CONCERT: is how it goes when that city is so lucky to be allocated more Bruce Springsteen concerts over of “the River” Egeland: This would provide a night where the album is played in its entirety.
Where
Frogner park, Oslo
Attendance
About. 37,000 (sold out)
There are both fighting digg and little letdown at the same time. First and foremost because it takes away some of the unique attraction by Springsteen and E Street Band that is in their, at least apparently, spontaneous and unpredictable track selection and eternal varying set lists.
on the other hand: as fans is much deep tracks gold on “the River” that only occasionally aired live context, one can live a long life as Springsteen fan and set a two-digit number of concerts without ever having had the opportunity to hear “Wreck On the Highway” or “Fade away”. Or any of the foolproof and / or idiotic party or rockabilly songs and dance band gems hidden in this rich, double the 1980 album. So, we can of course discuss about this album is the third, fifth or seventh best album of Springsteen discography.
so how it sounded? Very loud and grumbling on the most uptempo rock songs, almost back a little gubbete in “Sherry Darling”, but also exquisite jingling and becoming recumbent on quieter songs like “Independence Day,” “I Wanna Marry You” and “Fade Away “. The former contained tonight’s first of three “chronicles,” a long chat laid over the gorgeous intro where Springsteen recounted the story of how his father, who he had a ordknap relation to, in his last days had finally recognized his son’s songwriting: He liked best songs was about himself.
songs
1. Meet Me In The City
“The River” in full:
2. The Ties That Bind
3. Sherry Darling
4. JacksonCage
5. Two Hearts
6. Independence Day
7. Hungry Heart
8. Out In The Street
9. Crush On You
10. You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
11. I Wanna Marry You / Here She Comes Walkin ‘
12. The River
13. Pointblank
14. Cadillac Ranch
15. I’m A Rocker
16. Fade Away
17. Stolen Car
18. Ramrod
19. The Price You Pay
20. Drive All Night / Dream Baby Dream (Suicide cover)
21. Wreck On The Highway
22. Badlands
23. The Promised Land
24. Lonesome Day
25. Wrecking Ball
26. Because The Night
27. The Rising.
28. Land of Hope And Dreams / People Get Ready (The Impressions-cover)
29. Born In The USA
30. Born To Run
31. Dancing In The Dark
32. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
33. Shout (The Isley Brothers cover)
34. Bobby Jean
35. This Hard Land (acoustic)
The title track “The River” was one of highlights, lovely playing, almost worthy if it is allowed to use such a word, Springsteen’s harmonica loudly and powerfully while Nils Lofgren certainly excellent steel guitar could hardly be heard.
as said: the foolproof / idiotic songs have a strange charisma when they served in overall album context, songs like “Cadillac Ranch” and “Ramrod” is delicious stupid in itself , often a bit odd placed between the usual greatest hits set, but perfect here when they are allowed to remain as fat dripping, thick bacon slices right after obscure “Point Blank” or midway between lean, fragile masterpieces as “Stolen Car” (the original version was played here , not the slightly more uptempo outtakeversjonen) and “the Price You Pay”, the latter with Springsteen on 12-string Telecaster and vocal top form. Exciting to see when reporting the E Street Band Ventolin usage published.
Some edged sword this album-in-its-entirety words, but it was striking how it went a sort of sigh of relief through Frogner park when “Wreck on the Highway” toned out and “Badlands” boomed started. So how would a condensed hits seen half hours degenerate? Very many regular mails, but also disappointing many “newer” songs, it is often somewhat anticlimactic when “Lonesome Day”, “Wrecking Ball,” “The Rising” and “Land Of Hope And Dreams” is forced into a rather short sequence, they have much in common in dynamics and feeling.
So where disappears the last dot on the dice? Can he fall in form since dice six in Trondheim? This reviewer did not Granåsen concert, but have certainly seen Springsteen better, more active and vocal in significantly better shape several times. The sound of all the stage in Frogner Park was little gripe, some coarse and rough exceptions notwithstanding, but it was badly behind the trees and far behind, big screen about one second out of synch with the audio. And then there are enough 20 tracks where you always know which song that comes as the next a little mood killer, even though most of today’s best E Street achievements came here.
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