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One Step Up opening?

Morello faced a challenge stepping into a band that's been playing together for decades. "I learned about 50 songs in three months for the tour, and every night, 90 minutes til soundcheck, Bruce will text me with seven or eight songs we've never played before," he said with a laugh. "And then during the show, he'll call up songs we've never even discussed – some I've never even heard!

Every night, there's six to eight songs I have literally about a nanosecond to prepare for. But it's fun. Now that I know that's the gig I'm like, 'Lets go!' Make it clear: I'm not asking Bruce to stump me. I would love to play 'Thunder Road.' But it's been a really fun challenge.

(extract from RollingStone interview)

ade

12 years

Originally posted by clover68:One Step Up opening?

i'd have put it either before or after because the night. The fact that he's even considered it is fantastic. I think throughout last year stuff that was soundchecked or on that nights setlist but didn't get played turned up in the next few shows. So it's definitely coming, but where and with someone to record it?

Australia are you listening - if you record this when it happens i will personally ensure that alistair cook is injured for the next ashes series.

ade

12 years

i've just been thinking this must be the only springsteen thread/topic on the internet where you can go 169 pages and no one gets slagged off! As some of you will no doubt know you couldn't go 169 seconds on some springsteen forums/threads without all hell breaking loose.

http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1401

LikeASong

12 years

LikeASong

12 years

Notes From The Road: Melbourne, Night #2

Tonight, with the house lights up, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band hit the stage and tore into Badlands. As the band were attempting to merge into We Take Care Of Our Own, the audience wouldn’t allow it. The capacity house was still chanting the Badlands’ refrain, making a move onto the next song impossible. And, this was only the opener.

Bruce’s first words were “Melbourne, bums out of seats.” They got the message and Bruce kept the energy up by grabbing a sign from the front rows, two songs in, and he shook the dust of a rollicking Cadillac Ranch.

Wrecking Ball seems to have struck a chord with Australian audiences. Veering off the set list Bruce spotted another sign, which marked the Australian tour debut of Downbound Train. Great art is about holding an audience in a moment. It might be an audience of one, or it might be a stadium full of people. Downbound Train, replete with its compelling narrative, does just that.

Hungry Heart saw Bruce head out to the ramp that runs through the middle of the venue. He was offered a floppy flat cap and he took it. “I used to have one like this, but I lost it,” he mused, “I may as well do the song that goes with it.” Enter, Spirit In The Night.

The jazzy swagger vibe of Bruce, pre-Born To Run, stuck around as Bruce called for E Street Shuffle. It’s a sublime groove made more remarkable when played by this sixteen-piece band that can turn on a dime. Major Lance would be proud.

Bruce started to prowl the front rows looking for more signs. “Tommy’s trembling!” Bruce plucked two signs for Red Headed Woman. “We don’t know it,” offered Bruce, “Tommy doesn’t know it at all.” After playing around with various keys – Bruce settled for the “people’s key of C”. Springsteen began the song, and the band finished it: with both Soozie and Nils taking fine solos.

Next came the stunning triumvirate of Because The Night, She’s The One and Open All Night. Standing next to an uber-fan with a stop-watch, Bruce has over delivered on his promise to get the crowd out of their seats in 90 seconds, tonight he did it in less that thirty.

As Open All Night morphed between rockabilly and Dixieland, Bruce kept the momentum up with Working On The Highway, Darlington County and Shackled And Drawn. A darker mood descended as Bruce and Morello traded vocals on a song that has become a cornerstone of the tour, The Ghost Of Tom Joad.

Thunder Road, where the Melbourne audience sang every word back to Springsteen, closed the main set. Then there was the sheer rush of Born To Run: with the house lights up again it was possibly the most dynamic reading of the song on the tour so far.

Dancing In The Dark saw the customary dance on stage, but first Tom Morello got to shake his money-maker with one sign maker. “Tommy’s got moves,” admitted Bruce before cutting the rug himself. Next came a stunning Rosalita [Come Out Tonight]. Exhausted Bruce collapsed and signaled to the audience he had zero in the tank, he had nothing, he was rung out. Enter Nils with water and sponges and, like Lazarus, Bruce rises again for the show’s closer Tenth Avenue Freezeout.

Melbourne. Seriously. Did we expect that? To say it was a special gig would be understating it.

Hey ho rock and roll deliver me from nowhere.

- Sean Sennett

dylbagz

12 years

Originally posted by ade:[..]

i'd have put it either before or after because the night. The fact that he's even considered it is fantastic. I think throughout last year stuff that was soundchecked or on that nights setlist but didn't get played turned up in the next few shows. So it's definitely coming, but where and with someone to record it?

Australia are you listening - if you record this when it happens i will personally ensure that alistair cook is injured for the next ashes series.

As I said, hopefully he gets a couple more requests tonight so that One Step Up and The Promise need to be skipped again, and out they pop on the weekend.. Would have been nice if Bruce was playing Melbourne 3 on the 28th, cause I would have been able to make it to the show if he was. Fly into Melbourne tomorrow (28th) as I couldn't make it any earlier..

If he plays One Step Up at Hanging Rock, I would record it if I knew that Alistair Cook would be out for the Ashes! The Brits must be salivating at the thought of playing us in the Ashes after our terrific performances in India..

dylbagz

12 years

Just read this over on Backstreets:

"SpareParts Tim wrote:
Once again another great show tonight.

Radio Nowhere, One Step Up, Candy's Room, Backstreets and Jungleland (or The Promise) were all on tonights setlist and not played.

Hopefully this means tomorrow nights show we can expect the unexpected..."

Holy shit. I need to be in Melbourne tonight

dylbagz

12 years

And another, this doesn't bode well:

"Just wanted to say a couple guys got thrown out for recording the show. Security said they have been asked to really crack down on any form of recording. You get a warning and then they take your phone or whatever. Security pointed to a room that had heaps of phones/ recording stuff etc.
Is this unusual ?"

clover68

12 years

Originally posted by LikeASong:[image]

Rolling Stone cover for the 25th anniversary of Rock n Roll hall of Fame

(for the very few who don't know that hehe)

ade

12 years

Originally posted by dylbagz:And another, this doesn't bode well:

"Just wanted to say a couple guys got thrown out for recording the show. Security said they have been asked to really crack down on any form of recording. You get a warning and then they take your phone or whatever. Security pointed to a room that had heaps of phones/ recording stuff etc.
Is this unusual ?"

That could only have been phones recording video as they have no idea if a phone is recording audio - as i've said to clover my phone does high end wav and there's no way anyone would know it was on. Are phones capable of recording a full three hours plus on video?

From 1983 to now i've never been seen, i thought a security bloke had seen me at a sting gig once - particularly as there were two of them at the end of the row at the end of the gig but they never looked at me when i passed them.And i once had a security guy come and stand next to me just as the tape needed turning and stay there to the end at an omd gig which was a bit of a downer - especially as the tape came out very well for the first 60 minutes

clover68

12 years

8:01pm Melbourne

1. Long Walk Home
2. Radio Nowhere

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