Springsteen Performs "Magic" In Tour Open: "Who'll be the last to die..."

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT/Reuters: Springsteen Performs "Magic" In Tour Open
By REUTERS
Published: October 3, 2007

HARTFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band kicked off their latest U.S. tour on Tuesday and rocked their way through several cuts from the newly released "Magic," a collection of songs that mix an up-tempo pop-rock sound with stinging social criticism.

Fans at the sold-out Hartford Civic Center were sent into a frenzy as the band took the stage and launched into "Radio Nowhere," a hard-driving cut from the new album officially released earlier in the day, the first album for Springsteen and his long-time backing band since 2002's "The Rising."...

...rock and roll was front and center this evening as the 58-year-old and his bandmates, some bandmates since he was a teenager, ripped through several anthems from the Springsteen catalogue including "Badlands," "Born to Run" and "The Promised Land."

Introducing the new song "Living In the Future," Springsteen told the crowd that in addition to cheeseburgers, French fries and motorcycles, the United States was now known for voter suppression, illegal wiretapping and attacks on the Constitution.

"These are all the things that are happening here that shouldn't be happening here," he said.

The refrain from "Last to Die," also from the new album, left little doubt about Springsteen's opinion of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. "Who'll be the last to die for a mistake, whose blood will spill, whose heart will break, who'll be the last to die?" he sang....

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/entertainment-springsteen-tour.html

[annabanana]

1. It was great to watch him launch this album in Rockefeller Center

on The Today Show last week.

[rodeodance]

2. oh Glory Days!!!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. Wonderful! He was on The Today Show last Friday and I was in heaven as he hijacked

the program. He was scheduled to do 3 songs and he must have done 7 or so.

He gave the same speech before singing "Living In The Future" (here's the link at our political videos) and he also sang, "Last To Die" for lies...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=385&topic_id=58533

Thanks for posting the article!

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Thanks for the post, and the link, Ommm! nt

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. You're welcomed! It felt soooo good to hear him say this before an audience of millions. nt

[truedelphi]

5. K & R'ed n/t

[OneBlueSky]

6. I first saw Springsteen when my college booked him in 1973 . . .

no one had ever heard of him, but he and the E Street Band put on a show that no one will ever forget . . . two years later he kicked off the Born to Run tour in the same theater in an upstate New York college town in the middle of summer, when the town was nearly deserted . . . the word had gotten out, though, and people came from all over and the show was easily sold out . . . a couple of weeks later he was on the covers of Time and Newsweek, and the rest is history . . .

[DeepModem Mom]

9. Wow! Thanks for posting, OneBlueSky.

[JerseygirlCT]

11. Oh very cool.

My first concert was in '78. But the same thing: absolutely amazing.

I couldn't get tix for the Hartford opening here, though. Had to laugh at the review in the paper here this morning. The reviewer talks about a two-hour show like that's something special. Hey buddy, you're obviously new to Springsteen concerts. 2 hours is a *short* one!

[Highway61]

8. BRUUUUCE!

New CD is great...saw him several times...knowing that he did Badlands last night makes me realize I HAVE to see him this time around. Once you see him rock in person, you'll never be the same. :woohoo:

[cureautismnow]

10. Rock on, Bruuuuuce!

Keep on telling it like it is. A Vote for Change Tour of 2008 would be magnificent. :headbang:

[Imagevision]

12. Too bad the artists today are being suppressed from writing

about war as they did in the 60's. No comparison, but back then the Clear-Channel's didn't exist.

[_dynamicdems]

13. This brings back memories.

[Postman]

14. I always thought "The Boss" couldn't sing, but I love his politics...

Rock on, Bruce.