Manchester 25 May:heart:

We were supposed to see Noah and the Whale on 13th of May but they cancelled about a week before due to a promotional opportunity. We have yet to hear about the rescheduled date....grrrr.....ok, rant over - been wanting to rant about it somewhere! :)

Mr Loaf...about a million times but still doesn't feel enough!!

The other show we saw during the tour was Tanz De Vampire!! Andy's seen it before (in the US) but I'd not seen it so we caught it in Berlin during our ML trip...what a show! Just phenominal! To hear Jim's music ringing through a theatre was amazing, it seemed so at home there. If anyone's not seen it I can't recommend it highly enough...made me wanna be a vampire! :lol:

They're not the same shows, no way near :))

Not even CLOSE! The German one is brilliant, seen it a few times myself :cool:

:twisted: Andy has my sympathies.

saw a few Meat Loaf shows in the last month, anyone else see them? :)

I caught a couple, might have seen you there?

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I think I may of seen you, did you have a inflatable guitar ?

Bruce Springsteen and the house-rocking, pants-dropping, brain-shocking, earth-quaking, booty-shaking, Viagra-taking, lovemaking, sexifying, electrifying legendary E Street Band!

Roy Bittan reached new levels of incredible last night!!

I heard you guys got Darkness complete- I'm jealous! :cool:

We did indeed, what a band!

oh yeah, meat loaf... dublin :)

amazin show!!

It was so good, and the way Bruce caught the crowd out with it was brilliant!

He'd only done a couple of songs before he was doing requests from signs and it seemed really early, then he says "so, we can continue to take signs and do requests....or we can give you Darkness On The Edge Of Town from start to finish" - everyone went mental, it was so brilliant as clearly no-one was expecting him to say it!!

Racing In The Streets was the best it's ever been!

It certainly caught the casual concert goer at Wembley out, and for that The Boss gets full marks :))

I've seen a bunch of videos; Racing was spectacular! :cool:

I'd love to see Darkness live- it's my favorite Bruce album. He only did Darkness here twice, and I wasn't able to make either one. (I did manage to make it to NYC for The Wild and Innocent, though :cool:)

Cool on the surprise factor- when he played albums here they were announced beforehand. Darkness was on the setlist, though, so if he took requests instead, it would have been the biggest audible in history. :lol:

The boss! And is the next one also

Download festival so many different bands / artists

Already got next years place sorted

Bruuuuuuuuuuuce. In coventry.
The entire Born to Run album from start to finish, The River, Born in the USA, Dancing in the Dark. American Land. Stunning setlist I thought.

Stunning show. A tremendous amount of fun.
First time my wife saw him. One of the best shows I've seen him do in the 10 years I've been going to see him live.

Looks like I've missed some updating.
Lotsa shows...most I got to see for free!
I love my job....except for the rap shows...ugh.

• LYLE LOVETT - Greensboro, NC 11/16/12
• TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA - Greensboro, NC 12/2/12
• AVETT BROTHERS - Greensboro, NC 12/31/12
• BLUE MAN GROUP - Greensboro, NC 1/9/13
• JUSTIN BIEBER - Greensboro, NC 1/19/13
• ZAC BROWN - Greensboro, NC 1/26/13
• COWBOY MOUTH - New Orleans, LA 2/11/13
• RASCAL FLATTS/THE BAND PERRY - Greensboro, NC 2/15/13
• KID ROCK - Greensboro, NC 2/26/13
• REBIRTH BRASS BAND - Greensboro, NC 3/9/13
• FOXY SHAZAM - Greensboro, NC 3/13/13
• PINK - Charlotte, NC 3/16/13
• GEORGE STRAIT/MARTINA MCBRIDE - Greensboro, NC 3/23/13
• ALICIA KEYS/MIGUEL - Greensboro, NC 3/30/13
• IL DIVO - Durham, NC 5/7/13
• LORETTA LYNN - Greensboro, NC 5/10/13
• JASON ALDEAN - Greensboro, NC 5/18/13
• DARIUS RUCKER - Greensboro, NC 5/30/13
• MELISSA ETHERIDGE - Vienna, VA 6/18/13
• 2 CHAINZ/FUTURE/WALE/A$AP ROCKY - Greensboro, NC 6/21/13 (tonight)
• HEART/JASON BONHAM - Raleigh, NC 6/22/13 (tomorrow)

I enjoy heeding Meat's advice to "keep rocking" ;)

Guess what he played in the Netherlands today :D





*if you said, He played Darkness complete- you had the right answer*

I know, I just saw the setlist- looked like a great one, even besides the album. :cool: And when I say that I'm jealous, I mean that with the best intentions possible, especially since I'm going through some major Bruce withdrawl these days. :( I know exactly what Lucy meant about not even wanting to read about the shows (fingers in ears, la, la, la!), but my curiosity got the better of me. ;) lol

(Of course, the umm... bootlegs :angst: help a little. ;) )

Of course the grass is always greener isn't it? I rarely see a set list from a Bruce show I wasn't at and not think "I wish I'd been there to hear that" ... but then looking at the set lists for the shows I have been at "I'm glad I was there to hear that"

A prime example being Coventry getting the Born To Run album, which means they got Jungleland and Backstreets!

I was deliberately not mentioning that...

Glasgow got Tougher than the rest, quite jelous of that.

I agree; I haven't been to a show yet where I didn't get at least a few gems. Of course, the setlist is only a part of the picture, and some of my favorite shows have had very "standard" setlists. I've seen almost every song I've really wanted to see at this point anyway. But still, every now and then there's that setlist that makes you go :drool: :lol:

If I were there, I'm sure I would have loved it, but I saw BTR twice, and I seemed to be a Backstreets magnet for a while, so I wouldn't have been gutted to miss that one. Of course, at this point, I'd be happy just to see a show- ANY show. :|

He rarely plays Tougher without Patti (though I know he did in Australia), so that was a lucky get!

I'm the exact opposite - I seem to always get Racing In The Streets rather than Backstreets...stunning every time but I'd give anything for Backstreets, we had it for our wedding music (that and R&R Dreams, it was a Bittan-fest! :lol: ) and I've managed to never see it live!

I find it so funny and interesting how it works out sometimes, how you might see one song often that other people are chasing, and vice versa. There seems to be somewhat of a geographical component to it as well.

The last (Dream) Tour, I got "Kitty's Back" three times out of six shows, and that song's somewhat rare.

I wanted "Incident" in the worst way, and I always seemed to miss it by a show. :doh: I finally saw it when he played the WIESS album in full, but I gave up getting it as a surprise, and since then I've seen it twice, both solo performances. :cool:

The only song I'm wishing for now is "The Promise".

Good luck getting "Backstreets" btw. ;)

Hinder - Pleasanton, California - June 19th. Had an awesome time. The whole band really get's the crowd into it. Will be seeing them again in July. Can't wait!!

Andre Rieu - Vrijthof, the Netherlands

:oops:

ok, you obviously don`t care about credibility.
maybe one day i out myself as a country-boy.

Adje, I find you very cultured ;)

Duke special with general fiasco, last night

Awesome! :)

I guess it doesn't help if I say that Trini Lopez was one of his guests... Had so much fun singing "If I had a Hammer... whoooooohoooo-hoooo-hooo" :D

I'm so sorry... You should've gone to Olympic Park there was a much better concert on! ;-)

Home so can "type" this:

'I've just seen...the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, house-rocking, earth-quaking, booty-shaking, Viagra-taking, love-making -
Le-gen-dary E - Street - Band!"

The exceptionally brilliant Kenny Rogers.

This was the second time we've seen him, he'd obviously aged since 2009 (haven't we all!) and I think appeared tired from Glastonbury, but he was absolutely outstanding yet again.

He is effortless, it almost looks like he's not bothered but the voice coming out is perfect! Extremely funny too, he had the audience in stitches...a wonderful night from a true gentleman :up:

The Boss / Bon Jovi / Toto
 

Seeing Bruce yesterday in Mönchengladbach/Germany:
Can one of the many diehards here tell me about "Trapped"? Which album?
Also loved the powerfull live versions of Man`s Job and Mary`s Place.
Was bored at the start, sound was bad, daylight didn`t help, but he and his band of 16(!) finally won me over again. And there still is some Bat relation in the band plus some of the piano-parts sounding like Jim they could have come from genius Jim. :-)

We saw Bon Jovi last month in Cologne too. I know of his reputation being an a...hole and he may be one the way he handles Richie Samborra (which probably only few insiders can really judge). And he is less the genuine performer like Springsteen, more American showman. But he can put on one hell of a show! And he deserves more credibility, changing setlists and even variations inside songs massively from night to night. BTW, obviously singing live for the most part. Bottom line: over-the-top! :D

Another highlight has been Toto, closer "Home Of The Brave" being worth attending alone. :D

Not everything this year was great though, don`t ask me about Whitesnake or Rihanna... :oops:

Trapped is a cover from Jimmy Cliff. Bruce and the band started to play it during the River tour. One of the very very few covers which regularly still comes back. Probably because the Bruce arrangement is pretty strong I think.

Mick. Keith. Charlie and Ronnie aka The Rolling Stones at an average age of 69 they knocked it out of Hyde Park tonight.

A live version recorded on the River Tour can be found on the bonus disc of "The Essential Bruce Springsteen" set. I love seeing it live; it's one of the few songs I remember him playing the first time I saw him, also on the River Tour. :cool:

I think you have that reversed; the Bat parts came from genius Roy. ;)

Are you talking about Bruce or Bon Jovi mixing up setlists and arrangements? I don't know about JBJ, but Bruce is a master at both of those things.

(Despite Bruce does it too) I was talking about Bon Jovi! Their - well, his - gig was the best non-Meat gig we saw in ages.

I just saw Lynyrd Skynyrd tonight; "Freebird" was dedicated to "Everybody up in Rock n' Roll Heaven". :cool:

Bruce, again two nights running. Cardiff and Leeds. Incredible, memorable nights both of them.

You wait 30 odd years for Roulette and then two come along :yay:

Leeds First Direct Arena is a fantastic venue, would have loved to have seen Meat in there, but that that seems unlikely now sadly.

Bruce last night at Leeds was simply outstanding.

Matchbox Twenty and the Goo Goo Dolls. Went with friends and had ZERO expectations. By the end of the night I was sold! Great musicianship by both bands especially MB20.

This

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is why I was so happy after the decades long wait ...

Still so jealous over this:

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30 year wait for you then ;-)

I actually want to join the E Street Band. :shock:

They just get better and better, Bruce's energy continues to shock everyone, and he's extremely funny too! Roy Bittan's as legendary as ever, and Jake Clemons is rapidly becoming one of my favourite people on the planet...he's outstanding!

Highlight was at Cardiff...we were stood on the barrier at the head of one of Bruce's platforms that he walks out onto. During Spirit In The Night (which is one of my favourites anyway!) Bruce brought Jake down onto the platform, lots of handshakes from both of them, then they laid down! So there's Jake - with sax - laid on his back on the left, Bruce on his back on the right, and us in the middle! Thought I'd gone to heaven :lol:

Congrats, Andy! :cool:

I always thought Bruce should have set Jay Weinberg loose on "Roulette" while he had him- that kid could pound!

"Tougher" seems to have gotten a lot of plays this tour.

Personally, I wish I had gotten to see this- just stunning: :heart:

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I don't understand why a couple of goofs thought this would be a good time to yell out. :? Somebody said that even Bruce looked annoyed (can't tell from the video).

He cracks me up ALL the time! :lol:

If I Should Fall Behind was, without question, one of the best vocals I have ever heard.

Got to point out to anyone that clicks Play on that clip...this song was performed AFTER the encore, so Bruce has already got over 3 hours under his belt when he starts this! Unreal...

Highlight of Leeds for me was Atlantic City and Shackled and Drawn :up:

Amazing. Going to have to do a few dates next tour!

I agree- my jaw literally dropped.

The second night in a row, too.

"Atlantic City" was never one of my favorites until I saw it last year with Eddie Vedder:

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I think he and Bruce sound amazing together! :cool:

"My Hometown" the next night was even better, especially since it was played in MY hometown! :-) One of my favorite concert moments ever!

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Indeed! He did 3 and a half hours at Cardiff then about 3 hours 15 in Leeds...all for a £65 ticket!

Duke special, last night @ the spirit store :)

Was awesome!

House of Zombie - last night.

This is a tribute band to Rob Zombie and White Zombie. Was an amazing show. They sounded identical to the original bands!!

Iron maiden , 02 arena 4th aug , wow what a show, one of the best I've seen, Bruce is amazing on vocals , the band rocked and a great stage show with lighting and fire, buzzing!

Download festival 14 - 16 July
Bloodstock festival 8 - 11 Aug

Both amazing with more highlights than I can put here

In my never-ending quest to see everything I can (or go broke trying...)

• GOO GOO DOLLS/MATCHBOX 20 - Charlotte, NC 8/6/13
• FASTBALL/VERTICAL HORIZON/GIN BLOSSOMS/SUGAR RAY/SMASHMOUTH - Greensboro, NC 8/8/13
• THE KILLERS - Raleigh, NC 8/12/13

...and I'm done until next month :lol:

I've seen two shows in the last week or so:

The first was "Frampton's Guitar Circus", featuring Peter Frampton as the headliner, with Sonny Landreth and B.B. King as his support acts. Frampton also had a couple of guests during his set- Larry Carlton and Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick. Peter's son Julian also came out to sing lead on "I Want You to Want Me" and "Surrender" while Nielsen was on stage. Julian has a great voice- sounds a bit like his Dad. "Surrender" was a blast, with most of the crowd singing along. :D My only complaint was that I wish Frampton's set was longer- he played for about 90 mins.

B.B. King is really showing his age, and he didn't play too much, but he still managed to entertain the crowd. Frampton guested with him on "The Thrill is Gone": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idq2yqeG-Xc


The other show I saw was Keith Urban in Indianapolis. He also had two support acts- Dustin Lynch, and Little Big Town. Keith puts on a great live show, and he didn't disappoint. :cool: He has a new album out in a couple of weeks, and he's been playing a couple of songs from it- "A little Bit of Everything" and "The Stars Fall For You". I love the lighting designs this tour as well.

Since he was in Indiana, Keith had to play some Mellencamp, so he brought out Larry Crane from Mellencamp's band for "Authority Song":
http://youtu.be/eGTdVM-SQAQ

And because I know duke knooby is wondering, ;) yes, there were banjos! :-) http://youtu.be/ytZv0uVNr-M

(btw- The bass player is Jerry Flowers, Randy's brother)

Heart and the Jason Bonham experience last Saturday. Amazing shows. My ears are still ringing.

Robbie Williams 16/08 Zurich
all i can say is a huge WOW, first full packed stadium concert for me, LOVED every minute of it, he put up a really great show, had a great spot near the stage, so i had an amazing time :D

Not a fan of Mr Williams but I do consider him the best live entertainer since Freddie Mercury

I saw Meat Loaf do 2 shows at the races. Anyone else see that?? ;)

duke special and the Arco string quartet...

loved it :-)

TOTO this past Sunday 9/8. Won a meet and greet through the bands web site. So thrilled to meet the band especially one of my favorite guitarist ever, Steve Lukather.

I saw Tim Conway ... but I don't know if that counts as a concert :lol: He was absolutely hysterical !! Now I'm looking forward to seeing Three Dog Night this weekend, and I hear they still put on a great show :D

Last show I went to was Rock Of Ages on Friday for the 12th time \m/ !!

Saw Wynonna last Saturday and had a meet and greet with her. What nice person. A damn good singer and can hold a note for days. A great concert. Go see he! She's very interactive with the crowd.

I saw Meat Loaf in Vegas.

Yep Meat in Vegas! Bring on next year!!

Hubby and me saw Jethro Tull last week, and we weren't disappoimted. Luv cx

Tesla on Friday night.

I must say though. After coming off of 3 straight Meat shows, the Tesla concert was disappointing. The band and music was good but it wasn't Meat! It is going to take an awesome concert that blows my mind to top the past week of Meat's shows!! ;)

Meat Loaf in Vegas Oct. 1, 3, 5 !

duke special, the songs of nillson

with hannah peel, paul pilot and stephen leacock

great stuff!!

Were you right in front of the stage with a blond woman on the 3rd?

Meat Loaf vegas oct 1st and 3rd, rocked!!

It did!

Meat Loaf in Las Vegas...about a hundred years ago..!!!

(feels like it, anyway!)

150!

Peter Gabriel 02 arena 21/10/13 great production

Meat Loaf...Las Vegas..October 10th & 12th.

Jealous!! Saw him 8 or 9 years ago, brilliant show in the round ... does he still use the segue's during Games Without Frontiers?

Jason Mraz & Raining Jane ... Simply one of the best shows I have ever seen!!!

Quo :bleh: in Dortmund, yesterday.

Scouting For Girls and I wasn't overly impressed either. :(

duke special in cork, yesterday

great gig :)

Elton John last night- excellent show! :-) I'd forgotten what a beautiful song "Candle in the Wind" is. "Rocket Man" had a stunning new arrangement, and "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" and "The One" were both sublime. :cool:

Well, not sure if it counts but I just discovered the 'Friday' show from Queen on Wembley in 1986. On a very rainy evening.

Watched it last night and must say that it was great. Not as well recorded as the well known Saturday show but Queen itself was better. Fantastic concert!

duke special... a victorian christmas

fairytale of new york... live, piano and vocal

worth the ticket price alone!!!

Rock Of Ages - November 2nd (Closure night) :( !!

Meat's Oct. 27, 2012 MMWT Mohegan Sun Arena. I managed to score M&G tickets and got front row seats. It was an awesome show! I told him his Native American name should be, SingingWolf NeverShutsUp. He insisted on the NeverShutsUp part... lol. He told me he could drive me insane, because he can't stop talking. I told him that he couldn't possibly make me nutty and then he replied that I've never been with him on a three hour car ride... lol.

I was so bummed, when he said, he wasn't touring anymore.

I saw Bon Jovi this Saturday. I initially wasn't planning to go at all, but I had a change of heart at the last minute and got crappy seats for $30 two hours before the show. He played far too much of his newer stuff (which doesn't hold a candle to anything before Crush, imo), but the performance itself was really, really good. The stage was awesome, too. Very well done :D

Kicking myself for not going the second night, though. They got Dry County and These Days :(

My favourite part was when he tried to get the crowd to sing along to Because We Can with just his acoustic, and everyone just awkwardly clapped and laughed because no one knew the song :D

I saw Keith Urban last Friday night- excellent show as usual! :D :cool:

He's worked in a good number of songs from his latest album, "Fuse", since I saw him last August, including the first live performance of "Somewhere in My Car":

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Last shows I saw was Panto, Robin Hood with Ross Hunter at The Cambridge Arts Theater and Blood Brothers at my local theater :cool: x

Last night I saw Imelda May and she was just as good as I remember she was when I saw her a couple of years ago. Her vocals were fantastic and she had so much energy and passion into the songs.

Imelda May with Jenna and Ash last night :)

I felt so ill but it was such a great show