LOOSE ENDS - Il Forum Italiano dedicato a Bruce Springsteen

"Are you loose?" Hot damn, Bruce was tonight, even uttering that line to casually reference the '75 Milwaukee bomb scare show. For evidence of said looseness, let's go straight to the setlist, where slot four brought "Streets of Fire," last played on the Rising tour nearly five years ago, in August of 2003. A few songs later and it's "Saint in the City," played only once previously on this tour. "That almost got away from us!" said Bruce. For "Cadillac Ranch" he didn't even sing the "through the Wisconsin night" line, just held the mic out to the crowd, which was happy to oblige. Speaking of "Cadillac Ranch," if you miss Nils' giant cowboy hat of days old, you'd have been been happy to see him on this one in his bright green St. Patrick's Day topper.

On to the encore, where "Loose Ends," -- "Stevie request!" -- replaced "Girls in Their Summer Clothes" to kick things off. Next, always the mark of a special night, was "Meeting Across the River" into "Jungleland." For "Meeting," they were joined by renowned jazz bassist Richard Davis, whose early-'70s recordings with Bruce included playing upright on this studio recording from Born to Run. Van Zandt told Rolling Stone in 2005: "We had Richard Davis, who played bass on [Van Morrison's] Astral Weeks, come in for ["Meeting'] -- and Astral Weeks was like a religion to us." Bruce talked about that a bit on stage tonight, too. At 77, Davis is a professor of music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; we're told this was his first Springsteen concert.

If "Loose Ends" and "Meeting" didn't shake the encore up enough for ya, "Ramrod" took the usual "Dancing in the Dark" slot in the six-song encore. "American Land" closed the night as usual -- if ever there's ever a night to shake that one up, St. Patty's Day ain't it. While Stevie got a green hat of his own and Garry rocked some shamrock glasses, Bruce dedicated the song to Pat Riley and offered an Irish benediction, "May the road always rise to meet you, and the wind be at your back."

A Twin Cities resident, coming off a relatively undistinguished hometown show, calls this one "everything last night wasn't." And lest you think it can't possibly get any better than this, take a quick look at the handwritten setlist, which went through four iterations tonight: the audibled "My Hometown" replaced "Racing in the Street," and "Ramrod" had an alternate in "Rosalita." But Milwaukee, they're not through with you yet... "We'll be back in the summertime!"


No Surrender
Radio Nowhere
Lonesome Day
Streets of Fire
Gypsy Biker
Magic
Reason to Believe
It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City
Prove It All Night
She's the One
Livin' in the Future
The Promised Land
Cadillac Ranch
My Hometown
Devil's Arcade
The Rising
Last to Die
Long Walk Home
Badlands
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Loose Ends (DEDICATED TO RUD KROL)
Meeting Across the River (with Richard Davis)
Jungleland
Born to Run
Ramrod
American Land

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Oh che bella scaletta....

Edit:
...anche se avrei preferito 10.000 volte Racing dopo Cadillac Ranch, com'era in scaletta.....

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...moriro' comunista....almeno sara' uno di meno...
L'ho sempre detto che i fancazzisti sono di sinistra.

Due grandi accoppiate:
It's hard to be/prove it all night e meeting arcross the river/Jungleland.

Addio per sempre.
Sta scaletta è mostruosa!

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My Bootlegs List

grande scaletta!!!!!!!!!

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We learned more from a three-minute record than we ever learned in school

death defyin' legendary E Street Band

"We'll be back in the summertime!"

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We learned more from a three-minute record than we ever learned in school

death defyin' legendary E Street Band

minchia!

Come giustamente dice codadilupo...............MINCHIAAAA!!!!

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JBJ: " Bruce is God"

vedi che se ti impegni brucetto qualcosa di buono lo tiri fuori?

slurp!

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io quando ho amato
ho amato dentro gli occhi suoi,
magari anche fra le sue braccia
ma ho sempre pianto per la sua felicità

Lui dice che ogni sera deve dare il massimo, perche giustamente chi paga il biglietto per quella sera se ne freca se la sera successiva è più straordinaria,

ho visto però che il concerto del 16 è più corto e meno interessante di questo, giustamente perche sapeva che il 17 doveva darci più sotto.


Spero che a Milano sia una di quelle sere che deve darci più dentro.

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Amami stanotte, perchè potremmo non vederci più (SANDY)


25/05/93 Roma
10/04/96 Roma S.Cecilia
08/06/03 Firenze
06/06/05 Roma
10/10/06 Roma
25/06/08 MI
19/07/09 Roma
10/06/12 FI
31/05/13 PD
11/07/13 Roma
03/07/16 MI
16/07/16 Roma
21/06/23 Roma

Babba bia

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And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time. (Jon Landau - May 22, 1974)
http://www.la7.it/news/dettaglio_video. ... spettacolo

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qROQSCW7qLA[/youtube]

Che scalettona!!!!
E se faceva racing e rosie al posto di hometown e ramrod...

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Sometimes I wonder what I'm a gonna do, but there ain't no cure for the Summertime Blues!!!!

datemi subito l'mp3 di streets of fire

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io quando ho amato
ho amato dentro gli occhi suoi,
magari anche fra le sue braccia
ma ho sempre pianto per la sua felicità

Co' 'sto nuovo sito non si capisce una mazza !!!

Bene invece il "link" con you tube