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Practice Makes Perfect
The upcoming Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band tour kicks off next Tuesday in Hartford, Conn., but The Boss & Company blew the roof off of Asbury Park’s Convention Hall last night in the first of three public rehearsal shows.
According to Springsteen mega-mag Backstreets, the setlist consisted of seven songs from the upcoming Magic CD, and three each from The Rising, Born In The USA, Darkness On The Edge Of Town and Born To Run, and one from Tracks before capping the night with Bruce and the band doing their best Seeger Sessions rendition of “American Land.”
Here’s the setlist:
1. Radio Nowhere
2. No Surrender
3. Gypsy Biker
4. Empty Sky
5. Something in the Night
6. Girls in Their Summer Clothes
7. Night
8. Promised Land
9. Livin’ in The Future
10. Devil’s Arcade
11. Candy’s Room
12. She’s the One
13. Lonesome Day
14. My Hometown
15. The Rising
16. Last to Die
17. Long Walk Home
18. Thundercrack
19. Born to Run
20. Darlington County
21. American Land
Two more rehearsal shows are scheduled before the band officially launches the tour. Tonight is the second Asbury Park show at the Convention Hall, and this Friday “band practice” moves to the