After a ten day break following the Isle of Wight Festival on 24th June (click on the link to see just under 30 minutes of highlights), Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band rolled into Paris for two nights on their Wrecking Ball Tour in 2012.
Patti Scialfa joined up with the band for her first European performance on the tour (and her first in Europe since 2008) and her first show since the dates in Los Angeles back in April 2012.
On a very hot night in Paris where there had already been power outages during the day and the air conditioning in the building broke as a result of one of them, the band gave it all they had for over three hours. Also they made sure in the hot arena that those down in the pit were hydrated as they passed out water to the fans who could easily have been slayed by the heat.
Enough chatter though, let's get on with the music...Happy 4th of July to all my American friends and readers of this little blog!
Personnel
Bruce Springsteen (vocals, guitar, harmonica)
The E Street Band
Roy Bittan (piano, keyboards, accordion)
Nils Lofgren (guitar, slide guitar, backing vocals)
Patti Scialfa (backing vocals, acoustic guitar)
Garry Tallent (bass, backing vocals)
Steven Van Zandt (guitar, mandolin, backing vocals)
Max Weinberg (drums)
Soozie Tyrell (violin, backing vocals, percussion, acoustic guitar)
Charles Giordano (organ, accordion, keyboards)
The E Street Choir
Cindy Mizelle (vocals)
Curtis King (vocals, percussion)
Everett Bradley (percussion, vocals)
The E Street Horns
Clark Gayton (trombone)
Curt Ramm (trumpet)
Barry Danielian (trumpet)
Eddie Manion (saxophone)
Jake Clemons (saxophone, vocals)
Setlist
La Vie En Rose - Roy and Charlie
We Take Care Of Our Own
Wrecking Ball
Badlands
Death To My Hometown
My City Of Ruins
Spirit In The Night
The E Street Shuffle
4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) - Tour Debut
Jack Of All Trades
Because The Night
Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Johnny 99
Darlington County
Easy Money
Waitin’ On A Sunny Day
The Promised Land
Apollo Medley
Independence Day (Solo Piano) - Tour Debut
The River
The Rising
Out In The Street
Land Of Hope And Dreams
ENCORE
We Are Alive
Born In The U.S.A.
Born To Run
Bobby Jean
Dancing In The Dark
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
American Land
Bonus
A lot of changes to the setlist for Night 2 in Paris including the playing of both Incident on 57th Street and Racing In The Street in a show together for the first time since 1978!
The opening six songs of the set were not necessarily planned, as it was reported that they were going to go from The Ties That Bind straight into We Take Care of Our Own...but hey that's the spontaneous nature of a Springsteen show, you never quite know what's going to happen or if you do, when it is going to happen!
Paris 5th July 2012
Setlist
Au clair de la lune - Roy and Charlie
The Ties That Bind
No Surrender
Two Hearts
Downbound Train
Candy's Room
Something in the Night
We Take Care Of Our Own
Wrecking Ball
Death To My Hometown
My City Of Ruins
Spirit In The Night
We Take Care Of Our Own
Wrecking Ball
Badlands
Death To My Hometown
My City Of Ruins
Spirit In The Night
The E Street Shuffle
4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) - Tour Debut
Jack Of All Trades
Because The Night
Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Johnny 99
Darlington County
Easy Money
Waitin’ On A Sunny Day
The Promised Land
Apollo Medley
Independence Day (Solo Piano) - Tour Debut
The River
The Rising
Out In The Street
Land Of Hope And Dreams
ENCORE
We Are Alive
Born In The U.S.A.
Born To Run
Bobby Jean
Dancing In The Dark
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
American Land
Bonus
A lot of changes to the setlist for Night 2 in Paris including the playing of both Incident on 57th Street and Racing In The Street in a show together for the first time since 1978!
The opening six songs of the set were not necessarily planned, as it was reported that they were going to go from The Ties That Bind straight into We Take Care of Our Own...but hey that's the spontaneous nature of a Springsteen show, you never quite know what's going to happen or if you do, when it is going to happen!
Paris 5th July 2012
Setlist
Au clair de la lune - Roy and Charlie
The Ties That Bind
No Surrender
Two Hearts
Downbound Train
Candy's Room
Something in the Night
We Take Care Of Our Own
Wrecking Ball
Death To My Hometown
My City Of Ruins
Spirit In The Night
Incident on 57th Street
Because the Night
She's The One
Working On The Highway
I'm Going Down
Easy Money
Waiting On A Sunny Day
Apollo Medley
For You - (Solo Piano) Tour Debut
Racing In The Street
The Rising
Out In The Street
Land of Hope and Dreams
ENCORE
We Are Alive
Thunder Road
Born To Run
Glory Days
Seven Days To Rock
Dancing in the Dark
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
Because the Night
She's The One
Working On The Highway
I'm Going Down
Easy Money
Waiting On A Sunny Day
Apollo Medley
For You - (Solo Piano) Tour Debut
Racing In The Street
The Rising
Out In The Street
Land of Hope and Dreams
ENCORE
We Are Alive
Thunder Road
Born To Run
Glory Days
Seven Days To Rock
Dancing in the Dark
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
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