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Mt Smart Stadium / Auckland, NZNotes: As it did in 2. Springsteen 2. 01.
Australia and New Zealand finished in an industrialized section of Auckland on a warm summer's night. Three years ago Born to Run was played in its entirety and . On Saturday night the show began with three Born in the U. S. A. Both tour closers sent Kiwis and Aussies and global denizens of E Street Nation into the night with aching feet, strained vocal chords and the usual conjecture about when (if?) Bruce and the band would be back again.
It was dripping from the eyes and down the cheeks of people throughout Mt Smart Stadium. Women, men, young, old.
Tears that fell throughout the night but poured during a final acoustic . Tears of joy and sadness like I've never seen at a concert before. We're all getting older; appearances to the contrary the man himself is closing on 7.
E Street Band has herculean numbers on its odometer. After losing so much grace and greatness in 2. We know this won't go on forever: every show is a tick on the countdown, every goodbye a roll of the dice. If so, Saturday night in Auckland — and I don't care how corny this sounds — was all sevens.
One person's Good- time Party Show is another's Safe Setlist Letdown; one's Rarity Bonanza is someone else's Night of the Unknowns. This 2. 01. 7 summer tour closer would be the rare gig that all factions could agree on — it was a Get Off Your Ass and Dance show through and through. And that's clearly what Springsteen had in mind: unlike Tuesday night's first- ever Christchurch concert, which saw him collecting signs after the opening number, no requests were taken or played.
Bruce had a firm hand on the wheel all night, the collective eyes of the band locked on him even more than usual, a breakneck pace maintained by The Boss from the band's entrance at 7: 2. Bruce's lone departure at 1. Darkness had yet to fall on Mt Smart Stadium, so no spotlight was needed to watch Bruce saunter from the stage to the lip of the pit, all Stones- y riff and working- man shirt. In his Born to Run book Bruce wrote about knowing that he . During a typically exuberant .
At one point Steve slipped a pair of party glasses on Bruce's face. A quick peek at a video screen provided an answer. Are the people with me?
A sufficiently affirmative response made him cry . The band modified accordingly and a trashy, honky tonk . And c'mon the sax man did, all for the sake of those ! Putting things back together. You gotta use your hands now.
The older you get, the more that loss weighs on you. Big, bad- ass, beloved, missing Clarence.
Bruce out amongst us before directing his band to the song's gentle finish. We just relate to those songs differently. Max's jackhammered snare gave way to Bruce's wailing guitar and in a few seconds Roy's intro to . By the time Captain Lofgren finished his whirling dervish solo we were swept up in a current and dropped on our heads and barely had time to breathe before . For one last time the furious perfection of .
A wild, joyous, goofy, exhausting . Glistening eyes took one last look around the quickly dissipating closing- night crowd, paths crossed on tour about to bring us home to our everyday lives. Lives that, unlike a Bruce show, offer no guarantees.
Lives that for some had been on hold for five weeks after this tour began on a January night in Perth, Australia when Bruce declared the band's allegiance with a . With a raw longing for this magical circus to continue we bade tearful goodbyes and told each other we'd do it again someday. While that may or may not be true, we also swore forever friends. And that, my friends, will be true.
Tuesday night in Christchurch it was his calling, and he wore that calling on his sleeve. Bruce knew it; all 3. This one mattered. This one was necessary.
This one would echo long after the band left AMI Stadium — a temporary structure built after Christchurch's rugby stadium was heavily damaged in the February 2. That 2. 01. 1 earthquake killed 1. Multiple aftershocks have rocked the Canterbury region. A tsunami threatened the South Island's east coast last year. The citizens of Christchurch have been roiled and frustrated and discouraged by redevelopment delays.
Just last week wildfires raged in Port Hills, only a few kilometers from the Christchurch CBD. An optimist says this particular show by this particular band couldn't have come at a better time. A pessimist says no show could live up to such weighty expectations. What does The Boss say? The Boss says it's ass- shaking time. The Boss, as always, is right, and everything, absolutely everything, is alright.
She's an emergency room nurse who married a Christchurch boy, raised three kids and on February 2. Wendy's multiple casualty disaster training made her more prepared than most; she'd taken a break from her nursing career in 2. She then volunteered herself to a trio of policemen. They drove her into Christchurch's devastated CBD, where she checked in with a commander who gave her his jacket and helmet and sent her to the collapsed Pyne Gould Corporation building. There she helped set up a triage area for victims of the pancaked five- story structure, a place where 1. The seed was planted more than three years ago on the day the 2. Springsteen tour of Australia and NZ was announced.
The itinerary included two shows in Auckland but none in Christchurch. Wendy's a fan, but it was lifelong diehard Pete who asked, . On her lunch break the next day Wendy started finding out by setting up a . After sending invitations to a small circle of friends, she was startled to watch the page attract more than 1.
As it was difficult to contact anyone in the Springsteen organization, she informed Frontier Touring of the petition but never heard a word in response. Wanted us to come and play. It took a while, but I'm glad we got here. I got a chance to drive around and take a look at the city today. I want to send this out to everyone who suffered in the earthquake, send out our love and prayers, and to the emergency services who I know are working today to contain the fires outside of town. This is for those folks? It'll come off as hyperbolic, but Bruce was more than a preacher on this night — he was a messenger, conjurer, shaman, healer.
But tonight Bruce recalibrated it and set it loose within the hearts of the people of Christchurch like a voodoo man stealing souls and setting them free in a better, less lonely place. The sun had yet to set behind the stage, but the air was cool — a perfect night for a city never listed on a Springsteen T- shirt until 2. Bruce's fierce vocals were complemented by a searing guitar duel between he and Steve, who was in spectacular form all night.
Don't think it's ever occurred to me at a Bruce show, but it seemed the songs themselves were secondary to the touching of skin, the making of eye contact, the involvement of . He let the song's gentle beginning wash over the crowd before making the introduction that set Wendy's heart afire. After Charlie's blissful organ solo, Jake laid down a sax vibe that made Bruce call out . But slowly, slowly over the past ten years it's built itself back up. A song at the end of the day can be about a lot of things — about my town, about your town, about New York City and even personal things that you've lost.
Another sign led to a cracking . Bruce ripped a solo from the Carter administration during . An inflatable kiwi was handed to an inquisitive Bruce during ? Steve mauled Bruce's face with hands shoved under Springsteen's armpits from behind during the Three Stooges bit of ? A shall- we- say carefree woman on the shoulders of a guy in the pit repeatedly flashed the band, causing Bruce to swing back and forth from the video screen to the crowd. Where I was standing no one moved. When they did it was to seek out someone to hug or gush about what they'd just experienced.
All I could do was study faces, eavesdrop on conversations, put away pints with locals and ask their slurred, ecstatic opinions afterward. For most this was their first Springsteen concert, so their jubilation was fresh, real, untouched by the taint of . She did admit to thinking . I'll let her words finish this report, as they not only perfectly summarize a special evening but capture her no- bullshit, brilliantly genuine spirit in a city where spirits have been tested but hope, however far- flung, hangs on. When I asked what she'd say to Springsteen if she had his ear, she rubbed her eyes, glanced out the window and looked me straight in the eye. Coming off the scintillating pair of shows in Brisbane, one of the best pairs of shows I've seen this decade, it seemed unlikely that Bruce would match those setlists or performances, considering the Hope show was more of a festival setting. He didn't — but what he did deliver was a totally different show that was excellent and just the right one for the circumstances.
The shows in Brisbane (or the Philly of the Southern Hemisphere, as some are now calling it) were played in a tiny arena, whereas Hope Estate is a huge temporary amphitheater with much of the crowd far away on the lawn. And the place is a winery, so there's a fair amount of drinking going on.
Throw in not one but two opening acts, Diesel and Jet, and you could not have a more different setting for a show. It was a unique night. Fortunately, the weather cleared up, and Jet was able to play their set after a brief delay. And then it was Boss time.
With the strings having played their final show in Brisbane, a crisp and appropriate . The difference in the type of night it would be was defined immediately when Bruce launched into . A sign request followed for . A few minutes later another sign from the crowd brought us . The third was Mary's Place — .
It was a beautiful performance of the song, the first ever in Australia. So that would be the last rarity of the evening, and from there the show went into a string of big rockers, which were completely effective in getting the crowd up and dancing.