LAist: Bruce Springsteen @ LA Sports Arena , 10/29

magicrat

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:47:17 -0800

Well, if you were in the back (behind the hanging speakers/scoreboard) you got bushwacked and assassinated by a sound glitch that overdrove Garry Tallent's bass and Max's bass drum so badly that it was all you could hear during Backstreets, and it painfully lasted for 3 or 4 songs. I've never heard a Springsteen show that was technically less than perfect. I guess I should have sprung for better seats. But then - the incredible energy during the encore! What a finale! You leave a Bruce concert drained, but floating from the hope and possibilities.

onetufcookie

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:40:22 -0800

This is my 8th time seeing Bruce in my lifetime. I felt like I was home again last night. I grew up in NJ, hung at the same shore haunts written in many of his songs. I heard Bruce on the radio for the first time in 1972. I bought my first album in 1973. The first time I saw the band was at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, MI in 1978. I was eight months pregnant....wonder what effect that has had on my daughter? I have had the privilege to be front and center, in Auburn, MI in 1984. Bruce performed at the LA Coliseum, September 1988, at the Concert for Human Rights. That was the last time I saw him, until last night. I have followed his return to the road with the E Street Band with great enthusiasm. It was so much fun being with this crowd, although many of us had gray hair (me included). But, for 2+ hours, I was young again, caught up in the wonderous, infectious lyrics and rifs I remember from back in the day. Bruce's music gave me a reason to believe long ago that I had a chance to be better than the situation I was in, way back then. His music helped to buy my ticket out of a life I was stuck in, into a life a now cherish. I recently met a friend who said his teenage son worshipped Bruce's music and has mastered many of his songs on the piano. I gave that kid my 1981 tour shirt, to remind him of how long the band has given hope and strength to lots of folks out there, looking for a reason to break free and live life as it was meant to be lived!! Rock on, to all who care out there!

xtx

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:38:03 -0800

Way to put the Bruce Experience into words, Corey. The last time I saw Bruce was the night Staples Center opened, and when they played BTR with the lights up, it was like I was born again or something. BRUUUUCCCEE!!!!!!!!!!!