'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.

Fans Meet in Jersey to Mark 60th Birthday, Springsteen Scholars

Springsteen turned 60 on Wednesday. In his honor, fans and music-loving scholars from around the world have collected in his home state of New Jersey. The event is more than a rock star’s birthday party.
About 130 educators, journalists, historians and musicologists will present academic papers at [bn:URL=http://www.cpe.vt.edu/glorydays/registration.html
p://www.cpe.vt.edu/glorydays/registration.html] “Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium.” [] The event, which is open to the public, is taking place through the weekend at Monmouth University in West Long Branch and the Sheraton Center in nearby Eatontown.
“Bruce Springsteen, at age 60, continues to be vibrant and relevant and a cultural figure worthy of study and discussion,” said Mark Bernhard, the director of continuing and professional education at Virginia Tech and the conference’s arranger.
Participants will hear from Vini Lopez, the first drummer in Springsteen’s E Street Band; Joe Grushecky, who has written songs, recorded and played with him, and the person Springsteen called his “landlordess” at the New Jersey house where he wrote his breakthrough album, “Born to Run.”
The symposium follows a similar event four years ago. Virginia Tech put together this year’s event with Penn State Altoona, which sponsored the 2005 symposium.
Lopez will appear on a panel about Danny Federici, the E Street Band keyboardist who died of melanoma last year. Robert Santelli, executive director of the Grammy Museum and author of the book “Greetings from E Street,” and Tinker West, a former Springsteen manager, will join him.
Stone Pony Concerts
Grushecky, who made the “American Babylon” album with Springsteen’s help in 1995 and later co-wrote the song “Code of Silence” with him, will talk about the collaborations. He will also perform at the Stone Pony nightclub in Asbury Park, which has scheduled three nights of Springsteen- related shows in conjunction with the symposium.
An onstage interview with Marilyn Rocky, the “landlordess,” will conclude the event. Rocky rented him a home in Long Branch, New Jersey, in April 1974. He lived there until after “Born to Run” was released the next year. She will also discuss her correspondence with the star.
This writer, who also attended the previous symposium, will conduct the interview and present “Greetings from Freehold: How Bruce Springsteen’s Hometown Shaped His Life and Work.”
The program includes talks by the authors of two books about Springsteen: Jim Cullen (“Born in the U.S.A.”) and Eric Alterman (“It Ain’t No Sin to Be Glad You’re Alive”).
Jim Musselman, whose Appleseed Recordings has released four songs featuring Springsteen, will host a panel examining his social consciousness. Another panel, “The Road to Resilience in Hard Times,” will address how Springsteen’s music helps fans deal with personal and economic loss.

Bruce Springsteen arrests show at SPAC

State Park Police have released the numbers for how many people were arrested or ticketed at Tuesday night’s Bruce Springsteen show at SPAC. Here are the stats:
3 charged with petit larceny theft from a motor vehicle
1 charged with possession of stolen property
4 charged with underage possession of alcoholic beverages
1 charged with disorderly conduct
and 1 person ticketed for speeding
**Note: State Park Police declined to give the names of those arrested.

Bruce Springsteen at SPAC

Bruce Springsteen is bringing The E Street Band to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, and The Saratogian needs your review of the show! Using the comments section below, tell us your thoughts about the accomplishment, equivalence it to previous shows you've seen The Boss at, break down the set list in short, tell other lecturer everything you think they want to know about the SPAC show. Some lecturer reviews may be selected entirely or in part for announcement in Thursday's print edition