After a short break, Springsteen resumed the Wrecking Ball tour yesterday with a show in San Jose, California, which lasted again over 3 hours (3h.10min exactly), with no tour debuts but with a strong setlist and another great performance. Highlights included «Thundercrack», «Backstreets», «American Skin», «Murder Incorporated» and «My Love Will Not Let You Down». The encores were longer than usual as Bruce added «Rosalita» right before closing the show with «Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out».
Tuesday’s show in Cleveland was, according to those present, one of the best shows of the tour, which is improving night after night. Two tour debuts: «My Love Will Not Let You Down» (following high-voltage performances of «Trapped» and «Youngstown») plus «Light of Day», closing the main set. «Light of Day» featured «Land of a 1,000 Dances» and a complete «You Can’t Sit Down», and was introduced as a song he wrote for Paul Schrader’s film Light of Day, filmed on location in Cleveland. The show opened once again with «Badlands», had «The Ties That Bind» in the fourth slot and included a superb «Racing in the Street», played just before the «Apollo Medley». Patti Scialfa is absent again.
An intense night. According to fans attending, this was one of the strongest shows of the tour, in terms of performance. Tour debuts of «Darlington County», «Downbound Train» and a great acoustic version of «Janey, Don’t You Lose Heart». Back in the set are «Murder Incorporated» and «Backstreets», and the show opens again with «Badlands». For the third show in a row Patti is not present. The original setlist had «Two Hearts», «The River» (none played) and also «Sherry Darling» as set closer, though Bruce skips it after ending the show with «Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out».
