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Last Night's Set List

Setlist:

Badlands
Candy's Room
Outlaw Pete
She's the One
Working on a Dream
Seeds
Johnny 99
Youngstown
Raise Your Hand
I Wanna Be Sedated
Spirit in the Night
For You
Waitin' on a Sunny Day
The Promised Land
Jungleland
Kingdom of Days
Radio Nowhere (w/ Jay Weinberg)
Lonesome Day (w/ Jay Weinberg)
The Rising (w/ Jay Weinberg)
Born to Run (w/ Jay Weinberg)

Encore
Hard Times
Thunder Road
Land of Hope and Dreams
So Young and in Love (w/ Dropkick Murphys' Tim Brennan)
American Land (w/ Dropkick Murphys, Jay Weinberg)
Glory Days (w/ Dropkick Murphys, Jay Weinberg)

Second Encore
Seven Nights to Rock

Dropkick Murphys

Bruce brought them out for the encore. True Boston spirit.

One of them proposed to his girlfriend on stage. Normally lame, except they both got hugs from the Boss.

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Jay Weinstein

It must be umimaginably cool to have your dad be the drummer for The E Steet Band.

How does he feel now, subbing in for dear old dad in Boston. He was awesome!

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Where's Patti Scialfa?

According to Bruce, injured horseback riding. According to the NY Post, angry about a paternity suit.

Either way, she ain't here.

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Taking Requests

Update (April 23rd, 8:21am): Apparently, this is a common thing at his concerts:

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I Wanna Be Sedated

Genius.

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White

If I only had one word to describe this crowd...

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The Boss

Fucking sick.

Springsteen Concert Like Engineering Puzzle

I'm going to see The Boss in two days at the Toronto-Dominion BankNorth Securities Garden (better than The Dunkaccino Center Providence) on Wednesday night. I'm fired up because I have general admission floor seats...or at least I was fired up until I read the instructions for entering the arena. It reads like a mutli-variable calculus problem (or worse):

On the day of the show, sequentially numbered wristbands will be distributed beginning at 2:00 PM. Wristbands will be distributed until 1 Hour prior to doors (5:00 PM).

The purpose of the Lottery System is to insure that all GA patrons have the same chance of being first in line. Camping-Out Overnight is strictly prohibited and under this system completely unnecessary. Our goal is to insure the safety or our patrons. Please help us by following these guidelines.

Only GA ticket holders with a valid GA ticket in their possession will be permitted in the line.

After verification of a GA Ticket a wristband will be issued and affixed to the patron's right wrist. Each patron will receive 1 wristband only. The wristband must remain on the GA ticket holders right wrist at all times and must be in possession of a valid ticket at all times. Any GA ticket holder found with a tampered wristband will have that wristband confiscated, and the GA ticket holder will lose their sequential place in the line.

Does Anyone Listen to These Guys?

So, Newt and Judd, et al., think it’s irresponsible for Obama to shake hands with a sworn enemy.  Is the track record of these critics in the foreign policy arena so good?  Or, might they just be looking for something to get traction against Obama, since nothing else seems to work.  It’s not like this hasn’t happened before:

President Kennedy

President Nixon

President Reagan

Unlike me, of course, Obama had a rational response:

“It's unlikely that as a consequence of me shaking hands or having a polite conversation with Mr. Chavez that we are endangering the strategic interests of the United States,” Obama told reporters at a news conference. “I don't think anybody can find any evidence that that would do so. Even within this imaginative crowd, I think you would be hard-pressed to paint a scenario in which U.S. interests would be damaged as a consequence of us having a more constructive relationship with Venezuela.”

Kings of Leon

Absolutely amazing show. Among the best I've ever been to.

Now, time to prepare for The Boss on Wednesday.

Getting Started Young

MLB Replay

First use of the new replay rule in the Yankees-Indians game and the umpires totally botch it. Great. The fan clearly leaned over the fence and his glove gets in the way of a potential great catch. Then, this douche (adult at a ballgame with a glove on!) starts texting his friends on TV while the umps go under the stadium, watch the film and come back with the completely inaccurate interpretation of what happened. Even the TBS commentators were incredulous.

Good work, MLB.