'What Love Can Do', Bruce Springsteen premieres

A very nice setlist by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Philadelphia's Spectrum on Wednesday night. Highlights include the world premiere of "What Love Can Do" from the "Working on a Dream" album and "Outlaw Pete" was given a much needed rest for the first time this tour. Bruce opened the show with "Thundercrack" a fan favorite from the early 1970s and perfect for a Philadelphia crowd. The entire "Darkness on the Edge of Town" album was played for only the second time this tour, and so far no other dates have been scheduled for a full playing of this classic 1978 record. Also nice to see "Human Touch" back in the setlist, he played it at the Oct. 8 Giants Stadium show. Before the final song, "Rosalita," Curt Ramm played "Gonna Fly Now" - the theme from "Rocky" - on the trumpet.

Show began at 8:31 p.m.

Patti Scialfa was there and Max Weinberg played the entire show.

1. Thundercrack

2. The Ties That Bind

3. What Love Can Do (tour premiere)

4. Hungry Heart (crowd surfing)

5. Working on a Dream

6. Badlands

7. Adam Raised a Cain

8. Something in the Night

9. Candy’s Room

10. Racing in the Street

11. The Promised Land

12. Factory13. Streets of Fire

14. Prove It All Night

15. Darkness on the Edge of Town

16. Waitin’ on a Sunny Day

17. Sherry Darling w/ three accordions (request)

18. Human Touch

19. Long Walk Home

20. The Rising

21. Born to Run

Encores:

22. Ramrod (birthday request)

23. Detroit Medley

24. American Land

25. Dancing in the Dark

26. Short, trumpet version of Gonna Fly Now (theme from Rocky) before Rosalita

Show over at 11:14 p.m.

Next show: Monday again back at the Spectrum.

Night Three at Giants Stadium, Bruce Springsteen live blog

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band began the third of their five Giants Stadium concerts at 8:25 p.m., with "Wrecking Ball." This song, divine by the imminent demolition of Giants Stadium, has opened all three gigs. "Bring on your wrecking ball," sang Springsteen, repeatedly, in a challenging tone.
The second song, "Out In the Street,"the always uplifting was a real crowd pleaser, with Springsteen bringing a young fan onstage to sing along with him.
During "Hungry Heart," Springsteen started running around the "pit" section of the stadium floor, as he has on other nights. But instead of running all the way around, he leaped into the crowd at the halfway point, and crowd surfed across the pit, all the way back to the stage. Unbelievable.