2009-06-30 Stade De Suisse, Bern, Switzerland

Scheduled: 19:00 Local Start Time ??:?? / End Time ??:??

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Nils opens with "ds'Vogellisi" on accordion. Tour premieres of "Atlantic City" and "I Fought The Law". "American Land" includes a snippet of "Theme From Shaft" in the midsection. "Glory Days" includes the "Louie Louie" coda. "Hungry Heart", "I Fought The Law", "Downbound Train", "Because The Night", and "Rockin' All Over The World" are played by sign request. First ever performances in Switzerland of "No Surrender", "Outlaw Pete", "Working On A Dream", "I Fought The Law", "Waitin' On A Sunny Day", "Radio Nowhere", "Lonesome Day", "The Rising", "Hard Times (Come Again No More)", and "American Land". Patti Scialfa is not present.

Intro to “Outlaw Pete”
“Wie geht es euch? (crowd cheers) ich bin glücklich in der Schweiz zu sein (crowd cheers)…”

Middle of “Working on a Dream”
“Good evening, everybody! (crowd cheers) we’re so glad to be here in the beautiful city of Bern tonight (crowd cheers) the mighty E Street Band has come thousands and thousands of miles to fulfil our solemn vow to rock the house! (crowd cheers) but we didn’t come all this way tonight…we didn’t come all those miles just to rock the house…we came here tonight because we wanna build a house (crowd cheers) that’s right, we’re gonna build a house tonight right here (crowd cheers) we’re gonna take the fear that’s out there and we’re gonna build a house of love (crowd cheers) we’re gonna take the despair and the blues that’s out there and we’re gonna grab it all up and we’re gonna build a house of faith (crowd cheers) we’re gonna take doubt and we’re gonna build us a mighty house of hope…and we’re gonna take sadness and tonight we’re gonna build ourselves a house of joy and happiness (crowd cheers) that’s right, and we ain’t leaving till we do…and last but not least we’re gonna take that cooling off and we’re gonna build ourselves a house of sexual healing! (crowd cheers) that’s right, and we got all the tools we need right here on stage and in this crowd tonight…we’re gonna take the bad wood and we’re gonna use that and we use the good wood, we take the bad news that’s out there and we’re gonna take the good news that’s here tonight and we’re gonna build us a house out of music and out of spirit and out of noise and now the mighty E Street Band is here tonight and we’re gonna bring down the power of the music on you (crowd cheers) but Bern, we need you to bring the noise! (crowd cheers) sing it like you mean it…”

Intro to “I Fought the Law”
“I’m gonna test the band now…”

Intro to “Hard Times”
“Thank you for coming out and seeing us tonight…back home, back home very hard times, millions of people out of work, this is a song that was written in 1855 by…Francis Scott Key*, it’s called “Hard times come again no more”…”
[For some reason Bruce claims this night that “Hard Times” was written by Francis Scott Key, who wrote “Star Spangled Banner,” though Stephen Foster actually wrote “Hard Times.”]

Intro to “American Land”
“Thank you for coming out tonight! (crowd cheers)…
(…) Little Steven (crowd cheers) Curtis King (crowd cheers) Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) Sister Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) the unstoppable Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano (crowd cheers) Cindy Mizelle (crowd cheers) Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) and the biggest man you’ve ever seen: Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers) Bern! (crowd cheers) Bern! (crowd cheers) Bern! (crowd cheers) Bern! (crowd cheers) Bern! (crowd cheers) Bern! (crowd cheers) Bern! (crowd cheers) Bern! (crowd cheers) you’ve just seen the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, hard-rocking, earth-shocking, booty-shaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary (crowd: “E Street Band”)(crowd cheers)…”

Middle of “Glory Days”
“Keep rocking that thing, Stevie…don’t stop now, baby…because there’s just one thing I gotta know…there’s just one thing I gotta know…Stevie, I wanna know what time it is…(Steve: “According to my Swiss watch, it’s Boss-time!”)…”

End of “Dancing in the Dark”
“(?)…I’m just a prisoner…of rock’n’roll! (crowd cheers)…”

Intro to “Rockin’ All Over the World”
“I don’t think you can take any more (crowd cheers) can you take one more? (crowd cheers) can you take one more? (crowd cheers) give me a little noise, boys…that’s right…(?)…”
[The song was requested via a large sign saying "Hey Marissa, go see if Bruce is still Rockin' All Over the World."]

^{Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi.}

Maureen Reutter

The show was absolutely great. I was very surprised that the Swiss were not dancing from the beginning of the show. It took 2 hours for them all to get up and into the electric show. He was awesome.

Tobias

My first concert on this tour and as expected Bruce delivered. So did the band. First off, Bruce looks awesome and I think most of the band do too. Don't know how he does it but I sure hope I will be anywhere near his physical constitution when I am 59. Clarence is also amazing. Approaching 70, his playing is still extraordinary and his charisma as always unsurpassed. The venue was very nice and the front field tickets paid off as my girl and I had an excellent view on the stage and the giant screens. Sound was good. The audience was predominantely Swiss. That, of course, does not help the atmosphere … Don't know what it is with these Swiss people. But unless they are hard core fans they just cannot let loose. No singing or cheering before the concert (even though Bruce was 30 minutes late) and the sing along parts have surely been performed better by other audiences. During Thunder Road it was so bad that it actually cracked Bruce up. Song selection was very good despite the fact that there were no real surprises. What surprised me was that there were many people who apparently came to hear the new music and must have joined the fan community during the last 2-3 albums. Saw many people just not responding to classics such the pre-BITUSA stuff. Promised Land, Born to run, Johnny 99 did not get any reaction from people around me. First time I had that at a Bruce concert …. took a lot of power from the Seeds/Johnny/Atlantic trio. My favorite memory: Bruce sharing vocals on "Sunny Day" with a little kid in front row. The kid got to sing 2 or 3 lines and got a lot of cheers from the crowd. Bruce joked "I'll hire you and fire Steve". Funny and touching at the same time. Will see him in Frankfurt on Friday and hope that the German crowd will be a better reward for the Boss. I don't know how he does it. The man is 59! My first concert on this tour and I think it was a very good performance. Bruce seemed to be fighting a cold but was in a very good mood.

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