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Check out our Photos page to check the new photo galleries, with photos from Tampa (by René Van Diemen), plus Greensboro & Charlottesville (by Jos Westenberg). See Tampa. See Greensboro & Charlottesville.

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in a theatre! Something that hadn't happened since 1980, early on The River tour. Though originally announced as "An Evening with Bruce Springsteen" it was finally a Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert. Yesterday's show raised $3 million as a benefit for the theatre. If seeing Bruce and the E Street Band in a theatre is already a major event,

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This week's issue of Time magazine, includes Bruce Springsteen in their "Top 100" list of most influential people in the world. And the person chosen to write about Bruce is no other than actor/director Sean Penn (read). Rolling Stone's May 1st issue ("Best of 2008" issue) also has an article about Bruce Springsteen. This time to name Bruce and the E Street Band as "best live band in 2008".

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TV clips of the first four songs in Greensboro (April 28, 2008): Roulette, Don't Look Back, Radio Nowhere and Out In The Street.

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Springsteen got inducted yesterday into the brand new New Jersey Hall of Fame. He's part of the first class of inductees in the NJ Hall of Fame, along with other famous NJ citizens such as astronaut Buzz Aldrin, scientists Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein, actress Meryl Streep or the two most famous singers from the state: Frank Sinatra and Bruce Springsteen. La Bamba and the Hubcaps were the

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The Spring U.S. tour came to an end last night in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with a great show that found Bruce and the band in full force, opening with "The Promised Land" inmediately followed by the tour debut of "I Wanna Be With You" and the welcome comeback of "This Hard Land". Bruce told then some stories about the early days of the E Street Band, before playing "Growin' Up". A special

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The penultimate concert of the U.S. Spring tour didn't bring any song premieres. Anyway, no one will complain with a memorable opening song such as "Loose Ends", in a show that also included "For You", "Adam Raised a Cain" or "Meeting Across the River". Perhaps some hardcore fans will complain a little when they find out what Bruce wrote on his set list but choosed not to play: "Streets of Fire"

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The second North Carolina show featured an impressive opening with two tour debuts, the killer "Roulette" followed by "Don't Look Back". This was a high energy rock concert, with unstoppable electric tracks such as "Radio Nowhere", "Out in the Street", "The Promised Land", "Trapped", "Saint in the City", "Because the Night", "Darkness" and "She's The One". Just a little rest to catch their

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Two tour debuts: "Souls of the Departed" (opening the show) and "Wild Billy's Circus Story", in a show where once again Bruce shakes up the set list, as "The Promised Land" goes up to the fourth slot while "Gypsy Biker" comes back to the set, now after "Reason to Believe". See complete set list. The Orlando Sentinel published an article recently telling the story on how Roger McGuinn ended up

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Check out Bruce's official website to read his eulogy words to Danny, as read at Federici's funeral in Red Bank on April 21st. It is a very long and moving eulogy, worth reading. "So today, making another one of his mysterious exits, we say farewell to Danny, "Phantom" Dan, Federici. Father, husband, my brother, my friend, my mystery, my thorn, my rose, my keyboard player, my miracle man and

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"This night is a special one, so we'd like to start with something for Danny". After these words from Bruce, a special video tribute to Danny was shown in the screen behind Max's drums. The video shows pictures and films of Danny and the band since the late 60's, with the studio version of "Blood Brothers" as soundtrack (see video below). When the video was over, the show started with a very

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These are the new dates that have been scheduled for the recently postponed Florida shows: Tampa: April 22 Orlando: April 23 Ft. Lauderdale: May 2

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"Danny and I worked together for 40 years - he was the most wonderfully fluid keyboard player and a pure natural musician. I loved him very much...we grew up together." —Bruce Springsteen Danny Federici, for 40 years the E Street Band's organist and keyboard player, died this afternoon, April 17, 2008 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City after a three year battle with

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Bruce Springsteen published yesterday in his official web site a letter of support to Senator Barack Obama. "Dear Friends and Fans: Like most of you, I've been following the campaign and I have now seen and heard enough to know where I stand. Senator Obama, in my view, is head and shoulders above the rest. (...) He speaks to the America I've envisioned in my music for the past 35 years. (...) I

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Cadillac Ranch, in Amarillo, Texas, was created in 1974 by eccentric millionaire Stanley Marsh. The site inspired Springsteen in 1980 to write the song "Cadillac Ranch". Yesterday in Houston, this was the choosen song to open a very special show. Both "Gypsy Biker" and "Reason to Believe" dissapear for one night, being substituted by "Atlantic City" and "Because the Night". "She's the One" was

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The Texas fans got a two and a half hour show last night in Dallas, plus a tour debut. As it's been the norm lately, there was a different show starter, in this case it was "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out". "Girls in their summer clothes" moved from the encores to the middle of the set, right after "The Promised Land", and was followed by the tour debut of "Independence Day", with Nils on pedal steel,

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"Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" (Vancouver, Canada, 31 March 2008) Filmed from the front row:

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"Point Blank", live in Seattle on March 29th, 2008, is now up on Bruce Springsteen.net

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The Magic resembles more and more each day the Devils & Dust tour. Not musically, but because of the constant changes and surprises in the set list. There's a feeling now that you can get to hear anything these days, which makes these shows even more exciting. Yesterday, for the second show in Anaheim, there were 8 set list changes. For the first time, "Devil's Arcade" and "The Rising" were left

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The Ghost of Tom Joad, live in Anaheim, California, April 7, 2008 and from the same show... the opening number, "Light of Day":

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The first of two shows in Anaheim was one of the longest and most intense shows of the whole tour. From the very first song, the tour debut of "Light of Day", the energy level never went down, and Bruce and the E Street Band delivered a great night of pure rock, with burning guitar solos during "Gypsy Biker", which was inmediately followed by a smokin' "Murder Incorporated". After "Magic",

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Lotta changes in San Jose last night: "Out in the Street", "Trapped", "Something in the Night", "Fire", "Incident", "Detroit Medley"... and one that you will either love or hate, the tour debut of... "Bobby Jean" (if you ask us, we're in the 'fbj' sector). See complete set list.

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Fun night in Sacramento, the first of 4 shows in California, which has raised a high standard. The show started with Bruce's very first single from 1973, "Spirit in the Night". Later in the show, the tour debut of "Murder Incorporated" (letting "Reason to Believe" out of the set for the first time), followed by a tremendous tour-de-force with "Candy's Room", "Because the Night" and "She's the One

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The above is from Springsteen's handwritten set list for the Vancouver concert 31.3.2008 See full handwritten set list from the artist's official website

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Last night's gig in Vancouver opened with the tour debut of "Atlantic City", plus an obscure debut: "None But the Brave" (available only on The Essential Bruce Springsteen) , never played before with The E Street Band (Springsteen had previously performed it live in 2003 at the Asbury Park Christmas shows, with the Max Weinberg Seven). "Trapped", debuted in Seattle on Saturday, stays in the set,

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