2016-04-12 Schottenstein Center, Columbus, OH

Scheduled: 19:30 Local Start Time 20:05 / End Time 23:40

Info & Setlist | Venue

No seats behind the stage this time, so the stage had one giant black curtain behind it. Two young boys assisted Bruce as backup singers on "Growin' Up". The 35-song set also includes the second tour performance of The River outtake "I Wanna Be With You". Steve took the solo on the end of "Cover Me" instead of Nils. "Two Hearts" includes "It Takes Two" and "Drive All Night" includes a snippet of "Dream Baby Dream". Patti Scialfa is not present.

Intro to “Meet Me in the City”
“Good evening (crowd cheers)…”

Middle of “Meet Me in the City”
“Columbus! (crowd cheers) good evening…are you ready to be entertained? (crowd cheers) are you ready to be transformed? (crowd cheers)…”

Intro to “The Ties That Bind”
“Good evening (crowd cheers) alright, we’re so glad to be in Columbus tonight (chuckles)(crowd cheers) ”The River” (crowd cheers)…”The River” was my coming-of-age record…it was a record where I was trying to figure out where I fit in in a broader community, I think all our records before “The River” were kind of young man’s records, they were all part of a little marginal community on the streets of Asbury Park (crowd cheers) but by the time I got to ”The River” I was taking notice of things that bond people to their lives, their work, their commitments, their families, I wanted to imagine and I wanted to write about those things…and I figured if I could write about ‘em, I’d get a little closer to having them in my own life… so, uh, we’d always heard before “The River” that the records were good, they’re good but they’re not like the show, they’re not like the show so on “The River” we tried to make a record that felt like an E Street Band show (crowd cheers) or felt …felt as big as life, that would contain fun and dancing and laughter and jokes and good comradeship and love and faith and lonely nights and heartbreak and of course teardrops…we figured if we could make a record big enough to hold those things, we might get a little closer to the answers and the home I was looking for so… tonight I want you to come with us back down to “The River” and let’s see what we find (crowd cheers)…”

Intro to “Sherry Darling”
“Alright, let’s hear some Columbian party noise! (crowd cheers) let me hear you! (crowd cheers)…”

Intro to “Independence Day”
“Here’s “Independence Day” (crowd cheers) “Independence Day” was the first song I wrote about fathers and sons…I was probably… 23 or 24 when I wrote it, it’s the kind of song you write when you’re young and you’re first startled by your parents’ humanity, you’re shocked to realize that they might have had their own dreams and their own desires and their own hopes that maybe didn’t pan out exactly as they might have planned…and at that age all you can see are the compromises that they had to make to build a life…and those compromises frighten you…you’re too young to understand the blessings that come with ‘em…so all you see is this small world closing in, closing in…and all you can think about is getting away…well, this is a song about leaving home…I had a simple setting, it was just a late night conversation…around the kitchen table…between two people that loved each other but…but were struggling to understand one another…”

Intro to “Hungry Heart”
“Alright, Columbus, are you hungry? (chuckles) (crowd cheers)…”

Intro to “Crush on You”
“Columbus! (crowd cheers) I got a crush on you!…”

Intro to “I Wanna Marry You”
“Do we have any lovers in Ohio tonight? (crowd cheers) if we got some lovers out there, give your baby a kiss right now…that’s so nice (chuckles) that’s so nice…I love that…this is a love song…it’s a song about a dream of love…you know, when you’re young and… wanna fall in love, you got this whole idea of this love without any
responsibilities, any complications or any arguments…the kind that doesn’t exist…but it exists in your…mind when you’re young…and this is a song of youth, of imagining love in all its early glory and its tentativeness…it’s not the real thing but you gotta start someplace …Sometimes at night when I lie in bed…I still see your face running round my head…oh, sometimes at night when I lie in bed…I still see her face running round my head…here she comes walking down the street…here she comes walking down the street…she’s looking so fine, she’s looking so sweet…she’s so fine, she’s so sweet…someday I’m gonna make her mine, I know I will…someday I’m gonna make her mine, I know I will…someday she’s gonna stop instead of walking by…she’s gonna stop instead of walking by, she’s gonna stop instead of walking by, she’s gonna stop instead of walking by…
oh, little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl…little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl…oh, little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl…little girl, little girl, little girl…oh, my girl, my girl, my girl, my girl, my girl, my girl, my girl…oh, my girl, my girl, my girl, my girl…my girl, my girl, my sweet girl…(crowd cheers) oh come on, baby, oh, come on…”

Intro to “Cadillac Ranch”
“Alright, I want you to bury my body at the Cadillac Ranch (crowd cheers)…”

Intro to “Fade Away”
“A little Jersey soul…”

Intro to “Stolen Car”
“This is one of the first songs I wrote about men and women…that kind of got down to the nitty-gritty of it…was the blueprint for the songs I’d write later on the “Tunnel of Love,” this is “Stolen Car”…”

Intro to “Ramrod”
“Alright…come on and shake your ass down at the roadhouse now …”

Towards the end of “Wreck on the Highway”
“Well, “The River” was about time…time slipping away…and how once you enter the adult life…the clock starts ticking…and you walk alongside of not only… people you’ve chosen to live your life with but you walk alongside of your own mortality…and you realize you got a limited amount of time…to do your work…to raise your family and to try and do something good…to try and do something good… (music stops)(crowd cheers) that’s “The River!” (crowd cheers) thank you! (crowd cheers) thank you! (crowd cheers)…”

Intro to “Growin’ Up”
“Yes…alright…what signs you got out there?…what do you guys got? what do you got? bring it up…bring it up!…bring ‘em up, bring ‘em up, yeah, yeah!…yeah…alright…come on, man…what happened to your signs?…where’d your signs go?…you had, you have signs (chuckles) what do you got? alright…what do you wanna hear?… let’s see…alright, we got, uh…”Growin’ Up” (crowd cheers) “For us ten years old” – you both ten years old, yeah?…and what’s that sign, what’s that sign?…says what (kid: “My mom is so pissed I’m here”) (laughs from the crowd and cheers) alright (chuckles) you guys know that song?…you do? you wanna sing it with me? wanna sing? (crowd cheers) all you got to sing is “Growin’ up,” alright?… alright, let’s try it (crowd cheers)(?) give them a mike, yeah…(?) (crowd cheers) here we go…(intro music starts) I’m gonna help you out (chuckles)”

After “Growin’ Up”
“Well done, gentlemen (crowd cheers) your mom is gonna be pissed that she wasn’t here tonight, that’s the truth (chuckles) (crowd cheers)…”

Intro to “I Wanna Be With You”
“Alright, let me see…”I Wanna Be With You,” yeah…alright, there’s a girl out there, I saw her at the last show, says “20 years old, 20 E Street shows, I Wanna Be With You,” alright…a little obscure but I think we got it…”

Intro to “Cover Me”
“Alright, this is for this lady right here…”

Intro to “Born in the U.S.A”
“Thank you (crowd cheers) thank you, Columbus, thank you, Ohio (crowd cheers) thanks for coming out tonight…we got some friends in the hall, folks from the Children’s Hunger Alliance, the Children’s Hunger Alliance works throughout Ohio to defeat hunger by expanding school breakfast programs, educating families to make healthy food choices, making sure there’s a place for kids to eat when school is out for the summer, that’s the Children’s Hunger Alliance, if you see them on the way out, please give them a hand (crowd cheers) there’s a lady with a fabulous lit sign over here and, uh, we don’t usually play this one but we play it once in a while so we’ll play it for her tonight…are we ready?…Roy? (chuckles)…”

Intro to “Shout”
“Give me an E-flat…oh, listen, everybody…you know, I feel…you know, I’m feeling…you know, I’m feeling…you know, I’m feeling so damn good now…I feel like I can go, I feel like I can go all night now…are you ready to go all night now?…”

Middle of “Shout”
“Sister Soozie Tyrell on the fiddle, guitar and vocals (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano on the organ (crowd cheers) the incredible Nils Lofgren on the guitar (crowd cheers) Mighty Max Weinberg on the drums (crowd cheers) Jake Clemons on the saxophone (crowd cheers) Professor Roy Bittan on the piano (crowd cheers) Mr. Garry W. Tallent on the bass (crowd cheers) and last but not least…the inimitable, the inevitable, the inscrutable, the indubitable Little Steven Van Zandt on guitar and vocals (crowd cheers) oh, that’s right…I need a witness…I need a witness…I need a witness…I need a witness…I need a witness…I need a witness…I need a witness…I need a witness…I need a witness…I need a witness…I need a witness…I need a witness…I need a witness…I need a witness…I need a witness…I need a witness…Columbus! (crowd cheers) Columbus! (crowd cheers) Columbus! (crowd cheers) I want you to go home tonight and tomorrow I want you to tell everybody that you see that you’ve just witnessed the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, Earth-shocking, hard rocking, booty-shaking, Earth-quaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary E (crowd: “Street Band!”)…”

After “Shout”
“We love you, thanks for a great night (crowd cheers) we’ll be seeing you (crowd cheers)…”

^{Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi.}

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