Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site petfe.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!petfe!evan From: evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: BRUCE at Giants Stadium 8/18...spoiler Message-ID: <437@petfe.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 10:47:09 EDT Article-I.D.: petfe.437 Posted: Mon Aug 19 10:47:09 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 22:09:22 EDT Organization: Perkin-Elmer DSG, Tinton Falls, N.J. Lines: 58 Y'know, I never see anything about Bruce Springsteen in net.music. Maybe he's too pop or something. I don't know. Maybe a mini-review of his concert will help relieve some of the KB/JSB traffic!?! Maybe not. I got there about 3 to tailgate in the lot. It was some party! It seems that everybody had the same idea! Anyway, the ticket said 7pm, but he didn't go on until 5 past 8! He played his first set until about 9:35. (Closed with Thunder Road) Took a 45 minute break(!), and came back about 10:10. Played another 55 minutes, before saying g'night the first time, with I'm a Rocker. Left for about 2 minutes and came back and played until about 11:45. He played 2 songs from before Darkness. He played Born To Run and Thunder Road. He did not play Rosalita, Jungle Land, Growin' Up, Spirits in the Night, or any other oldies. In fact, he only played 2 from Darkness! (Badlands, and Promised Land.) On the other hand, he played Born in the USA to death. Also The River and Nebraska. He didn't play anything he didn't record until the 2nd encore, when he played This Land is Your Land(!), and then Twist and Shout, and La Bamba (!) [must have been for Richie Rosenberg :-) ]. He was very funny. He talked a lot before several songs, especially Glory Days and Pink Cadillac. Some of those stories were a riot! My seats were on the floor, about 1/2 way back, and all the way to the right (section 10, if anyone knows the layout). The acoustics were simply amazing for a place that size! You could hear him talking, even whispering, and you could every word of every song (until the last few when the crowd got a little too loud). Also, for those of us who couldn't see (I am pretty short!), there were 2 large projection screens on the sides of the stage. This was NOT Diamond Vision, which is a crock, anyway. This looked like a movie, and was occasionally produced like 1. I used the screen a lot when he was doing some of the rowdier songs and everyone (especially the 6' 6" ape in front of me) was standing on their chairs! My biggest complaint about the show is that it has lost its intimacy. Maybe it was me, but, while he is certainly able to energize a hall that big (50000+), having to watch him on that big screen or thru binoculars takes a lot of it away for me. I've seen him twice before, once in the Meadowlands Arena, last summer, and once at the Spectrum about 4 years ago. There's a big difference between 20000 and 50 or 60000, in a football stadium. Of course, the other major complaint was that he played almost no oldies! Oh, in case anybody is curious, I got my tickets by dialing into Teletron. I got through at 8:10am. I was still about 50 yards bac! He is still the Hardest Working White Man in Show Business. But I wish he'd go back to the smaller arenas. (The Stone Pony comes to mind.) Thanks for listening. I'd be interested in other impressions. --Evan Marcus -- {ucbvax|decvax}!vax135!petsd!petfe!evan ...!pedsgd!pedsga!evan You know what I hate more than anything? Indian givers. No, I take that back.