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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band “Wrecking Ball Tour”

• By: FOH Staff
• Production Profile
• May 9, 2012

A Conversation with FOH Mixer John Cooper and Solotech’s Mario Leccese

A Bruce Springsteen tour isn’t just an event; it is a movement celebrated by fans in packed venues around the world. And in an era when groups are scaling down with smaller ensembles, acoustic shows and looking at “more intimate” venues, Springsteen brings his own version of intimacy to stadiums and arenas, staying just as much in touch with audience members in the front row as the people in row YY on the second deck.

Working to bring the current Wrecking Ball tour to the masses is Solotech, just a year after acquiring Audio Analysts. Clearly, this is a huge undertaking, including a massive 210-box L-Acoustics system comprised of 60 K1s, 24 flown K1-SB subs, 24 KARAs, 48 KUDOs, 16 V-DOSCs, 14 dV-DOSCs, 16 V-DOSCs and eight stacked SB28 subwoofers. On the monitor end are 32 Audio Analysts 12/15/212 SLP (Super Low Profile) wedges and eight JBL VerTec VT4888 sidefills. But beyond providing tour support for this mega production, there are countless other details involved.

Speaking just before the second show at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, on Friday, April 27, was Solotech USA Director of Sound Operations Mario Leccese, who with David Brazeau are the two project managers for the tour. “For example, tonight everything but racks/stacks and lighting is getting air-freighted to New Orleans for the Jazz Festival on Sunday,” Leccese explains. “Then it’s trucked to New Jersey for Wednesday [May 2] and right after that, the universal stuff is palleted and sent for the European tour. We’ve already shipped a couple containers of gear to Europe and on Monday we’re taking delivery on a new K1 rig in France, teching it there and sending it for the first show in Spain on May 13. There are a lot of details, but fortunately, Solotech is a large organization with more than 300 people ranging from technical support and backup to specialists doing customs paperwork, shipping — everything. This lets us tackle large projects with a fair amount of ease, but still, it’s demanding. It’s a major league effort.”

The coordination went well beyond creating the systems, scheduling and shipping manifests. This is one big production, with some 17 musicians onstage and “with all the wireless mics and IEMs in use, there must be 70 different frequencies operating,” adds Leccese. The tour is carrying 10 Shure UR2 wireless handhelds with SM58 capsules, 12 Shure UR1 beltpack transmitters with Beta 98 clip-on mics and 36 Sennheiser EK 2000 beltpack IEM receivers. That’s a whole lotta RF on any tour. Hardwired mics are mostly Shure, as well as some Sennheiser 409s (Springsteen’s guitar amps) and 906s (percussion), Heil PR28s (toms), Beyer M88 (outside kick) and Radial and Countryman DIs.

Back in the Saddle

Nearly all members of the sound crew are veterans of previous Springsteen tours, including the left/right stage monitor engineers Troy Milner and Monty Carlo (each on DiGiCo SD7 consoles this time around). Front of house engineer John Cooper — who’s been working with The Boss for more than a decade — was a major catalyst in the move to an L-Acoustics rig.

“I’d used L-Acoustics K1s a couple years ago at the Hyde Park show/festival that we did with Bruce and was knocked out by them,” says Cooper. “Also, the Dave Matthews Band was on immediately prior to us at that show, and the mixes that [FOH engineer] Jeff Thomas achieved were nothing less than spectacular. Frankly, it was the best-sounding live performance I’ve ever heard — absolutely stunning. For the bulk of last year, I mixed Sheryl Crow, and she opened a bunch of Kid Rock shows that Sound Image did using a K1 rig. That solidified my conviction. I’ve been fortunate to use most of the modern line arrays out there — and the K1 is the clear leader at the moment. It’s much more direct sounding, with a greater level of transparency and imaging than I’ve heard from the competitors.”

Cooper was instrumental in searching for a supplier with a large K1 rig. “We ended up using Solotech, because they came in with the right bid and had all the right support systems that made the difference. The irony of course was they were the company that bought Audio Analysts, who had a long history with Bruce. It was a good marriage from the beginning and thus far has turned out to be a strong relationship.”

Given the glowing reviews about the sound during the U.S. leg of the Wrecking Ball tour, the move to L-Acoustics for this tour seems to have been a good choice. Cooper is pleased to be vindicated by this, but added that “now it’s up to me (laughs). This is a very revealing system, and if I screw up, it will show it. Now I’m anxious to hear the K1s in the outdoor stadium environments we’re heading into. If it sounds good in a confined arena, then it will really take on another dimension in a stadium.”

A major part of any Springsteen tour is pushing the envelope and striving for the best in every area — whether on stage or in the house. “I’m gonna sound like an Avid salesman here — and I’m not — but I did a lot of very careful A/B comparisons during rehearsals, listening on Genelec near-fields and paying very close attention to input sources. I tried various external preamps and, in each case, I went back to the Avid,” says Cooper. “At the end of the day, we don’t base any sound decision on whether it represents more work. In Bruce’s world, if it’s better, we do it — and that applies to every person on this tour — whether they’re a guitar tech, set carpenter, front of house engineer or lighting director. It’s all about doing whatever we can to make this better, because Bruce gives so much in terms of the performance aspect, and the least we can do is to try and keep up with him. He’s 62 years old and throws down more than most 22 year olds on that rock-n-roll stage. I do whatever I can to take every tour to the next level.”

The Safety Net

“At the same time, I’m not going to stick my neck out there and risk everything to be on the cutting edge of technology. There’s a fine line between what works, what’s available out there and what can get you into big trouble if you had a failure,” Cooper adds. “The Avid console architecture doesn’t really provide an online tandem ‘B’ engine, as does Yamaha, DiGiCo and some of the other manufacturers. So we came up with the idea of running two complete front of house engines through an APB-Dynasonics MixSwitch. The engines are MIDI linked and files are cloned from one engine to the other. Then when I fire a cue on the primary ‘A’ front of house engine from the control surface, that change is reflected on the ‘B’ engine. It’s all monitored via a network laptop, and the control surface can be swapped over in a matter of seconds. It takes about a half-second to switch over the ‘B’ engine audio, which I do routinely during sound check and so far, the band has not detected the change, if I do it on a downbeat.”

One backup is fine, but it goes a step further. “Our second course of redundancy is also through the MixSwitch. I have a mix-minus and a Bruce vocal feed from the stage right monitor console, so if both engines fail, I can still drive a mix through the sound system and complete the show. Triple redundancy is the name of the game in our world. A console failure is just not acceptable. But to not build in escape routes — and test them as part of your routine — is just foolhardy. There are millions of dollars at stake at every event, and, as corny as this is to say, you’re only as good as your last show. You might mix a thousand great shows, and I don’t want to be known as the guy whose console quit on him at Madison Square Garden.”

In the Money Channel

There may be 16 other performers on stage, but the show is all about Springsteen. But there’s no magic treatment here. “I’ve listened to everything, and I’ve run the gauntlet on boutique microphones, but I use an SM58 capsule,” says Cooper. “Every mic has its place, but not here with the guy who’s burying his face in a tub of water and spitting into the microphone. The 58 is the tool for the job.”

The vocal chain uses all Waves plug-ins — the Renaissance EQ, a Waves C6 and a Waves MaxVolume. “That’s essentially it,” Cooper explains, but adds that there are a few other complications. “Bruce’s vocal is routed independently of the stereo bus, so there’s independent control of the vocal through the matrices that drive the PA, so I can ring it out. I approach his vocal mic like a monitor engineer would. I ring out his vocal mic at about +12dB over operating level every day, because he’s out in front of the PA, doing several songs on a platform about 50 feet in front of the stage and he’s underneath the downfills. It has to be approached in that fashion. I don’t want to destroy the tonality of his vocal going to the 2-track record buses that feed the video, DVD, press feeds and 2-track recorders — so I do that in the matrices that feed the PA, and use a 10-band Waves Q10 to ring it out. That runs through an IDR brickwall compressor if I need to contain the dynamics a little bit.”

The Virtual Outboard Rack

Cooper is no stranger to running plug-ins on previous Springsteen tours, but was there anything new this time around? “Not really, but I’ve been using a little of Waves InPhase plug-in on the snare top and bottom,” he says. “But even there, with the way I marry a snare top and bottom, the effect is pretty subtle, because I don’t use a very full range sound on the [Beta 137] bottom mic. In fact, it’s high-passed at 4K, so there’s nothing in that mic but snap. And the top mic [Beta 57] is rolled off all the way down to about 4K to keep the hi-hat out of it. If both were both used full range, then the InPhase plug-in would be tremendously beneficial, as it would if I was using a bass mic and a bass DI, or two kick drum mics at the same time.”

“That’s one of the few new plug-ins I’ve experimented with, but really, the set of plugs-ins — such as what I’m using on Bruce’s channel — get used a lot. I put a C6 across the master bus before it goes to the drive system and it’s incredibly helpful. I’ve used the same type of C6 arrangement across the master recording bus to help contain the show’s broad dynamic range.”

Using up to 100 plug-in instantiations in his mix, there’s no room for more, so Cooper tends to be judicious about what he employs. “A lot of the other plug-ins I use are the vintage stuff. I’m a big fan of Waves’ Chris Lord-Alge stuff, the CLA-2s, -3s and CLA-76s, along with the SSL 4000 and G-Channel — and I use the Renaissance Series quite heavily. I have no slots left for plug-ins at this point, so one of my go-to’s for things like background vocals is the Renaissance channel, which gives me some downward expansion, compression and a good equalizer. I could do the same thing with the console’s channel electronics — which are good — but the plug-in’s downward expansion function is extremely useful, by helping dim channels when singers back off between phrases. It’s only taking off about -3 dB, but when you’ve got eight vocal mics, the effect is dramatic. It makes a big difference in the integrity of the mix and provides an extra set of hands.”

The Mixing Philosophy

“I’ve been mixing for a long time, but I’m also there with the guys on the floor at seven in the morning and I wouldn’t have it any other way,” says Cooper. “Yet I live for the mixing and to me, this is all about what happens when the lights go down. You’ve got to submerge yourself in the music to be an effective mixer. The reason I started doing this was because I enjoy mixing the music and the hair standing up on my arm at certain parts of the show. I don’t ever want to lose that because I’m screwing around with the electronics. For me, it’s all about the music, which is one of the keys to my success.”

Being successful in any team endeavor, whether as a football quarterback or Indy race driver, requires a coordinated effort by an experienced and well-practiced crew that works together towards a common goal. “I’m the lucky guy that gets to mix this and be intimately involved in Bruce’s music, which is a privilege beyond all others,” Cooper explains. “But I can’t do what I do without the support of a good company like Solotech and in particular, the guys out here who look after me. It’s the system engineers and the guys who are hooking things up that allow me to have such great consistency when I mix that show. These men are the best there is. I can’t thank them enough.”

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Wrecking Ball Tour

FOH Engineer: John Cooper

Monitor Engineers: Troy Milner, Monty Carlo

System Engineer: Klaus Bolender

System Engineer/L-Acoustics K1: Etienne Lapré

Crew Chief/System Engineer: John Bruey

Techs: Ray Tittle, Rob Zuchowski

Tour Project Managers: Mario Leccese, David Brazeau

Sound Company: Solotech

FOH Speakers

32 L-Acoustics K1 (main hang: 16 per side flown )

24 L-Acoustics K1-SB subwoofers (main hang 12 per side flown )

12 L-Acoustics KARA (main underhang 6 per side flown )

28 L-Acoustics K1 (side hang 14 per side flown )

48 L-Acoustics KUDO (rear fill 4 clusters of 12 flown )

8 L-Acoustics dV-DOSC (front fills )

8 L-Acoustics SB-28 subwoofers (4 per side stacked )

16 L-Acoustics V-DOSC (FOH delays; 2 clusters of 8 flown )

12 L-Acoustics KARA (side array underhang flown 6 per side )

6 L-Acoustics dV-DOSC (center cluster 6 flown)

26 LA-RAK networked amp rack

1 Avid PROFILE

2 Avid stage racks (48 inputs, 24 outputs, 8 AES outputs)

2 Avid local racks with 5 DSP cards, 2 snake cards, extra output card, ethernet card

1 Avid VENUE Pack 2.0 plug-ins, Waves Live plug-ins, CLA, Crane Song Phoenix

4 RME MADI Bridge

1 APB-DynaSonics MixSwitch

FOH Drive Rack

5 Lake/ Dolby LP8D8 processor

2 Apple Mac Mini w SMAART, LAKE, L-Acoustics software

1 Tablet PC computer

1 Wireless Access Point

1 Sound Devices USBPre interface

1 Audix measurement mic

1 PreSonus FireStudio 8 ch firewire mic pre amp with 8 Audix TM1 mics

1 Lectrosonics TM 400 wireless test measurement microphone system with Audix TM1 microphone

FOH Pro Tools

2 Apple Mac Pro Towers with 10 GB of RAM and 4 1TB 7200 RPM drives

2 Apple 23” monitor with magic mouse and keyboard

2 Magma expansion chassis

1 Avid 2 Pro Tools HD Core Card

6 Avid Pro Tools HD Accel Card

2 Tripp Lite 1500 VA UPS

4 Sonnet rack mount 4 bay hard drives

4 Avid MADI HD cards

2 RME MADI bridge

2 Avid Sync HD

1 Apogee Big Ben Word Clock

2 ATI Radeon HD 5770 1 GB drive

2 18X Super Drives

2 Tascam CD burners

1 Millennia HV3D 8 ch mic pre amps

MON Speakers

10 Audio Analysts 12 SLP 1 X 12” wedges

12 Audio Analysts 15 SLP 1 X 15” wedges

10 Audio Analysts 212 SLP 2 X 12” wedges

8 JBL VerTec VT4888 (monitor side fills flown 4 per side )

2 Audio Analysts 2 X18” subwoofers

4 Buttkicker Shakers for platform w/ amps

6 4-mix wedge rack (Crown I-Tech 12000HD)

1 VerTec VT4888 stereo side fill amp rack

(Crown I-Tech 5000HD / 12000HD)

1 drum sub amp rack (Crown I-Tech 12000HD)

MON Consoles

2 DiGiCo SD7 surfaces, Mach 2 software with 2 Waves cards

3 DiGiCo SD Rack (56 in, 24 analog out , 2 AES out)

1 DiGiCo SD RACK (56 in, 24 analog out, 2 AES out + AVIOM D-16C output card)

4 Waves Sound Grid servers with gigabit switch and cables

1 Waves plug in package for SL

1 Waves plug in package for SR as per spec

1 Sound Grid Pro Bundle with 2 ILoks

MON Processing

2 TC Electronic Reverb 4000s

2 TC M-2000s

4 Aphex Headpod headphone amps

Wireless Mics

8 Shure UR4D-J5 dual receiver networked via Ethernet

10 Shure UR2 wireless handheld microphone with SM58 capsule

12 Shure UR1 beltpack transmitter J5s with B98 clip on mics

2 Shure UHF antenna distribution systems

3 amplified paddle antennas with cables

12 Sennheiser SR 2050 dual IEM transmitter networked with Ethernet switch

36 Sennheiser EK 2000 beltpack receivers

3 Sennheiser AC 3200 antenna combiners

4 25’ low loss antenna cables

5 Helical antennas

Snake Systems

2 56-ch 3 way transformer splits

4 25’ 56-ch snakes

2 50’ 56-ch snakes

2 150’ 56-ch snakes

8 56-ch fanouts

12 75’ 10-channel sub-snakes

1 300’ FOH AC lines

4 300’ drive lines

3 300’ quad BNC snakes

AC Distro System

4 20-way 200 AMP 3 phase AC distro with 200’ of feeder cable

9 CM 2-ton chain hoists

25 CM 1-ton chain hoists

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Announce 2023 North American Tour

• By Andy Greene

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Bruce Springsteen has announced the dates for his long-awaited 2023 North American tour with the E Street Band. It kicks off on Feb. 1 in Tampa, Florida, and wraps up on April 14 in Newark, New Jersey. Ticket sales begin July 20.

Springsteen last played a concert with the E Street Band when their River tour wrapped up on Feb. 25, 2017, at Mt. Smart Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand. But they haven’t played in North America since September 2016, and their sole live performance of any sort in the past five years took place in 2020 when they did two songs on Saturday Night Live to promote Letter To You . This has been their longest period of time off from the road since Springsteen reunited with the band in 1999 following an 11-year hiatus where he toured both solo and with another backing group.

They were originally slated to hit the road in 2020 to support Letter To You , and dates were later penciled in for 2022, but the pandemic forced them to ultimately delay the tour until 2023. “I’m just aching to play,” Springsteen told SiriusXM’s E Street Radio earlier this year. “Not just play but to travel and see our fans in all those distant cities.”

In that same interview, he said the tour would be a mixture of classics and selections from his newer albums. “it will have a significant amount of some recent material, and then, of course, we’ll play a lot of the music that fans have become familiar with and love to hear,” he said. “It should be a balance… the show should feel contemporary, and it should also make you feel at home at the same time.”

That doesn’t mean he’ll attempt to play many songs from Western Stars . “I’d like to keep it a rock show,” he said. “Once you’re out in an arena or stadium, people have come to see a rock ‘n’ roll show… But you never know, something may squeak in there from that record. It’s not impossible. That one, I’m gonna have to wait and see.”

The tour heads to the U.K. and Europe for a run of stadium shows that run from April 28 through July 25. It then heads back to America for a late summer/early fall stadium run, though those dates have yet to be announced.

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February 1, 2023 – Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena February 3 – Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena February 5 – Orlando, FL @ Amway Center February 7 – Hollywood, FL @ Hard Rock Live February 10 – Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center February 14 – Houston, TX @ Toyota Center February 16 – Austin, TX @ Moody Center February 18 – Kansas City, MO @ T-Mobile Center February 21 – Tulsa, OK @ BOK Center February 25 – Portland, OR @ Moda Center February 27 – Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena March 2 – Denver, CO @ Ball Arena March 5 – St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center March 7 – Milwaukee, WI @ Fiserv Forum March 9 – Columbus, OH @ Nationwide Arena March 12 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun March 14 – Albany, NY @ MVP Arena March 16 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center March 18 – State College, PA @ Bryce Jordan Center March 20 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden March 23 – Buffalo, NY @ KeyBank Center March 25 – Greensboro, NC @ Greensboro Coliseum March 27 – Washington D.C. @ Capital One Arena March 29 – Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena April 1 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden April 3 – Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center April 5 – Cleveland, OH @ Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse April 7 – Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Arena April 9 – Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Arena April 11 – Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Arena April 14 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center

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Bruce Springsteen’s Manager Defends Controversial 2023 Tour Ticketing Rollout

"In pricing tickets for this tour, we looked carefully at what our peers have been doing,” Landau told the New York Times.

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Bruce Springsteen fans have been asking to hear from the artist or his camp directly in the wake of a firestorm over extremely variable ticket costs for a 2023 U.S. tour that has gone on sale last week and this week. On Tuesday, six days into the controversy over “platinum” ticket prices — which had initially gone as high as $4,000-5,000 — Springsteen’s manager, Jon Landau , spoke up to defend the way the ticketing had rolled out.

“In pricing tickets for this tour, we looked carefully at what our peers have been doing,” Landau said in a statement given to the New York Times’ “Your Money” columnist, Ron Lieber. “We chose prices that are lower than some and on par with others.”

Landau’s statement continued, “Regardless of the commentary about a modest number of tickets costing $1,000 or more, our true average ticket price has been in the mid-$200 range. I believe that in today’s environment, that is a fair price to see someone universally regarded as among the very greatest artists of his generation.”

The official defense from Springsteen’s manager came two days after Ticketmaster — which has taken a lot of the heat from fans — issued statistics to Variety indicating that the majority of tickets that had already been sold, 88.8%. had been sold at fixed values of $60-400 before fees, considered reasonable in the current market. The Ticketmaster stats showed only 11.2% of tickets had been “platinum tickets” subject to the skyrocketing costs that raised fans’ ire.

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Ticketmaster further said that the average price of all tickets sold in this first three days of on-sales was $262. The service reported that a majority of tickets, 56%, were priced at under $200.

But, of course, many fans have fixated on the “dynamically priced” tickets that are left over and come up in a search after the fixed-priced tickets all sell out in the first hour or so each time an on-sale occurs. Ticketmaster has not provided any average amounts for those tickets, but social media has been filled for the last six days with anecdotal reports and screen shots of tickets being offered for as much as 10 times the value of the fixed prices.

Sources contend that Ticketmaster is not responsible for setting ticket pricing, despite assumptions of an algorithm setting what can sometimes look like arbitrary prices for the platinum seats, and that all the prices are set by local promoters in coordination with artist reps.

Variety examined tickets that went on sale in several cities Friday and saw that, although top prices for platinum tickets had calmed down from top levels of about $4,000-5,000 to a peak of around $2,500 in several cities surveyed, the average cost of a platinum ticket in one city, Greensboro, NC, amounted to $903.39, before additional fees.

So the debate will continue to narrow down to whether fans see the glass as half-reasonable, with the reported $262 average price for all tickets, or half-outrageous, with the “dynamic” tickets that most fans see when they log in coming in closer to $1,000 on average, however small a piece of the pie those might represent.

It isn’t clear how much attention the Springsteen camp has been paying to the uproar, which has been magnified more because of Springsteen’s populist image than it might be if the Rolling Stones or Paul McCartney were offering platinum tickets at amounts in the thousands. But if anyone were going to offer Landau any advice, it might be: If you haven’t been reading the comments, don’t start now.

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Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band’s World Tour Setlist: All the Songs They Performed For Their First Show of 2024

After a six-month break, Springsteen and the band resumed their tour in Phoenix, March 19. Here's every song played.

By Melinda Newman

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Fans were delayed but not denied their visit from The Boss Tuesday night (March 19) in Phoenix as Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band relaunched their world tour after a six-month break. 

Springsteen was originally slated to play the Arizona date on Nov. 30 last year, but it was one of 29 shows postponed after he came off the road in early September for treatment for peptic ulcer disease . 

He made no reference to his health troubles (which were clearly in his past, given his extreme energy on stage) until the closing tune of the 29-song set, when he apologized for inconveniencing anyone by having to move the show, explaining, “I had a motherf**cker of a bellyache.”

The 2 hour 45 minute concert, which started right at 7:30pm , was a rollicking, high-energy affair. Gone are tour mainstays from the earlier leg, such as the funky “The E Street Shuffle” and the jazzy 7-minute “Kitty’s Back” (both from 1973’s The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle ), and six songs from Springsteen’s last album of original material, 2020’s Letter to You (Tuesday’s show was down to four from that set), replaced with tunes that make for a fast-paced, non-stop thrill ride of a show. 

Springsteen will spend the rest of the year on the road, with more than 50 dates on the 2024 docket, including a European leg that starts in Cardiff, Wales in May and includes multiple stadium shows in cities like Milan, Madrid and Barcelona, before he returns stateside in August for stadium shows. 

Below is the setlist for Phoenix’s opening night of the new leg. The tour resumes Friday  (March 22) night in Las Vegas.  For a deeper dive, go here .

"Lonesome Day"

The Rising (2002)

Born To Run (1975)

"No Surrender"

Born In The U.S.A . (1984)

"Two Hearts"

The River (1980)

"Darlington County"

Born In The U.S.A. (1984)

Letter To You (2020)

"Prove It All Night"

Darkness On The Edge Of Town (1978)

"Darkness on the Edge of Town"

"letter to you", "the promised land", "spirit in the night".

Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. (1973)

"Don't Play That Song"

Only The Strong Survive (2022)

"Nightshift"

"mary's place", "last man standing", "backstreets", "because the night".

Live 1975-1985 (1986)

"She's The One"

"wrecking ball".

Wrecking Ball (2012)

"The Rising"

"thunder road", "born to run", "rosalita (come out tonight)".

The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle (1973)

"Glory Days"

"dancing in the dark", "tenth avenue freeze-out", "twist & shout".

Isley Brothers cover

"I'll See You In My Dreams"

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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Detail 2023 U.S. Tour

By Jazz Monroe

Bruce Springsteen has detailed the North American leg of his 2023 tour with the E Street Band . The North American stint, which kicks off next February, begins in Tampa and extends to April, with the final U.S. date (for now) taking place at Newark’s Prudential Center in Springsteen’s home state of New Jersey. Check out the dates below.

Springsteen’s dates with Stevie Van Zandt, Max Weinberg, Patti Sciafla, Roy Bittan, Gary Tallent, Nils Lofgren, and the rest will be their first together since 2017. His previously announced run of European shows goes from late April to late July.

In an initial announcement of the tour, which did not include dates or venue details, Springsteen said, “After six years, I’m looking forward to seeing our great and loyal fans next year. And I’m looking forward to once again sharing the stage with the legendary E Street Band. See you out there, next year—and beyond!”

Springsteen’s latest solo albums are 2019’s Western Stars and 2020’s Letter to You , which both had accompanying films. He put out a podcast and book with Barack Obama in 2021, and released the Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts as an album and film the same year.

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The World's Highest Grossing Tours of 2023

According to analysts at Pollstar, total grosses for the top 100 tours that year were up 46 percent from $6.28 billion in 2022 to $9.17 billion last year. Attendance figures were also up, rising from 59 million to 70 million - an increase of 18.4 percent.

The following chart is based on data collected by Pollstar on the world’s highest grossing tours of 2023. It reveals that at the top of this list, comes Taylor Swift with her record-breaking “ Eras Tour ” - the first ever to break the $1 billion mark - which visited 60 stadiums in total. It was followed by Beyoncé’s “Renaissance Tour”, which grossed some $580 million in 56 shows and Bruce Springsteen’s “Springsteen and E Street Band 2023 Tour” which grossed $380 million across 66 venues.

Ticket prices for the top 8 grossing worldwide tours ranged between an average of $105.16 for an Ed Sheeran ticket to more than double that for Taylor Swift - $238.95.

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• So Young and in Love
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• Prove It All Night
• Darlington County
• Better Days
• The Promised Land
• Spirit in the Night
• Hungry Heart
• If I Was the Priest
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Bruce Springsteen at Nationwide Arena, Columbus, OH, USA

• Letter to You
• Streets of Fire
• I'm Goin' Down

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• Growin' Up
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• Candy's Room
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• Open All Night
• Death to My Hometown
• Tougher Than the Rest
• Sherry Darling

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• Light of Day
• Darkness on the Edge of Town

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How to Stream Bruce Springsteen's Tour Online to Hear ‘Dancing In the Dark,' ‘Hungry Heart' & More From Home

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Bruce Springsteen is back on the road after having to reschedule dates for his world tour to recover from peptic ulcer disease . Now, he and the E Street Band are rocking out around the U.S. all summer on the North American leg of their world tour.

Last-minute tickets are still available for the "Secret Garden" singer's tour, and you can find cheap seats on Ticketmaster , StubHub , Vivid Seats (orders of $200+ can get $20 off with code BB2024 ) and Seat Geek (first purchases are eligible for $10 off order of $250+ with code BILLBOARD10 ). We spotted Springsteen ticket prices for as low as $56.

If you weren't able to score travel deals to see the 74-year-old live and in-person, then nugs.net will let you stream Springsteen's tour from home - and for free. The site has a number of recordings from Springsteen's current tour available to stream from your laptop, phone, tablet or TV.

Take advantage of nugs.net's free trial , which will give you access to numerous performances by the "I'm On Fire" singer including past and upcoming performances from his tour. You'll also have access to more live shows, like Phish's sold-out concert at The Sphere , plus recorded concerts from the Grateful Dead, Metallica, Pearl Jam and Billy Strings.

Keep reading to learn more about how to stream Springsteen's shows online.

How to Stream Bruce Springsteen's 2024 World Tour Online

Want to stream Bruce Springsteen's tour online? While there isn't a livestream option, you can stream concerts from the Billboard Hot 100 chart maker as far back as 1978 (during the band's Darkness tour) on nugs.net, as well as more recent performances including the surprise appearance from Patti Scialfa during his April 4 concert in Inglewood, CA. If you're already a member of nugs.net, you can sign in and have instant access to on-demand streams as well as professionally mixed audio of concerts to listen at your leisure on your phone, TV or tablet .

Don't have a subscription? New nugs.net users who sign up now can receive a seven-day free trial that'll let you watch Springsteen's tour online for free as well as additional artist performances. Once your free trial is over, you'll be charged $14.99 a month for a subscription.

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Chris Stapleton's hit tour runs through the rest of 2024 and early 2025, but tickets are selling out fast. If you're hoping to catch the country music star live, he has plenty of concert dates to attend this year, and there are many ways to buy Chris Stapleton tickets.

The All-American Road Show has been ongoing since 2017 and serves as Chris Stapleton's first solo headlining tour. However, after more than seven years on the road and nearly 200 shows, the "Tennessee Whiskey" singer will close the concert series in 2025. With the end of the horizon in sight for his long-running tour, the opportunity to catch Stapleton's All-American Road Show is growing slim with each passing show.

We've got you covered if you're looking for how to get tickets to Chris Stapleton's All-American Road Show concert tour in 2024. Here's our breakdown of the tour schedule, purchasing details, and prices for original and resale tickets. You can also browse ticket specifics on StubHub and Vivid Seats at your leisure.

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Chris Stapleton 2024 tour schedule

There are still over 40 shows remaining on the All-American Road Show Tour this year, with tickets for a few shows in 2025 already available. While his final 2024 show will land on December 7 in Las Vegas, Chris Stapleton's tour will conclude on March 8, 2025 in Auckland, New Zealand.

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How to buy tickets for Chris Stapleton's 2024 concert tour

You can buy original tickets for Chris Stapleton's 2024 concert tour on Ticketmaster or Live Nation. However, the number of remaining original tickets is limited, as many concerts have been on sale for several months.

Plenty of resale tickets are also available through verified vendors such as StubHub and Vivid Seats . You'll find better luck getting seats through these resale sites for Chris Stapleton's shows that have already sold out of original tickets.

Ticket prices to see Chris Stapleton this year vary by date, location, and demand for each show. The cheapest standard original ticket prices start from $55 for Houston on August 24 to $465 for December 7 in Las Vegas. Resale ticket prices are generally comparable to original tickets or come in cheaper.

On StubHub, tickets range from $16 for Ridgedale, Missouri, on June 13 to $352 for Las Vegas. Similarly, Vivid Seats' cheapest available Chris Stapleton tickets range from $15 to $356 for the same dates. Overall, the two resale sites have comparable ticket prices, with Vivid Seats' options typically coming in at slightly lower prices.

VIP packages are also available at many Chris Stapleton shows for premium prices. Stapleton's All-American Road Show Tour offers two VIP experiences: the Single Barrel Experience and the Small Batch Experience. According to Chris Stapleton's website , Single Barrel VIP tickets start at $379, and Small Batch VIP tickets begin at $169. You can also use this site to check out which tour dates offer these VIP experiences.

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Chris Stapleton is touring alongside George Strait and Little Big Town for many of his All-American Road Show tour performances. On other 2024 occasions, the country star is joined by special guests Grace Potter, Nikki Lane, Marcus King, The War and Treaty, Allen Stone, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Marty Stuart, Miranda Lambert, Willie Nelson & Family, and Sheryl Crow.

Here's a breakdown of when and where each artist will perform with Chris Stapleton:

George Strait & Little Big Town

• May 4 - Indianapolis, IN
• May 11 - Jacksonville, FL
• May 25 - Ames, IA
• June 1 - Charlotte, NC
• June 8 - East Rutherford, NJ
• June 29 - Salt Lake City, UT
• July 13 - Detroit, MI
• July 20 - Chicago, IL
• December 7 - Las Vegas, NV

Grace Potter

• May 9 - West Palm Beach, FL
• May 10 - West Palm Beach, FL
• June 26 & 27 - Los Angeles, CA
• August 1–3 - Gilford, NH
• August 21 - Birmingham, AL
• August 22 - North Little Rock, AR
• August 24 - Houston, TX
• June 6 - Camden, NJ
• June 7 - Bristow, VA
• July 11 - Darien, NY
• July 12 - Burgettstown, PA
• July 18 - Toledo, OH
• July 19 - Columbus, OH
• July 25 - Nampa, ID
• July 26 - Ridgefield, WA
• August 9 & 10 - Nashville, TN

Marcus King

• May 22 - Rapid City, SD
• May 24 - Sioux Falls, SD
• May 31 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH
• June 12 - Kansas City, MO
• June 13 - Ridgedale, MO
• June 15 - Arlington, TX

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Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives

• October 16 - Manchester, England
• October 17 - Glasgow, Scotland
• October 20 - Dublin, Ireland
• October 22 - Birmingham, England
• October 23 - London, England

Miranda Lambert

Willie Nelson & Family

• July 27 - Seattle, WA

Sheryl Crow

Chris Stapleton already has several international tour dates lined up for his ongoing concert series. The country star has five shows confirmed in England, Scotland, and Ireland in October, as well as six shows in Australia and two performances in New Zealand throughout February and March of next year.

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El escenario en el que vivimos mientras dura la prueba es lo más parecido a un campo de trabajos forzados, la versión desértica de un gulag. Todos los días, los altavoces sacuden la paz de las haimas donde descansamos de tres en tres con la odiosa canción de The Lumineers titulada Ho, hey . Pero hay algo mucho peor: un discurso motivador que me pone los pelos como escarpias antes de empezar con la rutina de las colas: colas para ir al baño, para coger agua, para el control de firmas, para desayunar, para casi todo. Hago todo eso en un estado vecino a la depresión. ¿Qué hago aquí? Después, darán la salida, nos dejarán seguir un track , sufriremos como perros, y regresaremos al orden establecido del campamento . Lo dicho, un gulag, una novela de Huxley.

Me entiendo bien con Osvaldo y con su hijo Mauricio, venidos de la Pampa argentina y que me explican sus objetivos: el padre, acabar la prueba, puesto que apenas hace un mes que le operaron de la clavícula. El hijo aspira a quedar entre los 30 primeros, palabras mayores porque entre exprofesionales de la carretera y profesionales del mountain bike, hay 40 fieras sueltas por el lugar. Después hablaremos de los hermanos Miguel y Prudencio Induráin . Mis amigos argentinos me preguntan si tengo un objetivo. Miro la clasificación de la primera etapa y veo que he quedado el 97. Me invento el objetivo de quedar entre los 100 primeros. Pagaré caro ese error de cálculo que convertirá lo que podía haber sido una grata experiencia en una agonía.

Cuento mis geles y no me alcanzan. Necesito siete diarios para estar tranquilo. Como buen enganchado, acudo al mercado negro y compro más, muchos más. Una y otra vez me viene a la memoria un texto hilarante firmado por Íñigo Domínguez en EL PAÍS tras ser testigo de un maratón surrealista de zumba en un crucero. El ser humano, afirma Íñigo, es capaz de cualquier cosa con tal de no coger un libro. Tengo la sospecha de que estoy atrapado en un maratón de zumba en el desierto. La pregunta obvia: ¿Por qué? Llevo casi dos décadas oyendo hablar de la Titan Desert, viendo imágenes sugerentes, escuchando leyendas sobre su terrible dureza y, en este momento, lo uno ha llevado a lo otro y me apetece descubrir la verdad. ¿Es tan dura?, ¿seré un titán si la acabo? Los discursos que lanza al aire y a mis tímpanos la megafonía matutina me aseguran que mi vida cambiará, que seré mejor, que sabré discernir lo importante de lo superfluo, que afrontaré con serenidad los problemas vitales. Incluso llego a esperar que me salga en un futuro cercano pelo en la cabeza.

Los habituales de la carrera (sí, los hay que han participado una docena de veces) aseguran que el nivel medio ha crecido mucho, que cada vez acuden ciclistas más preparados, hombres y mujeres que se toman la cita muy a pecho. Pero lo cierto es que no hay muchos jóvenes, pero sí más de 60 sesentones, un centenar largo de cincuentones y otros tantos cuarentones. La inscripción cuesta unos 2.000 euros, pero no es caro si se tiene en cuenta el enorme despliegue logístico y de seguridad que requiere la cita. Si uno lo desea, también puede contratar servicios de un mecánico y masajista: todo para descansar al máximo. Yo no tengo ni lo uno ni lo otro, pero de tarde en tarde robo un hielo del cubo de las bebidas y me masajeo los muslos con suavidad. Psicológicamente, es un gesto importante.

En los primeros 15 kilómetros de la segunda etapa y lo mismo hasta la sexta y última, se sale tan rápido que las piernas aúllan y la garganta se llena de un terrible sabor a sangre. Es el momento clave del día: el enorme pelotón estalla en pedazos y uno debe acomodarse en un grupo que sea rápido pero no demasiado. Entenderlo casi me cuesta la salud. Pero cuando ya te haces a tu grupo y reconoces a los de tu calaña, solo debes preocuparte de no caerte, no reventar una rueda y, sobre todo, de jamás quedarte solo. La soledad significa desesperación y enormes pérdidas de tiempo incompatibles con el objetivo de quedar entre los 100 primeros. Así, existen infinidad de carreras dentro de la carrera. Casi todas a cara de perro. En la tercera etapa, me parece que llevo horas sufriendo como un animal a cola de una fila india de 20 unidades. Es mi grupo, pero van a tirones y estoy destrozado. Llegamos a un punto de agua y todos se lanzan sobre las botellas como tiburones. Ni se bajan de la bici. Decido que ya está bien. Paso. Evacuo mirando el paisaje seco, ocre y lunar, y veo a mi lado a Prudencio Induráin, quien me dice que también se planta. Uno de sus compañeros de equipo le necesita, así que les pido un sitio en el vagón. Prudencio nos quita el viento que sopla de costado, nos anima, y nos devuelve finalmente al grupo.

Hace 30 años, yo tenía 20 y Miguel Induráin tres Tour, pero un día salí en bici cerca de Villava y alcancé a ambos hermanos en la carretera. Me permitieron ir con ellos (ese día solo soltaban piernas) y se me revelaron como dos personas entrañables, vacilonas, alegres… algo que no se percibía en televisión. Siguen siendo dos señores. Lo mismo que varios compañeros que me han tendido la mano en plena carrera.

Una de las etapas más famosas de la prueba es la que cruza las dunas de Erg Chebbi. Puede que no exista una manera más absurda de intentar pedalear. Al entrar en la duna, los grupos estallan como fulminados por una granada: todos pie a tierra. Empujamos las bicis duna arriba duna abajo durante casi cuatro kilómetros. No es lo peor: después alcanzamos una meseta donde tierra, piedras y arena convierten el pedaleo en un suplicio. La enfermería se llena esa tarde de llagas en el trasero, dolores cervicales, manos arruinadas por el traqueteo y deshidratados. Lo más alucinante es que nadie se queja. El estoicismo de estas personas es sobrenatural. Dejando al margen los cinco o diez que se pegan por ganar la Titan Desert ( vence Luis León Sánchez ), el resto nos zurramos por migajas a sabiendas de que son migajas. Da igual quedar el 77 o el 234. Lo que nadie admite es darse por vencido, aflojar, resignarse. La carrera resulta tan dura como queramos que sea. El problema viene cuando uno cree que necesita competir. Nos colocan un dorsal y se activa algo en cierto lugar del cerebro que estira nuestra capacidad de sufrimiento. ¿Para qué? Para no tener que llenar las horas leyendo. Y porque nos gusta.

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