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Inside Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band’s Return to the Stage: The 6 Best Moments From Phoenix

After a six-month break, half of it unintentional, Springsteen opened the new leg of his tour in Arizona, where he showed he was in peak form.

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Bruce is back. 

If there was any doubt that Bruce Springsteen hadn’t fully recovered from the peptic ulcer disease that caused him to postpone 29 dates on his world tour with the E Street Band last fall, he dispensed of that notion within minutes of taking the stage Tuesday (March 19) at Phoenix’s Footprint Center for the first time in six months.

The Boss, clad in a red and black checkered shirt with rolled-up sleeves and black jeans, was in top form from show opener “Lonesome Day” and fully had his sea legs back by third song, “No Surrender,” when he gave his first trademark shout out, “C’mon, Steve!” beckoning for his brother-in-music for over half a century, Steven Van Zandt, to join him on the mic.  

For more than 50 years, Springsteen’s live shows have been about two things above and beyond the superb musical performance: Feeling alive and trusting in the communion between the Boss and his fans. 

For longtime fans such as myself (I’ve seen more than 50 shows over more than 30 years), a Springsteen concert is one of the places where we feel most vibrant. There’s the unbridled joy of hearing the music that has given meaning and voice to our life experiences in the company of likeminded souls. For many of us, Springsteen has been the best traveling companion through life imaginable. Part of that also comes from the trusting communion at any show: there’s the implicit understanding that Springsteen is going to take care of us and entertain us during that concert the best way he can—by pouring everything he has into the performance— and, in return, we’re going to send that energy back to the stage by being as present as we can be. 

That’s why when he postponed nearly 30 shows after his Sept. 3 dates at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. because of his illness, fans feared that this could be the end. Even though he has long prided himself on being in superhuman physical condition (and proved he still is in Phoenix by ripping his shirt open to show his toned chest), at 74, it’s clear that the road will end eventually for Springsteen. But as Tuesday night showed, he’s returned at the top of his game and the end feels far into the future if he wants it to be (though for longtime fans, it hasn’t gone unnoticed that on this tour Springsteen does not end the shows with his former trademark line, “We’ll be seein’ you.”)

When this world tour started in February 2023, Springsteen was working a theme built around “Last Man Standing,” an emotional song featured on his underrated 2020 album,  Letter to You . Like on the earlier shows on the tour, Springsteen addressed the Phoenix audience (in this case, for the first time all night more than an hour in), giving a beautiful speech about playing in his first band, The Castiles, when he was 15 in the mid-‘60s, and how more than 50 years later, he stood by the bedside of his friend and bandmate George Theiss, as he lay dying, leaving Springsteen the last member of the band alive. It’s a reflection on mortality, but also on resilience and joy. Though he’s never spoken of death and the gift it brings the living from stage so eloquently before, it’s understood by fans. For example, after my mother died, I consoled myself by going to as many shows as I could on the consecutive  Magic  and  Working on a Dream  tours because standing in the pit of a Springsteen show was where I felt most alive. 

Unlike the setlists from earlier shows that seemed slightly more reflective and wide-ranging, Tuesday’s show was a high-octane freight train of a rock show. The message is that life is to be savored and, more than anything, celebrated and met head on at full-speed. Springsteen and the band barreled through 29 songs, most of them full-on rockers, in 2 hours and 45 minutes. The show felt nothing if not efficient. There was no fat. The only break between songs was the few seconds it took for Springsteen to change guitars and, other than a few asides, he only addressed the audience for the speech before “Last Man Standing” and after “Backstreets.” He never brought up his illness until right before the closing song when he apologized to anyone inconvenienced by the Phoenix date shifting from Nov. 30 to March 19, adding, “I had a mother**ker of a bellyache.”

Below are six of the highlights from the Phoenix show, which had former N.J. governor Chris Christie and rocker Alice Cooper in attendance, in an evening filled with nothing but stellar moments . (Christie, by the way, said it was his 153rd Springsteen show!)

One-Two Punch of “Last Man Standing” and “Backstreets”

As mentioned above, the emotional centerpiece of the evening was when Springsteen talked about George Theiss and the revelation that he was now the last man from the band still alive and was, therefore, the keeper of the flame. “[Death] brings with it a certain clarity of thought. Death’s final and lasting gift to us the living is we get an expanded vision of the life you can live yourself,” he said, introducing “Last Man Standing.” He performed the song under a solo spotlight, otherwise bathed in darkness—even the lights lining the lip of the stage were turned off. From there the band perfectly segued into a haunting, majestic version of “Backstreets,” which looks back at Springsteen and his friend Terry, who swore they’d live forever. It was the perfect twosome—the folly and eternal optimism of youth paired with the reality of death. Most touching, at the end of the twofer, Springsteen enumerated the items he’d kept of Thiess’s, including his box of 45s, his books and an old guitar, before saying “the rest of you, I’ll carry right here,” he vowed, patting his hand over his heart. 

Springsteen’s Wall of Sound

Accompanied by 17 musicians, Springsteen is basically mayor of a small city on stage. As always, the production is minimal, but that’s in part because there’s no room on the stage for anything but the musicians and their instruments. When everyone is playing, such as on songs like “Wrecking Ball” or “Glory Days,” between the boldness of the horn section and the beauty of the backing vocalists and the craftmanship of the E Street Band, it felt like a wall of sound was crashing from the stage over the audience. It’s a powerful sound, unmatched by any other outfit on the road. It’s been 12 years since Jake Clemons joined the band, replacing his legendary uncle Clarence on saxophone. His dynamic with Springsteen is obviously different, but he’s grown into an endearing, excellent foil and the warmth between the two is palpable. On a side note, there are so many of them that after the main set, they gathered for bows, but instead of departing the stage and coming back for their encore, they all just returned to their stage spots because nobody has time for that many people to leave and come back again.

The Power of 'Ghosts'

Springsteen’s last album of original material, Letter to You , got lost in the pandemic and the band’s postponed tour that would have supported it, if not for the shutdown. It’s chockful of songs about facing your past and saluting those who have gone ahead, while finding ways to move forward through grief, fear and the grind of aging. “Ghosts,” an uplifting song about cherishing being alive while honoring those who are gone felt criminally neglected. It’s a potent rocker that Springsteen and his band brought home with a power (especially from the Mighty Max Weinberg on drums) and a grace in Phoenix that easily conjured up the spirits of not only Theiss, but Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici. 

Springsteen’s Falsetto

After a few wobbles on the opening two songs, Springsteen’s voice locked in and sounded strong and boisterous throughout the whole concert, but the first time he went into his falsetto on “Two Hearts,” the crowd went crazy. He used it sparingly, but every time he brought it out, including on “Spirit in the Night,” “Don’t Play That Song” and  “Mary’s Place,” the audience couldn’t get enough.

The Outro to “She’s the One”

Honestly, does Springsteen (or anyone) have a more joyous piece of music than the last 90 seconds or so of “She’s the One?” It soars on record, but live, it causes the roof to levitate. In Phoenix, Max Weinberg was pounding out the Bo Diddley beat, while Springsteen wailed on harmonica, and it just felt like a rocket ship catapulting into space. 

"Twist & Shout"

One of the things that Springsteen fans love is when he calls an audible– meaning he veers from the setlist and turns his back to the audience, confers with the band and adds something to the set the wasn’t originally slated to be played. The current tour, by design, hasn’t allowed for much spontaneity, so it was a particular delight when during the six-song encore, Springsteen made it seven songs. He grabbed a sign from an 18-year-old kid in the audience that read it was their first Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band show ever and would the band play “Twist & Shout?” (Next time, maybe they suggest a Springsteen song?) Springsteen grabbed the sign and held it up to his bandmates to make sure they knew what was coming next. The Isley Brothers’ classic is a song they’ve played for decades and they ripped into it with gusto and showed they really are at heart the world’s best bar band.

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Reveal 2023 North American Tour Dates

By Michele Amabile Angermiller

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s long-awaited North American tour is set to launch Feb. 1, 2023, in Tampa, Florida, the band announced today. The two-and-a-half-month tour will unfold with 31 shows in the U.S., continuing through a home-state finale on April 14 in Newark, New Jersey, before the group heads to Europe for already announced overseas dates that will continue into July.

The outing is the band’s first since wrapping the 14-month worldwide “River Tour” in Australia in 2017 and Springsteen’s first tour in the U.S. since 2016. See the complete itinerary, below.

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All of the dates announced are one-night arena stands, with the exception of two nights booked for the UBS Arena in Belmont Park, NY as the penultimate stop on the U.S. tour April 9 and 11. The New York/New Jersey area is well-represented with further dates at Madison Square Garden April 1 and Brooklyn’s Barclays Center April 3, leading up to the final night April 14 at New Jersey’s Prudential Center.

Tickets for the U.S. shows go on sale later this month, with on-sale dates ranging from July 20 to July 29.

The 2023 European dates already surpassed one million tickets sold on the initial routing, with shows added across the continent in anticipation of the band’s return to the road next year. Popular demand has seen Springsteen and the E Street Band add second stadium dates in Barcelona (April 28 and 30), Paris (May 13 and 15), Amsterdam (May 25 and 27) and Oslo (June 30 and July 2), while third shows have been scheduled for Dublin (May 5, 7, 9) and Gothenburg (June 24, 26, 28). With the milestone in ticket sales, a new tour stop has also been added in Hockenheim, Germany for July 21. Shows in the U.K. and Belgium will be announced at a later date.

The last live appearance by the band was an appearance on “Saturday Night Live” in December 2020 in support of the album, “Letter to You.”

Said Springsteen: “After six years, I’m looking forward to seeing our great and loyal fans next year. And I’m looking forward to once again sharing the stage with the legendary E Street Band. See you out there, next year — and beyond.”

In May, Springsteen phoned in to SiriusXM’s E Street Radio to talk about what fans can expect.

“It doesn’t feel that long” since the band last toured, he told host Jim Rotolo. “We’ve stayed busy over that time but still I have got the jones to play live very badly at this point, so I am deeply looking forward to getting out there in front of our fans.”

Rehearsals will start in January, and that full-fledged tour will stretch out to Australia and New Zealand following the August U.S. stadium dates and come “back around again,” he teased.

“It’s been a while and I am just aching to play — not just play but to travel and see our fans in all our different cities and feel that life again, see their faces again,” he said. “We’ve got an old-school tour planned where we will be out there for quite a while and give everybody a chance to see us if they would like to. We are going to rehearse in January — I already wrote out set lists, just to have something to do,” he added, noting that the setlist “will have a significant amount of recent material, and then we will play a lot of the music that the fans have become familiar with and love to hear. Should be a balance — feel contemporary and at home at the same time.”

In 2021, Springsteen, 72, released the group’s “The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts” film, collaborated with President Barack Obama on the book “Renegades: Born in the USA” and reprised his “Springsteen on Broadway” show to help reopen New York City’s theaters last summer. Just this spring and summer, he made three live appearances: two at MetLife Stadium on two separate occasions in New Jersey with Paul McCartney (June 16) and Coldplay (June 5) , and with McCartney again at the Glastonbury Festival in London.

The newly announced U.S. dates:

The on-sale times listed above are all for participants in Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan program, preceding a general on-sale by five hours, with the exceptions of the shows with asterisks, where tickets will go on sale to all buyers at once.

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Bruce Springsteen launched his 2023 tour tonight in Tampa, Fla., marking his first live performance with the E Street Band in close to six years.

“Good evening, Tampa!” he declared as he stepped on stage, greeted by thunderous applause from the fans in attendance. From there, Springsteen jumped straight into opening song “No Surrender,” the side two opener from 1984's Born in the U.S.A.

He then proceeded to deliver material from throughout his career. Early on the set featured some of Springsteen's more recent tunes, such as "Ghosts" and "Letter to You" from 2020's Letter to You . Two other songs from that album made their live debut this night: "Last Man Standing," which he delivered solo acoustic and "Burnin' Train."

Watch Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Perform 'No Surrender'

He also performed his rendition of "Nightshift," the Commodores classic he covered on 2022's Only the Strong Survive .

After 21 songs, Springsteen took a breather, only to return for an encore featuring many of his most beloved hits. "Born to Run," "Glory Days" and "Dancing in the Dark" ramped up the energy, with the Boss then closing his night with a solo acoustic rendition of "I'll See You in My Dreams."

Pictures and the full set list from the performance can be found below.

Springsteen's last concert with the E Street Band took place on Feb. 25, 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand, though he has participated in some other projects since then — he launched  Springsteen on Broadway  in the fall of 2017, co-hosted a podcast with former President Barack Obama and released three albums, 2019's Western Stars , Letter to You and Only the Strong Survive .

Watch Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Perform 'Nightshift'

"I'm going to consider myself lucky if I lose just a year of touring life," Springsteen said to  Rolling Stone  in 2020, about six months into the pandemic. "Once you hit 70, there's a finite amount of tours and a finite amount of years that you have. And so you lose one or two, that's not so great. Particularly because I feel the band is capable of playing at the very, very, very top, or better than, of its game right now. And I feel as vital as I've ever felt in my life. ... It's not being able to do something that is a fundamental life force, something I've lived for since I was 16 years old."

Springsteen will continue touring across the U.S. in the coming months, and then bring the show to Europe for a string of dates that begin on April 28 in Barcelona. He'll then return to the States for a second North American leg that starts in August.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, 2/1/23, Amalie Arena, Tampa

1. "No Surrender" 2. "Ghosts" 3. "Prove It All Night" 4. "Letter to You" 5. "The Promised Land" 6. "Out in the Street" 7. "Candy's Room" 8. "Kitty's Back" 9. "Brilliant Disguise" 10. "Nightshift" (Commodores cover) 11. "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)" (Ben E. King cover) 12. "The E Street Shuffle" 13. "Johnny 99" 14. "Last Man Standing" 15. "House of a Thousand Guitars" 16. "Backstreets" 17. "Because the Night" (Patti Smith Group cover) 18. "She's the One" 19. "Wrecking Ball" 20. "The Rising" 21. "Badlands" 22. "Burnin' Train" 23. "Born to Run" 24. "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" 25. "Glory Days" 26. "Dancing in the Dark" 27. "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" 28. "I'll See You in My Dreams"

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Review: Bruce Springsteen makes 'the most of right now' to open tour in Tampa

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band rocked like their lives depended on it.

In a way, it did. Mortality, and its motivational properties, were a central theme in the opening show of the band's 2023 world tour Wednesday at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida.

Springsteen performed a poignant solo acoustic “Last Man Standing” from the band's 2020 album, “Letter to You.” He introduced it with the story of the 2018 death of George Theiss , the Boss' bandmate in the Castiles of Freehold.

“His passing would leave me as the last surviving member of my first band, so it's kind of like standing on the tracks with the hot light of an oncoming train bearing down on you,” Springsteen said. “It brings a clarity of thought and a purpose that you might have not previously experienced.

“At 15, it's all tomorrows. At 73, it's a lot of goodbyes,” Springsteen said. “That's why you have to make the most of right now.”

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Right now, after two runs of “Springsteen on Broadway," and downtime due to COVID-19, it's time to rock. The Springsteen classics abounded on Wednesday. “Candy’s Room” segued into “Kitty’s Back,” and after the lights came on, “Born to Run” was followed by “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight).”

Earlier in the show, “Backstreets” was followed by “Because the Night,” complete with an incendiary Nils Lofgren guitar solo.

The E Street Band is big and powerful, with 19 members that included a horn section and choir, who laid down some of the smoothest harmonies heard on “Nightshift,” the Commodores cover from Springsteen's 2022 soul-themed album, “Only the Strong Survive.” It's another song that deals with loss (Marin Gaye and Jackie Wilson). The Boss’ crushed-velvet tenor was enhanced by the silken backup provided by Anthony Almonte, Curtis King, Michelle Moore, Lisa Lowell and Ada Dyer.

On the instruments, Mighty Max Weinberg is still very mighty, and bassist Garry Tallent powers up with soul and rock rhythms. Keyboardists Roy Bittan and Charles Giordano provide spark and sparkle. Little Steven Van Zandt lays key guitar leads, and Soozie Tyrell lends sweet harmonies and sweet fiddle strings.

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Patti Scialfa, Springsteen’s wife, engaged in playful back and forth with the Boss, and added vocal accents. Jake Clemons, the late Clarence Clemons’ nephew, charged up the arena on his solos. He's a natural showman, and it seemed a shame to keep him at the back of the stage with the horn section for most of the night. Clemons, by the way, uses his uncle’s saxophone on stage.

“Anyway I get to experience my pop’s presence is special to me,” said Jarod Clemons, Clarence’s youngest son who was at the show. “It’s so beautiful to hear that horn again. It’s like the sound never left.”

Near the end of the show, Springsteen and the band paid tribute to The Big Man with a video during “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.”

E Street fans love horns, and Curt Ramm and Barry Danielian on trumpet; Eddie Manion on sax; and Ozzie Melendez on trombone are among the best in the business. Their play with Clemons on “Kitty's Back” and “Johnny 99” soared.

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Bittan led the band from an entrance tunnel in the middle of the stage at 8 p.m. Van Zandt, who has dropped considerable weight since the last tour, doffed his flared Spanish hat at the crowd.

Springsteen came out last to the loudest cheers: “Bruuuuuce!”

The band then charged into the “Born in the U.S.A.”-era hit “No Surrender” to start the show.

Up next for the tour is Friday at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, then it's back to Florida for two shows: Sunday at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida, and Tuesday at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood.

Wednesday's concert was two hours and 45 minutes of revved-up rock, soul and remembrance, performed by a group that's not ready to say goodbye.

They're making the most of the right now.

Tampa concert setlist

• No Surrender
• Prove It All Night
• Letter To You
• The Promised Land
• Out in the Street
• Candy's Room
• Kitty's Back
• Brilliant Disguise
• Don't Play That Song (You Lied)
• The E Street Shuffle
• Last Man Standing
• House of a Thousand Guitars
• Backstreets
• Because the Night
• She's the One
• Wrecking Ball
• Burnin' Train
• Born to Run
• Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
• Dancing in the Dark
• Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
• I'll See You in My Dreams

On His Latest Tour, Bruce Springsteen Contemplates His Own Ending

Bruce Springsteen is walking toward me.

He is singing “ Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out ” and his shirt is inexplicably open, revealing deeply tanned and chiseled pectoral muscles. The Bad Scooter has found his groove, and he’s now headed in my direction. If this sounds like a deeply weird dream, I should add that I’m surrounded by 16,000 people inside of a Minnesota hockey arena.

As he gets closer, I fixate on the beads of sweat pouring down from his deeply tanned and chiseled forehead. He’s putting out a level of moisture not seen since Patrick Ewing in the 1994 NBA Finals. Here is a 73-year-old man who has been performing on stage for two and a half hours, and I imagine he must be exhausted. But as Bruce finally looms over me like I’m a tourist surveying the iconic mugs etched into Mount Rushmore, he betrays no signs of tiredness. This time, Hakeem Olajuwon doesn’t stand a chance.

Then, it happens: We briefly make eye contact. At least, I think we make eye contact. But then I remember that the greatest living arena rocker is standing approximately 36 inches away form me, and his magic trick is fooling individuals gathered in 16,000-person blobs that he is singing only for them. He is making eye contact with me, but he is also making eye contact with everybody. But he’s really looking at you, my brain assures me. I decide to believe my brain.

To my right is a woman from Nashville who I am guessing is in her late 50s. Before showtime, she told me that she saw the first date of Bruce’s 2023 U.S. arena tour last month in Tampa. “You could tell that he looked old,” she said. And yet here she was on a Sunday night catching droplets of Bruce’s perspiration in St. Paul, nearly 900 miles away from home, with plans to see The E Street Band again later this month in Detroit and twice more in Europe this summer. I look over at her as Bruce hollers about a transistor radio blasting from a tenement window directly in front of us, and she is beaming.

Nobody right now seems old. But Bruce is the only one who does not look old. His hair is more gray than brunette now, but that only makes him look harder, like a rock-solid block of concrete, the very stuff that arenas like this one are made of. To quote the man himself, Bruce Springsteen is still tougher than the rest.

But Bruce is old. I know this because he keeps telling us that he’s old. Mortality is a central theme of his best-selling 2016 memoir Born To Run. It also forms the crux of the award-winning one-man show Springsteen On Broadway. Bruce underlines it again on his most recent album of original songs, 2020’s Letter To You. If you haven’t heard it, you can get the gist of the album’s subject matter from reading the track listing: “One Minute You’re Here,” “Last Man Standing,” “Ghosts,” “I’ll See You In My Dreams.”

And then he reiterated this message yet again in his 2022 Howard Stern interview , in which he hinted that there might not be many more marathon three-hour arena-rock shows in his future. Instead, he imagined emulating Johnny Cash or the late Pete Seeger, who played into his 90s as a wizened folkie.

Who can really believe that, though? The paradox of Bruce Springsteen is that while, on one hand, he is second only to Bob Dylan when it comes to elderly rock stars who fixate constantly on death, he also has remained committed to his own physical fitness with a zeal that is comparable only to the supernaturally spry exoskeleton known as Mick Jagger. Given his age, of course he would consider pivoting to the sort of music that doesn’t require a level of physical exertion that people born around the time that Tunnel Of Love was released find taxing. Except … this is Bruce Springsteen! He is indomitable! Even when Bruce tells us that life is fleeting, his performances show us the opposite — that maybe The Boss will, in fact, be the one guy who defeats Father Time.

That hope, however, is another product of his magic trick. As Bruce walks past me and makes his way from the platform in the middle of the arena floor back to the stage, I am completely bamboozled. It is impossible for me to imagine a time when I won’t be able to see The E Street Band and have my soul rocked for three hours. Excuse me: I mean have my soul rocked by the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, hard-rocking, booty-shaking, love-making, earth-quaking, Viagra-taking, justifying, death-defying, legendary E Street Band!

Twenty minutes later, as I’m trudging back to my car through an utterly frustrating and thoroughly predictable early-March Minnesota blizzard, the spell breaks and a different reality sets in. It’s not only possible that I won’t see this kind of Springsteen show again, it’s also more likely than not. A live performance by Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band in 2023 is a precious resource. And that resource is dwindling faster than any of us want to believe.

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When I tweeted last week that I had successfully procured a ticket to see The Boss, my mentions were inevitably clogged with jokes and outright gripes about ticket prices. The controversy over Ticketmaster’s “dynamic pricing” policy has undeniably cast a pall over the current tour. At best, it has informed every conversation about these shows. At worst, it has been the only talking point, as evidenced by both daily newspapers in the Twin Cities centering their pre-concert coverage on complaints about how tickets for this tour are exponentially pricier than The E Street Band’s previous local stop in 2016.

The most damning condemnation came from the media outlet that has covered Springsteen with the greatest loyalty and rigor. Backstreets, a fanzine that started publishing quarterly editions in 1980, announced last month that it is shutting down. While not explicitly positioned as a protest of the ticketing policy, the high prices were blamed for dampening the enthusiasm of the publication’s writers and readership for the tour.

Fans have complained about high ticket prices for as long as there have been concerts. But this was different. An earlier Backstreets post timed with the initial on-sale last summer is striking for the raw hurt at its core. It’s nothing less than a cry of betrayal and, in the magazine’s own words, a “crisis of faith” about fans being “thrown to the wolves.”

When pressed by Rolling Stone about the criticism, Springsteen was coldly pragmatic: He admitted that he personally instructed his people to price tickets at market value, and pointed out that if they had been initially priced lower than that, they would have been scooped up by brokers and marked-up dramatically anyway. Why should they get that money and not him and his band?

As much as I hate dynamic pricing, a truly diabolical practice even by Ticketmaster standards, I can’t really argue with that logic. The first stateside E Street Band tour in seven years was going to be a hot (and expensive) ticket no matter what. Consider that when Bob Dylan resumed touring for the first time in eight years in the early ’70s, David Geffen called it “the biggest thing of its kind in the history of show business.” If a Bruce Springsteen tour in 2023 isn’t exactly comparable to Dylan going out with The Band in 1974, it’s still worth noting that he’s been widely regarded as the best in the world at playing rock songs in hockey arenas for at least 40 years. And there’s extra urgency now given the scarcity of Bruce Springsteen shows in the recent past and, perhaps, in the not-so-distant future.

But what Bruce didn’t factor in was the illogical regard his followers have for him. He stands for more than his classic-rock peers, so we expect him to charge less. Even if it’s true that scalpers are usually the ones who jack up prices, it hit different when it seemed like Bruce was the one doing the soaking.

“Well, I’m old. I take a lot of things in stride,” he told Rolling Stone when the “crisis of faith” comment was brought up. “You don’t like to be criticized. You certainly don’t like to be the poster boy for high ticket prices. It’s the last thing you prefer to be. But that’s how it went. You have to own the decisions you have made and go out and just continue to do your best.”

The takeaway by disgruntled fans was that he was wholly unbothered by their disillusionment, which only deepened the bad feelings. But now that I have seen the tour, I’m focused on the part of that quote where Bruce once again directly states where he’s coming from: Well, I’m old.

In the days leading up to the concert, I listened to Letter To You on repeat. I liked the album upon its release , though I had a weird hang-up about how he took several old songs from the ’70s — “Janey Needs A Shooter,” “If I Was The Priest,” “Song For Orphans” — and reworked them. It felt like a cheat, like he was compensating for the inclusion of fresher clunkers like “The Power Of Prayer” and “Rainmaker.” But lately, I’ve talked myself into regarding Letter For You as a borderline-great Springsteen record, because I realized that those ancient (and admittedly terrific tunes) fit with the album’s overall “lion in winter” theme, in which Bruce takes stock of his life in rock and reconciles the fact that there are now more musical adventures in his past than await him in the future. (I have even come to forgive the ugly album cover, which explicitly visualizes the “lion in winter” theme.)

That theme carries over to the current tour. The setlists have been mostly static, with occasional debuts and curveballs sprinkled amid songs that have been carefully selected to offer a comprehensive retrospective of his catalog. In St. Paul, three selections from The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle (“Kitty’s Back,” “The E Street Shuffle,” and, of course, “Rosalita”) highlighted his jazzy and jammy early period, with Bruce once more cutting loose on long, hot-dog guitar solos like he was back at The Main Point in Philly. Three selections from Darkness On The Edge Of Town (“Prove It All Night,” “The Promised Land,” and “Candy’s Room”) captured the gut-level power of his late-’70s prime, with Steven Van Zandt — who now looks nearly as trim as he was during the Carter administration — howling garage-rock backing vocals and stroking his own stinging guitar solos. There were several tunes from his most popular album, Born In The U.S.A., and the title tracks from two of his most notable 21st-century records, The Rising and Wrecking Ball. (There was nothing from the non-E Street Band ’90s albums, though Bruce did pull out a tour debut with “Pay Me My Money Down” from We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, and dutifully trotted out “Night Shift” from the recent soul covers collection Only The Strong Survive. )

And then there were the numbers that derive from the bookends of his career. From Born To Run, there were the essential warhorses: “Born To Run,” “Thunder Road,” “She’s The One,” and my favorite Boss song of all , “Backstreets.” That final number was paired in the middle of the set with a central track from Letter To You, “Last Man Standing.” Both songs are about young people who pledge life-long loyalty while in pursuit of outsized dreams only to ultimately come apart, and they are delivered in the dramatic and romantic manner one expects from a Bruce Springsteen song. The difference is that “Backstreets” is Bruce’s perspective as a kid in his 20s, and “Last Man Standing” is Bruce’s perspective as a man in his 70s.

Standing on stage alone with his guitar, he addressed the audience for the first time at length before “Last Man Standing.” The lack of patter otherwise underscored the importance of the moment — his only other long-ish introduction came ahead of another similarly themed Letter To You song, “I’ll See You In My Dreams,” also performed alone at the end of the night.

He related the story of George Theiss, a boyhood friend who invited 15-year-old Bruce to join his first band, The Castilles. Decades later, Theiss became the subject of this song after he died of lung cancer in 2018, leaving Bruce as the only surviving member of their garage band. The Castilles, by the way, lasted three years, an eternity for a teen rock group, Springsteen proudly noted. And then it ended. Like all things must.

Writing new songs that obsess over the past, and also repurposing old numbers to reveal their present-day relevance, is the basis of Letter To You, and it also sets the tone for this tour. It’s a reflective show, and also a refractive one, in which songs change shape when set in relation to each other. The youthful defiance of the tour’s show-opener, “No Surrender,” now has a melancholy edge. One of his greatest songs about aspiration, “The Promised Land,” is prefaced and shaded by “Letter To You,” a direct message to his audience about how he has poured his “fears and doubts” into his work. His defining song about the gratifying work of performance, “Prove It All Night,” is paired with “Ghosts,” which addresses the same idea but from a backward-looking, nostalgic stance.

Springsteen still sings “Backstreets” with heartfelt conviction, but prefacing it with “Last Man Standing” irrevocably changes with it means. In the current set, it ceases to be a coming-of-age anthem; it is now a prequel story about a man whose age has come and gone. It is a period at the end of a sentence that was first written 48 years ago.

Watching Sunday’s concert overall felt like closing a circle. It reminded me of a genre movie where a gang decides to team up for one caper, in the hopes that they can eventually walk off forever into the sunset. (There’s certainly a lot of loot at stake.) In case it needs to be stated for the record: This is still a kick-ass band. Naturally, the principals demand the most attention — the titanic beat of Max Weinberg, the bouncy bass of Gary Tallent, the consistent brilliance of Roy Bittan, the swashbuckling swagger of Steven Van Zandt. But there’s also an expansive supporting cast this time around, with a full horn section augmenting saxophonist Jake Clemons and a small army of backing singers. The lineup reflected the setlist — the past commingled with the present, and achieved a special harmony that temporarily suspended time.

I have no idea what lies ahead for The E Street Band, because no one does. I’m only saying that it felt like a group of people singing and playing like they might not have many more parties like this in the future. I couldn’t help but choke up a little during the encore when at the end of “Glory Days” Bruce called Little Steven over to the microphone and asked if he wanted to go home.

“I don’t wanna go home,” Little Steven said.

Then Bruce asked the left side of the arena if they wanted to go home. No! Then he asked the people seated behind the stage. No!! Then the people on the right side. NOOOO!!!

It was unanimous: Nobody wanted to go home.

Stomach ulcers: Bruce Springsteen has to cancel all concerts

U .S. rock star Bruce Springsteen (74) has had to cancel all of his remaining concerts for the current year for health reasons. The musician announced this, among other things, on his official Instagram profile. His total of 14 outstanding concerts in Canada and the United States of America have been postponed to next year and will all be made up in 2024. On the advice of his doctors, this was unavoidable as a precautionary measure. Springsteen is suffering from stomach ulcers, which he now has to have treated.

The exact dates for the make-up concerts would be announced in the coming week, but will all take place at the venues already scheduled, the release adds. "I thank all my friends and fans for their well wishes, encouragement and support," Springsteen said of the cancellations. He said he is already on the road to recovery and can't wait to see everyone again next year. Already at the beginning of September, Springsteen announced that he would not be able to perform his September dates due to the illness.

So far last concert took place at the beginning of September

The Oscar and umpteen-time Grammy winner is currently on an extensive tour together with his E Street Band. Springsteen made his last appearance to date on September 3 at Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Until the end of July, Springsteen remained in Europe, playing in Munich, Hamburg and Vienna, among other cities.

Springsteen is regarded worldwide as one of the most successful rock musicians in history and has enjoyed legendary status for decades, especially in his native USA. To date, "The Boss" has released 21 studio albums and sold more than 70 million of his albums in the U.S. alone. His live performances are considered legendary among fans, also because they last much longer, up to four hours, compared to the vast majority of other musicians or bands in the rock business.

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Bruce Springsteen is back on the Billboard charts in a major way this week. The rocker doesn’t have a new album or single out, but his followers have propelled one of his most successful–perhaps his top title–releases back to the rankings in a show of unwavering love and support. As the project finds its way to several lists, it even manages to debut on a tally that most fans would assume it dominated long ago.

Born in the U.S.A. debuts on the Vinyl Albums chart this frame. The set has never before appeared on Billboard’s list of the bestselling vinyl titles in the country. That may shock some longtime Springsteen listeners, but it’s likely due to the fact that the ranking may be newer than the album itself.

The blockbuster album was recently re-released on a special edition translucent red vinyl. The set immediately became something of a collector’s item among Springsteen fans, as plenty of them wasted no time in picking up a copy. The re-release is meant to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Born in the U.S.A.

Springsteen and his E Street Band have now pushed a lucky 13 titles to the Vinyl Albums chart. Nine of those projects have broken into the top 10 for at least one frame. Nearly half of those–exactly four–have reached No. 1.

In the past tracking period, Born in the U.S.A. sold just under 3,700 copies in the country with which it (nearly) shares a name. It’s not clear how many of those were on vinyl, versus CD or digital download, but the wax re-release certainly spurred the large jump in purchases.

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Born in the U.S.A. is one of a dozen new arrivals on the Vinyl Albums chart this week. Somewhat surprisingly, it’s also one of the lowest-ranking, as more than half of the spots inside the top 10 are filled by newcomers. Ahead of Springsteen's set are projects from the likes of Paul McCartney, the Twilight film franchise, K-pop star Nayeon, and even the Broadway musical Wicked .

As it debuts on the Vinyl Albums chart, Born in the U.S.A. also appears on two other Billboard lists, though it’s not new to them. The bestseller is back on the Billboard 200, though only just barely. It also lands inside the top 40 on the Top Album Sales ranking, thanks largely to the vinyl re-release.

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For filmmaker Bill Teck, the hardest part of making a documentary about the life and career of Little Steven Van Zandt was just fitting it all in. “It’s just a complicated life,” says Teck, who directed the new documentary Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple , streaming now on Max. “Silvio Dante helped end apartheid!” In addition to his work in the E Street Band with Bruce Springsteen , Van Zandt was the writer and producer behind Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes’ great 1970s albums; a solo artist backed by his band, the Disciples of Soul; an actor in The Sopranos and later Lilyhammer ; and a political activist, fighting against apartheid in South Africa with the classic 1985 all-star single “Sun City.” He’s also become something of a rock n’ roll evangelist in recent years, fighting to keep rock and soul history alive with his Underground Garage channel on SiriusXM and his TeachRock educational program.

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Van Zandt’s dramatic recent weight loss was all about belatedly re-embracing his rock-star status. “It was a long journey, mentally, maybe spiritually back to that place,” he says. “Because once I became an actor, that dominated up until a year ago. I had done the rock star thing, now I’m moving on. So then Bruce puts the band back together [in 1999], and I come back halfway, and stayed there really up until literally two years ago…. We were going to come back and it’s going to be seven years after our previous tour, right? And I’m thinking to myself, ‘This could be the last tour. I’m going to be a rock star one more time.’…. And I really feel like, let’s surprise everybody because they’re not going to know what to expect, man… Is it going to be like a bunch of old men coming back and going through the motions? And I’m like, no way, man. I’m like, we’re going to come back and blow minds…. We’re closer to the end than we are to the beginning, but we ain’t going out quietly, baby. So I lost a hundred pounds in six months. Let’s honor our audience’s loyalty. Let’s honor Bruce Springsteen’s incredible writing and the E Street Bands’ hard work by showing respect and getting in shape for this one.”

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