backstreets

Thanks Lafayette and tonyg for the warm welcome! I did score tickets for the 28th, and will be beggin’, barrowin’ and stealin’ for tickets for me and Mrs. backstreets for the other 3 nights!

As to Lafayette’s reference to the Boss’s Tom Joad period – I never had the opportunity to see any of the shows on that tour. However, I know that tour and the Devils and Dust tours (on which I did see 11 shows) were pretty much labeled as the STFU (shut the *#%^ up) tours, where audience partipation for the most part was discouraged, and very few of the favorites were played, so it was a different vibe. Specific to Tom Joad, It took me 10 years to warm up to that album, but since then rates in my top third of Bruce’s albums (in fact, I just listened to it again last night), along with Tunnel of Love, which I didn’t warm up to until I saw the tour in 1988.

It also took a while for me to “get” Luncinda. I had Fillmore for probably 5 years, had only listened to it a couple of times, but for some reason gave it another listen, and have been absolutely hooked since the first time I saw her live in 2011. And what I really love (and this is a Boss thing too) is the changing set lists, for which I give Tom O. HUGE, HUGE credit, and obviously is the reason I want to catch as many shows on a multi-night stand as possible!

Looking forward to running into as many of you folks as possible in the future!

Mike