He might have taken 40 years to get here, but a 3 1/2 hour 31 song show night 1, backed up by another 3+ hour show, with 28 songs and a Backstreets and Jungleland double - 10 tour premieres - 50 different songs in 2 nights. That takes the Oz tour to 80 different songs.
Apart from the BTR album shows - has he done Backstreets and Jungleland in the same show since Clarence has passed away??
Tuesday night I stood 4th on the rail that juts out 45 degrees for the camera in front od Stevie. Last night my number was almost double I got for night 1, but I was 1 person to the left of my Tuesday night spot. In front of me were the 2 blokes I met from Melbourne - Bruce and Andrew who were in the same spot as Tuesday night. At the end of the show we shook hands and said good bye and knew we were soul mates after witnessing two great shows and sharing our other Bruce experiences in the line up and long wait before the 2 shows. On my left was Clayton and next to him Patrick who was a music journo but now is a politics journo from the Daily Telegraph and doing the whole tour. They both got their signs selected - Long Walk Home and Raise Your Hand respectively. They helped stop this lady who wasn't in the line up pushing thru.
We talked about letting a tiny Thai - Aussie girl in front of us so she could see. It took 3/4 of the show in to get her in front of us, but in the end we got Bruce to get her on stage along with 5 or 6 other girls for DITD. She was brilliant on stage first dancing with Stevie and then Bruce and several times giving them the Thai thank you sign and bow. Hope there is some footage of DITD so you can see her.
The Springsteen and I doco wanted 3 words to sum up what Bruce means to you. I thought John Stewart's Empty's The Tank from the Kennedy Honours night was pretty good .
For me its NOURISHES MY SOUL.
ManWithNoName - you aren't even half way and you have heard so much. I know understand why you said you will be knackered at the end of the tour.
The great man on Tuesday night sang
Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain
Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain, let it rain
Well today its non stop rain and its more Sydney and Brisbane summertime rain than Adelaide rain. We will get 50mm. Someone was listening!