Bruce And The E Street Band: Live in 2000
Jul 31 '00
Bruce Springsteen opened a two-night stand at Toronto's Air Canada Centre May 3rd, and gave the sellout crowd a sweaty, hit-filled set. This tour is a special one, reuniting Bruce with the E Street Band for the first time in 12 years. Without a new album to promote, the show was diverse in content and tone, celebrating the best of his 27-year career.
Bruce and the band got things rolling with "The Ties That Bind", the opening track from 1980's The River. Next up was "Prove It All Night", featuring vocals by Bruce and everyone's favourite television mobster, Steven Van Zandt. After a sombre run at "Darkness On The Edge Of Town", Springsteen decided that the typically reserved Canadian crowd needed a bit of a boost. He launched into a fire-and-brimstone preacher act, jumping, sweating and screaming, "I can't promise you life everlasting, but I can promise you life right now!". It may have been a little corny, but it worked. The crowd leapt to their feet, shouting and clapping along with "Darlington County". They adored Springsteen's mammoth saxophone man, Clarence Clemons, whose crafty, soulful saxwork was showcased in an extended intro to "The River". Guitarist Nils Lofgren's added a manic guitar solo to The Ghost Of Tom Joad's "Youngstown".
Frenetic versions of "Badlands" and "Out In The Street" were followed by an extended "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out", featuring Bruce's preacher-man alter ego doing a few verses from Al Green's "Take Me To The River". The band left Bruce to do a solo acoustic set, featuring "The Ghost Of Tom Joad" and a screeching, jangly run at "Born In The U.S.A.", with Springsteen playing 12-string slide guitar. After "Badlands" and "Light of Day", the E-Streeters left the stage, returning for encores featuring the mandatory "Born To Run" and "Thunder Road".
The ecstatic audience even managed to forgive Bruce for teasing them about the New Jersey Devils, who recently annihilated our own Toronto Maple Leafs in a little hometown jam of their own. Toronto gets the last laugh, though. Tonight we scored a great show from Bruce and the E Street Band, and a 3-2 victory over the Devils.
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