Bruce Springsteen General Discussion Thread

Saturday 31st

Have it all recording to be there when I go into withdrawal after Anfield 🤣

Watched Bruce instead of the Champions League final!!!

hahaha those people are insane

at least teenagers grow out of overnight camping etc for their favourite boy bands/girl groups etc.

50 year olds setting up queue 2 days before the show is another level of insanity

reporting back in morning, lunchtime and evening for 3 days is worse in my opinion than teenagers arriving the morning of.
The nonsense about being at the barrier is not worth it.

hahaha even worse. Don’t understand these people. How much enjoyment can be derived from being at the barrier?

They have 2 separate queues. One for Wednesday. One for Saturday. Anfield is a bit of a hike from the city centre, so not worth it. I do normally join a queue a few hours before the door opens, but that's for a pit. I already have a front of pitch ticket.

They are insane.

Its the same show pretty much every night these days by Bruce, the novelty wears off.

I met a few of these people before, "This is show 142 for me, how many have you been at"

I dont know because I dont count them religiously like a nutcase.

a friend was working an RDS Bruce show a few years back and said as soon as first note in encore was played, about 100 of them had rushed out of the pit and made beeline for a random spot in front of RDS. They had agreed between themselves to start the second night queue straight after night 1 and we marking each others hands as Bruce & E street were playing their encore.

It’s deffo not about enjoyment of the music or the shows anymore for these people but the thrill of the queue etc

Am a big fan personally but that's nut job stuff!😳

The years are starting to show on Bruce's face, and the set list is basically set in stone forever, and we only get one Nils spin during because the night since he got the hips done.

But the E Street band are still the greatest rock and roll band walking the Earth and nobody's taking the crown anytime soon.

Of course he brought McCartney on at the show I wasn't at.......

Sat eve was pretty incredible. The McCartney appearance just topped it off. Anfield is a great venue for a concert. My first ever trip to Liverpool and I get to see Bruce as well as 1/4 of the Beatles. As Bruce said, only for Liverpool and The Beatles there'd have been no E Street Band.

I was very conscious this time round thought, even moreso than last year in Croker, that there is a finite limit to how long the ESB can continue this. Nils is still rockin and playing that gee-tar like no man's business but he's possibly the most aged of them all. Garry, Roy and especially Stevie and Max are incredible for their energy considering they are the same vintage as Bruce. And Bruce… We'll he no longer does the knee slides across the stage, but he put on a 2 hr 55 min show comprising 30 songs with literally no break, Finish one and straight into the next and still working the crowds down the front, even waiting momentarily for them to take their selfies, swapping his harmonica for a dram of whiskey ( which he knocked back there and then!) and handing out plectrums here and there.

Set list pretty predictable at this stage interspersed with plenty of renewed understandable venom against Trump and his administration. He even managed an Anfield nod to the European Champions. Rainmaker sounded like it was written specifically about Trump, although my online research suggests it could date back to 2003 and be about Wall Street types or GW Bush but it certainly felt aimed at the "dear leader" on Sat night and finishing up with Chimes of Freedom really resonated.

Great to experience a gig outside of Ireland and the trip far less hassle (or intimidating) than the trek to RDS or Croke Park. Great vibe (and Scouse banter) in the queues at Lime Street and then on the fleets of special buses out to and back from Anfield. Plenty of fans and t-shirts in evidence on the flight back yesterday morning including one girl sitting beside me who confessed she'd been one of the 7 day queuers to be at the front - I don't understand it myself, but I did see at least one T shirt with the phrase "E Street Fans - we take care of our own" so maybe that explains it somewhat.

Nils is the baby of the core band members afaik. He seemed fairly subdued at the last Croker and RDS gigs.

the trip far less hassle (or intimidating) than the trek to RDS or Croke Park.

Just curious, what makes it less hassle?