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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band played the final show @ Giants Stadium in NJ (with NO guests) - setlist
the show ended with fireworks
Concertgoers were welcomed with a pre-show message on a huge video screen hanging over the stage: "Tonight is the last concert at Giants Stadium. October 9, 2009. Thank you New Jersey!"Despite crazy Internet rumors, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's final show at Giants Stadium last night (10/9) (it was the last show at the venue) (not Bruce's last show ever) did not feature any special guests, not even Bon Jovi. More pictures
Springsteen and his E Street Band announced, ahead of time, that they planned to play their "Born In the U.S.A." album in its entirety at last night's show. They have played one of their classic albums at each show on the stand: "Born To Run" on Sept. 30 and Oct. 8, "Darkness On the Edge of Town" on Oct. 2, and "Born In the U.S.A.," for the first time, on Oct. 3.Springsteen and the band also will perform at Madison Square Garden in New York on Nov. 7 and Nov. 8. But last night's show could be the last home-state E Street appearance for quite a while.
Last month, guitarist Steven Van Zandt said in a conference call with reporters that after the current tour ends, Nov. 22 in Buffalo, the band will be off for "I don't know how long -- a year, year and a half, two years."
In his new book "Big Man: Real Life and Tall Tales," E Street saxophonist Clarence Clemons wrote that after the current tour, the band plans to have "a long, long recovery period."
This was the 24th show by Springsteen and the band at Giants Stadium. They also performed there six times in 1985, 10 times in 2003, and three times last year. [Star Ledger]
This is a written copy my friend got his hand on, BUT....
This is what was actually played (includes Born in the USA in its entirety)....
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band @ Giants Stadium
October 9, 2009
Show 5
setlist
1. Wrecking BallPictures HERE.
2. Badlands
3. Spirit in the Night
4. Outlaw Pete
5. Hungry Heart
6. Working on a Dream
7. Born in the U.S.A.
8. Cover Me
9. Darlington County
10. Working on the Highway
11. Downbound Train
12. I'm On Fire
13. No Surrender
14. Bobby Jean
15. I'm Goin' Down
16. Glory Days
17. Dancing in the Dark
18. My Hometown
19. Tougher Than the Rest
20. The Promised Land
21. Last To Die
22. Long Walk Home
23. The Rising
24. Born To Run (with Jay Weinberg)25. Raise Your Hand (with some of You Sexy Thing)
26. The Last Time (Rolling Stones cover)
27. Waitin' on a Sunny Day
28. Seven Nights To Rock
29. Kitty's Back
30. American Land
31. Jersey Girl
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Posted on October 10, 2009 1:12 AM
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Comments (21)
awesome!
Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2009 1:43 AM
kind of depressing they ended with jersey girl.
Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2009 1:50 AM
yeah, should've gone out with thunder road or rosalita or something, but whatever. show was still great.
Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2009 2:48 AM
Glad I went last week...no rosalita??
Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2009 3:16 AM
Mr. Von Joni; Mr. Bovine Joni
Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2009 4:53 AM
Noel Gallagher > Bruce Sprinsteen
These are facts people.
Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2009 9:58 AM
What are you talking about? Jersey Girl was the perfect ending. Not a dry eye in the house.
Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2009 10:03 AM
Jersey Girl was the perfect ending. Was disappointed they didn't play The River, Rosalita or Thunder Road but awesome show.
Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2009 10:36 AM
Jersey Girl to end it? Wow! Perfect.
Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2009 11:04 AM
No Streets of Philadelphia? That is his best song. Oscar gold!
Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2009 11:57 AM
This is the first review I've ever seen of a Bruce show that didn't feature the length of the show over the music content - well done.
Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2009 12:14 PM
It's not the length, it's the girth.
Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2009 12:30 PM
Bruce generally plays 3x longer than Passion Pit
Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2009 12:30 PM
Went to 3 outta the 5. Such great shows. Nights 2 & 4 were best in my opinion. Hope he does the album thing at MSG...
Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2009 12:33 PM
Went to night 4. Maybe I'm biased, but it was the best setlist by far. Plus, I gave Bruce a high five during 10th Avenue Freeze-Out. I'm very content with life right now.
Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2009 1:35 PM
tooooo bad it was not his last show EVER. he jumped the shark in '76
Posted by david fricke | October 10, 2009 2:14 PM
Somebody told me Bruce is actually going to disassemble Giants Stadium, brick-by-brick, with his bare hands.
True?
Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2009 3:33 PM
hitler's first springsteen show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGJpu5AiYoE
Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2009 5:50 PM
pictures up
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/10/bruce_springste_27.html
Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2009 6:28 PM
Well said, such a person should be a good sentence, or the future will be more rampant.
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Posted by lv | October 18, 2009 8:34 AM