The Official Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Thread.

Oh no Kathleen it was a totally different crowd.

yours sounds like frat boys, down there it was total dyed in the wool yuppie scum.

My brother was at the festival last year to see aerosmith and had warned me that it was nothing like going to a festival or even a gig up here.

Some cunt who decided to lay a blanket down and have a picnic in the middle of the crowd moaned at me when I had to step on it when I was going to the bar.

One guy went to grass my mates old man up for rolling a J. We almost came to blows over that.

A woman was moaning about the crowd being around her young daughter who had decided she was going to go lie down on their blanket for a sleep halfway through the boss' set.

Someone else complained about me and a friend talking whilst James Morrison was on. If you're going to the trouble of zoning out 100 or so dB of music to be offended by 2 guys having a private conversation 10 feet away then you're out there just looking to be offended.

So many blankets out IN the crowd that you couldn't move without standing on one of the stupid cunts "patch"

It was just a loathe atmosphere and as i pertained to earlier, these kind of people just don't get what an outdoor gig is all about and thus shouldn't be there ruining it for everyone else who wants to have some fun.

I will admit I've been to concerts where i've done more than my fair share to cause aggrivation whether it's through being drunk or generally just being a pain in the arse but there were a sizeable amount of people at this gig who, I really dunno what they were expecting, but to come to a gig like that and basically act like crypto fascists is just a joke.

OK - frat boys - that makes sense.

Unfortunately there were a lot of the people you mention at Bon Jovi's Central Park concert too, though I never heard them called yuppie scum or fascists LOL. They were fiercely territorial as in don't get too close - don't step on my blanket. They were a major pain in the ass.

Yeah i guess that was a way to describe it I mean laying a blanket down on the grass at the back is one thing, laying it down (or letting your daughter sleep) in the middle of a 40,000 strong crowd is making a pretty bold statement.

They just seemed very confrontational towards people who know what festivals are all about and were thusly having fun.

Sounds like day concert trippers they do my head in. When we went to Live 8 there were people there who took in blankets, rugs, mini fridges, chairs etc. I was half expecting them to come out with a disposible BBQ! If ur at an outdoor standing gig you should expect to move about a bit, otherwise Sod off to the stands!

Don't even ****ing get me started on the morons at that show.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbi...een/article.do

To say I'm a bit gutted would be an understatement.

As I posted in the other thread they have done this together before. It was a real treat to be there too. They did this together at Continental Arena here in NJ at the last show of a 15 night stand - 1999-08-12.

Video exists

rights guys! Bruce Springsteens sponge ...
you will all have to take my word for it but i do have photographic evidence

in the far right corner you can see a bowl of water with a sponge in

a zoomed in image

the sponge

here is the story ...
i saw bruce at glasto and at the end of the gig i went to stage and shouted to the roadies for a setlist but one replied 'there all gone mate' so i was a bit gutted but hung around anyway and then about 2 minutes later the roadie through the sponge at me a i hit me square on in the head! earlier on in the gig i noticed bruce using a sponge to wash his head and then when i got back i checked the footage i recorded and low and behold was right!

I assume you kept it The sponge is a feature of Bruce's shows. After he soaks himself with it - he brings it out to the edge of the stage and soaks anyone who is close with it. He calls it a Jersey baptism LOL.

This is actually a step up for him - he used to fill a bottle of water (or a roadie did) and he simply dumped it all over his head in order to cool off.

I got 'Born In The U.S.A' and 'Born To Run' today, my first two Springsteen albums apart from the Greatest Hits. I'm not the biggest fan of course, but these two albums are excellent and I will be buying a few mor every soon, so I am happy.