Originally posted by ade:very serious, it's another one of his obsessions, it's madison square gardens for fuck's sake Bruce 20,000 people are not going to be quiet - he said the same thing plenty of times in 1999/2000 before that section of the set list - he did the same thing during the rising tour, did it sometimes during devils and dust and as for the tom joad tour some of his protestations were just embarrasing.He used to do a similar thing about fireworks on the river tour.
I guess I mustn't listen closely enough all the time, but that's just insane. Only way he's going to get that is to play a set full of Tracks so everyone goes for a beer
Although I do know about the River fireworks, that happened after the last night of darkness or something when someone set one off and got him in the face? That's an understandable request, but the rest..