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A big contrast last night: Bruce and the band delivered a great amount of energy from the stage, while their homestate audience was basically quietly sitting. A great performance, with a great setlist, though the most interesting parts of it («Incident on 57th Street», «Backstreets», «You Can look») were skipped in favour of «Brilliant Disguise» and «Darlington County» (exactly as in Philly Night #1). Still, a great show.

See full set list.

VCR Alert! Today is an all-Springsteen day at VH1. They’re broadcasting (24 hours) many Springsteen specials and concerts, PLUS a live broadcast from tonight’s show at CAA.

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band embarked last night on a world tour. The first stop was Hartford, CT, where Bruce & band debuted «Darkness on the edge of town» in a 5-song-encore concert (which included both «Girls in their summer clothes» and «Waitin’ on a Sunny day»).

Growin’ Up: from the 2-hour-long rehearsal set to the current 2-hrs.-and-20-minutes set.

Check out full set list

Photo: Hartford’s handwritten set list, from bs.net.

Tickets for the Madrid concert (25th November) go onsale tomorrow at 10am CET (9am in the UK, 3am ECT), on this site:

www.ticktackticket.com

Tickets for the concert in Bilbao (26th November) will go on sale tuesday October 9th at 10am in the same website.

Check out the following articles:

New York Times – In Love with Pop, Uneasy with the world

The London Times – We Need to Talk About America

Entertainment Weekly – Magic

The Boston Globe – Boss plays to his base

Billboard – Springsteen finds ‘Magic’ with E Street Band

Los Angeles Times –The Boss Keeps the Faith in ‘Magic’

In spanish:

Efe Eme – El Diccionario de Bruce Springsteen

ABC – El Jefe siempre tiene razón

El Periódico – Springsteen envuelve sus letras amargas en sonido pop

El Mundo – 35 años dando caña

El País – El lado oscuro de Bruce

Another hot night with the E Street Band. Bruce learned from the first night’s mistakes and made a lot of changes in the set list, in their order and debuting new songs: «Badlands» triumphally closing the main set, plus «Prove it all night», «Town Called Heartbreak» (the Patti Scialfa song, sung as a duet), «Born in the USA» and «Magic», introduced as a song about «the times we’re living in. When we can make a lie seem true, and the truth seem a lie, so watch out for that magic».

Full set list at the Concerts page.

Photo: Edgar Aguilera