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Bruce says goodbye to his New Jersey neighbors with a phenomenal performance, possibly the best of the tour so far. With the E Street Band in full force, the last show of the US Spring tour features three tour premieres and lots of vintage classics. No less than 3 songs from The Wild, The Innocent... («The E Street Shuffle», «Incident on 57th Street» -tour premiere- and a vibrant version of «Kitty’s Back» -one of the highlights of the night-). Plus tow more tour premieres («Something in the Night» and «Cover Me»), «Good Lovin» (during the sign-request collecting) and «Mony Mony» closing the night.

Max Weinberg was back last night, playing stronger than ever alongside his E Street Band buddies, who went the extra mile. Patti was absent.

Next: the tour lands in Euro land on May 30th, with a show at the Pinkpop festival in the Netherlands.

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Bruce Springsteen played last night the first of two sold-out shows at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey. No tour debuts, but instead the band delivered a great performance with quite a bunch of classic 70’s stuff like «Adam Raised a Cain», «Prove it All Night», «Growin’ Up», «Thunder Road», «Jungleland» and «Rosalita». The last one closed the show, after Bruce said «Is this New Jersey? We can’t go home until we’ve played this one!». Both Patti and Jay were back in the band. Jay played the whole show. See complete set list.

But the big news of the night was the confirmation that Springsteen and the E Street Band will be back in Jersey in the fall. Bruce himself announced it during the show. Before it is demolished, Springsteen will be the last artist to perform at Giants Stadium, with 3 shows on Sept. 30th, Oct.,2nd and Oct.3rd. Tickets will go on sale June 1st.

With numerous set list changes from the previous show, Springsteen offers a show full of vintage songs. After opening with «Badlands» there’s «Candy’s Room», «Jackson Cage» and «She’s the One», plus «Darkness» a little later (sign request), and lots of classic covers. From the previously performed («Good Lovin» and «Mony Mony»), to the tour debut of Bob Dylan’s classic «Like A Rolling Stone».

Come the encores, and in good tradition, Pittsburgh native Joe Grushecky joins Bruce onstage for «Glory Days».

Set list correction: «Raise Your Hand» was not performed in Pittsburgh. «Good Lovin» took its place. Johnny Grushecky also guested on «Glory Days».

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