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He set the song on the boardwalks of the Jersey Shore by referencing a merry-go-round and calliope.

#E street shuffle lyrics meaning full#

(See the full setlists for Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.Springsteen then broke down the track, the opener and first single from his 1973 debut Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. The 'madman drummer' mentioned in the opening line was drummer Vini 'Mad Dog' Lopez the Indians were Springsteen's Little League team. If ever you wanted to give the man a hug, it was when, before launching into “Twist and Shout,” he tore up tissues to plug his mom’s ears. Van Zandt” up to sing back-up on the final song. The shows felt like a celebration for us all, and in the end a bit more of the sweetness usually seen with those “Waiting on a Sunny Day” kids surfaced as he closed his birthday show by inviting his mom, sister, mother- and brother-in-law, and “Mrs. When I returned from the ladies room (What? Stop judging!) to find my friend’s 9-year-old daughter – a first-timer who had nodded off a few times due to the delay – up and dancing, I finally saw its potential to hook a whole new generation. Even my standard lament about setlist stalwart “Waiting on a Sunny Day” suddenly seemed a bit less valid this weekend, during the only shows I’ve seen for which my group included a child. There were few disappointments in East Rutherford over the weekend, save the inexplicable exclusion of “Quarter to Three,” especially on Saturday when so many of us were driving home at that hour. I’ve always loved “Downbound Train,” but watching a friend’s eyes light up at its first notes and seeing her hands fly to the top of her head in disbelief made it as great a surprise as the blistering guitar on “Cover Me,” the hilarious “Talk to Me” and the two-night Bonds two-fer of “Jole Blon” and “This Little Girl.” Of course, song meanings change depending on whom you hear them with as well. It also changes for the audience depending on the band members we see him play it with, and it was great to see Jake continue to nail his solos, evoking as much emotion in Bruce as the rest of us, while Ed, Curt, Barry and Clark got a bit more attention than earlier in the tour. As a friend said later that night, it got pretty dusty at MetLife during “Jungleland” – strange considering all the rain.īruce has said the meaning of a song changes depending on whom you sing it with. A similarly poignant segue from “Meeting Across the River” into “Jungleland” Saturday was incredibly moving, despite having heard it, too, at Gillette. “Incident on 57th Street,” followed by “Rosalita,” which replicated the way so many of us first heard them on The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle, clearly stirred the collective memory of thousands. With his 63rd birthday looming, he dipped back much further with a trio from Greetings From Asbury Park: “It’s Hard to be a Saint in the City,” the song that got him a record deal at 22, “Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street” and an even more intense “Lost in the Flood” than I recall from Gillette Stadium last month.