Bruce Springsteen Concert!

Last night Bruce Springsteen brought his Devils and Dust Solo Acoustic Tour to the Corel Centre and what an awesome show it was. I had awesome seats for the show being only 8 rows from the stage. Tickets said the concert start time was to be 7:30 but The Boss didn't make it out onto the stage until 8:20 or so, not that anyone minded at all. He opened up with "My Beautiful Reward" and it just got better from there. He followed with a "distorted" acoustic version of "Reason to Believe" which I thought was really good, then played the title track from his "Devils and Dust" CD. Other notable performances (they were all notable - lol) were a lively rendition of "Lonesome Day", "Long Time Commin' " and "All the Way Home".
Before performing “The River” on piano he observed that it took him 14 years before he wrote a love song because his father always told him that love songs were just government propaganda designed to get you to settle down and pay taxes. Bruce Springsteen’s humor also came out after his performance of Reno when a power outage at the Corel Centre was experienced. When the house lights came back on he was sitting in front of the piano and just shrugged and laughed “I think we are in the middle of a fuck up.” He then commented that the power outage would be the best part of the show and couldn’t help noting that the next song seemed fitting considering it was called “I Wish I Were Blind”. The gremlins were still out when half way through the song he switched from pump organ to piano only to discover the piano’s sound wasn’t on. In true Springsteen fashion he just laughed and joked “See this piano’s supposed to be on”. After finishing the song he joked “When the lights go off the people behind the stage just get scared ‘Why did the lights go off’, there just back there running around scared right now”. After the next song, “Racing in the Streets”, he announced “They tell me it was lightening that caused the lights to go down”.
The rest of the show when off with out any more problems. He did great acoustic versions of “The Rising”, “Spare Parts”, “This Hard Land”, “The Hitter” and “Matamoros Banks” before leaving the stage for just a few minutes.
His encore included a lively acoustic version of “Ramrod” and “Bobby Jean”, then before rapping things up with a great acoustic version of “The Promised Land” he commented “We’ve had a great time tonight, the lights went out, they came back on, they went out again, they came back on, we were stuck by lightening…….what more could you ask for in an evening?”.
This wasn’t really the end of the show however, as Bruce Springsteen was taking his final bows and shaking hands with people by the stage he suddenly picked up his microphone and said “OK, I’ll do one more song”, which was a great performance of “Dream, Baby, Dream”. With that the night was over, Bruce had spent two strait hours entertaining us with one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to, even Tracy (who wasn’t much of a Springsteen fan) thought it was a great concert.

Here is a complete set list below:

My Beautiful Reward
Reason to Believe
Devils and Dust
Lonesome Day
Long Time Comin'
Silver Palomino
Tougher Than the Rest
The River
Part Man Part Monkey
All the Way Home
Highway Patrolman
Reno
I Wish I Were Blind
Racing in the Street
The Rising
Spare Parts
Jesus Was an Only Son
This Hard Land
The Hitter
Matamoros Banks
Ramrod
Bobby Jean
The Promised Land
Dream, Baby, Dream