The guy next to me on Wednesday night got his Long Walk Home sign picked and then about an hour later the guy next to him Patrick got his sign picked. He is a journo, was in music, now in politics but has taken holidays to follow the boss. He writes about his Wednesday night experience at
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ON Wednesday night, I tossed a few dollars into The E Street Band Jukebox, made 12,000 people dance and broke the keyboard of Professor Roy Bittan via the feet of Bruce Springsteen.
It’s mid-encore, just after
Born To Run, the house lights are up and the Adelaide Entertainment Centre is rocking on the second of two nights for The Church of Bruce in the city of churches.
Where to next?
I grab my homemade sign from between my sweaty knees where it has been nestled for the past 2.5 hours.
It was made just after a breakfast that morning, with a $3.25 black texta and a free used cardboard box from Boost Juice in the Rundle Mall after buying a mango magic smoothie.
On one side of the sign I scrawled “Reason To Believe” from Springsteen’s 1982 Nebraska solo record to be worked up into the bluesy, full-band swagger it is played with these days.
On the other side, I wrote the Eddie Floyd cover“Raise Your Hand”, which the E Street Band made their own as a show-stopping party song and released in 1986 on
Live 75/85.
One needs options, depending on the mood.
There can only be one choice at this time, however. “Raise Your Hand” it is. We need a call to the dance floor.
The sign is now above my head — I’m in the third row in the pit in front of Springsteen and guitarist Steve Van Zandt — when the strangest thing happens.
The Boss looks at me and his eyes light up. We have eye contact. We’re in.
I will have to check the bootleg but he may have even said “OK, buddy” or something similar. Maybe I imagined that.
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