I'm gonna see the full 'River'
On this leg of the tour, some cities got Born to Run from start-to-finish. A few got Darkness. A few got Born in the USA. But news has come in the last hour that Madison Square Garden is going to the full Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle on the first night and the full River on the second. My brother and I have tickets for the second night, this coming Sunday. Double-sided, packed with live rarities, at 21 tracks going to be 3/4 of the show, with one song performed for the first time in nearly 30 years in recent weeks (the amazing Price You Pay, in Philly, which along with the lack of an MSG full album announcement sparked hopes he was prepping for it), and another song still left unplayed in that timespan, with the band or solo, Crush on You. Unbelievable.
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Updated Wednesday: In the comments, friend Matt reminds me Crush on You got an airing last year in Richmond. This makes sense as the Richmond show I attended on the D&D tour is one of the few from this decade not to have surfaced/circulated. *Shakes fist at Richmond, my Springsteen arch-nemesis.*
November 4th, 2009 at 8:10 PM
As my niece is fond of telling me, he played "Crush on you" last year in Richmond and she saw it and I didn't. Unless she is lying, which would please me no end. Also, totally jealous.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Damn. Your niece is 100% accurate. With that plus Philly's Price You Pay, everything from The River has received an airing at least once this decade. Among the pre-92 formal albums, The Angel holds the last-played record, 1996. I've corrected the post. And who knows, maybe he's saving Human Touch for Buffalo…