News

Sarcasm.net has recently published a series of great photos from Bruce Springsteen’s Sept.22nd private show at the Stone Pony. Check them out!

Springsteen & Asbury Park, once again. Saturday night Bruce Springsteen held a concert to benefit the Boston College (as he did last January for the Ranney School). Along with the Bobby Bandiera Band, Roy Bittan, Max Weinberg, a 4-piece horn section and JT Bowen as guest, Bruce delivered a hi-energy 25-song set.

According to  Stan Goldstein at Nj.com, the show at the Stone Pony last 2 hours and 35 minutes, and in attendance were NJ governor Chris Christie, actor Tim Robbins and NBCN newsman Brian Williams. It was the usual mix of classic covers, soul duets with JT Bowen («Soul Man», «In the Midnight Hour», «Havin’ a Party»…)  plus many old & new Springsteen tunes («My Lucky Day», «Working on a Dream», «Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out», «Rosalita», «Born to run», «Glory Days»…). During «Spirit in the Night» Bruce walked thru the audience and jumped on top of the bar (as he later did during «Waitin’ on a Sunny Day», only he crossed the whole club to the furthest bar across the bathrooms), remembered his early days in Asbury when he wrote «Growin’ Up» or «Sandy», both performed at Saturday’s private show, and ended the show with an acoustic «Thunder Road».

See full set list.

For the second year in a row Joe Grushecky will perform on two consecutive nights at the fabulous Soldiers & Sailors Theatre in Pittsburhg, on Nov. 3rd and 4th, and once again Bruce Springsteen is the special guest.

Tickets will go onsale Tue. Oct. 18th at 10am thru Ticketmaster.com

Nils Lofgren, the virtuous guitar player in The E Street Band, will release a new album on December 6th. «Old School» features contributions from Paul Rodgers, Lou Gramm and Sam Moore. A song off the album can be heard on Nils’ website. Listen now to «Ain’t Too Many of Us left», with Sam Moore on vocals.

Bruce Springsteen sang 4 songs last Saturday at Sting’s 60th Anniversary concert, held at the Beacon Theatre in New York. In this star-studded event (with Lady Gaga, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, Rufus Wainwright and others), Bruce played «I Hung my Head» with the house band, followed by an acoustic version of «Fields of Gold», that sounded more Springsteenesque than ever.

Then Sting joined Bruce for the classic «Can’t Stand Losing You», plus the all-star jam with «Every Breath you Take» and the inevitable «Happy Birthday» to Sting.