2009-10-02 Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ

Scheduled: 19:30 Local Start Time 20:24 / End Time 23:14

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Darkness On The Edge Of Town is the album of choice tonight. The tour's only "Jailhouse Rock" and "Long Walk Home" are tour premieres. Jay Weinberg drums on "Born To Run". Curt Ramm plays trumpet on "Wrecking Ball", "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out", and "American Land", the last of which also features guest appearances from Sessions Band members Ed Manion on saxophone, Art Baron on pennywhistle, and Larry Eagle on washboard and a snippet of "Theme From Shaft" in the midsection. Final performance of the tour for Be True". "I'm Goin' Down", "Be True", "Jailhouse Rock", "Cadillac Ranch", and "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" are played by sign request. "Johnny 99" and "Lonesome Day" are each dropped for the first time on the tour. Patti Scialfa is not present.

Art Baron (Guest)
Larry Eagle (Guest)
Ed Manion (Guest)
Curt Ramm (Guest)
Jay Weinberg (Guest)

Intro to “Wrecking Ball”
“Good evening, New Jersey (crowd cheers) alright, you come in to help us tear this old girl down (crowd cheers) this is something I wrote for tonight…”

Intro to “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”
“(Crowd chants) I can’t hear you! (crowd chants) let ‘em hear you in New York City (crowd chants) I can’t hear you (crowd chants) bring it up, bring it up, bring it up, bring it up (crowd chants)…”

Middle of “Working on a Dream”
“Good evening, New Jersey (crowd cheers) we’re so glad to be here at Giants Stadium tonight (crowd cheers) we’re so glad to be back home (crowd cheers) now the E Street Band has been touring and touring and touring and practising and practising and practising just for tonight (crowd cheers) and we are here tonight to uphold our solemn vow to rock the house! (crowd cheers) but ladies and gentlemen, we’re not here tonight just to rock the house, we’re here tonight to build a house…out of love and out of faith and out of joy and out of Jersey soul and out of spirit and out of noise…now the mighty E Street Band is gonna bring down the power of the music on you…but, New Jersey, we need you to bring the noise (crowd cheers) now sing it like you mean it…”

Intro to “Badlands”
“Thank you and good evening (crowd cheers) alright…when we knew we were coming to, uh, close…Giants Stadium, we tried to think of something special we could do (crowd cheers) so, uh…last night we played “Born to Run” start to finish (crowd cheers) tomorrow night “Born in the U.S.A” start to finish but tonight this is, uh…this was a big, big, important record for us (crowd cheers) it was a record we made, we’d kind of had one, one hit and then we got three years off for a lot of trouble and hard times and this was a record we made when we, when we came back, it was a really important record, it’s probably made up the body of our set for most of the past thirty years (crowd cheers) this is “Darkness on the Edge of Town” (crowd cheers)…”

Intro to “Waitin' on a Sunny Day”
“These are the guys that made the record (crowd cheers) and Phantom Dan Federici (crowd cheers) thank you!…now get your asses back on those instruments and get back to work (chuckles) give me a guitar…come on, kid…
(…) Let me hear you now…I’m waitin’ (crowd sings the chorus) that’s terrible…once more (crowd sings the chorus)…one more (a kid sings the chorus) once more (the kid sings the chorus a second time)(crowd cheers)…
(…) That’s good singing…get your guitar, Steve…Stevie…Stevie!… play it, Steve (the intro to “Raise Your Hand” starts)…”

Intro to “Jailhouse Rock”
“Warden threw a party in the county jail…we do try to play one thing we’ve never played before, alright, somebody…threw this up on this lovely egg carton…let’s see how it’s gonna go…can it be done?…(sings)…give me some slap…alright, you ready, band?…”

Intro to “Cadillac Ranch”
“Did I see a sign?…no…no…you the man right there…”

Intro to “American Land”
“We wanna thank everybody for coming out to the show tonight (crowd cheers) thank you, Jersey (crowd cheers)…
(…) Little Steven (crowd cheers) Curt!…Larry! (crowd cheers) Curtis King (crowd cheers) Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) Eddie Manion (crowd cheers) Garry Tallent (crowd cheers) the Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano (crowd cheers) Art Baron (crowd cheers) Cindy Mizelle (crowd cheers) one of the greatest guitarists in the world, Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) poet, saxophonist, sexophonist…Autor!…the biggest man on the New Jersey Turnpike: Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers)…Jersey! (crowd cheers) Jersey! (crowd cheers) Jersey! (crowd cheers) Jersey! (crowd cheers) Jersey! (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” and fireworks go off)(crowd cheers)…”

Intro to “Rosalita”
“We got one more for you (crowd cheers)…gonna send this one out to Patti!…Stevie, help me out…”

^{Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi.}

Ralph

What a night, but when you have the chance to hear "Darkness" straight through, it should not be missed. Bruce came out rockin' and started with "Wrecking Ball" although no words were on the screen for us to singalong. He just kep going at a feverish pace with the smiling and cajoling that made us all believe that this would be a special night. DARKNESS rose over Giants Stadium and it was pure magic. From the first few notes, every song was nailed perfectly and we all wondered how life could be in any better in Bruce-land. For me, the anticipation of knowing that I would hear "Somewhere in the Night" and "Racing in the Street" provided an inner peace of sorts. "Racing" was never better as The Professor kept taking us higher and higher with his beautiful and articulate piano solo mid-song. Even Bruce was smiling knowing that Roy was on another plateau in that moment. The night kept going with rarely played, but beloved songs like "Be True" and "Long Walk Home" - and a strong encore was imminent. Thank goodness that I found out after the show that my favorite live song "Kitty's Back" was replaced by a two-some of "Cadillac Ranch" and "Dancin'" - they were more crowd pleasers, although the "afficionados" will always long for Kitty (and, he did play it the next night!!) - so, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band is home. No drizzle of rain (although it looked like snow in the lights of Giants Stadium) could upset our Friday night dancefest. What a band, what a night! Forever friends…rap "

Tom Cantillon

In the summer that I was baptized, my father held me to his side… Darkness! Complete! Unbelievable! Probably my favorite show of the 5 night stand, with night #4 a very close 2nd. This was also a highlight of the over 150 shows I've seen over the years. An amazing performance. A mini concert all its own. Adam Raised a Cain was chilling and powerfully played. Something in the Night was simply haunting and beautiful, in a heartbreaking way. "We tried to pick up the pieces and get away without getting hurt, but they caught us at the state line, and burned our cars in one last fight, and left us running burned and blind, chasing something in the night". The images conjured by that stanza haunt you long after the song is over…just amazing! The entire song plays out like a movie you'd have seen in the 70s, something real and gritty and not afraid to be a dark and somewhat bleak, because that's the real world, at times. The most beautifully played Racing in the Streets, which is sad also, in its own way, leaves one feeling a little more optimistic and Roy simply moved both the song and audience into another world. One of my all time favorites and least played songs. Blistering versions of Streets of Fire and Prove it just were out of control before closing with an intense Darkness. To have gotten the entire album played from start to finish was without a doubt, a highlight of just about any show I've seen. I see that for the remainder of the tour it looks like mostly Born to Run, minus the one night in Philly, but boy, does this one need to be played more often. A true classic with not a weak track in its collection. I know Born in the USA was his most popular, but damn, nothing is ever going to top Darkness or Born to Run and more fans should be treated to the entire Darkness album. A rocking Jailhouse Rock took everyone by surprise and was a great addition to an already fantastic show. Thunder Road and a rousing Long Walk Home also helped to keep the main set moving along without a lull. The encores started off promising with Cadillac Ranch, but went flat after that. Best encores were probably night 3 and 5. Hands down though, one of the best main sets and a true treat to have gotten one of the most poetic, intense and powerful albums ever written. Hoping at least one night at the Garden will get this gem.

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