All Night" is a new arrangement with Bruce playing the song alone on the guitar all the way through with help from Roy on the keyboards and Shane on the slide guitar before the full band kicking in at the end. The second set includes the last known "Real Man" and the final "Tougher Than The Rest" of the tour proper. "The Star-Spangled Banner" is played as a lead-in to "Born In The U.S.A.".
incl. Rehearsals.
- 2012-04-04 Izod Center, East Rutherford, NJ
- 2012-04-03 Izod Center, East Rutherford, NJ
- 2009-05-23 Izod Center, East Rutherford, NJ
- 2009-05-21 Izod Center, East Rutherford, NJ
- 2007-10-10 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 2007-10-09 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 2007-09-28 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 2005-11-17 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 2005-11-16 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 2005-05-19 Theater At The Continental Airlines Arena (The), East Rutherford, NJ
- 2004-10-13 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 2002-08-07 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 2002-08-05 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 2001-12-15 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1999-08-12 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1999-08-11 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1999-08-09 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1999-08-07 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1999-08-06 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1999-08-04 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1999-08-02 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1999-08-01 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1999-07-29 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1999-07-27 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1999-07-26 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1999-07-24 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1999-07-20 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1999-07-18 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1999-07-15 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1999-07-14 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1993-06-24 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1992-08-10 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1992-08-07 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1992-08-06 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1992-08-04 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1992-08-02 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1992-07-31 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1992-07-30 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1992-07-28 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1992-07-26 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1992-07-25 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1992-07-23 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1984-08-20 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1984-08-19 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1984-08-17 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1984-08-16 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1984-08-12 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1984-08-11 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1984-08-09 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1984-08-08 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1984-08-06 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1984-08-05 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1981-07-09 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1981-07-08 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1981-07-06 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1981-07-05 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1981-07-03 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
- 1981-07-02 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
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- Running Time: 3:21:48
Audience tape.
Intro to “Local Hero”
“There I was….coming down 537, south….past Federici´s Pizza….riding on past Harrison´s Pharmacy….”
Intro to “Open All Night”
“How you been, how you been ?….yeah, it´s good to see you too…here´s a song, uh ….I wrote back in ´82….gonna….dedicate it to that great highway…that royal road for men and women, the New Jersey Turnpike….yeah…..let me see….(?)….
(….) Alright, take it easy now…ten years later….coming in off the California freeways ….oh yeah….I land in my great state, I get in my car, I start driving north….and I realise….there ain´t no more Howard Johnson´s….everywhere I look, there´s a….a Big Boy, Bob´s Big Boy ….or a Roy Rogers….I feel down, I feel real blue, I feel like a piece of my youth has been lost and tossed away…I wanna write a protest letter….what happened to them horrible, shit-orange looking rugs ?…so I go into Bob´s….and it´s the same waitress that was there ten years ago…I looked at her and I said….´Do you remember me ?´….she said ´I sure do, daddy …come on in because….we´re open all night….”
Intro to “If I Should Fall Behind”
“Oh yeah….that was fun (chuckles)….this next song is a song….took me about, oh, 42 years to write….when I was young, I remember I´d always say I had nothing left to lose….´course if you´ve got nothing left to lose, you´ve got nothing….and other things just scare you….and uh, I think that´s why people always hold back all the time, you know….hold back their love, hold back their affection from their kids, from their wives and their friends ´cause it´s scary to let it go…and for a long time this was, this was the place where I was able to live….but that´s kind of cheating….so….this is, uh…I guess this is a song about learning how to let it go (?) just look one person eye to eye or your kids eye to eye and how everybody needs some help so….without further ado….”
Intro to “My Hometown”
“This is, uh….I see some folks with their little kiddies out there….yeah (chuckles) …. yeah, that´s my, uh, today´s my son´s birthday….big day….a lot of fun for me, a lot of hard work for Patti (chuckles)….but uh….this next song, I guess part of what this next song is about was, uh….was about kids, you know, guess what we´ve kind of made for ´em….what we leave ´em behind….you know, when you got….when the only thing you got is yourself out there, you, I don´t know, you don´t think about that as much….and uh, soon as those little babies come along….you know, I guess they, uh….they make you wanna be strong and they pull you outside of your own head….people spend so much time living inside their own heads, you know, and kids want you to come out, come out and play, come out and play in the real world, you know….and uh….so….I read a book that said ´Nothing you ever do for a child is wasted´, some little thing… you know, 30, 40 years later they´re laying in bed at night and they´re thinking ´Man, I remember when my dad and my mom used to take me in the car and sat me up behind the wheel´….and uh (?)….so, uh, anyway….anyway, I´m gonna ….gonna do this for all the Moms and Pops out there…and pray that they´ll be strong….this is, uh…. from my children to your children, alright….”
Intro to “Leap of Faith”
“Thank you, thank you….this is where I gotta take a pause because, uh, like I was telling the folks the other night, we got a sponsor tonight…..that´s right, we sold out, we got a sponsor now….that´s right, but I´m not, now listen, I´m not, I´m not gonna try and sell you no beer, I´m not gonna try and sell you no sneaker, I´m not gonna try and sell you no soda pop, though there are a few items in the hall during intermission but I´m not gonna mention those, because tonight our sponsor is (crowd: ´Love ´) that´s right, our sponsor´s love….is anybody familiar with love out there tonight ? (cheers) that´s all that´s familiar with love, say it, is anybody familiar with love out there tonight ? (bigger cheer) now, what I wanna know has anybody ever been stomped on, ground into the dirt, had their pride stripped away, their heart broken in a thousand pieces, been kicked all over and (?) by love ? (cheers) thank you for your honesty….but you keep coming back, you keep coming and that takes faith, that´s what it takes, it takes faith and this song is about love, it´s about faith, it´s about hope, it´s about bizarre ritualistic sexual practises that I´ve engaged in my personal self…..it´s disguised only in thinly veiled imagery so listen close, I´d like to dedicate this tonight to my amore, Patti….”
Intro to “All or Nothin´at All”
“Alright….are you ready for little Saturday night music now ? (cheers) I wanna see everybody get up off your asses, please….I wanna see everybody get up off their asses, please….come back from the concession stands right now….stop buying them beers (?) ´cause I want, I want, I want, I just don´t want a little bit from you, tonight I just don´t want a little bit from you, tonight I just don´t want a little bit of what you´ve got, I want it all or nothin´at all….”
Intro to “Ninety-Nine and a Half Won´t Do”
“(backup singers: ´Ninety-nine and a half won´t do, ninety-nine and a half won´t do, ninety-nine and a half won´t do, if you want to own that woman´s love….Ninety-nine and a half won´t do, ninety-nine and a half won´t do, ninety-nine and a half won´t do, if you want to own that woman´s love´) Now you´re saying what do they mean by that ?….what I wanna know….you know how it is when you first start going out with somebody and like, you got one your love-face, you´re not the way you really are, you say ´This time I´m gonna give a 100 % of my whole self to this one person, I´m not gonna hold anything back, I´m gonna give it all´…and then about six months later you´re giving about 80….and about three months later you´re giving 50….then about three months after that you´re giving….that´s right, who´s here with their, are you folks together tonight ?…does he give you a 100 % of his love ?…. she says ´No´….thank you for your honesty….that´s right….Roy, what´s, what´s the average that a man gives a woman ? Roy´s got a college education studying a lot of statistics, what´s the average ?….about 65 %….and that´s why when she walks out, you hear in the back of your head….Ninety-nine and a half won´t do, ninety-nine and a half won´t do, ninety-nine and a half won´t do, if you want to own that woman´s love….Bobby, I think we need, I think we need a woman´s side of, of the whole thing….(?) we gotta get the women´s opinion here ….uh, Angel, what about 60 % ? (Angel : (?)) what about 70 % (Angel : ´That just won´t do´) what about 80 ? (Angel : ´That ain´t enough´) what about 90 % (Angel : ´Not even, no, no´) ….Ninety-nine and a half won´t do, ninety-nine and a half won´t do, ninety-nine and a half won´t do, if you want to own that woman´s love…..now I know what you´re thinking out there, you´re thinking ´Boss, you ain´t got no problems, you live in that big, fancy house in Beverly Hills, you got all that money, you don´t need to deal with that shit´….but I´ve struggled with this myself, you see….and let me tell you what I did….you see (?)….I….what the hell did I do ? wait a minute….it´s coming back to me now, it´s coming back to me….oh yeah, oh yeah….what I did was I (chuckles) I took this advice, you see, and I, and I started to think and I went way up to the east side to a real expensive shrink….I went down to his office, told my story and bowed my head, he put down his pad and all he said was….´Ninety-nine and a half won´t do, ninety-nine and a half won´t do, ninety-nine and a half won´t do, if you want to own that woman´s love…..well, now, listen up, buddy, you can take my advice ….I´m somebody who´s been down that aisle once or twice….the only thing, let me tell you, that I learned….if in the flame of love your heart´s been burned, you oughta know…..Ninety-nine and a half won´t do, ninety-nine and a half won´t do, ninety-nine and a half won´t do, if you want to own that woman´s love…..”
Intro to “Real Man”
“Alright….this next song is a song I almost threw off the album because I thought it was too corny but what can I say, it´s how I feel….”
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NINETY-NINE AND A HALF WON’T DO |
The 11-night stand at the Meadowlands Arena to kick off the 1992 U.S. tour was a bold statement of intent. It’s surely intentional that it was one show more than the famed ten-show run at the same venue in 1984, the difference being that this time Bruce was coming home with new friends, not familiar ones. Touring for the first time without the E Street Band and playing in front of what are arguably his most diehard fans is a daunting proposition. But with opening night jitters out of the way, the second show on July 25, 1992 offers a hungry, highly entertaining performance that plays to the new lineup’s gospel-meets-roots-rock strengths.
Right from the top, Bruce is wholly committed and in stellar voice, his rich timbre leading the strong show-opening trio of “Better Days,” “Local Hero” (complete with local landmark namechecks to show his Garden State cred remained intact), and “Lucky Town.”
As I wrote in the notes for the 1993 release at the same venue, Bruce’s new musical collaborators “wouldn’t have looked out of place on stage with [Bob] Dylan circa 1978-81,” and that particular Dylan-era frame of reference applies to the music, too, as the approach to both new and old material was to make it more soulful while still rock ’n’ roll. The playing of the core band (Shane Fontayne on guitar, Tommy Sims on bass, and Zack Alford on drums) with a full European tour already under their belts is punchy and tight, while the background singers add gospel gravitas to the proceedings–an appealing combination.
Even on familiar material, these off-E Street versions don’t sound quite as “different” 27 years on, in a good way. The opening set features a first-rate “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” an eloquent reading of “The River” with a long, heart-heavy harmonica outro, and an inspired tour debut for “Open All Night.”
Aimed squarely at this turnpike audience, “Open All Night” starts solo and builds to full band in a manner that may suggest what the unreleased “Electric Nebraska” version sounded like ten years prior. Better still, in the middle of the song, Bruce tells an updated version of the yarn he spun on the Born in the U.S.A. tour, noting the closure of his beloved Howard Johnson’s and a reunion with the waitress at Bob’s Big Boy who reminds him her restaurant is still “open all night.” Good fun.
The first set wraps with four key tracks from the new albums, wrapped around a deeply personal “My Hometown,” introduced with an earnest story about parenting and dedicated from one relatively new dad to all the “moms and pops.” A dynamic performance of “Living Proof” again shows the song to be Bruce’s most powerful from the era. “Leap of Faith” is endearing and infectious thanks in large part to the singers, while the Sam and Dave-style vocal duet with Bobby King on “Man’s Job” raises it from catchy ditty to heartfelt homage. A feature-length “Roll of the Dice” wraps a spirited and undeniably entertaining first act.
After the break, the rarely performed “All or Nothin’ at All” proves a fine set opener and gets the energy of the show right back on track. It’s the one song from Human Touch that sounds like it could be a Born in the U.S.A. outtake, a spiritual cousin to the likes of “I’m Goin’ Down.” The crowd enjoys it too, singing along in full voice when tasked to do so. Having been played in concert fewer than a dozen times, its inclusion here is a welcome opportunity for fresh appreciation.
What follows is another rarity and one of the highlights of the tour, “Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won’t Do),” inexplicably performed only this night (and at a private tour warm-up in June, suggesting it may have been considered for a regular feature in the set at that point). The gospel tune has been covered by everyone from Wilson Pickett to Creedence Clearwater Revival, but Springsteen’s version casts him as a humorous preacher questioning the commitment of men in relationships, while King, Carolyn Dennis, Angel Rogers and the rest of the background vocalists sing like they’re wearing choir robes. The result is amusing, cleverly arranged, and another lost gem rediscovered by the download series.
On the whole, the 7/25/92 performance has aged well, but there are a couple of exceptions. “Real Man” is another rarity, performed on 7/25 for the very last time in concert. Bruce himself admits, “This next song I almost threw off the album because I thought it was too corny, but what can say? It’s how I feel.” Corny we accept, especially from a man in love. More difficult to ignore is the synthesizer that could not sound more dated, though in the end, “Real Man” is interesting if only for the sheer novelty factor of it in the overall canon.
Three recent classics return us to regularly scheduled programming: a spot-on “Cover Me” with fine fretwork from Fontayne, and two Patti Scialfa features, “Brilliant Disguise” and “Tougher Than the Rest,” the latter derailed slightly by those pesky period synths, though Bruce sings all three superbly.
The show’s denouement comes with the pairing of “Souls of the Departed” into “Born in the U.S.A.” “Souls” begins in desert darkness, with news reports of bombs over Baghdad riding desolate guitar strains a la U2’s “Bullet the Blue Sky.” It is a sharp-edged, commanding performance that moves through flourishes of “The Star-Spangled Banner” a la Hendrix into “Born in the U.S.A.” to slam home the point Bruce made so clearly on last month’s release: “War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.”
The show wraps with a run of crowd pleasers–”Light of Day,” “Glory Days,” “Working on the Highway,” “Bobby Jean,” “Hungry Heart”–and the tour’s gorgeous, stripped-down “Thunder Road,” before “Born to Run” and Bruce’s best-ever coda,“My Beautiful Reward,” send us out on a high, hopeful note.
Because of the new band, 1992-93 always carries an asterisk in Bruce’s live history, like a strike-shortened baseball season. But as was the case in the major leagues, they still played the games and the games still counted, especially to Springsteen himself. One can feel his commitment in this performance, joyfully trying to win over the Jersey crowd and largely succeeding.
By Erik Flannigan via Nugs.net. |
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