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Can anyone spot what makes this setlist unusual, from this past week?
10/10/09 National Theatre – Great Barrington, MA
The Way It Is, Mandolin Rain, Every Little Kiss, Valley Road, Look Out Any Window, End of the Innocence, (Norwegian Wood*) > Jacob’s Ladder*, Across the River, Lost Soul, Fields of Gray > Under the Boardwalk > Walk in the Sun, Gonna Be Some Changes Made, Prairie Dog Town**
Encore: Don of Dons (solo)
Comments: * denotes on accordian; ** on dulcimerThe setlist contains at least one song from each of Bruce’s “pop/rock” studio albums. They were also played in chronological order by release date.
That is SO cool!
There are a couple more “coincidences” in the setlist I haven’t named.
Great eye,Si!
Jackie
This setlist was from Atlantic City , NJ.
It was pretty much the Top 100 hits in chronological order.
The radio hits CD in Intersections has a similar sequence.
“Lost Soul” and “Don of Dons” in the Trump Casino were the highlights for me.This was the Atlantic City, NJ show. I’m guessing that the capacity was a few thousand but only 300-400 showed. Of those that showed, there were only a handful of Hornsby fans thus prompting Bruce to make this an All Radio “Hits” show in chronological order. There was minimal conversation with the audience and minimal jamming–just the “hits.” It was sort of amusing since you knew what Bruce was thinking without him having to say it. It was one of the those shows where even the vast majority of the songs were not well known by the audience but Bruce and the band upheld themselves as professional musicians.
Bruce ran out of time (as usual) when he got to Spirit Trail so he didn’t include that album in his setlist. I think they’ve played this type of hits only show a few times in the past. It may have been corporate gigs but this is not the first time they’ve taken this approach.
When he first came on stage and thanked those that came, he mentioned that he hadn’t opened with “this song” (The Way it is) in a few years and maybe it was also time to play Jack Straw. Only a few in the audience appreciated that comment and of course he never played it.
It was an unusual show and sort of funny to see a hits only show. I kept thinking that if Bruce ever abandons his approach and becomes a Vegas act, this could be the nightly setlist!!!
Glad I didn’t see this show. Would’ve been pissed.
Plus, I was mighty confused that it was listed as a 2nd Great Barr. MA show…
😆 So I wouldn’t have been there anyway… T
Where was it listed as a second MA show? I know the setlist on the homepage has it as such which I assume Si will fix. Was it listed somewhere else as a second show?
tgreene wrote:Where was it listed as a second MA show? I know the setlist on the homepage has it as such which I assume Si will fix. Was it listed somewhere else as a second show?Yeah, at the top of this page…scroll up! 😆
I was checking the site as more reviews/setlists rolled in and I saw the Nat. Theater in G. Barr. MA listed once (10/06/09 — a show I considered going to but didn’t), then the D.C. show, then agin’ (one mo’ ‘gin) with the Great Barrington Reef…I thought that I was indeed taking crazy pills
but you and careyon both stated that it was the Atlantic City show.Such is the self-correcting (wiki)nature of the Bruuuce board.
T
Hi Guys,
I just registered for this site to join in discussing my favorite band.
This show wasn’t at all what I would have expected, and it was a little weird that so few people showed up, but it was a really nice treat to hear so many old hits played back to back in perfect form. It made me remember how much I loved this music from the first tour I saw in 1988. And it would be hard to find a place where you move about as freely as this one. That enabled me to get outrageously good photos with my telephoto lense from 4 or 5 locations, making up for the Bridgeport show where I didn’t have my SLR camera.
I am glad to have any opportunities to hear Bruce but especially to see the Noisemakers billed on the album and featured on this tour. As far as great bands they are where its at IMHO. I am also glad Bruce kept the prices down and played some smaller less uptight places. But I’m not sure why this tour was not well-publicized, and it seemed that at Atlantic City especially his appearance was kind of a well-kept secret …..
Spidey
I believe that Bruce one said he would never do a Beatles tune, something about it being some sort of sacred pop canon, other than his rendition of Imagine (which wasn’t really a Beatles tune, because it came loooong after they parted ways). And yet, there is Norwegian Wood thrown in. Oh yeah, and the other stuff mentioned about chronological order highlighting of his “pop/rock” albums, too.
Rich
“Me, I’m just the lucky kind. Love to hear you say that love is love…”Rich,
Do you recall me telling you that i heard the Beatles in just about every bar of one of the new songs on Levitate? (And, separately, Brian Wilson at the tail end of another?)
Be interested to see if you were in agreement…
si_twining wrote:Rich,Do you recall me telling you that i heard the Beatles in just about every bar of one of the new songs on Levitate? (And, separately, Brian Wilson at the tail end of another?)
Be interested to see if you were in agreement…
Yeah, Si. I noticed that on Paperboy. He went for the heavy use of dominant 7th chords that was a sonic hallmark of the middle-era Beatles stuff (put those piano lines on an electric piano, and it could sound like something from the early I Am The Walrus sessions before they layered on the strings and the tapes of Macbeth). That’s a fun, albeit lyrically “dark” tune. Maybe more like a Rutles track, though
Rich
“One man’s civilization is another man’s jungle, yeah.
They say revolution’s in the air. I’m dancing in my underwear, ’cause I don’t care”rdiakun wrote:I believe that Bruce one said he would never do a Beatles tune, something about it being some sort of sacred pop canon, other than his rendition of Imagine (which wasn’t really a Beatles tune, because it came loooong after they parted ways). And yet, there is Norwegian Wood thrown in.Another example of Bruce playing the Beatles is also one of my favorite Daily Doses. It’s labeled “082304prudence.” A great “winging it” version of Dear Prudence in the middle of (I think) See The Same Way.
Jackie
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but you and careyon both stated that it was the Atlantic City show.
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