1 00:00:35,369 --> 00:00:36,537 Red Bank, 2 00:00:37,997 --> 00:00:40,309 that's the site of the old Carlton Theater, 3 00:00:40,333 --> 00:00:42,001 now the Count Basie... 4 00:00:43,878 --> 00:00:47,173 where back in the '70s, I'd play with the early E Street Band. 5 00:00:52,595 --> 00:00:56,116 I used to walk these streets on Saturdays in the '60s 6 00:00:56,140 --> 00:00:58,518 when they were filled with teenagers. 7 00:01:00,269 --> 00:01:04,625 And my first band, The Castiles, and I would spend the mornings in Freehold 8 00:01:04,649 --> 00:01:06,317 getting our hair just right. 9 00:01:07,777 --> 00:01:11,239 How we used to dream of playing in front of screaming crowds. 10 00:01:12,740 --> 00:01:14,843 Since I was 16, 11 00:01:14,867 --> 00:01:18,621 playing live has been a deep and lasting part of who I am 12 00:01:19,497 --> 00:01:23,334 and how I justify my existence here on Earth. 13 00:01:24,794 --> 00:01:28,423 A lot of it comes together when I count off the band. 14 00:01:30,925 --> 00:01:33,052 Recently, when the world shut down, 15 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:36,681 no live music, no audiences. 16 00:01:37,223 --> 00:01:40,828 So I made a promise to myself, to my fans, and to the band 17 00:01:40,852 --> 00:01:42,871 that if we got through this, 18 00:01:42,895 --> 00:01:44,832 I'd throw the biggest party I could. 19 00:03:34,048 --> 00:03:35,258 Let's go! 20 00:03:45,393 --> 00:03:48,789 This would be our first tour in six years. 21 00:03:48,813 --> 00:03:51,417 Now that's a lot longer break than I planned. 22 00:03:53,526 --> 00:03:57,589 So we got together on a quiet, cold January morning in Red Bank 23 00:03:57,613 --> 00:03:59,198 to begin our rehearsals. 24 00:03:59,991 --> 00:04:03,595 There are two things I try to accomplish in rehearsal. 25 00:04:03,619 --> 00:04:07,641 One, you've got to shake the cobwebs off the band, 26 00:04:07,665 --> 00:04:10,668 off of all those years of inactivity. 27 00:04:11,335 --> 00:04:15,107 And two, you've got to find your set list. 28 00:04:16,799 --> 00:04:20,988 Now that set list is going to communicate the story 29 00:04:21,012 --> 00:04:24,682 you are trying to tell your audience this time around. 30 00:04:26,976 --> 00:04:29,538 And the 25 songs I chose to focus on 31 00:04:29,562 --> 00:04:33,083 would complete the narrative for what I wanted to say, 32 00:04:33,107 --> 00:04:35,568 and it would let the audience know who I am 33 00:04:36,069 --> 00:04:38,112 at this point in my work life. 34 00:04:39,197 --> 00:04:41,037 Notes? 35 00:04:41,365 --> 00:04:42,525 Notes, notes. 36 00:04:43,451 --> 00:04:45,036 Getting ready to write it down. 37 00:04:45,495 --> 00:04:46,579 No Surrender. 38 00:04:47,497 --> 00:04:48,724 Ghosts. 39 00:04:48,748 --> 00:04:50,333 Letter To You. 40 00:04:50,750 --> 00:04:52,210 Promised Land. 41 00:04:52,627 --> 00:04:54,629 Last Man Standing. 42 00:04:56,089 --> 00:04:57,673 Backstreets. 43 00:04:59,842 --> 00:05:01,236 She's The One. 44 00:05:01,260 --> 00:05:02,488 Badlands. 45 00:05:02,512 --> 00:05:04,073 Glory Days. 46 00:05:04,097 --> 00:05:06,974 Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out. 47 00:05:07,350 --> 00:05:09,852 I'll See You In My Dreams. 48 00:05:10,603 --> 00:05:12,522 And that's the end of that set. 49 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:17,586 This is 28 songs and I think on the last tour... 50 00:05:17,610 --> 00:05:18,921 That's easily three. 51 00:05:18,945 --> 00:05:21,423 Last tour, what... I think that's about how many we did. 52 00:05:21,447 --> 00:05:23,342 - That's three hours. - Yeah. 53 00:05:23,366 --> 00:05:26,470 After six years, I thought it might, uh, scale it back a little bit. 54 00:05:26,494 --> 00:05:28,806 Well done, man! 55 00:05:28,830 --> 00:05:31,058 - We can't do that! - Yeah, amen to that. 56 00:05:31,082 --> 00:05:33,352 Can't disappoint the fans, goddammit! 57 00:05:36,546 --> 00:05:40,150 When we rehearsed in Red Bank at this small Black Box theater, 58 00:05:40,174 --> 00:05:43,362 of course, it was wonderful on a reunion basis. 59 00:05:43,386 --> 00:05:45,614 We hadn't been in the same room, all of us, 60 00:05:45,638 --> 00:05:48,242 since the recording of Letter to You. 61 00:05:48,266 --> 00:05:50,035 I think everybody's mindset was, 62 00:05:50,059 --> 00:05:52,037 you know, we're gonna go on tour. 63 00:05:52,061 --> 00:05:54,998 But what was then four years since the last tour 64 00:05:55,022 --> 00:05:57,042 wound up being six years. 65 00:05:57,066 --> 00:06:00,337 I hadn't seen everybody together for a very long time. 66 00:06:00,361 --> 00:06:03,173 And I'm always taken back by the deep, 67 00:06:03,197 --> 00:06:06,051 profound sense of camaraderie that you feel 68 00:06:06,075 --> 00:06:07,428 when you see everybody all together. 69 00:06:07,452 --> 00:06:09,012 You know, it's 50 years 70 00:06:09,036 --> 00:06:11,724 that this group has been together. 71 00:06:11,748 --> 00:06:13,642 And, of course, we're all in that zone. 72 00:06:13,666 --> 00:06:17,980 We don't know how long things can go on and what can happen to anybody. 73 00:06:18,004 --> 00:06:20,882 We're lucky that we have the core band. 74 00:06:21,799 --> 00:06:23,610 The only thing we have to fear 75 00:06:23,634 --> 00:06:25,988 is destroying the legacy we've made so far. 76 00:06:26,012 --> 00:06:27,614 Uh, so, Doug, you get those chords? 77 00:06:29,140 --> 00:06:30,200 E minor. 78 00:06:48,326 --> 00:06:50,429 A little bit concerned when we started rehearsals. 79 00:06:51,871 --> 00:06:56,351 Um, you know, it was all a little bit casual, you know? 80 00:06:56,375 --> 00:06:59,146 The initial rehearsals is just the core band 81 00:06:59,170 --> 00:07:01,130 getting our sea legs with the songs. 82 00:07:01,506 --> 00:07:03,233 So you got, like, 40-somethin' songs. 83 00:07:03,257 --> 00:07:06,028 Three new albums we've never played live. 84 00:07:06,052 --> 00:07:09,323 Max is saying that we changed the arrangement for the live? 85 00:07:09,347 --> 00:07:10,657 - Yes. - Oh. 86 00:07:10,681 --> 00:07:13,226 Yeah, the chart is wrong. 87 00:07:13,851 --> 00:07:16,663 - The chart is wrong. - No wonder I don't know it! 88 00:07:16,687 --> 00:07:19,833 Six years, seven years is a really long time 89 00:07:19,857 --> 00:07:22,276 to not really play together. 90 00:07:31,369 --> 00:07:32,721 It became fairly apparent 91 00:07:32,745 --> 00:07:36,100 that we were playing everything extremely slow. 92 00:07:41,045 --> 00:07:45,758 We played She's The One so slow, it was a ballad. 93 00:07:52,223 --> 00:07:56,453 People would expect musicians in their 70s 94 00:07:56,477 --> 00:07:59,748 to play that loping thing, which would be unfortunate. 95 00:08:04,402 --> 00:08:06,797 Tempos were so damn slow, 96 00:08:06,821 --> 00:08:09,091 I couldn't play the damn song. 97 00:08:09,115 --> 00:08:11,343 I can't play... I can't play that fast. 98 00:08:11,367 --> 00:08:13,345 I can't pay... play that slow. 99 00:08:13,369 --> 00:08:16,914 You know, I, I only play it one way and it's... 100 00:08:17,206 --> 00:08:18,225 That's all I can do. 101 00:08:22,879 --> 00:08:25,691 He had articulated to me in a phone call earlier, 102 00:08:25,715 --> 00:08:27,860 he wanted this show to be a real rock show. 103 00:08:31,262 --> 00:08:35,576 And we had the responsibility to those audience members 104 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:40,563 who hadn't seen Bruce and the E Street Band in 1976. 105 00:08:41,272 --> 00:08:42,982 You've gotta transmit that excitement. 106 00:08:53,076 --> 00:08:55,387 We had to recall some of that manic, 107 00:08:55,411 --> 00:08:58,956 out-of-control-way we played, 50 years ago. 108 00:09:06,714 --> 00:09:08,549 Really get back to where we were. 109 00:09:11,010 --> 00:09:12,863 We only rehearsed, I think, six days. 110 00:09:12,887 --> 00:09:14,907 We have new horn players, we have new singers, 111 00:09:14,931 --> 00:09:17,868 and it's a big band and a lot of moving parts 112 00:09:17,892 --> 00:09:19,912 and I am completely anal 113 00:09:19,936 --> 00:09:23,791 and I care about every note that everyone does, you know? 114 00:09:23,815 --> 00:09:25,626 That's just my thing. 115 00:09:25,650 --> 00:09:27,378 Yeah, good. Yeah, I know. 116 00:09:27,402 --> 00:09:30,339 Remember in E Street Shuffle, we did a thing where 117 00:09:30,363 --> 00:09:33,926 Max and, uh, it used to be Everett, of course 118 00:09:33,950 --> 00:09:36,095 - did the back and forth... - Oh yeah, on E Street Shuffle. 119 00:09:36,119 --> 00:09:38,222 - ...so we wanna do that tomorrow. - Trading eights. 120 00:09:38,246 --> 00:09:39,848 - Yeah, trading the eights. - I told Anthony... 121 00:09:39,872 --> 00:09:42,768 We had a bigger band, some of the people I didn't know. 122 00:09:55,304 --> 00:09:56,304 Hold right there. 123 00:09:58,975 --> 00:10:00,577 - We're varying the last lick. - Yeah. 124 00:10:00,601 --> 00:10:03,372 Let's go on. Uh, Max, do the... tail end there? 125 00:10:03,396 --> 00:10:04,498 One, two, three. 126 00:10:11,237 --> 00:10:13,924 First rehearsal, I was nervous, you're excited. 127 00:10:13,948 --> 00:10:15,509 There's a whirlwind of emotions. 128 00:10:15,533 --> 00:10:18,011 I made it a point to go over and introduce myself. 129 00:10:18,035 --> 00:10:21,140 Anthony are a fantastically talented percussionist. 130 00:10:21,164 --> 00:10:23,183 It was the first time he's played with us. 131 00:10:25,334 --> 00:10:27,521 We started talking about musicians that we know, 132 00:10:27,545 --> 00:10:29,898 and we spoke for about 30, 40 minutes. 133 00:10:29,922 --> 00:10:31,758 That was all before we played a note. 134 00:10:34,969 --> 00:10:38,157 So by the time we started playing, it felt very natural. 135 00:10:40,141 --> 00:10:41,452 So I said to Anthony... 136 00:10:42,852 --> 00:10:45,330 ...well, one thing you'll never hear anyone say to Bruce, 137 00:10:45,354 --> 00:10:47,249 "Gee, that's not the way we rehearsed it." 138 00:10:47,273 --> 00:10:48,459 It doesn't matter. 139 00:10:48,483 --> 00:10:51,110 It's what's happening now that matters. 140 00:10:51,694 --> 00:10:52,796 This takes experience. 141 00:11:04,207 --> 00:11:05,851 We heard about this guy Bruce, 142 00:11:05,875 --> 00:11:08,669 and we went down to see who this guy was. 143 00:11:10,421 --> 00:11:11,506 I had to be with Bruce. 144 00:11:13,007 --> 00:11:14,860 Before I met Bruce, 145 00:11:14,884 --> 00:11:17,613 I was very successful in the club circuit. 146 00:11:17,637 --> 00:11:20,366 I realized that you had to, 147 00:11:20,390 --> 00:11:22,934 one, start doing original material 148 00:11:23,226 --> 00:11:26,538 and two, had to have a strong leader. 149 00:11:29,982 --> 00:11:32,753 Bruce came along, you know, he didn't like me at first 150 00:11:32,777 --> 00:11:35,321 and that was okay, I stayed busy. 151 00:11:36,948 --> 00:11:40,451 Eventually, he came around and said, "Okay, I need you." 152 00:11:42,328 --> 00:11:44,056 We finally started playing. 153 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:47,768 And it's been since January of '71. 154 00:11:47,792 --> 00:11:49,210 Long, long time. 155 00:11:56,884 --> 00:11:58,529 I grew up in a Baptist church. 156 00:11:58,553 --> 00:12:02,157 My mom and my dad were very, very religious people, 157 00:12:02,181 --> 00:12:05,869 and they were really stunned with my decision 158 00:12:05,893 --> 00:12:08,688 to give up my job as a counselor in a reform school 159 00:12:09,272 --> 00:12:11,917 to go to follow this man, and play rock and roll. 160 00:12:16,112 --> 00:12:19,049 When Max and I joined, the band came together 161 00:12:19,073 --> 00:12:21,242 in a very different way. 162 00:12:22,577 --> 00:12:26,014 Prior to us, it was more eclectic, I think. 163 00:12:26,038 --> 00:12:30,126 Very jazz orientated with Dave Sancious and Vini Lopez. 164 00:12:31,419 --> 00:12:36,316 Blues, R&B, rock hard, pop, that was our wheelhouse. 165 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:42,364 I'd only been in the band about two weeks 166 00:12:42,388 --> 00:12:44,867 and Bruce said, "Bring it down." 167 00:12:47,727 --> 00:12:49,663 I-I just got quieter. 168 00:12:49,687 --> 00:12:51,457 And he took me aside later and was like, 169 00:12:51,481 --> 00:12:53,500 "When I say 'bring it down, ' hit that snare drum, 170 00:12:53,524 --> 00:12:55,210 just bop as hard as you can." 171 00:13:00,114 --> 00:13:02,885 He was teaching me his brand of the stuff 172 00:13:02,909 --> 00:13:07,347 that he absorbed from seeing Sam & Dave and James Brown. 173 00:13:12,293 --> 00:13:14,146 I'd been looking for a situation like that. 174 00:13:14,170 --> 00:13:17,024 I was so disgusted personally with what, 175 00:13:17,048 --> 00:13:19,842 you know, rock had become in the early '70s. 176 00:13:21,219 --> 00:13:23,763 Where's all that great show business stuff? 177 00:13:25,223 --> 00:13:27,201 So Bruce brought that back. 178 00:13:32,188 --> 00:13:34,500 Which is why he had me join the band. 179 00:13:34,524 --> 00:13:36,835 He wanted to put the guitar down and front the band. 180 00:13:41,030 --> 00:13:42,341 Which was a huge step. 181 00:13:42,365 --> 00:13:45,427 I can't even begin to explain how big a step that is 182 00:13:45,451 --> 00:13:47,954 for a guy I grew up with 183 00:13:48,955 --> 00:13:52,434 that was the most introverted guy you'd ever met in your life. 184 00:13:56,170 --> 00:13:59,817 For him to go from that to, like, the world's greatest entertainer... 185 00:14:04,387 --> 00:14:06,365 This is not by accident. 186 00:14:06,389 --> 00:14:11,036 Bruce loves to be surrounded by a family of musicians 187 00:14:11,060 --> 00:14:14,480 and other talents who he can depend on. 188 00:14:15,189 --> 00:14:19,193 And occasionally, we have to make a substitution, 189 00:14:19,902 --> 00:14:22,631 a tragic pair of deaths. 190 00:14:23,740 --> 00:14:26,635 Well, the loss of Danny and Clarence 191 00:14:26,659 --> 00:14:29,620 were terrible blows to the band. 192 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:34,643 First off, they were both relatively young and playing great 193 00:14:34,667 --> 00:14:37,646 and, well, they both died of natural causes. 194 00:14:37,670 --> 00:14:39,857 Danny contracted melanoma, 195 00:14:39,881 --> 00:14:42,443 and Clarence had a stroke. 196 00:14:42,467 --> 00:14:45,404 But for any band that had been together 197 00:14:45,428 --> 00:14:48,181 with the exact same lineup for 40 years, 198 00:14:49,223 --> 00:14:53,144 there's no getting over that shock or replacing that history. 199 00:14:54,187 --> 00:14:57,541 Now, Clarence and I were very, very close for 40 years. 200 00:14:57,565 --> 00:15:00,860 We were different parts of the same spiritual body. 201 00:15:01,861 --> 00:15:06,074 And the loss of that relationship is simply forever irreplaceable. 202 00:15:07,241 --> 00:15:10,596 Now we've been blessed with Charlie Giordano on organ, 203 00:15:10,620 --> 00:15:13,557 who channels Danny's style and mixes it with his own 204 00:15:13,581 --> 00:15:17,144 and, of course, Jake Clemons, who took the toughest position 205 00:15:17,168 --> 00:15:19,271 to replace in rock and roll, 206 00:15:19,295 --> 00:15:21,732 and miraculously makes it his 207 00:15:21,756 --> 00:15:24,693 while showing respect and love for his uncle, 208 00:15:24,717 --> 00:15:26,862 both in his playing and the great presence 209 00:15:26,886 --> 00:15:28,471 of his spirit on stage. 210 00:15:29,389 --> 00:15:32,183 You never get over the guys you played with for that long. 211 00:15:32,558 --> 00:15:35,829 They're always an integral part of your life 212 00:15:35,853 --> 00:15:37,623 for the rest of your life. 213 00:15:40,316 --> 00:15:41,526 God bless 'em. 214 00:15:47,740 --> 00:15:50,743 Let's try the beginning of Dancing in the Dark. Next one. 215 00:15:51,786 --> 00:15:55,307 These people have such a, such a strong identity 216 00:15:55,331 --> 00:15:56,683 with the saxophone. 217 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,521 Which the presence of horns changes. 218 00:16:00,545 --> 00:16:05,484 You know, you now become a rock and soul band, you know, 219 00:16:05,508 --> 00:16:07,945 rather than just a rock band with a saxophone. 220 00:16:07,969 --> 00:16:11,365 The rehearsals in Red Bank were a refresher course, if you will, 221 00:16:11,389 --> 00:16:13,575 between myself and Curt Ramm, 222 00:16:13,599 --> 00:16:15,786 do most of the arranging for the horn section 223 00:16:15,810 --> 00:16:18,038 and try to prepare ourselves as much as possible 224 00:16:18,062 --> 00:16:19,731 for whatever might come up. 225 00:16:26,195 --> 00:16:28,632 Nobody really sat me down and said, "This is what's gonna happen." 226 00:16:28,656 --> 00:16:30,056 They just put music in front of me. 227 00:16:31,659 --> 00:16:35,180 They had thousands of pages of music for the horn section. 228 00:16:35,204 --> 00:16:37,015 Books this thick. 229 00:16:38,458 --> 00:16:40,060 You know, we might have arrangements, 230 00:16:40,084 --> 00:16:41,729 we might have things worked out, 231 00:16:41,753 --> 00:16:44,630 and he could change something at the drop of a hat. 232 00:16:45,339 --> 00:16:49,802 Bruce, he likes the band to just be a little off balance. 233 00:16:50,303 --> 00:16:54,825 It's part of the finding how we're gonna play these songs now. 234 00:16:54,849 --> 00:16:57,202 It's-it's really a process of alchemy. 235 00:16:57,226 --> 00:16:59,872 It's often times not adding more things, 236 00:16:59,896 --> 00:17:02,791 it's distilling out the things that don't need to be there. 237 00:17:02,815 --> 00:17:07,046 It's not like a horn choir revue. 238 00:17:07,070 --> 00:17:09,715 It seems like we're the rock band, we are at the core, 239 00:17:09,739 --> 00:17:11,800 and they're adding beautiful touches throughout. 240 00:17:11,824 --> 00:17:13,076 Same with the singing. 241 00:17:13,785 --> 00:17:16,263 Out in the Street, you guys go over Out in the Street? 242 00:17:16,287 --> 00:17:18,348 - Yep. We've been out there. - That's good news. 243 00:17:19,832 --> 00:17:21,518 The E Street Band is very structured, 244 00:17:21,542 --> 00:17:25,481 but inside that structure, you have to be really flexible 245 00:17:25,505 --> 00:17:27,191 because he's gonna throw things at you. 246 00:17:27,215 --> 00:17:29,777 Their approach is not quite the same. 247 00:17:29,801 --> 00:17:33,721 Bruce takes the original, and they just start moving it around. 248 00:17:34,472 --> 00:17:39,286 He's the kind of artist that doesn't set perimeters. 249 00:17:39,310 --> 00:17:41,145 You don't know exactly what's coming. 250 00:17:42,230 --> 00:17:45,209 You just go along with what might be in his mind, 251 00:17:45,233 --> 00:17:47,503 and I guess it all gets felt out. 252 00:18:37,952 --> 00:18:39,138 Alright, here we go! 253 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:47,146 It felt like I was just stepping onto this train that, 254 00:18:47,170 --> 00:18:49,064 that I say that has no brakes. 255 00:18:49,088 --> 00:18:51,233 'Cause it, once it gets going out the station, 256 00:18:51,257 --> 00:18:52,884 it's just like we're nonstop. 257 00:18:53,718 --> 00:18:55,678 A one, two, three, four. 258 00:19:22,371 --> 00:19:25,350 Each tour rehearsal starts out in a small theater. 259 00:19:25,374 --> 00:19:27,394 We settle on the songs, we practice 'em, 260 00:19:27,418 --> 00:19:29,396 we get the band in the groove, 261 00:19:29,420 --> 00:19:31,648 but then we move to a local arena 262 00:19:31,672 --> 00:19:35,152 to address the staging and the pace of the performance, 263 00:19:35,176 --> 00:19:37,220 what will the rhythm of the show be? 264 00:19:37,470 --> 00:19:39,656 The big room also lets you know 265 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:43,410 that this will all very soon be real. 266 00:19:51,067 --> 00:19:54,463 Now we get to Trenton, it's more about, 267 00:19:54,487 --> 00:19:57,091 okay, when this tune happens, the horns are gonna go 268 00:19:57,115 --> 00:19:58,509 to that spot of the stage. 269 00:19:58,533 --> 00:20:02,012 It's how we're moving through the space of the stage by step. 270 00:20:02,036 --> 00:20:03,722 After that last breakdown... 271 00:20:05,039 --> 00:20:06,416 ...singers gonna come up front. 272 00:20:06,958 --> 00:20:08,060 Kind of a run-through 273 00:20:08,084 --> 00:20:10,396 just so that the first time we all play together 274 00:20:10,420 --> 00:20:12,880 in an arena, it's not in front of those people. 275 00:20:13,548 --> 00:20:14,900 The energy really shifts 276 00:20:14,924 --> 00:20:17,635 because now you have to be on point. 277 00:20:18,511 --> 00:20:20,364 That's the time when you go, "Okay, 278 00:20:20,388 --> 00:20:22,765 I better get my act together." 279 00:20:23,933 --> 00:20:28,146 Rehearsals, frankly, were a little on the short side. 280 00:20:30,898 --> 00:20:32,692 Two hours and so forth. 281 00:20:33,901 --> 00:20:35,838 "And I realized," Eh... he's, 282 00:20:35,862 --> 00:20:38,799 he's actually not that into rehearsing," you know? 283 00:20:38,823 --> 00:20:41,719 We can do that again. 284 00:20:41,743 --> 00:20:43,345 Alright, I'm gonna go home, Jon. 285 00:20:43,369 --> 00:20:47,015 You're going? That's all you're gonna do? Um... 286 00:20:47,039 --> 00:20:49,751 There's no sense tiring everybody out. We got it. 287 00:20:51,252 --> 00:20:52,980 Now, the band needed rehearsal, 288 00:20:53,004 --> 00:20:58,527 so Stevie really started to take an active hand 289 00:20:58,551 --> 00:21:01,655 and the band started doing something they... 290 00:21:01,679 --> 00:21:03,824 I don't know that they've ever done, 291 00:21:03,848 --> 00:21:06,517 which is rehearse without Bruce. 292 00:21:07,935 --> 00:21:13,625 In the '70s, Bruce, the band, and myself were obsessive. 293 00:21:23,034 --> 00:21:26,430 Soundcheck is when you're just checking the PA system, 294 00:21:26,454 --> 00:21:30,267 maybe you're using a half an hour to rehearse, no big deal. 295 00:21:30,291 --> 00:21:33,062 He would have the band play continuously 296 00:21:33,086 --> 00:21:34,337 as if it was a loop. 297 00:21:35,213 --> 00:21:39,092 And he and the late Bruce Jackson, they'd walk every row. 298 00:21:41,469 --> 00:21:43,364 Totally obsessive and you know, 299 00:21:43,388 --> 00:21:48,601 I, I understand that, uh, you know, he cares, and that's good, 300 00:21:48,976 --> 00:21:50,144 but... 301 00:21:51,562 --> 00:21:56,168 playing for four hours, the same eight bars, 302 00:21:56,192 --> 00:21:57,485 it's insane. 303 00:21:59,070 --> 00:22:01,799 Now, today he tells the band to keep playing 304 00:22:01,823 --> 00:22:03,133 the way they did in the old days 305 00:22:03,157 --> 00:22:05,094 and he goes out to the soundboard 306 00:22:05,118 --> 00:22:08,222 and he listens for all of two and a half minutes. 307 00:22:08,246 --> 00:22:11,642 And he said to everybody, "That's fantastic. 308 00:22:11,666 --> 00:22:13,602 Don't change a thing." 309 00:22:21,175 --> 00:22:24,071 Bruce has tremendous confidence. 310 00:22:24,095 --> 00:22:28,516 He knows that these guys, they care. 311 00:22:32,270 --> 00:22:35,332 Stop, stop. No, no, no. Right there... 312 00:22:35,356 --> 00:22:38,836 I'm like, man, what I don't want to happen 313 00:22:38,860 --> 00:22:41,714 is the critics or the audience to look at us and say, 314 00:22:41,738 --> 00:22:43,549 "Well, yeah, it's, it's nice, you know, 315 00:22:43,573 --> 00:22:45,509 but these old men are just going through the motions." 316 00:22:45,533 --> 00:22:48,911 No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's the riff, right? 317 00:22:55,209 --> 00:22:58,629 After seven years away, you know, who knows what they're gonna get, right? 318 00:22:59,589 --> 00:23:01,400 Right there, right there, right there, right there, uh. 319 00:23:01,424 --> 00:23:05,553 But I wanted to come out and blow their fucking minds. 320 00:23:06,429 --> 00:23:08,574 "I said to him," Listen, man, le-let me, let me go in 321 00:23:08,598 --> 00:23:10,318 and just, you know, tighten up some things." 322 00:23:10,850 --> 00:23:11,910 So he's like, "Okay, yeah, 323 00:23:11,934 --> 00:23:14,538 I'll make you officially the, the music director." 324 00:23:14,562 --> 00:23:17,249 You know, which is, you know, nice, you know. 325 00:23:17,273 --> 00:23:19,567 Whatever, you know, 326 00:23:19,984 --> 00:23:22,254 40 years late, but fine. 327 00:23:23,613 --> 00:23:25,841 I think Bruce said to me, 328 00:23:25,865 --> 00:23:27,617 "Well, we don't want to get too good. 329 00:23:28,451 --> 00:23:29,720 It'll work its way it's way out." 330 00:23:29,744 --> 00:23:31,412 We could rehearse tomorrow. 331 00:23:32,205 --> 00:23:34,308 We don't have to. I don't think so. 332 00:23:35,416 --> 00:23:37,603 He knows exactly what he needs to do 333 00:23:37,627 --> 00:23:40,397 and the time in which he had to do it 334 00:23:40,421 --> 00:23:42,191 before we opened in Tampa. 335 00:23:42,215 --> 00:23:44,693 Because there's a certain percentage 336 00:23:44,717 --> 00:23:46,528 that we're gonna fuck up on anyway. 337 00:23:48,388 --> 00:23:49,448 So... 338 00:23:49,472 --> 00:23:51,241 That's what the people are paying for. 339 00:23:51,265 --> 00:23:52,701 That's what they're paying for. 340 00:23:52,725 --> 00:23:54,787 They wanna see it live! 341 00:23:54,811 --> 00:23:56,372 That means a few mistakes. 342 00:23:59,482 --> 00:24:02,628 Later on, I realized what was happening. 343 00:24:02,652 --> 00:24:05,672 He got what he needed to out of rehearsals, 344 00:24:05,696 --> 00:24:09,134 the structure of the set, warming up his voice 345 00:24:09,158 --> 00:24:11,261 getting it into shape. 346 00:24:11,285 --> 00:24:14,139 And as to pulling the arrangements together, 347 00:24:14,163 --> 00:24:17,059 "I think he's" Well, I got the greatest band in the world, 348 00:24:17,083 --> 00:24:18,960 they'll figure it out." 349 00:24:22,797 --> 00:24:24,557 It was a little dreamlike. 350 00:24:26,592 --> 00:24:28,761 You know, is-is this really happening? 351 00:24:29,679 --> 00:24:32,473 And I looked around, and it was. 352 00:24:34,142 --> 00:24:36,412 This was something that we've all been praying for, 353 00:24:36,436 --> 00:24:37,687 for it to happen. 354 00:24:40,148 --> 00:24:41,917 What you've been hoping for and wishing for 355 00:24:41,941 --> 00:24:44,110 is being manifested before your eyes. 356 00:24:44,652 --> 00:24:46,088 You walk out. 357 00:24:46,112 --> 00:24:48,257 It's quite a beautiful thing 358 00:24:48,281 --> 00:24:52,452 to see these faces with so much joyful expectation. 359 00:24:54,162 --> 00:24:56,724 When we stepped up on that stage in Tampa, 360 00:24:56,748 --> 00:25:01,979 you start to witness how intense, how very personal this show is 361 00:25:02,003 --> 00:25:03,629 for the audience, for us. 362 00:25:04,130 --> 00:25:06,090 You know, these are, these are lasting memories. 363 00:25:08,551 --> 00:25:12,305 The man who was coming up the stairs in Tampa, 364 00:25:13,389 --> 00:25:15,558 he knows exactly who he is. 365 00:25:17,310 --> 00:25:19,479 He knows exactly what he's done. 366 00:25:21,773 --> 00:25:23,500 And he is the maestro. 367 00:27:32,528 --> 00:27:34,197 Come on, Steve. 368 00:28:10,149 --> 00:28:12,902 From the first second, this tour exploded. 369 00:28:15,321 --> 00:28:17,132 All night long! 370 00:28:17,156 --> 00:28:21,261 The audience response was as good or better 371 00:28:21,285 --> 00:28:22,888 as we've ever had. 372 00:28:25,456 --> 00:28:28,185 I couldn't believe the intensity level. 373 00:28:28,209 --> 00:28:30,521 Twin Cities! 374 00:28:31,671 --> 00:28:33,816 Milwaukee! 375 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,526 Boston! 376 00:28:35,550 --> 00:28:38,737 I look in the audience, I see, I see these people are just 377 00:28:38,761 --> 00:28:41,305 so grateful for having this music again. 378 00:28:41,723 --> 00:28:44,451 Looking out in the audience is special. 379 00:28:44,475 --> 00:28:47,830 I catch somebody's eye, and I catch a tear. 380 00:28:49,647 --> 00:28:51,566 I call it a very spiritual show. 381 00:28:51,983 --> 00:28:53,585 This is the church. 382 00:28:53,609 --> 00:28:57,363 The faces in the audience, the entire breadth of people out there. 383 00:28:57,947 --> 00:29:01,135 It's really kind of lifting it into a different realm. 384 00:29:39,447 --> 00:29:40,531 Come on, Steve! 385 00:31:15,168 --> 00:31:16,979 Something changes in a song 386 00:31:17,003 --> 00:31:20,840 when you play it in front of a live audience. 387 00:31:21,424 --> 00:31:25,029 You can't understand your song's possibilities 388 00:31:25,053 --> 00:31:27,448 or the stakes that it can play for 389 00:31:27,472 --> 00:31:31,035 until you count it off in front of your audience. 390 00:31:31,059 --> 00:31:33,287 Now of course, our songs from Letter to You, 391 00:31:33,311 --> 00:31:34,705 they were untested. 392 00:31:34,729 --> 00:31:37,207 I know one thing, they were essential 393 00:31:37,231 --> 00:31:40,878 to the story I wanted to tell this time around. 394 00:31:40,902 --> 00:31:43,797 He came in with this unbelievable song list, 395 00:31:43,821 --> 00:31:46,741 which I don't think we changed it from the first moment it came in. 396 00:31:48,868 --> 00:31:50,411 What did we just do? Surrender. 397 00:31:50,870 --> 00:31:52,264 - Ghost. - Right. 398 00:31:52,288 --> 00:31:54,308 Prove it. The Letter. 399 00:31:54,332 --> 00:31:57,978 He just had it exactly right right from the very beginning. 400 00:31:58,002 --> 00:31:59,563 - Alright. - Let's start with that. 401 00:31:59,587 --> 00:32:00,647 Pick two songs. 402 00:32:00,671 --> 00:32:04,217 It started to emerge that this is all sort of connected. 403 00:32:04,759 --> 00:32:07,404 It's not just 20 or 30 songs thrown together, 404 00:32:07,428 --> 00:32:08,781 it's a building thing. 405 00:32:08,805 --> 00:32:12,034 And it's just gotten more defined, more refined, 406 00:32:12,058 --> 00:32:13,434 more direct. 407 00:32:14,060 --> 00:32:17,456 And I think mention has been made of his experience on Broadway. 408 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,417 Come down and copy the set list right here. 409 00:32:20,441 --> 00:32:23,629 Where you play essentially the same thing every night. 410 00:32:23,653 --> 00:32:27,800 I think that informed what he wanted to do this time. 411 00:32:27,824 --> 00:32:31,845 These songs are interlocked by a certain defiance 412 00:32:31,869 --> 00:32:33,889 and a certain urgency. 413 00:32:38,918 --> 00:32:42,815 There are four songs from the Letter to You album 414 00:32:42,839 --> 00:32:46,384 that provide a certain continuity. 415 00:32:48,386 --> 00:32:53,867 And those songs have occupied the same space in the set list at every show. 416 00:33:01,149 --> 00:33:06,588 They all are connected to feeling the pressure of time 417 00:33:06,612 --> 00:33:09,031 and approaching death. 418 00:33:20,585 --> 00:33:24,440 The subtext is about living your life right now. 419 00:33:55,620 --> 00:33:56,704 Yeah! 420 00:34:35,743 --> 00:34:36,911 Now listen. 421 00:35:17,618 --> 00:35:18,762 Come on! 422 00:36:01,412 --> 00:36:03,015 See, that was quite good. 423 00:36:03,039 --> 00:36:05,976 It's the mighty E Street Band, baby. 424 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,169 What's the surprise? 425 00:36:14,967 --> 00:36:17,553 The start of every show we wait for him backstage. 426 00:36:22,767 --> 00:36:24,703 We get called out of our rooms, 427 00:36:24,727 --> 00:36:28,624 and, uh, we walk onto the backstage area 428 00:36:28,648 --> 00:36:30,691 out of sight from the audience. 429 00:36:38,074 --> 00:36:40,118 He comes in, we all grab hands. 430 00:36:42,829 --> 00:36:44,223 It's not a prayer per se, 431 00:36:44,247 --> 00:36:45,998 it's whatever comes off the top of his head. 432 00:36:46,666 --> 00:36:47,893 Sometimes he'll have a joke, 433 00:36:47,917 --> 00:36:49,770 sometimes it'll be a little solemn, 434 00:36:49,794 --> 00:36:52,880 but for that moment, we're bonding. 435 00:36:55,258 --> 00:36:57,736 One time he said, "This is the place I warmed up 436 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:01,031 "for the band Chicago and got booed off the stage. 437 00:37:01,055 --> 00:37:02,783 "It will not happen tonight. 438 00:37:02,807 --> 00:37:04,284 Somebody say amen." 439 00:37:04,308 --> 00:37:06,561 Amen. 440 00:37:07,437 --> 00:37:08,813 Woo! 441 00:37:25,830 --> 00:37:28,642 Oh, he was in, like, local bands in Asbury Park 442 00:37:28,666 --> 00:37:30,543 playing clubs playing Top 40. 443 00:37:31,127 --> 00:37:33,129 I saw him play at a place called the Upstage Club. 444 00:37:34,964 --> 00:37:37,684 It was a coffee house that was open till four o'clock in the morning. 445 00:37:37,967 --> 00:37:41,030 And we... this is a place that we'd go to, to like, really get our rocks off. 446 00:37:52,565 --> 00:37:55,586 Touring in the early days, it was not touring, 447 00:37:55,610 --> 00:37:56,670 it was gigging. 448 00:37:56,694 --> 00:37:59,048 We're going out to Westchester, Pennsylvania today 449 00:37:59,072 --> 00:38:01,091 to open for Cheech & Chong. 450 00:38:04,202 --> 00:38:06,138 After 30 minutes, some guy 451 00:38:06,162 --> 00:38:08,390 stole my leather jacket from the dressing room. 452 00:38:09,999 --> 00:38:13,312 It was dangerous not to take your wallet on stage 453 00:38:13,336 --> 00:38:16,148 because if you went back to the "dressing room," 454 00:38:16,172 --> 00:38:17,441 your wallet wouldn't be there. 455 00:38:19,592 --> 00:38:21,487 We did whatever we could do, 456 00:38:21,511 --> 00:38:25,449 random gigs, clubs, wherever we could set up shop. 457 00:38:29,310 --> 00:38:31,604 We played so many "shot and a beer" bars. 458 00:38:32,146 --> 00:38:36,585 We played a show at a club inside the Bayway Refinery 459 00:38:36,609 --> 00:38:38,003 where the flames come out. 460 00:38:40,947 --> 00:38:43,092 We played a free gig at Damrosch Park, 461 00:38:43,116 --> 00:38:45,302 and there might have been 10 people there. 462 00:38:47,328 --> 00:38:49,723 We were new and the promoters just come out, 463 00:38:49,747 --> 00:38:52,810 and they, they wanna push you around and then, "Yeah, yeah..." 464 00:38:52,834 --> 00:38:55,604 You're on the stage for 45 minutes, they're pulling the plug. 465 00:38:55,628 --> 00:38:57,348 Pull the plug? No, you're not gonna do that. 466 00:39:00,216 --> 00:39:03,070 I think we were delirious for those early tours. 467 00:39:04,429 --> 00:39:07,324 The rides were many, many hours. 468 00:39:09,434 --> 00:39:12,830 We'd pull into a college and go do four-hour show 469 00:39:12,854 --> 00:39:15,189 and then another nine-hour drive. 470 00:39:25,575 --> 00:39:30,013 You realize that you've spent most of your adult life 471 00:39:30,037 --> 00:39:31,497 with these characters. 472 00:39:31,873 --> 00:39:35,185 There's no question how meaningful it is to all of us. 473 00:39:35,209 --> 00:39:39,523 It's a real big core of familiarity and family. 474 00:39:39,547 --> 00:39:43,277 For me, being like the, the new guy in the band at 39 years, 475 00:39:43,301 --> 00:39:46,697 getting together to create great music, 476 00:39:46,721 --> 00:39:47,865 it's one of the rare joys. 477 00:39:47,889 --> 00:39:51,285 At this particular moment in time in our lives, 478 00:39:51,309 --> 00:39:53,620 to be doing this, it's quite a blessing. 479 00:39:53,644 --> 00:39:56,123 I've been performing with this band for 40 years. 480 00:39:56,147 --> 00:40:00,818 With those first performances, it felt so good to be back on stage. 481 00:40:03,362 --> 00:40:05,924 Touring has become a challenge for me. 482 00:40:14,415 --> 00:40:18,294 In 2018, while Bruce and I were doing a play on Broadway, 483 00:40:18,878 --> 00:40:22,382 I was diagnosed with early-stage multiple myeloma. 484 00:40:25,134 --> 00:40:27,571 And this affects my immune system. 485 00:40:27,595 --> 00:40:32,951 So, I just have to be careful what I choose to do 486 00:40:32,975 --> 00:40:34,495 and where I choose to go. 487 00:40:41,692 --> 00:40:44,380 Every once in a while, I come to a show or two, 488 00:40:44,404 --> 00:40:47,216 and I can sing a few songs on stage 489 00:40:47,240 --> 00:40:48,699 and that's been a treat. 490 00:40:49,909 --> 00:40:51,970 That's the new normal for me right now. 491 00:40:51,994 --> 00:40:53,871 And I'm okay with that. 492 00:41:02,338 --> 00:41:03,941 Fire is always fun to sing. 493 00:41:16,894 --> 00:41:18,354 It's very personal in a way. 494 00:41:19,105 --> 00:41:23,168 You can see a side of our relationship that you usually don't get to see. 495 00:41:31,325 --> 00:41:34,203 Being back on stage with Bruce is a blast. 496 00:41:35,163 --> 00:41:37,307 Now I remember those summer nights 497 00:41:37,331 --> 00:41:39,643 down by the Jersey shore. 498 00:41:42,837 --> 00:41:46,215 As the band played, with you in my arms, 499 00:41:46,674 --> 00:41:49,093 we'd move across that floor. 500 00:41:50,595 --> 00:41:53,139 Oh, but then, darling, you went away. 501 00:41:54,223 --> 00:41:56,577 Well, all I've got to say is, 502 00:41:56,601 --> 00:42:00,396 tonight, I don't care if you lied. 503 00:42:02,356 --> 00:42:03,649 Let's dance! 504 00:42:16,287 --> 00:42:19,141 Every night of this tour gives the band 505 00:42:19,165 --> 00:42:20,917 a chance to celebrate. 506 00:42:28,257 --> 00:42:31,427 Tell him this is his last chance 507 00:42:31,844 --> 00:42:34,907 to get his daughter in a fine romance. 508 00:42:34,931 --> 00:42:37,576 The record company, Rosie, 509 00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:41,020 gave me a big, big, big, big, big, big, big advance. 510 00:42:54,992 --> 00:42:58,764 US Tour, there were 31 arena shows. 511 00:42:58,788 --> 00:43:01,374 They were wild. Those shows were incredible. 512 00:43:01,707 --> 00:43:02,708 Come on! 513 00:43:03,209 --> 00:43:06,689 He's having an experience every night. 514 00:43:09,716 --> 00:43:10,925 He is living it. 515 00:43:56,429 --> 00:44:00,349 I would catch Bruce in the gym the morning after our show day. 516 00:44:01,309 --> 00:44:03,269 And I was like, "Okay, this is pretty impressive." 517 00:44:03,519 --> 00:44:06,331 You know, this guy gives out three hours of concert, 518 00:44:06,355 --> 00:44:07,815 next morning he's in the gym. 519 00:44:08,858 --> 00:44:12,087 And I walk in and he goes, "Well, that's-that's how I like to see my guys, 520 00:44:12,111 --> 00:44:13,488 in the gym ready to go." 521 00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:15,600 And then he'll look at me and go, 522 00:44:15,948 --> 00:44:18,428 "You haven't seen anything yet. Wait till we get to Barcelona." 523 00:44:19,660 --> 00:44:20,828 I was like, "Okay." 524 00:44:21,621 --> 00:44:22,830 Said that the first time. 525 00:44:23,372 --> 00:44:25,851 And then he repeated that for a month. 526 00:44:25,875 --> 00:44:28,812 Every time he'd see me, "Barcelona, Anthony." 527 00:44:44,769 --> 00:44:49,249 In Barcelona, Catalans take their music very seriously. 528 00:44:49,273 --> 00:44:52,443 We've had an audience here that's nonstop. 529 00:44:52,860 --> 00:44:56,256 Very loving, warm, exciting, 530 00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,300 everything you could ask for in a crowd. 531 00:45:00,076 --> 00:45:02,412 It's been that way for a long time 532 00:45:03,704 --> 00:45:05,140 and it still is. 533 00:45:27,311 --> 00:45:28,747 It's a very warm audience. 534 00:45:28,771 --> 00:45:32,543 It is an audience that accepts you on your terms. 535 00:45:34,444 --> 00:45:37,363 I had never seen an audience like that ever. 536 00:45:38,156 --> 00:45:39,449 There's more singing along, 537 00:45:40,533 --> 00:45:42,594 the chants and those things. 538 00:45:42,618 --> 00:45:47,665 Every single soul is engaged, alive from front to back. 539 00:45:49,459 --> 00:45:51,437 Europeans, they let out their emotions 540 00:45:51,461 --> 00:45:53,605 and their, their excitement out on their sleeves 541 00:45:53,629 --> 00:45:55,941 and-and they let you know instantly. 542 00:46:00,470 --> 00:46:02,656 Right now on this tour, 543 00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:06,517 Bruce is the biggest he's ever been in Europe. 544 00:46:07,894 --> 00:46:09,687 It's a second home for us. 545 00:46:10,146 --> 00:46:11,522 It's magic. 546 00:49:26,092 --> 00:49:28,904 We have been waiting for this with anticipation for... 547 00:49:28,928 --> 00:49:30,197 It's been seven years 548 00:49:30,221 --> 00:49:34,058 since you saw a real E Street, uh, concert in Europe. 549 00:49:37,395 --> 00:49:41,441 Bruce's fan community, I think, is one of the strongest in the world. 550 00:49:42,525 --> 00:49:45,403 There's this sense of unity that unites us all. 551 00:49:48,531 --> 00:49:52,702 His community is like, I think it's on another level. 552 00:49:52,994 --> 00:49:55,472 Some of my best friends, I've met in the pit 553 00:49:55,496 --> 00:49:56,914 at a Springsteen concert. 554 00:50:01,461 --> 00:50:02,771 This year in Barcelona, 555 00:50:02,795 --> 00:50:05,983 to see the band again, all the friends, the crowd, 556 00:50:06,007 --> 00:50:07,800 and we are singing along. 557 00:50:11,262 --> 00:50:13,866 I know people all over Germany, from Switzerland, 558 00:50:13,890 --> 00:50:16,243 from Austria, from Sweden, from England, 559 00:50:16,267 --> 00:50:17,870 it's a big community. 560 00:50:21,522 --> 00:50:23,709 When we're together, we're the best of friends, 561 00:50:23,733 --> 00:50:26,736 we connect, we know each other, we connect with each other. 562 00:50:27,653 --> 00:50:29,965 It's like we have been friends for a lifetime. 563 00:50:29,989 --> 00:50:31,741 We have met for many tours. 564 00:50:32,325 --> 00:50:34,035 We have grown older together 565 00:50:34,535 --> 00:50:36,454 and we've all connected because of Bruce. 566 00:50:37,747 --> 00:50:40,833 We're talking about friendship, we're talking about love. 567 00:50:41,542 --> 00:50:45,481 For three hours, all dancing, not thinking about anything. 568 00:50:45,505 --> 00:50:47,858 We try to, to live the moment. 569 00:50:47,882 --> 00:50:49,884 I just want it to last forever. 570 00:50:52,011 --> 00:50:54,823 There's part of the show when he says, "Do you wanna go home?" 571 00:50:54,847 --> 00:50:55,973 Everybody, "No!" 572 00:50:57,183 --> 00:50:58,369 Hey, Steve. 573 00:50:58,393 --> 00:50:59,644 Yeah, baby? 574 00:51:00,061 --> 00:51:02,331 I think it's time to go home now. 575 00:51:02,355 --> 00:51:04,208 Are you saying... What? 576 00:51:04,232 --> 00:51:07,252 I said, I think it's time to go home. 577 00:51:07,276 --> 00:51:10,714 The first time I saw Bruce at a club until today, 578 00:51:10,738 --> 00:51:14,218 there are certain fundamentals of the show that have never changed. 579 00:51:14,242 --> 00:51:18,430 And one of them is no matter how serious some of the songs are 580 00:51:18,454 --> 00:51:20,891 and how serious the tone of the show is... 581 00:51:20,915 --> 00:51:22,351 Do you wanna go home? 582 00:51:22,375 --> 00:51:24,853 ...he always finds a space for humor. 583 00:51:24,877 --> 00:51:26,105 It's always there. 584 00:51:26,129 --> 00:51:29,298 That's part of his vision of what he's doing. 585 00:51:31,217 --> 00:51:33,136 Max don't wanna fuckin' go home. 586 00:51:36,264 --> 00:51:38,766 ...if Max Weinberg don't go home, 587 00:51:39,308 --> 00:51:43,080 - nobody goes fuckin' home. - Nobody wants to go home. 588 00:51:43,104 --> 00:51:44,957 One, two, three! 589 00:51:46,983 --> 00:51:50,087 I can't even wrap my head around how are they able to move 590 00:51:50,111 --> 00:51:52,464 all this huge amount of gear that we have 591 00:51:52,488 --> 00:51:53,823 from point A to point B. 592 00:51:54,407 --> 00:51:57,261 I always laugh because, you know, if you look backstage there's, 593 00:51:57,285 --> 00:52:00,639 you know, there's these road cases full of 40 guitars. 594 00:52:00,663 --> 00:52:05,209 Every show we did in the early days, one guitar. 595 00:52:05,835 --> 00:52:08,105 When you see all these guitars, 596 00:52:08,129 --> 00:52:09,922 it's a lot of work maintaining them. 597 00:52:11,174 --> 00:52:13,902 But at the same time, it's a blessing that we have 'em. 598 00:52:13,926 --> 00:52:16,655 I don't have the time to, "Oh, hold on a second, Bruce, 599 00:52:16,679 --> 00:52:18,073 I'll be right with you." 600 00:52:20,725 --> 00:52:22,602 If he turns around and gives me that look, 601 00:52:23,144 --> 00:52:25,456 I have gig-mares about it, truthfully, 602 00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:27,041 to tell you the truth, man. 603 00:52:36,991 --> 00:52:39,535 In the early days when we traveled, 604 00:52:40,036 --> 00:52:43,474 I think we started in a Club Wagon. 605 00:52:45,291 --> 00:52:48,052 You couldn't lay down to sleep. You had to, you know, sleep like this. 606 00:52:49,796 --> 00:52:52,274 By the time I joined, things were a little better. 607 00:52:52,298 --> 00:52:53,984 Not much. 608 00:52:54,008 --> 00:52:57,053 I think by then, we graduated to the bus. 609 00:52:59,305 --> 00:53:02,767 You know, we customized it ourselves with army cots. 610 00:53:03,226 --> 00:53:06,372 It had to be chained to the wall. 611 00:53:06,396 --> 00:53:08,916 And every time the bus went around a corner, 612 00:53:08,940 --> 00:53:10,751 the bunk beds would... 613 00:53:10,775 --> 00:53:12,336 Would kinda lean over. 614 00:53:14,028 --> 00:53:17,716 Shortly thereafter, we went to a motor home, 615 00:53:17,740 --> 00:53:19,760 and actually it was the GMC Motorhome, 616 00:53:19,784 --> 00:53:22,036 which was at the time very modern. 617 00:53:22,954 --> 00:53:24,264 Well, it was a huge step up. 618 00:53:24,288 --> 00:53:26,934 Here, you could turn the tables down into little bunks. 619 00:53:26,958 --> 00:53:29,353 There was a fold-down, like on a submarine, 620 00:53:29,377 --> 00:53:30,938 Bruce had that. 621 00:53:30,962 --> 00:53:32,296 There was a sofa, 622 00:53:32,839 --> 00:53:35,234 you took the cushions off, and Clarence could fit on that. 623 00:53:35,258 --> 00:53:38,445 There was a, a table that recessed into the floor, 624 00:53:38,469 --> 00:53:41,156 and Garry and Roy slept on that. 625 00:53:41,180 --> 00:53:44,493 Except it really wasn't wide enough for two people. 626 00:53:44,517 --> 00:53:47,687 So Garry and I would sleep foot to head 627 00:53:48,104 --> 00:53:50,231 and we put a little mattress over it. 628 00:53:51,232 --> 00:53:54,336 And in the back was another table that we could lay out, 629 00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:56,362 and Danny and I slept in it. 630 00:53:57,155 --> 00:53:59,073 Driving six, seven hours, you could sleep. 631 00:54:00,366 --> 00:54:03,053 One of my fondest memories is we woke up 632 00:54:03,077 --> 00:54:07,623 to the smell of Clarence cooking breakfast. 633 00:54:08,249 --> 00:54:11,478 He made pancakes, bacon, eggs. 634 00:54:11,502 --> 00:54:13,355 Anything you want, like a short-order cook, 635 00:54:13,379 --> 00:54:14,523 like the father. 636 00:54:14,547 --> 00:54:17,192 And it was really, it was really fantastic. 637 00:54:17,216 --> 00:54:19,653 Give us a limerick, a limerick, Clarence. 638 00:54:19,677 --> 00:54:20,863 Now, as I was saying... 639 00:54:24,098 --> 00:54:26,642 It was a very bonding experience. 640 00:54:26,976 --> 00:54:31,189 And that bond, thousands of shows later, 641 00:54:32,065 --> 00:54:34,525 that's what gets played out on stage. 642 00:54:34,942 --> 00:54:40,323 If you get swept up in the spirit, you'll be able to figure out a way in. 643 00:54:41,949 --> 00:54:44,470 I grew up seeing my uncle there. 644 00:54:44,494 --> 00:54:46,454 It gave him so much happiness, 645 00:54:46,829 --> 00:54:48,390 which is why I've always been really particular 646 00:54:48,414 --> 00:54:50,434 about playing his horn, playing his mouthpiece. 647 00:54:50,458 --> 00:54:52,394 Like, I need... I need to keep as much of him 648 00:54:52,418 --> 00:54:53,711 with me as possible. 649 00:54:55,588 --> 00:54:57,399 Those solos, those sax solos, 650 00:54:57,423 --> 00:55:00,152 Badlands, Jungleland, Prove It All Night 651 00:55:00,176 --> 00:55:02,470 that puts Clarence right back there. 652 00:55:03,262 --> 00:55:05,890 It's almost like this transference. 653 00:55:08,726 --> 00:55:11,062 Bruce loves stability 654 00:55:12,271 --> 00:55:15,834 and so when he finds the person that's a match 655 00:55:15,858 --> 00:55:17,402 for what he needs, 656 00:55:18,528 --> 00:55:21,114 he tends to keep that person. 657 00:55:21,697 --> 00:55:25,010 Having this musical and communal experience, 658 00:55:25,034 --> 00:55:26,327 I never took it for granted. 659 00:55:27,036 --> 00:55:29,515 I'm very grateful to be part of the band 660 00:55:29,539 --> 00:55:33,835 and all the fabulously talented people that are up on that stage. 661 00:55:35,253 --> 00:55:37,523 I listen to what everyone is doing 662 00:55:37,547 --> 00:55:40,442 and just try to add my little spice to it. 663 00:55:40,466 --> 00:55:43,237 Not too much but just part of the whole. 664 00:55:45,054 --> 00:55:47,890 Clarence and Danny have not been forgotten. 665 00:55:50,643 --> 00:55:52,162 Nightshift. 666 00:55:52,186 --> 00:55:55,708 People hear that song in the show in a lot of ways 667 00:55:55,732 --> 00:55:57,567 and the way I hear it is... 668 00:55:59,485 --> 00:56:01,171 he's talking about our guys. 669 00:57:02,590 --> 00:57:05,152 Nightshift early on, I mean, I was curious to see 670 00:57:05,176 --> 00:57:07,220 how the crowd was gonna be receptive to it. 671 00:57:08,554 --> 00:57:11,891 The fact that the singers come forward and they take the spotlight. 672 00:57:12,850 --> 00:57:14,161 We were in sound check. 673 00:57:14,185 --> 00:57:16,163 He said, "Ada, you know, I think I want you 674 00:57:16,187 --> 00:57:17,855 to do a little something here." 675 00:57:19,232 --> 00:57:23,253 He didn't specify as to exactly what that something was gonna be. 676 00:57:24,862 --> 00:57:26,757 And I knew that if it was too much, he would say, 677 00:57:26,781 --> 00:57:28,342 "Uh, pull it back a little bit." 678 00:57:30,993 --> 00:57:33,680 But he said, "No, no, no, I want more." 679 00:57:35,665 --> 00:57:37,059 "There you go, this is a seed. 680 00:57:37,083 --> 00:57:38,977 Now let's see what it grows into." 681 00:57:50,012 --> 00:57:51,572 He just said, "We're going down front", 682 00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:53,850 we're gonna do this together." 683 00:57:54,308 --> 00:57:55,953 And I'm sort of kind of watching him. 684 00:57:55,977 --> 00:57:57,621 A lot of it was me just observing him. 685 00:57:58,730 --> 00:58:01,417 One night, we stepping down as I usually do, 686 00:58:01,441 --> 00:58:04,777 and Bruce kind of let the song go a little longer 687 00:58:05,194 --> 00:58:07,131 and sit a minute. 688 00:58:08,698 --> 00:58:11,593 It's almost like on pause, let people feel that moment. 689 00:58:11,617 --> 00:58:14,179 I mean, we're talking about those who have passed. 690 00:58:15,288 --> 00:58:16,765 And then he sang a higher note. 691 00:58:21,085 --> 00:58:22,646 I sang a note over him. 692 00:58:25,798 --> 00:58:26,900 I remember him saying... 693 00:58:26,924 --> 00:58:28,760 - I can try. - "Try, I can try." 694 00:58:29,761 --> 00:58:33,532 I took that as, "Let me just do something that might be a little different." 695 00:58:41,689 --> 00:58:44,585 He seemed to react to it. He responded to it when I went higher. 696 00:58:47,904 --> 00:58:49,256 And then it went on from there. 697 00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:51,050 It just started developing. 698 00:59:15,431 --> 00:59:16,825 Nightshift, that's become a showstopper. 699 00:59:16,849 --> 00:59:17,975 Come on! 700 00:59:54,345 --> 00:59:56,431 Curtis King! 701 00:59:56,806 --> 01:00:00,577 Miss Ada Dyer, Michelle Moore, 702 01:00:00,601 --> 01:00:02,228 and Lisa Lowell. 703 01:00:02,812 --> 01:00:04,313 The E Street Choir. 704 01:00:07,942 --> 01:00:10,445 A little Mary's Place, just to remind us. 705 01:00:13,614 --> 01:00:17,511 The greatest musical influences of my youth 706 01:00:17,535 --> 01:00:20,705 are all my soul music mentors. 707 01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:24,643 They've guided me on stage and shaped our show 708 01:00:24,667 --> 01:00:26,353 for many years. 709 01:00:26,377 --> 01:00:31,191 Sam & Dave, James Brown, Jackie Wilson. 710 01:00:31,215 --> 01:00:32,526 Come on! 711 01:00:32,550 --> 01:00:35,446 They still inspire me as a band leader to this day. 712 01:00:35,470 --> 01:00:38,222 Is there anybody alive out there? 713 01:00:42,977 --> 01:00:47,332 We're trying to translate in our musical language 714 01:00:47,356 --> 01:00:50,461 what he's doing moment to moment. 715 01:00:50,485 --> 01:00:52,629 Even if he just twitches his butt, 716 01:00:52,653 --> 01:00:54,530 you kind of know where he is going with that. 717 01:00:54,822 --> 01:00:57,217 Sort of visual cues on stage, 718 01:00:57,241 --> 01:01:00,512 certain tells that Bruce might have physically 719 01:01:00,536 --> 01:01:02,931 that indicate he's about to do something. 720 01:01:02,955 --> 01:01:06,125 He might not know what that is, but he's about to do something. 721 01:01:06,542 --> 01:01:08,836 He cues with his shoulders a lot. 722 01:01:09,837 --> 01:01:11,547 He'll cue with his hand. 723 01:01:12,256 --> 01:01:14,133 There are cues with the guitar. 724 01:01:14,425 --> 01:01:15,736 You just have to watch him. 725 01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:19,740 He knows what to give us in order to make all these things happen. 726 01:01:22,475 --> 01:01:23,601 Come on! 727 01:02:02,348 --> 01:02:03,450 Hit it, Max. 728 01:02:03,474 --> 01:02:04,535 Shh! 729 01:02:04,559 --> 01:02:06,578 The greatest skill Bruce has 730 01:02:06,602 --> 01:02:09,772 is demanding the attention of an audience... 731 01:02:10,606 --> 01:02:11,792 Shh. 732 01:02:11,816 --> 01:02:15,003 ...and being able to direct it however way he'd like. 733 01:02:15,027 --> 01:02:16,112 Hit it, Max. 734 01:02:17,905 --> 01:02:18,882 Shh. 735 01:02:18,906 --> 01:02:21,593 He has an amazing amount of control, 736 01:02:21,617 --> 01:02:25,013 and he can quiet that crowd to where you can hear a pin drop. 737 01:02:25,037 --> 01:02:26,223 Shh. 738 01:02:26,247 --> 01:02:29,810 He directed me to stop playing completely, just the piano. 739 01:02:29,834 --> 01:02:31,169 Just Roy. 740 01:02:32,086 --> 01:02:33,171 Shh. 741 01:02:36,424 --> 01:02:38,819 - And then he said, "Nobody." - Nobody. 742 01:02:38,843 --> 01:02:40,136 And he wanted silence. 743 01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:42,031 Love you, Bruce! 744 01:02:42,055 --> 01:02:43,765 This is the genius of Bruce. 745 01:02:44,348 --> 01:02:45,325 Nobody. 746 01:02:45,349 --> 01:02:47,119 The complete silence on stage... 747 01:02:47,143 --> 01:02:48,245 Woo! 748 01:02:48,269 --> 01:02:50,706 ...tends to make people very nervous. 749 01:02:52,690 --> 01:02:55,860 I mean, you never see anybody do this on stage. 750 01:03:12,543 --> 01:03:17,358 It takes a lot of thought and detailing to make it all look tight 751 01:03:17,382 --> 01:03:19,735 and to be spontaneous at the same time. 752 01:03:24,555 --> 01:03:26,450 In the early '60s, me, Bruce, and Garry 753 01:03:26,474 --> 01:03:28,118 had gone to see Sam & Dave. 754 01:03:28,142 --> 01:03:32,164 Seeing an R&B, you know, a soul music show up close, 755 01:03:32,188 --> 01:03:33,665 you know, it was like in, in a little club, 756 01:03:33,689 --> 01:03:38,921 uh, i-in those days was just an incredible impression on you. 757 01:03:44,784 --> 01:03:47,429 He has a way of being able to pull those nuggets 758 01:03:47,453 --> 01:03:51,266 from these different genres of music that seem unrelated. 759 01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:00,693 But then he's able to kind of weave them into the mix 760 01:04:00,717 --> 01:04:02,802 in a way that it's very relatable. 761 01:04:03,302 --> 01:04:07,932 And tapping into all these various streams of American music. 762 01:04:08,933 --> 01:04:10,994 You got a little gospel in there, 763 01:04:11,018 --> 01:04:14,439 you got a little rock and roll, a little jazz. 764 01:04:15,022 --> 01:04:17,668 We're improvising, like we made a conscious effort. 765 01:04:17,692 --> 01:04:19,420 We could have worked out our little eight bars, 766 01:04:19,444 --> 01:04:21,588 and we play the same eight bars every night 767 01:04:21,612 --> 01:04:22,756 and it's gonna be perfect. 768 01:04:22,780 --> 01:04:24,174 But that's not what Bruce wants. 769 01:04:24,198 --> 01:04:27,219 Bruce wants, like, say what you're feeling at that moment. 770 01:04:32,749 --> 01:04:35,269 Kitty's Back is a very different song, 771 01:04:35,293 --> 01:04:37,045 and it's very loose... 772 01:04:38,755 --> 01:04:42,443 let everybody have their moment and do what they want. 773 01:04:44,469 --> 01:04:46,280 He goes, "You know, guys, I want something 774 01:04:46,304 --> 01:04:48,449 "after you guys finish your solo in the horn section, 775 01:04:48,473 --> 01:04:51,285 I want you guys to come up with some kind of a horn soul lead." 776 01:04:57,106 --> 01:04:59,859 Which means you're playing the same thing together. 777 01:05:10,536 --> 01:05:14,016 It's almost like a small group at a jazz nightclub vibe. 778 01:05:19,962 --> 01:05:21,190 It's an exciting thing 779 01:05:21,214 --> 01:05:23,091 because you don't know what's gonna happen. 780 01:07:39,644 --> 01:07:44,041 I am a big fan of having a very random set list, 781 01:07:44,065 --> 01:07:46,752 and I know most of the other guys would not agree with me. 782 01:07:46,776 --> 01:07:49,213 On other tours, we would always get a set list 783 01:07:49,237 --> 01:07:52,633 maybe 30 minutes before we would go on stage. 784 01:07:52,657 --> 01:07:55,969 Well, the last tour, he was a lot more spontaneous. 785 01:07:55,993 --> 01:07:59,789 It was a lot of going out in the audience and picking up signs. 786 01:08:00,581 --> 01:08:02,291 Hey, can we stump the band? 787 01:08:03,042 --> 01:08:04,520 If you knew it, you knew it 788 01:08:04,544 --> 01:08:06,730 and if you didn't, you just had to catch on. 789 01:08:16,055 --> 01:08:18,909 Hit it, boys. Come on, Charlie Giordano! 790 01:08:18,933 --> 01:08:20,953 The audience had these signs. 791 01:08:20,977 --> 01:08:24,188 Always exciting and nerve-wracking. 792 01:08:25,022 --> 01:08:27,751 Bruce would go out and find some of the most obscure songs 793 01:08:27,775 --> 01:08:29,545 and song titles. 794 01:08:29,569 --> 01:08:32,530 That was kind of the theme, "Stump the E Street Band." 795 01:08:33,823 --> 01:08:36,093 Alright, Professor... 796 01:08:36,117 --> 01:08:38,762 Craning my neck to try to see what was on the sign, 797 01:08:38,786 --> 01:08:40,973 you know, and oh, my God. 798 01:08:40,997 --> 01:08:42,725 We haven't played that in 10 years. 799 01:08:42,749 --> 01:08:44,518 I don't think I've ever played that. 800 01:08:44,542 --> 01:08:45,894 Is there a chart somewhere on that? 801 01:08:45,918 --> 01:08:47,855 Quick, quick. 802 01:08:47,879 --> 01:08:51,358 And he'd often times come back to the stage with a dozen of 'em stacked up, 803 01:08:51,382 --> 01:08:54,886 and he'd be flinging through 'em on stage and find the one he wanted. 804 01:08:56,137 --> 01:08:57,531 Give it to the organ man. 805 01:08:59,849 --> 01:09:01,952 We were doing 15 different songs a night. 806 01:09:01,976 --> 01:09:03,620 Nobody knows what the hell's happening. 807 01:09:03,644 --> 01:09:05,330 Turn 'em up! Turn 'em up! 808 01:09:05,354 --> 01:09:06,623 There's an energy to that. 809 01:09:06,647 --> 01:09:07,774 Three, four! 810 01:09:08,149 --> 01:09:11,920 But you can't really get deep, deep, deep in any one song 811 01:09:11,944 --> 01:09:13,904 because you were just never playing it that often. 812 01:09:20,953 --> 01:09:22,765 That's one of the things I like about this tour is 813 01:09:22,789 --> 01:09:24,916 you can hear your band mates evolving. 814 01:09:29,796 --> 01:09:33,067 It's not a jam session, it's not a "Stump the Band," 815 01:09:33,091 --> 01:09:36,552 it's an experience, it's a show. 816 01:09:37,095 --> 01:09:41,099 Bruce has put this set list together meticulously. 817 01:09:43,935 --> 01:09:45,978 Start listening a little closer. 818 01:09:47,021 --> 01:09:52,628 There's different emotions being brought out of each song every time you hear it. 819 01:11:42,720 --> 01:11:44,806 My first concert, I was 19. 820 01:11:45,390 --> 01:11:47,558 I skipped school the next day too. 821 01:11:48,267 --> 01:11:52,039 Since then, I've seen him in Spain, in Germany, 822 01:11:52,063 --> 01:11:53,856 in the UK, in Italy. 823 01:11:54,440 --> 01:11:57,151 Now I'm 37, and I grew up with Bruce. 824 01:12:02,782 --> 01:12:08,538 My first Springsteen show was here in Oslo in 1993. 825 01:12:09,288 --> 01:12:10,832 Oh, it was so magic. 826 01:12:12,291 --> 01:12:13,626 You just get happy. 827 01:12:14,168 --> 01:12:15,294 So happy. 828 01:12:18,673 --> 01:12:20,859 My dad is a massive Springsteen fan. 829 01:12:20,883 --> 01:12:23,153 He's been listening to him all his life. 830 01:12:23,177 --> 01:12:25,739 It's always really special to go to concerts with him, 831 01:12:25,763 --> 01:12:27,074 having, like, that history. 832 01:12:27,098 --> 01:12:30,101 He's the reason that I love Springsteen now. 833 01:12:32,687 --> 01:12:34,331 When I first got into his music, 834 01:12:34,355 --> 01:12:36,917 I could connect to these scenes that he described 835 01:12:36,941 --> 01:12:38,377 and to these feelings that he described, 836 01:12:38,401 --> 01:12:39,712 to me after all these years, 837 01:12:39,736 --> 01:12:43,698 it still means a lot to me and that I still enjoy so much. 838 01:12:44,907 --> 01:12:46,635 I always get emotional when I, 839 01:12:46,659 --> 01:12:48,804 when I go to Bruce Springsteen concerts. 840 01:12:48,828 --> 01:12:52,015 You know, it's just like he takes his soul, 841 01:12:52,039 --> 01:12:54,351 and he puts it into music. 842 01:12:54,375 --> 01:12:56,729 So I think that everyone can relate to it. 843 01:13:02,175 --> 01:13:03,902 We don't expect the man to tour forever. 844 01:13:03,926 --> 01:13:07,197 We hope he does, we hope he tours for as long as he can. 845 01:13:07,221 --> 01:13:09,307 But we're appreciating these moments. 846 01:13:09,766 --> 01:13:14,562 We want to soak up every last moment of this, just in case. 847 01:13:23,613 --> 01:13:26,800 Just a little, where it says horn, it's just a little riff. 848 01:13:42,006 --> 01:13:43,341 Let's try just Curt. 849 01:13:48,012 --> 01:13:50,074 That's good. Alright. 850 01:13:50,098 --> 01:13:51,658 So I'm gonna tell a little story. 851 01:13:58,940 --> 01:14:00,108 And I'll go into the song. 852 01:14:02,485 --> 01:14:04,004 From the beginning of the tour, 853 01:14:04,028 --> 01:14:07,633 he has told the story of Last Man Standing 854 01:14:07,657 --> 01:14:10,660 and why that phrase came to him. 855 01:14:11,244 --> 01:14:14,223 And the story he tells is that he realized 856 01:14:14,247 --> 01:14:17,059 when his friend George Theiss passed away, 857 01:14:17,083 --> 01:14:20,020 that of all the members of his first rock band, 858 01:14:20,044 --> 01:14:22,338 he was the last man standing. 859 01:14:25,299 --> 01:14:28,821 I think he reads into that notion 860 01:14:28,845 --> 01:14:32,074 an increased sense of mortality. 861 01:14:32,098 --> 01:14:33,391 He's next. 862 01:14:34,016 --> 01:14:37,621 That's kind of like you're standing on the tracks 863 01:14:37,645 --> 01:14:40,082 with the white-hot light of an oncoming train 864 01:14:40,106 --> 01:14:41,792 bearing down upon you. 865 01:14:41,816 --> 01:14:44,694 It brings a certain clarity of thought, 866 01:14:45,445 --> 01:14:48,173 you may not have previously experienced. 867 01:14:48,197 --> 01:14:52,535 Because death's final and lasting gift to the living 868 01:14:53,119 --> 01:14:56,956 is an expanded vision of life itself. 869 01:14:57,915 --> 01:14:59,375 George passed away 870 01:15:00,418 --> 01:15:02,503 shortly after I wrote this song. 871 01:15:03,337 --> 01:15:06,424 It's just about the passions we follow as children, 872 01:15:06,924 --> 01:15:08,801 not knowing where they're going to lead us 873 01:15:09,385 --> 01:15:12,805 and how at 15 it's all tomorrows and hellos 874 01:15:13,598 --> 01:15:16,934 and then later on there's a lot more yesterdays and goodbyes. 875 01:16:37,265 --> 01:16:40,828 One of the most emotional parts of this show is the juxtaposition of. 876 01:16:40,852 --> 01:16:43,205 Last Man Standing and Backstreets. 877 01:16:43,229 --> 01:16:47,918 Last Man Standing talked about friendship and end of days. 878 01:16:47,942 --> 01:16:50,546 Then he put it up against Backstreets, 879 01:16:50,570 --> 01:16:55,199 a song from 50 years ago, about betrayal of some sort. 880 01:16:55,783 --> 01:16:58,494 Backstreets reads a whole other way 881 01:16:59,036 --> 01:17:01,789 in the shadow of Last Man Standing. 882 01:17:02,498 --> 01:17:07,170 Bruce seems to be again talking about the mementos 883 01:17:07,670 --> 01:17:09,690 of his lost friend. 884 01:19:31,731 --> 01:19:35,234 In the breakdown where it's just Roy and Bruce... 885 01:19:37,153 --> 01:19:39,298 ...he's continuing the story 886 01:19:39,322 --> 01:19:42,325 that he began in Last Man Standing 887 01:19:42,742 --> 01:19:44,869 and brings the two together. 888 01:19:45,495 --> 01:19:50,750 Now I got, I got that box of 45s that you left me... 889 01:19:52,543 --> 01:19:54,504 and I got all your old books... 890 01:19:57,256 --> 01:19:59,777 and I got the, the guitar that you used 891 01:19:59,801 --> 01:20:01,761 to keep down at the end of your bed. 892 01:20:04,180 --> 01:20:07,683 And I got that picture of the two of us 893 01:20:08,810 --> 01:20:12,188 sitting on your porch on your wedding day... 894 01:20:14,399 --> 01:20:16,401 and you were barely 19. 895 01:20:18,945 --> 01:20:23,449 And everything else... everything else... 896 01:20:24,492 --> 01:20:26,244 I'm gonna carry right here. 897 01:20:29,580 --> 01:20:31,225 I'm gonna carry right here. 898 01:20:36,587 --> 01:20:38,256 I'm gonna carry right here. 899 01:20:41,676 --> 01:20:43,302 I'm gonna carry right here. 900 01:21:03,114 --> 01:21:04,574 Until the end. 901 01:23:24,839 --> 01:23:27,234 To go in the space of a half an hour 902 01:23:27,258 --> 01:23:32,948 from the depths of Last Man Standing into some of his most well-known songs. 903 01:23:32,972 --> 01:23:36,827 The fact that he can cover that range of territory 904 01:23:36,851 --> 01:23:38,102 he always has. 905 01:23:38,603 --> 01:23:42,624 Backstreet is the beginning of this ramp-up, 906 01:23:42,648 --> 01:23:46,462 this insane roller coaster that is the rest of the show. 907 01:24:57,640 --> 01:24:58,975 One, two, three! 908 01:26:01,871 --> 01:26:04,290 We end with Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out. 909 01:26:05,500 --> 01:26:07,811 We line up and take a little bow with Bruce. 910 01:26:18,763 --> 01:26:21,533 He gives everybody a, a thumbs up or, 911 01:26:21,557 --> 01:26:22,767 you know, a pat on the back. 912 01:26:23,393 --> 01:26:25,686 He just makes you feel like you're the greatest. 913 01:26:27,688 --> 01:26:30,483 Then he goes on to finish the show by himself. 914 01:26:35,947 --> 01:26:39,385 He comes back one last moment with the acoustic guitar. 915 01:26:39,409 --> 01:26:43,013 It's of vital importance that he ties together 916 01:26:43,037 --> 01:26:45,265 the underlying thoughts and feelings 917 01:26:45,289 --> 01:26:49,168 that make this show different than any other show he's done. 918 01:29:42,842 --> 01:29:44,719 The E Street Band loves you! 919 01:29:54,604 --> 01:29:57,416 I stuck closely to our original set list 920 01:29:57,440 --> 01:29:58,816 on this tour 921 01:29:59,358 --> 01:30:02,487 because it told the story I wanted to communicate. 922 01:30:04,489 --> 01:30:08,743 Life, death, and everything in between. 923 01:30:10,620 --> 01:30:13,265 Playing music as you get older is an interesting 924 01:30:13,289 --> 01:30:15,225 and tricky business. 925 01:30:15,249 --> 01:30:19,045 Now I plan on continuing until the wheels come off 926 01:30:19,962 --> 01:30:23,174 and for as long as the band will follow me. 927 01:30:23,633 --> 01:30:25,903 There's one thing I know, 928 01:30:25,927 --> 01:30:30,515 after 50 years on the road, it's too late to stop now. 929 01:30:37,730 --> 01:30:41,776 Time moves quickly when you are on the road. 930 01:30:44,278 --> 01:30:46,423 And I've always believed the audience 931 01:30:46,447 --> 01:30:51,053 does not pay necessarily to hear their favorite song 932 01:30:51,077 --> 01:30:53,746 or to see your aging face again. 933 01:30:55,748 --> 01:30:58,686 But they pay for the intensity of your presence, 934 01:30:58,710 --> 01:31:03,214 how alive you are on any given evening. 935 01:31:07,802 --> 01:31:10,406 That's the beating heart of my job, 936 01:31:10,430 --> 01:31:13,867 to be there and only there, 937 01:31:13,891 --> 01:31:18,038 playing for all the stakes rock and roll has to offer 938 01:31:18,062 --> 01:31:21,149 for you, in your town, on this night. 939 01:31:28,948 --> 01:31:33,512 And in doing so, I want to leave you with life's possibilities, 940 01:31:33,536 --> 01:31:36,807 with energy to take outside the concert gates, 941 01:31:36,831 --> 01:31:41,044 to bring into your life with a smile on your face 942 01:31:41,794 --> 01:31:44,231 and some feeling of love in your heart, 943 01:31:44,255 --> 01:31:47,925 a quiet soul, and hopefully a lifted spirit. 944 01:31:50,887 --> 01:31:52,013 It's my job. 945 01:31:56,225 --> 01:31:59,729 I'm left with one thought, it's a quote from Jim Morrison, 946 01:32:01,939 --> 01:32:04,233 "O great creator of being" 947 01:32:05,526 --> 01:32:09,530 "grant us one more hour to perform our art..." 948 01:32:12,033 --> 01:32:14,577 "And to perfect our lives." 949 01:32:40,770 --> 01:32:43,791 Jersey in the house! 950 01:32:49,362 --> 01:32:50,923 On the trombone, 951 01:32:50,947 --> 01:32:53,759 Ozzie Melendez, Barry Danielian, 952 01:32:53,783 --> 01:32:56,220 Curt Ramm, Eddie Manion. 953 01:32:56,244 --> 01:32:59,223 Curtis King, Lisa Lowell, 954 01:32:59,247 --> 01:33:02,684 Michelle Moore, Ada Dyer, 955 01:33:02,708 --> 01:33:07,064 sister Soozie Tyrell, brother Charlie Giordano. 956 01:33:07,088 --> 01:33:09,858 On the guitar, Nils Lofgren. 957 01:33:09,882 --> 01:33:14,029 On the saxophone, Jake Clemons. 958 01:33:14,053 --> 01:33:18,283 On the drums, the mighty, mighty Max Weinberg. 959 01:33:18,307 --> 01:33:21,686 On percussion, Anthony Almonte. 960 01:33:22,437 --> 01:33:26,333 On piano, Professor Roy Bittan. 961 01:33:26,357 --> 01:33:28,419 Miss Patti Scialfa. 962 01:33:28,443 --> 01:33:32,256 On base, Garry W. Tallent. 963 01:33:32,280 --> 01:33:35,283 And last but not least, 964 01:33:35,783 --> 01:33:37,618 on guitar, 965 01:33:39,370 --> 01:33:46,353 Little... 966 01:33:46,377 --> 01:33:48,480 Steven Van Zandt. 967 01:33:57,680 --> 01:33:59,474 Bring it up, bring it up, bring it up. 968 01:34:05,480 --> 01:34:08,191 Bring it up, bring it up, bring it up, bring it up. 969 01:34:14,238 --> 01:34:16,300 One, two, three, go! 970 01:34:21,579 --> 01:34:22,663 Whoo! 971 01:34:31,339 --> 01:34:32,548 That's right. 972 01:36:01,596 --> 01:36:03,973 Now this is the important part. 973 01:38:47,261 --> 01:38:50,348 Beautiful, Ma. Beautiful. 974 01:38:51,349 --> 01:38:52,392 Beautiful.