Springsteen Tour Dates Announced archived

Bruce Springsteen and th E Street Band will kick out their tours at The Meadowlands this October. So far only two dates have been announced, Tuesday 9 October and Wednesday 10 October. Ticket princes to be announced. I am pretty sure I heard tickets go on sale 15 October. I could be wrong. It might even be this Wednesday 5 September. I am willing to bet shows are added!

Now all we need is for the Eagles to announce their East Coast dates!

Tickets go on sale 9/10 at 9 a.m. according to my die hard fan husband

Thanks hismom. The website for The Meadowlands doesn't say when they go on sale. I gather since your husband is a die hard fan he will be getting tickets! This should be a great tour; especially sicne Bruce hasn't toured with the E Street Band in many years!

edit to add: There are no dates at all on the Ticketmaster Website. Strange

The "official" word from Springsteen's publicist, Shore Fire Media, is that tickets for the Meadowlands and the Garden go on sale September 10.

http://www.shorefire.com/index.php?a=pressrelease&o=1279

That seems odd to me. Usually, I think they go on sale on a weekend.

In any event, it will be interesting if anyone thinks they'll be able to do any business in NJ on Monday morning, September 10.

Got 4 tickets this morning for opening night in Hartford. Not sure yet if I'm going, but figured if I decide not to, I can find somebody to take them off my hands. MSG and Meadowlands on sale Monday at 9, and I hope my luck is as good as it was today.

ml1/nohero,

You guys heard the album, yet? It leaked this week.

michael
I heard some of the songs are being passed around. I only heard the one song. How do the rest of them sound?

I haven't heard anything besides "Radio Nowhere" yet. I'm looking forward, because the article about the album in Rolling Stone indicated that there are only a couple of "serious" songs. I'm hoping it's just a straight rock & roll record, which he hasn't done in awhile. The Seeger shows were (mostly) absent of ponderous moments, focusing on just enjoying the music and having a good time, and I hope that spirit has rubbed off on the new record.

Overall, it's a fun album...it reminds me alot of the unreleased stuff from The River era that wound up on "Tracks". The lyrics are pretty tough to hear, although someone has taken a stab at them here: http://www.springsteenlyrics.com/

The one thing that I am disappointed in is that I don't consider any of the songs the type that you blast in your car with the windows down. They are catchy "pop" style songs with a catchy rhythm, but Radio Nowhere is probably the best "rock" song on the album. I actually think that "Radio Nowhere" should have been the Title track, as the song "Magic" seems a bit hokey to me.

I still need to listen a few more times to get a better full impression, though.

Ticket time tomorrow.

Let's get lucky!


I have never been a Springsteen fan. That said, Radio Nowhere is an awesome rock song, IMHO the best he's made. Maybe he's back to his roots cuz even this non-fan is looking forward to this album if they are all like that.

Got 4 tix for MSG, so I'm likely to sell my Hartford tickets. Anyone interested should whisper. I haven't decided yet to bail on Hartford, but if I do I'd rather sell them to somebody local.

Got in for first night at the Meadowlands. That'll do.

In for 1st night at the Meadowlands & 1st night at the MSG.

In for the 2nd night at MSG, the place where I first saw him in 1981 during the River tour.

First time was MSG in 1978. "Darkness On The Edge Of Town".

I was in that "too young" group for "Born to Run", and had to wait until they went back on the road with "Darkness".

That having been said, being able to have your favorite band be there from high school to 30 years later - "Priceless".

Tickets go on sale 9:00 am tomorrow through Ticketmaster for two benefit rehersals at Convention Hall in Asbury Park next Monday and Tues.

Tickets are available by Ticketmaster charge by phone, only.

Details from ConcertsEast

http://www.concertseast.com/?p=v&v=2

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On sale Thursday at 9am:
Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band


Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band
Monday and Tuesday, September 24th + 25th, 2007

Ticketing Policy & Procedure:

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND have confirmed two benefit rehearsal shows at Asbury Park’s Convention Hall. The shows will take place on Monday, September 24th and Tuesday, September 25th. Showtime for each night is 7:30pm.

Tickets for these performances will go on sale Thursday, September 20th at 9am through Ticketmaster Charge By Phone only.

Ticket restrictions:

• $100 per ticket.
• Two (2) ticket limit per person, per show.
• Orders will be taken by Ticketmaster Charge By Phone only.
•Tickets will not be mailed out. Tickets can be picked up the night of the show only. Two (2) forms of ID are necessary to pick up all tickets.
• No cameras / recorders / laser pointers / cell phone cameras permitted.

Convention Hall is located at 1300 Ocean Avenue in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

A third rehearsal show will take place at the Meadowlands. Tickets, priced at $100, go on sale at noon, Sept. 25, through Ticketmaster charge-by-phone only (201-507-8900, 212-307-7171, 866-448-7849). Tickets will not be sold online at Ticketmaster.com, Ticketmaster outlets or at the Continental Arena Box Office. There is a two-ticket limit. A limited number of general admission and reserved tickets will be sold. Tickets must be picked up the night of the concert at the Arena Box Office will call. The credit card used to purchase the tickets and a photo ID will be required.

Good luck!

ml, nohero, others?

So? Did you pick up the new CD today? Any impressions?

I haven't been to any of the rehearsals, but I did make it to the Today show last Friday and had a great time.

We working stiffs envy you the Today show.

I DL'd it today from iTunes. First few listens are pretty positive. Radio Nowhere is great and clearly the perfect fist pumper to start the concert. I'm loving Long Walk Home as well. I intend to listen about 20 more times before I see the Philly show this weekend.

I went out for coffee yesterday morning at Starbucks, turned my head and noticed "Magic" on a rack next to the register. I had intended to buy it at a music store later in the day, but what the heck. I haven't had the chance yet to listen all the way through, but what I've heard sounds good. My only gripe is that I'm not a fan of the "wall of sound" production. I can't make out the lyrics, and it's a little too over-produced for my taste. But it sounds like a great bunch of songs to hear performed live. "Living in the Future" is a "10th Avenue Freeze-out" sound-alike, but it will certainly be a concert highlight. "Radio Nowhere" and "Gypsy Biker" are the two most rocking songs from what I've listened to so far, so those should also be fun at the live shows.

Maybe today I'll make it through songs 8-12. I've got plenty of time before the 9/17 show to become familiar.

I pre-ordered on Amazon, and I always use my work address for mail orders.

So, on Tuesday, when the album came out, our mailroom guy comes by just before lunch with my package from Amazon. I had to explain to him why I was so happy to get the mail that day.

It's been on the player in the office, in the car, in the kitchen, in the living room . . .

My impression so far - maybe it's age, but for me this album has the same feeling that "Darkness" had when I was anticipating that album. So, maybe one way to describe "Magic" is that it's "Darkness" filtered through 30 years of real life.

[Edited for spelling, and to add this]

But I'll be ready to sing along on Tuesday next week, for the first Jersey show.

My feeling about the album so far is mixed. First off, I'm very happy that it's only 11 songs (I know there are 12 songs on the disc, but the last one is a bonus track, and not officially part of the "album"). It was made LP length, and to me that's perfect. The advent of the CD has made for too many padded albums with redundant filler songs. I thought The Rising was a good album, but suffered from being overlong.

I like the songs on this album. A lot of them suggest early '60s pop singles, with the strings and the harmonies. There are more catchy, melodic tunes on this disc than Bruce has done on a single album since "Born In The U.S.A." I've got a few of them in my head, and they're really sticking with me -- "Radio Nowhere," "Livin' In the Future," "I'll Work For Your Love," "Long Walk Home," "Last To Die."

But having said all that, my initial impression of the sound of the recording still holds. I really don't like it. There are too many instruments on some tracks, and the lead vocals seem buried on many. To my ears, it's often a muddy mess. At this point, I've decided I just don't like Brendan O'Brien's production. All of the tracks that I think sound good on the last two E Street albums he's produced are stylistically very similar: "Livin' In The Future," "Lonesome Day," "Waiting on a Sunny Day," "I'll Work For Your Love" -- sort of midtempo groove with an upbeat sing-along chorus. Anything else doesn't sound good to my ears.

Maybe after a number of listens, it will grow on me some more. But I'm looking forward to the shows though, because I think Magic is a great bunch of songs, and in a live setting, they have potential to be great.

Ml1,

I had a similar initial impression, but the more I listen to it, the more it grows on me. Also, having read a number of interpretations of the songs in various reviews has made me appeciate the subtle (and not so subtle) profound commentary on today's world that is prevelant throughout the album.

Ml1, you're correct about the production, it does get in the way of some of the songs.

For example, I like the live "Living in the Future" from the "Today Show", better than the album version. They do all seem like songs that are meant to be heard live.

I'll say one thing for the producer, though - he may get us yet another new album soon.

weren't there rumors after "The River" that there was another album worth of great songs in the can? I guess we did get to hear most of them, but not for almost 20 years when "Tracks" came out.

After one full week of listening, I can say, without hesitation, that "Magic" is the BEST Eddie & The Cruisers LP since, well, A Season in Hell! Words and music ...

Oops, this is a Springsteen CD?!

For the record, I am a big Springsteen fan. I have them all and I've been to a ton of shows. This CD is a dog. Yes, the production sucks, but, truthfully, it's a nice distraction from the lyrics, which are awful. The only two songs that I can remotely get my arms around are "Radio Nowhere"(Don't Fear The Reaper!), and "Long Walk Home" and even those are flawed. Do we need to repeat the line "Hey pretty Darling, don't wait up for me ..." seven times! Other crappy lyrics include: "I'll work for your love, dear
I'll work for your love ... What others may want for free ... I'll work for your love ..." Lame.

I think the Brendan O'Brien relationship has run its course. None of the songs sound "finished" or polished. Bruce needs to hunker down in the studio with Little Steven and write some good tunes. I have read that the band was never esembled as a whole for this record and it shows.

Again, I'm a fan and I've listened for a week ... This one blows. :fierce:

I'm getting six-pack and putting on "The River" ...

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