Two weeks after the kick-off the Vote For Change Tour ended last night at the Continental Airlines Arena in New Jersey. The lineup was different than earlier. Gone were Bright Eyes and REM. Instead Patti Scialfa and her band opened the show followed by Jackson Browne. Bruce guested with both of them before taking center-stage himself. That didn't go down quietly. The show was only 15 minutes old when Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam joined the fun and sang on "No Surrender", "Darkness" and the Pearl Jam song "Better Man". Jackson Browne helped out on the tour debut "Racing in the Street", and everybody were together on stage for the final encores.

From a musical point of view the fans have received the tour extremely well. Bruce and the band are still powerful as ever, and Bruce has apparently been overjoyed performing with the likes of John Fogerty, Michael Stipe and Eddie Vedder. Only concern has been Clarence Clemons who has been visibly hampered by a bad hip. Question is if this is a temporary condition or if his days on the road with the band are about numbered.

The political impact of the shows of course remains to be seen. The tour has received lots of press, not only in the cities and states where the shows took place, but nationally and internationally as well. And as the world waits for the result on November 2, fans of Bruce are already anxiously waiting for what he will be up to next.

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