2006-11-18 Point Theatre (The), Dublin, Ireland

Scheduled: 20:00 Local Start Time ??:?? / End Time ??:??

Info & Setlist | Venue

Live premiere of "Shenandoah" and a tour first for "Highway Patrolman", both in their only tour appearances. The show is also the first time "Highway Patrolman" has ever been played in Ireland. Final tour appearances for "Johnny 99", "Bobby Jean", and "You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)". Horn section is Baron-Manion-Ramm-Gayton.

Intro to “Eyes On The Prize”
´´Yes….a great American Civil Rights´ song in the ´60s….´´

Intro to “Bobby Jean”
´´Thank you, ladies and gentlemen….how are we in Dublin tonight? (crowd cheers) alright, let me see….here we go….this is for my old friends out there, there´s a lot of folks been following us around the whole tour….how are you living, that´s what I wanna know….does your family miss you?….your co-workers wonder where you went….you know, or something, they must….alright….alright, this is for you then, here we go….´´

Intro to “Highway Patrolman”
´´Marty Rifkin on the steel guitar!….(?)….out of California, played on the Devils&Dust-record and The Ghost of Tom Joad-record…..ooh yeah….alright, here´s one we haven´t played yet this tour….for you, for Dublin, right here….´´

Intro to “Shenandoah”
´´(crowd sings one last chorus of ´Pay Me My Money Down´) Ok!….I just about had it with that (chuckles)….alright, this is, uh…..something we haven´t played on the tour yet (?)….uh, let me see….gonna do this for Elisabeth….Elisabeth (?) yeah….wishing her a quick recovery, quick as possible, let her know that we´re thinking about her, we send our prayers out to her, this is for Claire, Claire out there tonight somewhere? there she is, alright, this is for you and your mama….(starts playing guitar)….wild beasts have invaded the stage….´´

Intro to “When The Saints Go Marching In”
´´Thank you, I wanna thank everyone for coming out to the show tonight….thank you very much….oh….I wanna thank all you folks, I know some of you´ve been following us around and we appreciate, appreciate that and, uh, this was, uh, I was telling the folks last night, this is where we started off our….our tour here in….in Dublin and uh….I´m glad we got a chance to come back and I wanna thank all you guys for supporting our, this music and this band…. I wanna thank all these great musicians that I´ve been graced to have here on this stage (crowd cheers) this has been a lovely experience for me and, uh…..this is the chance to thank everybody who helped us put on the show, all the guys in our crew and, and, and who make this possible every night of course and uh (crowd applauds) the whole thing sort of, sort of happened by accident but, uh, ended up being a very sort of happy and glorious accident for me and, uh, so this song sort of explains our, what our journey up here has been about and I wanna thank you guys for taking it with us and we´ll be doing this again in the future and uh ….and, uh, God bless to you and safe travels….´´

Intro to “This Little Light Of Mine”
´´We want you all to, please, rise from your seats now and join us….we wanna send you home with a little love in your life and a little light in your soul, are we ready now? help us out….´´

^{Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi.}

Gerry Fleming

He just keep's on doing it, what can i say. I was at the first night of the European tour way back in May, it was one of the best Bruce shows i had seen. Last night was just as good but for different reasons his choice of new songs Bobby Jean, Highway Patrolman, Shenandoah was a surprise, of the 3 Highway was by far the best. First time i heard it with a full backing band.Bobby was all right, Shenandoah while he sang a good version of it the tempo of the song did not fit in with the others.The crowd were in very high spirits from the very start and that made for a great night. American Land near the end was a very Irish Style song to finish the night off with. 21 songs 2 half hours what more can i say he's still the Boss.

Graeme Johannessen

I had to take a back seat (literally) this time, the 2 shows I saw in Oslo were standing, but my girlfriend wanted to sit this time, so we did. Always nice to see the show from a new angle. The incredible interplay between the band members was revealed in all its glory. It's been a feature on the autumn leg of this tour that the show just seems to blast by, I've been to my share of Bruce concerts over the years and I honestly can't remember any shows being as tight or as lacking in 'down' moments, 2 ' hours have never gone by so quickly. The crowd were VERY enthusiastic; after the subdued nature of the Norwegian crowds it was a real treat to get to see a crowd really enjoying itself. There was only one downer and that was the ridiculous seating ushers who wouldn't let anyone stand. They hunted us down mercilessly with flashlights and at one (absolutely insane) point, during Jacobs ladder ' 'get your ass off your Irish seat' moment in the show if ever there was one, the guy behind me was accosted by no less than 3 marshals telling him to stop ruining the show for those sitting behind. Quite how they thought that this behavior was enhancing the show for the rest of us is anyone's guess. Anyway, the show was a blinder. The man himself sabotaged the marshals efforts at the beginning of 'Pay me my money down' with the usual 'The time has come for the separation of the Irish seat from the Irish ass!' When everyone stood at the same time there really wasn't much the marshals could do. The absolute highlight of the evening was, for me, hearing Bobby Jean, a song I last heard live in Milan at the San siro on the Rising tour. It never fails to make me cry, and the tears were flowing freely here. I was blown away by how good the River sounded, and by the incredible finale of Light of mine/American land. In the end this show did what all good Bruce shows do: Took all my emotions and put them in a blender until I had nothing left to give. I was drained for a good 24 hours afterwards. It tore through me and left me wondering how on earth it's possible to enjoy any other artist live.

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