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Scheduled: 19:30 Local Start Time ??:?? / End Time ??:??Bruce and the band shoot a video for the song "American Skin (41 Shots)" during the pre-show rehearsal. According to sources, the shoot was directed by Jonathan Demme. "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" includes "It's All Right", "Take Me To The River", and "My Girl". Set includes the tour's final performances of "For You" (in its first performance of 2000), "Downbound Train", "She's The One", "Racing In The Street", and the second and final "Night" of the tour. "Born In The U.S.A." is acoustic. "Light Of Day" includes "C.C. Rider", "Jenny Jenny", and "I've Been Everywhere", as well as a snippet of "Pipeline" in the introduction.
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Middle of "Tenth Avenue Freeze Out"
´´(sings ´Take Me to the River’) That´s right….that´s where I wanna go….that´s where I wanna go tonight …I wanna go to the riverside….I wanna find that river tonight, that river of life….and that river of love….I wanna find that river of faith …. and of oneness…..and that river of hope….I wanna find that river of transformation …..where you can go and you can change yourself…if you want to….and I wanna find that river of resurrection where everybody gets a second chance…..I wanna find that river of understanding….and I wanna find that river of sexual healing….and companionship….I wanna find that river of joy….and that river of happiness (?) ….but you just don´t stumble on that river, you don´t find it stumbling around in the night….you don´t come upon it by accident if enough time goes by ….you´ve got to search for that river….you´ve got to seek it out and you´ve got to work to get there and you´ve got to believe that it exists….well, that´s where I wanna go tonight and I want you to go with me…..because I need to go with you ….that´s why we´re here and because I can’t get there by myself….you can´t get there by yourself no matter how hard you try….that´s why tonight I wanna throw, I wanna throw a rock and roll baptism….a rock and roll exorcism…..a rock and roll bar mitzvah….I wanna do it all tonight….and I wanna find those waters and set myself free (?)….but one evening, one evening I stood as a young man before a dark grove of trees and I was frightened to pass through those trees just like a little child is frightened….I couldn´t pass through those trees even though, even though I knew that on the other side the river of life was waiting….the river of a meaningful life, there were no fucking cellphones and pizza for everybody !….still I stood there paralyzed….then a gypsy woman called me forward and she said ´What you need to get there, Son, is you need some help….what´s your line ?´, I told her my line, she said ´What you need is a band….oh, but not just any band´….that´s why I´m proud to introduce tonight on the piano, Secretary of intelligence, Professor Roy Bittan…..(?)…..I wanna introduce the Minister of faith and friendship, keeper of all that is righteous on E Street and star of the ´Sopranos´-television show….Little Steven Van Zandt on the guitar….with me, Brother, at the riverside….the foundation of the E Street nation, Southern man, Mr.Garry W.Tallent….I wanna introduce the Minister of the mighty beat, the man that brings the power night after night, star of Late Night Television, the Mighty, Mighty, Mighty, Mighty Max Weinberg…..the Secretary of heart and spirit, Godfather of the guitar, the great Nils Lofgren…..on the organ and accordion, the Minister of mystery, Brother Dan Federici….from Flemington, New Jersey … (?) ….and now last but not least (?)(sings a bit of ´My Girl´) the First Lady of love, on guitar and vocals, Miss Patti Scialfa….and my own personal savior…. and now last but not least …. the mightiest man in all the damn land, Minister of soul, the Secretary of brotherhood….do I have to say his name ?….do I have to say his name ? ….say who ?…say who ?….say who ? …. say who ? ….say who ?…. say who ? ….say who ?….say who ?….say who ?….say who ? …..”
Intro to "Born in the U.S.A"
´´(?) the song we started tonight with is a song called ´Another Thin Line´ that was written by myself and Joe Grushecky (?) and I want to, uh….pay attention to some folks that are with us in the hall tonight, we´ve got some folks from the Community Food Resource Center…. and they´ll be out there in the lobby tonight on your way out so….the Community Food Resource Center is dedicated to helping struggling New Yorkers….(?) maintaining access to nutritious food….(?) support decent housing, they were founded in 1980 to fight hunger in New York City….they´ve grown into one of the city´s leading advocates (?) government policies and practises and to defend poor and struggling New Yorkers, the Community Food Resource Center, please check them out in the lobby tonight, they deserve your time and your support….(?)….”
Middle of "Light of Day"
´´New York City !….New York City !…but everywhere I´ve gone, I´ve seen people lost in confusion….I´ve seen people lost in the wilderness of the concrete jungle …. I´ve seen people lost in loneliness in search of John Ryker on the subway….I´ve seen people lost in envy over the Jersey Devils winning the Stanley Cup….I´ve seen people lost….at the Statue of Liberty which actually is in New Jersey….I´ve seen people lost in the New York Giants memorabilia, who actually play in New Jersey ….wo !….ought to call ´em the Jersey Giants, baby….I´ve seen people lost singing the theme song ´New York, New York´ which, which happened to be sung by a man from New Jersey….lost in bitterness….but that´s alright ´cause tonight I´m here on an ambassadorial mission, I´ve come from across the river, if you´ve been downhearted, disspirited, disgusted, dispossessed, downsized, stigmatized, analyzed, retropsychedelized, I´m here tonight….I´m here tonight….I´m here tonight ….I´m here tonight….I´m here tonight…..I´m here tonight….I´m here tonight….I´m here tonight….I´m here tonight to re-educate you, to resuscitate you, to regenerate you, to reconfiscate you, to recombobulate you, to reindoctrinate you, to re, resexualate you….to reliberate you with the power and the glory, with the power and the promise, with the majesty, with the mystery…. with the ministry of rock and roll….with the ministry of rock and roll !….but unlike my competitors, I shall not, I will not, I cannot promise you life everlasting….but I can promise you life…..right now !….and all you gotta do is raise your hand and say ´I´….”‘
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FROM BROOKLINE TO BROOKLYNMemories of Summer 2000 |
Greetings Facebonkers. Today is a very special anniversary for me and the many friends I was with 20 years ago tonight at Madison Square Garden in New York City. It was the final night of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's 10-show run at the Garden, the last date of their 15-month Reunion Tour, and for me and Dave, the culmination of the mother of all trips of a lifetime in Boston and Manhattan. July 1, 2000 was a very emotional night, for the band and for us. The next day, we went home to resume normal life until we could afford to do it all again. Those two weeks in New York City were a dizzying blur of meetings and get-togethers with friends old and new in a variety of restaurants, bars, hotels, diners and fast food joints, which all led up to that final evening at the Garden.
Dave and I flew into Boston on June 17, checked into the Beacon Plaza in Brookline and spent two days on a walking tour of the city with our friend David, a local resident. While there, we saw JFK's birthplace and museum, drank in Cheers, saw the Holocaust Memorial, ate seafood on the waterfront and went across the Charles river to Cambridge, where we found the old Harvard Square Theatre, site of the 1974 Bruce Springsteen gig that inspired Jon Landau's famous "rock and roll future" quote. We also saw the old Boston Music Hall, where Bruce had a legendary four-night stand in 1977. It was a great introduction to a new city for us. We wished we could have stayed longer but the sights and sounds of the Big Apple were calling.
On June 20, we caught the train down the coast to New York's Penn Station, a five hour journey past idyllic bays and tranquil towns into the heart of Manhattan. Having checked into the Pennsylvania Hotel opposite the Garden, we came straight out and took the subway to Fulton Street and the South Street Seaport, to see Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes playing on the early and late sailings of the Blues Cruise. It was cramped on board and we had to lean on Jeff Kazee's piano as we circled around Manhattan harbour, first in daylight, then in darkness. The boat made regular twists and turns, and band members often had to grab hold of the wooden slats above them to maintain their balance. Joey Stann took us backstage to save us going ashore between sets. I took a lot of pictures with the new camera I'd just bought for the trip and the results were great.
Before and after the Jukes gigs, we had a pint or two of Boddingtons in the nearby North Star pub, where we met wild and wacky barman Stuffy Shmitt. The three of us hit it off immediately. We returned to the bar several times during our trip, bringing friends along and often having ice cubes thrown at us. Stuffy said that, like every other barman in the city, he was really a musician. He'd even made a CD called "Nothing Is Real". We ended up taking copies home. We really didn't expect much, but discovered that it was a gem. He's made a few others since and we've got them all. When we came back to New York in 2005, we finally saw him play at Southpaw in Brooklyn.
After a few days in town, we met up with our friend Keith and shared a room at the Hotel Walcott on West 31st (where we had a choice of very noisy air conditioning or an open window with traffic noise from the street below) and then the more upmarket Marriott World Trade Center. Fulton Street, Pier 17 at the Seaport (with its spectacular view of the Brooklyn Bridge) and the plaza between the twin towers were our special places on that trip and evoke powerful memories as I write this. We often came back after a few drinks, laid on our backs on benches and stared at the towers disappearing up into the night sky. 15 months later, both towers and the Marriott hotel were destroyed on 9/11.
Our primary reason for being in the city was to see Bruce's last six shows at the Garden, so we settled into a routine of sightseeing by day, seeing Bruce on alternate nights and enjoying some unforgettable evenings with friends on his days off, in pubs like the Old Town Bar on East 18th, the Tavern On Jane on 8th and Jane and McSorleys on East 7th, where we took Phil Jump and the Badlands group one night, in exchange for free beer all evening, as you do. As the days passed, more friends from the UK arrived. Dan and Ruth, Linda and Helen, John and Rob, Harry and Gill and many others.
When not eating and drinking, which wasn't often, we could be found checking out, in no particular order of preference, Central Park, the Strawberry Fields John Lennon memorial, the Dakota Building, most of Greenwich Village, the Bottom Line, Washington Square Park, Little Italy and Chinatown, the Empire Diner, Chelsea Hotel and Minetta Street, where the front cover shot of the second Asbury Jukes album, "This Time It's For Real" was taken. In Little Italy, we found that Umberto's Clam House had moved. That was the place where mobster Joe Gallo was shot in 1972, an incident that Bob Dylan wrote about in his song "Joey" and that Martin Scorsese recently re-enacted in "The Irishman". Umberto's is also where the Jukes are pictured sitting outside on the back cover of their "Hearts Of Stone" album. We also found the time to take the round-Manhattan boat cruise (which Keith slept through), visit the Statue of Liberty, take the fast elevator to the rooftop observation deck of the south tower, ride the Staten Island Ferry to our new friend Ray's restaurant and, in my case at least, walk over the Brooklyn Bridge and back in 95-degree heat (it had to be done) while the others went to a baseball game at Shea Stadium. I'd just got back, had a shower and was anticipating a siesta when Dave called to say they were waiting for me at McSorley's and it would be rude not to go.
As if seeing six Bruce gigs and two Southside Johnny shows wasn't enough, we also saw La Bamba's Big Band at The Cutting Room (straightj after one of Bruce's gigs) went to a taping of the Conan O'Brien show at NBC Studios so we could see the Max Weinberg Seven in action, caught a free set by Shawn Colvin in Battery Park and went along to Little Steven's personal appearance at Tower Records. I really don't know how we did all that and managed to sleep as well. We probably took "the city that never sleeps" literally. We were younger then, we're 20 years older than that now.
And if all that wasn't too much fun, we also got to see Bruce Springsteen play six concerts, with a wide range of material from various positions (which ranged from upstairs at the back to behind and beside the stage) in arguably the most famous arena in the world. We all have our favourites, but for me, the highlights and notable set list choices of the first five shows that we saw (gigs 5 to 9 in the sequence) were as follows:
June 22
A rare "Secret Garden"; one of my fave outtakes, "Don't Look Back"; "Youngstown" and "The Ghost Of Tom Joad" with Soozie Tyrell on violin and an unexpected encore of "Incident On 57th Street".
June 23
"Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?"; Human Touch" (a rare example of the E Street Band playing 1992 material); "Dead Man Walking"; "Sandy" and the combination of "Meeting Across The River" and "Jungleland", never more effective than when played in New York City.
June 26
"For You" and "Racing In The Street".
June 27
"Trapped", "Loose Ends", "Mary Queen Of Arkansas" and "Blinded By The Light".
June 29
"The Promise" (yes, THE PROMISE) and "Growin' Up".
Which brings me nicely back to that legendary final show on July 1, which started at 8.45, ended 20 minutes after midnight and included "The E Street Shuffle", "The Promise" (AGAIN), "Lost In The Flood" and "Blood Brothers" with its emotional new final verse. Tickets for this gig had been impossible or very expensive on the black market, but Dan managed to source ours from Clarence Clemons' office. Highlights from this concert were released on the "Live In New York City" album and DVD in 2001 and the entire show is now available from Nugs.net as part of Bruce's ongoing live archive series.
Afterwards, as we had two or three times before, we went down to Walkers bar on North Moore and Varick, to toast the end of the run into the small hours. Each time we'd gone there, there had been more of us and they'd opened another room to accommodate us all. This final night saw Walkers invaded by Springsteen fans from all corners of the globe. Speeches were made, drinks were drunk, friendships were forged or reinforced, contact details were taken and photos were snapped. It's very hard to describe the atmosphere that night. It was a wonderful few hours spent in the company of like-minded fans. We stayed until the bar closed and then lingered for another hour. Nobody wanted to go home.
We finally spilled out onto the sidewalk around 5am and took yet more group photos before heading off to our hotels and local residencies, wondering what we were going to do with our lives until the next tour. An off-duty limousine driver gave us a lift. Only in New York. It had been a long tour. Many of us had been there at the start in Barcelona in April 1999 and now we'd made it to the end. Dave and I started our trip as a duo, but ended up as part of a huge international community. It was a struggle to head for Newark airport on July 2 and take a plane back to reality, but you have to come home so you can go away again.
I'm dedicating this post to our American Blood Brothers, who helped enormously with spare tickets and showed us great warmth and hospitality over those wonderful two weeks. Any attempt to produce a comprehensive list of names from memory 20 years after the fact would be doomed to failure. Suffice to say that you know who you are and we love you all. Special mentions are due to Christy, Holly, Richard, Lori, Jon Pont, Chris Phillips and last but certainly not least Bernie, who Josh hilariously dubbed "the next president of Ticketmaster" at Walkers on our final night in Manhattan.
Saunders over and out.
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