Friday, April 13, 2012

Bruce Springsteen in Buffalo: The Setlist

I've got this big, goofy grin on my face that won't be going away anytime soon. What a night! As usual, bold denotes songs I'd never heard live before; in one case GREAT, BIG CAPITAL LETTERS denotes a song I'd heard live before, albeit not for a long while, that had me shakin' it tonight (as it were) at First Niagara Center.

Set:
  • Buffalo Gals [trad.]
  • We Take Care Of Our Own
  • Wrecking Ball
  • The Ties That Bind
  • Death to My Hometown
  • My City of Ruins
  • Rendezvous (also a tour premiere)
  • Mountain of Love (ditto)
  • Jack of All Trades (love, love, love this song; I'm so glad I got to hear it before its inevitable disappearance later on in the tour)
  • Prove It All Night
  • Darkness on the Edge of Town (!)
  • Shackled and Drawn
  • Waiting on a Sunny Day
  • The Promised Land
  • Apollo Medley
  • Point Blank (tour premiere)
  • 41 Shots (American Skin)
  • The Rising
  • Lonesome Day
  • We Are Alive (another new song that sounded even better live than on the album; this one's nothing short of genius)
  • Thunder Road 
Encore:
  • Rocky Ground
  • RAMROD
  • Born to Run
  • Dancing in the Dark
  • Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (featuring a Clarence Clemons tribute that threatened to blow the roof off of First Niagara Center and that had Mr. Bruce Springsteen visibly on the brink of tears)
I'm off to bed, but I'll have a review written later this weekend. Can't wait to do it all again in Manchester June 22!

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