Back after a nice vacation in the wilderness with not a lot of Internet. Sorry about the lack of updates and delayed appovals of eyewitness accounts and comments. As you have probably seen elsewhere, Bruce seems to have run out of originals to shock people with (although "Crush on You" in Richmond must count among the more surprising appearances of the year) and has instead been pulling out a host of cover songs that in many cases haven't been heard since the Seventies. "Double Shot of My Baby's Love", "Then She Kissed Me", "Mountain of Love", "Quarter to Three", "I Fought the Law", "Gloria" plus "Mona" and "Not Fade Away" as intros to "She's the One", are some of the more exciting inclusions. Either Bruce has been listening to tapes of the Born to Run and Darkness tours lately or he's just in a nostalgic mood.
Anyway, as of right now only two shows of the Magic Tour remain (sniff). But there are no indications that Bruce will disappear from the public eye for long. Rumors are already floating around the Internet that he will perform at the Superbowl on February 1 and the Democratic convention this coming week, not to mention participate in a show at Yankee Stadium before its demolition. Moreover, a Spanish promoter has allegedly been contacted regarding shows in Spain in 2009 (indicating a new European tour), and then there are the rumors of a Darkness anniversary set and a new E Street Band album recorded at the same time as the Magic album. So far none of this has been confirmed, but if only half of it is true, we're in for more exciting times.
