The River ’16 – Show #20 – Mar 10, 2016 – Talking Stick Resort Arena, Phoenix, AZ setlist thread

Mike_Voss posted:

My first of 4 shows this tour (all 3 LA dates after) and my first at this venue. Hoping it's as killer as my last Arizona show (in Glendale) on the Wrecking Ball tour, or as lucky as the one before that when we won lottery and were first 3 into the pit!

I'm sure it will be!!! 4 shows, very cool

Source:

http://brucespringsteen.net/ne...it-lottery-procedure

Phoenix General Admission Pit Lottery Procedure

Have a great show everyone.

Show is still running. Wreck On The Highway is being played now.

1. Meet Me In The City
2. The Ties That Bind         
3. Sherry Darling         
4. Jackson Cage
5. Two Hearts ( It Takes Two ending )
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 intro )
12. The River
13. Point Blank              
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
21. Wreck On The Highway

Moin Detlef, schon wieder aktiv;-) ...we are at airport Hamburg. Ready for take off to SF. Looking forward to met Anja and Mando. See you in Berlin. 

22. Badlands
23. No Surrender
24. Lonesome Day
25. Candy's Room
26. Because The Night
27. She's The One
28. The Rising
29. Thunder Road
*******
30. GLORY DAYS
31. Born To Run
32. Dancing in the Dark
33. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
34. Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
35. Shout

Thanks for posting the remaining setlist.

Rausche posted:

Moin Detlef, schon wieder aktiv;-) ...we are at airport Hamburg. Ready for take off to SF. Looking forward to met Anja and Mando. See you in Berlin. 

Always at your service

I'm really looking forward to Berlin. Will be great for sure.

And now have fun at your US-shows. I'll keep my fingers crossed that he'll pull out some raries for you.

Thanks guys! Anyone know whether Nils been taking the guitar solo on Because the Night most shows?

He did at the Albany show I was at--I'm pretty sure it's his for good now.

Bruce pulled a bunch of young ladies on stage for DITD.  The first gal on the left is my friend's daughter. It was her first show.  She is still beaming today.

bcpkid posted:

He did at the Albany show I was at--I'm pretty sure it's his for good now.

 

It's his baby alright but Bruce has taken it himself every now and then. Cool thanks! As it happens I'll be getting Albany soon so can't wait to hear it!

buckshot posted:

Bruce pulled a bunch of young ladies on stage for DITD.  The first gal on the left is my friend's daughter. It was her first show.  She is still beaming today.

That's awesome!! What a great memory she'll have of her childhood

   For anyone who has not yet seen or heard a TheRiverTour16 show and is still unsure about how the full album played in order translates in a live context, let me put your fears to rest. The album live works spectacularly not in spite of the spate of slow, quiet songs interspersed between the rockers that dominate its first two thirds and which themselves dominate the final third of the album and its performance, it works *because* of them. They are the emotional meat of the album, a sort of precursor to the Nebraska album that Bruce followed up with.

Independence Day

I Wanna Marry You

The River

Point Blank

Fade Away

Stolen Car

The Price You Pay

Drive All Night

Wreck On The Highway

   I'll bet you never realized there's been a whole other album hiding within that double LP you' bought in 1980. But there it is, from youthful struggles with leaving the nest, through marriage and relationship fantasies and realities, and right up to the insecurities that creep into our mature relationships when mortality beckons. The rockers are there to hold the struggle and strife of the life cycle at bay. This is the true "alternate The River." And every song calls up the hopes and fears of our lives, the needs versus the realities. You will leave your River show experience vitalized and joyful. But you will also remember that in each of these nine songs Bruce Springsteen envisioned an entire life, whether explicitly laid out or peeking out from between the lines.

   For me this took an unexpected personal turn. Both Independence Day and Adam Raised A Cain are songs that I have had a personal relationship with ever since first hearing them on record, because like Bruce I had a father who always had a hard time showing his love yet found it all too easy to criticize. Bruce's reluctant late night sit-downs with his father had their reflection in mine when I worked in my father's graphics shop at 15 and his frequent criticism resulted in our lashing out at each other. His attempt at a solution almost always resuilted in his pushing me to stop work and sit down over a cup of coffee and cool down. Just when I wanted most to do anything but cool down, for I had inherited his temper.

   I suppose it was a combination of factors that had me tearing up during Independence Day last night, when I'd seen the song a number of times before without doing so. A fellow fan we met up with pre-show related having done so when she heard it recently just months after her own father's passing. Unlike me, she had a close and wonderful relationship with her dad, and hearing that reiterated warmed me greatly, yet left me thinking a bit throughout the day, as we waited in the GA line, about my Dad and I. He lived his last years in Phoenix, and my first visit there at 27 was to see his ashes laid to rest in a cemetery North of the city.

   My tears at that funeral were more the tears anyone sheds the first time they lose a parent than anything else. I was missing the idea of a parent (after having a stepfather who eventually filled the shoes my real father couldn't, or wouldn't) more than I was missing him. But missing him a bit more than I ever had expected to. It wasn't until years later that a family member revealed something my oldest cousin once said to my father, without my knowledge nor, had I known it, my consent. I never talked with family much about Dad and I. She saw our relationship through a distorted lens that included her own contentious relationship with him as my mother's niece as well as my frosty reception of my father's actual presence or any talk about him amongst myself and family members. "You have been a terrible father to him and he hates you for it" is the best paraphrase I can recall right now. The words "hates you" are not paraphrased. It was something I never actually said to him as an adult, nor ever really thought of him anytime in my life. Afraid of him, a little. Distanced from him, always. But I didn't know until after he was gone that my father literally went to his grave thinking I hated him. A few tears during last night's performance of Independence Day are far too little to make up for that, but they were all I had, and cathartic enough to cement my closest emotional tie with Bruce Springsteen's own experiences so beautifully expressed in the song.

   Okay Bruce, bring out Adam Raised a Cain in LA. There are doubtless others whose touchstone is the guitar-driven version of father-son relationships - and I myself need to hear some fierce guitars!

Mike

Hazydavo (dmnsg) posted:

bcpkid posted:

He did at the Albany show I was at--I'm pretty sure it's his for good now.

 

It's his baby alright but Bruce has taken it himself every now and then. Cool thanks! As it happens I'll be getting Albany soon so can't wait to hear it!

It was in Phoenix a couple of tours back that I last saw Bruce take the BTN solo!

Already looking forward to my next Springsteen show in Phoenix - they have been among my favorites!

Mike

Joe Maddon was there last night. 

Mike_Voss posted:

   For anyone who has not yet seen or heard a TheRiverTour16 show and is still unsure about how the full album played in order translates in a live context, let me put your fears to rest. The album live works spectacularly not in spite of the spate of slow, quiet songs interspersed between the rockers that dominate its first two thirds and which themselves dominate the final third of the album and its performance, it works *because* of them. They are the emotional meat of the album, a sort of precursor to the Nebraska album that Bruce followed up with.

Independence Day

I Wanna Marry You

The River

Point Blank

Fade Away

Stolen Car

The Price You Pay

Drive All Night

Wreck On The Highway

   I'll bet you never realized there's been a whole other album hiding within that double LP you' bought in 1980. But there it is, from youthful struggles with leaving the nest, through marriage and relationship fantasies and realities, and right up to the insecurities that creep into our mature relationships when mortality beckons. The rockers are there to hold the struggle and strife of the life cycle at bay. This is the true "alternate The River." And every song calls up the hopes and fears of our lives, the needs versus the realities. You will leave your River show experience vitalized and joyful. But you will also remember that in each of these nine songs Bruce Springsteen envisioned an entire life, whether explicitly laid out or peeking out from between the lines.

   For me this took an unexpected personal turn. Both Independence Day and Adam Raised A Cain are songs that I have had a personal relationship with ever since first hearing them on record, because like Bruce I had a father who always had a hard time showing his love yet found it all too easy to criticize. Bruce's reluctant late night sit-downs with his father had their reflection in mine when I worked in my father's graphics shop at 15 and his frequent criticism resulted in our lashing out at each other. His attempt at a solution almost always resuilted in his pushing me to stop work and sit down over a cup of coffee and cool down. Just when I wanted most to do anything but cool down, for I had inherited his temper.

   I suppose it was a combination of factors that had me tearing up during Independence Day last night, when I'd seen the song a number of times before without doing so. A fellow fan we met up with pre-show related having done so when she heard it recently just months after her own father's passing. Unlike me, she had a close and wonderful relationship with her dad, and hearing that reiterated warmed me greatly, yet left me thinking a bit throughout the day, as we waited in the GA line, about my Dad and I. He lived his last years in Phoenix, and my first visit there at 27 was to see his ashes laid to rest in a cemetery North of the city.

   My tears at that funeral were more the tears anyone sheds the first time they lose a parent than anything else. I was missing the idea of a parent (after having a stepfather who eventually filled the shoes my real father couldn't, or wouldn't) more than I was missing him. But missing him a bit more than I ever had expected to. It wasn't until years later that a family member revealed something my oldest cousin once said to my father, without my knowledge nor, had I known it, my consent. I never talked with family much about Dad and I. She saw our relationship through a distorted lens that included her own contentious relationship with him as my mother's niece as well as my frosty reception of my father's actual presence or any talk about him amongst myself and family members. "You have been a terrible father to him and he hates you for it" is the best paraphrase I can recall right now. The words "hates you" are not paraphrased. It was something I never actually said to him as an adult, nor ever really thought of him anytime in my life. Afraid of him, a little. Distanced from him, always. But I didn't know until after he was gone that my father literally went to his grave thinking I hated him. A few tears during last night's performance of Independence Day are far too little to make up for that, but they were all I had, and cathartic enough to cement my closest emotional tie with Bruce Springsteen's own experiences so beautifully expressed in the song.

   Okay Bruce, bring out Adam Raised a Cain in LA. There are doubtless others whose touchstone is the guitar-driven version of father-son relationships - and I myself need to hear some fierce guitars!

Mike

Thanks for sharing Mike. That's what he does with his songs, they touch us at our core. I love Independence Day. It's simply written really and it's perfect and you imagine being in that kitchen (especially with having heard the stories he has told about those talks with Father in the past).

Next time I listen reckon I'll think of you and your story too. Enjoy your LA shows, hope you get Adam!!!

Hazydavo (dmnsg) posted:

 

Thanks for sharing Mike. That's what he does with his songs, they touch us at our core. I love Indepence Day. It's simply written really and it's perfect and you imagine being in that kitchen (especially with having heard the stories he has told about those talks with Father in the past).

Next time I listen reckon I'll think of you and your story too. Enjoy your LA shows, hope you get Adam!!!

Thanks Hazy!

Thinking about how to frame it within a larger context led to the "album within the album" concept, which I have probably just missed realizing when listening to all those songs together late at night in the dark, or just hearing  a few strung together on a show recording.

The experience, both during Independence Day and while thinking/writing later, was more cathartic than sad, so while writing a sad story I was actually not so much in a sad mood as a poignant one. More context, lol!

Mike

Another thought, cool getting to cross 5 songs off my bucket list within a 6-song set. Ramrod kinda ruined the beauty of that, lol!

Mike

Mike_Voss posted:

Hazydavo (dmnsg) posted:

 

Thanks for sharing Mike. That's what he does with his songs, they touch us at our core. I love Indepence Day. It's simply written really and it's perfect and you imagine being in that kitchen (especially with having heard the stories he has told about those talks with Father in the past).

Next time I listen reckon I'll think of you and your story too. Enjoy your LA shows, hope you get Adam!!!

Thanks Hazy!

Thinking about how to frame it within a larger context led to the "album within the album" concept, which I have probably just missed realizing when listening to all those songs together late at night in the dark, or just hearing  a few strung together on a show recording.

The experience, both during Independence Day and while thinking/writing later, was more cathartic than sad, so while writing a sad story I was actually not so much in a sad mood as a poignant one. More context, lol!

 

Mike

Ok good to hear. By the way, that's the way I liked to listen to the River back when I first got it in my teens, late at night in the dark, especially sides 3 and 4 and especially Point Blank, Stolen Car, The Price You Pay, Drive All Night and Wreck...it was the best! Used to skip Cadillac, I'm a Rocker and Ramrod as they didn't fit the mood...

Not so much opportunity these days to do that though...turn off the light and really listen.

Mike_Voss posted:

Another thought, cool getting to cross 5 songs off my bucket list within a 6-song set. Ramrod kinda ruined the beauty of that, lol!

Mike

Yes, amazing. Alot of these songs were rarities once, not any more!!!

I actually thought it was pretty special to get Jackson Cage a couple of years ago in Adelaide!

Hazydavo (dmnsg) posted:

Yes, amazing. Alot of these songs were rarities once, not any more!!!

I actually thought it was pretty special to get Jackson Cage a couple of years ago in Adelaide!

I thought I had seen Jackson Cage way back in 2000 at the MSG shows but my spreadsheet says no! (*That's* why I need a spreadsheet, lol!)

So that, I Wanna Marry You, and Crush on You make 8 off my list in one show. Yowza!

(Had to edit that after typing Mary for Marry. That is what is known as a genuine Bruce typo!)

Mike

(Hope you saw the Brisbane show with Stayin Alive. Awesome set!)

buckshot posted:

Joe Maddon was there last night. 

 yep, how does Max do it, keep doing it?