Actually in my living room

Years ago I watched part of a Bruce Springsteen concert on Blu-Ray: London Calling.  I was disappointed.  Because of a curfew, most of the concert was during the day.  It lacked the mystery of nighttime, the energy.  I love Bruce’s concert performances … but not this one.

Last night I decided to give the Blu-Ray another chance.  After all, I’d spent good money to buy it.  Try again.

Woh!

It was nearly three hours of high octane Bruceness.  The E Street Band was rockin’.  Incredible guitar riffs from Nils Lofgren.  Deep saxophone solos from Clarence Clemons.  Bruce hopping off the stage to be face-to-face with front row folks as he belted out the lyrics.  The whole shebang was a blast of Born To Run pizzazz …

The highway’s jammed with broken heroes
On a last chance power drive
Everybody’s out on the run tonight
But there’s no place left to hide

Together, Wendy, we can live with the sadness
I’ll love you with all the madness in my soul
Oh someday, girl, I don’t know when
We’re gonna get to that place

Where we really wanna go and we’ll walk in the sun
But ’til then, tramps like us
Baby, we were born to run

And the crowd!  50,000 gyrating human beings, sometimes waving their arms back and forth in unison to Springsteen anthems.  The camera work caught the magnificence of it all.  Well done.

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How can it be?

Black and white

It was …

“Something which baffles”