2014-04-19 Time Warner Cable Arena, Charlotte, NC

Scheduled: 19:30 Local Start Time: 20:05 / End Time: 23:20

Info & Setlist | Venue

Video of "American Beauty" from soundcheck is used (with audio dubbed from the studio version) for a video released on Bruce's website. The soundcheck also includes James Taylor's "Carolina In My Mind". Set opens with tour one-off "Iceman", only the second time it has been played, and the first time with the band. The set features a total of seven covers, including the tour premieres of tour one-off covers "Louie Louie", "Mustang Sally" and "Brown Eyed Girl". "Light Of Day" includes "Land Of 1000 Dances". The encores include "Darkness On The Edge Of Town". Final tour performance for the "regular" version of "Racing In The Street", as well as "Jack Of All Trades". Steven Van Zandt and Patti Scialfa are not present.

Intro to "The Wall"
Very young musicians, particularly in the … mid 60's, you know, it's … it's different now, it's uh … when I was … 15 or 16 … when I signed my record contract, I'd never … I'd never met anybody … who'd ever had a record contract … on a big label … And there wasn't anyone in the E Street Band … … or anyone that I knew that had ever been on an airplane … We were like the a … lost tribes of New Guinea, you know, we … we saw them flying overhead … We knew they were real …Didn't know what they were about … But uh … We were lucky that in our … neighborhood, there were … some excellent musicians … And there were … two brothers, particularly that meant a great, great deal of a hero … called The Cichon brothers, and they … had a group called the Motifs … Ray Cichon was a … was a particurlary fluent guitarist, he was a very tall man … And he held his guitar, I remember, way up here … But he was so incredibly fluent on it … and then he would take the time to tutor me … He worked in the shoe store and he would come … after his work and he would come to… a little dining room and uh … in our little shotgun house and he was … take away 45 minutes or so to tutor me … on solos of the day … And he had a … he had a … another brother that was called Walter and … Walter was this uh … I think the first person I ever saw this felt … like a real … rock star to me, you know, you were afraid to talk to him … he was kinda scary … he had long curly hair … really long … and uh … and he was just very sort of uh … he had a tremendous animal presence and … he was great, great frontman.
I wrote this song really thinking about Walter … and thinking about Bart Haynes … who was the drummer in my first band, The Castiles … And uh … Both Bart and Walter were … were killed in action in Vietnam, they were very, very young … I don't know, 19, I suppose … at best … And uh, it was a … a tremendous, tremendous loss, tremendous loss … to our neighbourhood, to our town … to uh … that thing inside of you … that feels somehow … that the best should, should get their shot … And uh … you know as it went along … met a lot of Vietnam veterans over the years … And, uh … probably since the mid, mid and late 70's … and of course … many guys who were injured and hurt terribly … and who swore themselves that they … never again, never again … But of course uh… of course it happens again and again … So this is for uh… any of our veterans out there … and uh … Not just Vietnam, but … Iraq, Afghanistan … This is a uh … this is a short … but this basically is I guess is … this is a … short prayer … for my country, so this is called The Wall.

^{Compiled by : Frank van Dorresteijn.}

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