Meeting and Jungleland at MSG on Night 2

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Posted by Stan Goldstein October 19, 2007 1:12AM
Categories: Concerts

Thursday's second show at Madison Square Garden was a special night because of two songs.
The tour debuts of Meeting Across the River (my favorite Springsteen song) followed by Jungleland.
Five of the eight songs from the Born to Run album were played.

Show began at 8:26 p.m.

1. Radio Nowhere
2. Night
3. Lonesome Day
4. Gypsy Biker
5. Magic
6. Reason to Believe
Two shhhhhhhushhhes again by Bruce before as the crowd started getting into the song. Toward the end of the song Bruce put his harmonica in water and then splashed it around the stage.

7. Candy's Room
8. She's The One
9. Livin' In The Future
In his rap before the song, Bruce said "The Bill of Right has to get louder cheers than cheeseburgers! Damn people!"
Bruce also mentioned how the Statue of Liberty and the Jets and the Giants are in New Jersey and that the theme song from New York/New York was sung by a guy from Jersey.

10. The Promised Land
11. Tougher Than The Rest



12. Meeting Across The River
Just Bruce, Roy Bittan on piano and Garry Tallent playing the stand-up bass.
Bruce said before playing it:
"I have a special dedication tonight. An old friend passed away a while back. When I first game to New York City I met Peter Boyle. I had just put out Born to Run and Peter told me how much he liked it because of the failure and redemption on the album. Tonight would have been his birthday."
Perfectly done. It just doesn't get better than this at a Springsteen show for me.

13. Jungleland.
What can you say. A perfect song to be played in Madison Square Garden. The place went nuts. Clarence sounded great on the sax solo. Bruce gave Clarence a double tap on the shoulder after he finished playing it.

After Jungleland Bruce said: "That's for Peter. We love you!"

14. You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch).
Bruce has a lot of fun on this song with Steven.

15. Devil's Arcade
16. The Rising
17. Last To Die
18. Long Walk Home
19. Badlands

Main set over at 10:10 p.m .

Bruce came out for the encores wearing a black T-shirt that had "New York City" on it.

20. Girls in their Summer Clothes
21. Thundercrack
"This was our original showstopper before there was anybody at the shows to stop," Bruce said. He mentioned again how he used to play the song at Max's Kansas City when he was on a bill with Bob Marley and The Wailers.

22. Born to Run
23. Dancing in The Dark
24. American Land
Five members of the Sessions Band joined the E Street Band on this song: Lisa Lowell on vocals, Jeremy Chatzky on bass, Larry Eagle on percussion, Charlie Giordano at Roy's piano and Greg Liszt on banjo.



Show over at 10:48 p.m.
Great show.

Spotted in the crowd: Howard Stern and his fiancee Beth Ostrosky, (although they left before "The Rising" was played); Jack Ford from Cout TV, actor Ed Norton, Chuck Zito and NBA (Knicks) TV-announcer Mike Breen.

Overall six songs played tonight that weren't played on Wednesday night.

The tour now moves to Chicago for shows on Sunday and Monday.