2007-11-05 Palace Of Auburn Hills (The), Auburn Hills, MI

Scheduled: 19:30 Local Start Time ??:?? / End Time ??:??

Info & Setlist | Venue

Live premiere of "I'll Work For Your Love" and tour premieres of "Jackson Cage" and "Ramrod", the latter is played by sign request.

Intro to “Radio Nowhere”
“Detroit! (crowd cheers) is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers) is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers)…”

Intro to “Magic”
“Good evening, Detroit (crowd cheers) thank you, thank you for coming out tonight (crowd cheers) this is a song, uh, this is the title track from our smash album (chuckles)…ooh…over the past six years it´s always been…you´ve had to sit back and watch the truth get spun into a lie and the lies get spun into the truth and the wheel of history spin round and round and round…so, uh…this isn´t really about magic, I tell the folks each night, it´s about tricks…”

Intro to “Livin´ in the Future”
“Good evening, Detroit! (crowd cheers) we´re so glad to be here in your wonderful city tonight…that´s right…this is a song called ´Livin´ In The Future´….but it´s about what´s happening now …how along with all the things that we love about America and the place we call “home”….over the past six years we´ve had to add to the American picture things like rendition and illegal wiretapping and the rolling-back of civil liberties….no Habeas Corpus, the right to defend yourself against charges brought against you in court… we´ve seen one of our most culturally important American cities washed away…and because of the color of your skin or your circumstances or your religion, you may think that these things have a little effect on your life but all of these things are an attack on our Constitution, which means they´re an attack on our selves as Americans (crowd cheers) this is a song about sleeping through things that shouldn´t have happened here that have happened here…so the E Street Band is here tonight ´cause we´re gonna do something about it! (crowd cheers) we´re gonna sing about it!…we´re musicians (chuckles) that´s a start….and the rest is, is up to us – Max!…”

Intro to “The Promised Land”
“Let´s bring it back home…”

Intro to “I´ll Work for Your Love”
“Thank you! (crowd cheers) alright, a debut for Detroit, go ahead… (the piano intro starts)…do we have any lovers out there? (crowd cheers) do we have any lovers out there? (crowd cheers) ah, that´s right…but it don´t come free…you gotta work for it…”

Intro to “Girls in Their Summer Clothes”
“Thank you, Detroit! (crowd cheers) alright, thank you (crowd cheers) thanks for coming out (crowd cheers) oh yeah!…alright, we got some friends of ours in the hall from Detroit, Michigan, we´ve the Cleaners, here in Detroit times are hard…the Cleaners Foodbank is here tonight, they accept donations, every dollar you donate allows them to provide three meals to a struggling… struggling neighbour, on your way out, please check out the Cleaners, they´re good folks on the frontline doing God´s work here in Detroit (crowd cheers) oh yeah…this is for all the Michigan girls (crowd cheers) and one girl from New Jersey…(chuckles) let´s hear it, girls (crowd cheers) that´s a crazy sound (chuckles)…”

Intro to “Ramrod”
“Alright, what do you got there?…there was a sign – where did it go?…this kid´s been rocking all night long (crowd cheers) that kid´s six, they tend to be asleep by now…so this is for Noah (crowd cheers)…alright, brother man…unplayed in five years…(?)…Steve!…
(…) Hey, Stevie!…is it closing time? (crowd: “No”)(Steve: “I don´t know, maybe) is it pizza time? (crowd: “No”)(Steve: “Might be”) (crowd cheers)(Steve: “Not yet”) then, Stevie, all I wanna know is …what time…is it?… (crowd cheers)(Steve: “It´s Boss-time!”)…”
^{[*A six-year-old named Noah had a sign saying “Ramrod Please.”]}

Middle “American Land”
“Patti Scialfa (crowd cheers) Little Steven (crowd cheers) Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) Sister Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) the Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) Dan Federici (crowd cheers) Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers) Detroit! (crowd cheers) you´ve just witnessed the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, earth-shocking, hard-rocking, booty-shaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary (crowd: “E Street Band”)…”

^{Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi.}

GWN	That kid wasn't in the first row. I WAS! :) Yup, my wristband number got pulled in the lottery and I got to spend the entire show elbows on the stage directly in front of the mic. I couldn't believe my luck and it is a show I will never forget.
Jimbo	Bruce rocked the motor city but not long enough…. played 2 hours must have been tired from Cleveland. The next stop better be ready to rock as Bruce will have had a chance to rest.
Joe	The most amazing experience of my life. My first Bruce show and I can't imagine it being any better. I met some incredible people who came from all over the world to see Bruce and it was amazing. I was about three feet from the stage and actually got to touch Bruce when he came to our side during She's the One. It was incredible and I'm still riding this high. I'm speechless.
John Hocking	Although my 51st show, the experience was so sublime I felt like I was seeing him for the first time. The quantity, i.e., length, of a show is a poor measure of it's quality. From the moment the lights went down this show was so very very intense. From 2/3s back in the pit, the sound was perfect. LOUD and Clear. Bruce was on fire. I've never seen harder rock n' roll by anyone, ever, not the Rolling Stones, The Who, Neil Young, REM, John Fogerty, the Clash, Tom Petty, the Kinks, Aerosmith, Kiss, Elton John, ZZ Top, a dozen other world class rockers, or Bruce Springsteen rock with more sustained intensity. The Magic songs sound much richer (and louder) live, and fit seamlessly with the hits, and some greats that were probably unknown to casual fans. The final four, before the encore trace what has happened to our nation between 9/11 and now. 1) The Rising is about disaster and hope; 2) The Last to Die is an unsubtle critique of the folly of the war in Iraq, which to justify, Bush/Chaney turned a lie into the truth, and the truth into a lie - they cut us in half while we were smiling ear to ear; 3) Long Walk Home, IMO, the strongest song on Magic and Bruce's best rocker since Land of Hope and Dreams, is about the tragic changes enacted in our name by the people who have stolen two elections and hijacked our government, changes that have made us a lessor people. Torture, locking people up for any reason whatsoever, for no reason - how would we know, the government won't even tell those in prison what crimes they are alledged to have committed. Are they guilty of anything? Who knows because the evidence, if any, is secret. Pure McCathyism at its worst. An unknown number of prisoners, but at least 32, have died while in our custody. Waterboarding deaths? Deaths from tazers used on any of a males eleven appendises, sleep depravation, isolation in hypothermia temperatures in their underwear for 24 or 48 hours, with periodic hose downs, ear splitting music 24 hours a day one two three days? Who knows, for "national security" reasons the Bush/Chaney cabal won't even reveal the location of the secret prisons where those rounded up in 2003, and hundreds, perhaps thousands more, have been tortured - oh, duh, if they told us, they wouldn't be secret. Four thousand dead American Soldiers - which one will be the last to die? Will it the 5,000th? Seven, ten? - another 30,000 with serious injuries such as the loss of one or more limbs, eye sight, or permanent mental impairment. We don't count 'em but there are at least 100,000 innocent dead Iraqis, and we have caused another 2 to 3 million already impoverished Iraqis to now also be homeless; The moral high ground Bruce rights of in The Rising, is long gone on Long Walk Home. The cost in dollars of the war in Iraq? Before the invasion a lie was made to appear to be the truth: "It won't cost a penny because it will all be paid for with Iraqi oil". Now the truth is made a lie: There is no line item for the war in the federal government budget. Maybe it is free. Or maybe it's: 1) buried in the military budget - 460 billion a year, more than the rest of the world combined, and going up about 12-15% annually, and: 2) 50, or so, billion every six months is "supplemental". Total cost: Bush says 1.1 Trillion, with a T. Other estimates: 1.8 trillion. Oh yeah, for sure. Paid for with Iraqi oil. Estimates are that between 15 and 25% of that money is waste. Accidental over-payments; outright fraud such as that Haliburton is skilled at committing, incompetence, complexities of changing needs as the military objectives change, typical cost overruns, a billion tossed to Blackwater to pay mercenary, cowboy thugs $1,250 a day, and they are paid every day, seven days a week, whether they leave the green zone or not. They make more in a month than a typical American soldier makes in an entire 15 month tour. Seems fair. Those Blackwater boys deserve $456,000 for a year in Iraq, courtesy of American taxpayers. And two weeks ago Bush vetoed a 10 billion dollar bill to provide preventative health care to our nations poorest children (less than 1/2 of 1% of the cost of the war in Iraq). Three rounds of tax cuts for the wealthy, the top 1% now have nearly 40% of America's wealth, a larger percent than at anytime in 78 years - 1929 - before the stock market crash and the Great Depression; the number of poor and the number without health care have increased, while the middle class has lost economic ground. Cronyism, the decimation of a great American city, environmental policies based on ideology and corporate greed rather than science; Sure sounds like a President a Christian President, especially one who wears his religion on his chest because I'm sure Jesus would have handled things the same way. What we'll do and what we won't has changed, and tragically for the worse. How long to return to the pre-Bush/Chaney America? Some things can never be returned - a dead or blinded American soldier or Iraqi child can never be recovered? Our fundamental morality, our ideals of human rights and human dignity? It's going to take many years, perhaps a generation, to get those things back. It's a long long ways. Hey pretty darling it's gonna be a long walk home, a long walk home. 4) Badlands: but ultimately we'll spit in the face of even these worst of times and regain the shredded Constitution, we'll eventually look back at the torture that is banned by the suspended Constitution, banned by the Geneva convention, torture that puts us on a par with Nazi Germany WWII Japan, most of the middle eastern countries, friend and foe, many African totalitarian regimes, and ironically, Suddam Hussain - ultimately this barbarism will be only a nightmare our children will have to explain to there's. Together these four brilliant songs add up to a whole that is more than the sum of the parts. In these four, a genius songwriter/performer takes us from 9/11 to the present. What a bittersweet, melancholy, sad, poignant, and most of all, wonderful two hours I experienced on this magnificent night. Thank God for Bruce Springsteen.
Torrey	I am a long time fan, but this was my first chance to see the Boss. Unquestionably the best concert I have ever seen! Incredible show, crowd was very into it! He pulled Jackson Cage out of the hat, and did Ramrod on request from a young kid in the first row! Very heavy on new material, but it was very very good. Gypsy Biker was awesome! I can't remember everything he played but it was all good! - TN in Farmington Hills!

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