Now sometimes tomorrow comes soaked in treasure and blood
Here we stood the drought, now we'll stand the flood
There's a new world coming, I can see the light
I'm a Jack of all trades, we'll be alright
So you use what you've got and you learn to make do
You take the old, you make it new
If I had me a gun, I'd find the bastards and shoot 'em on sight
I'm a Jack of all trades, we'll be alright
I'm a Jack of all trades, we'll be alright
Listening now to the versions of this masterpiece recorded in New Jersey in late summer 2016. Oddly, we only have the Apollo version from 2012 to listen to from the proper tour. I like what he did with it with the string section in 2016, such a stately version played to great affect with other topical songs played before a large audience in a stadium. Our hero is great at presenting material to an unsuspecting audience. That material is often presented in way to take the listener on a ride of sorts....I'd like to comment on Giants Stadium 1985 as an example. The opening stretch is so devastating in it's order and intensity. To be a performer at that time, able to do anything with his audience he pleases. Instead of flag waving, or even complaining that the President of the US used his name in a way to make his policies seem to match the aims of a Springsteen song, when in actuality Reagan's vision was so the opposite of what Bruce was talking about he took it upon himself to align with groups that were taking care of the underclass all through the tour. He injected the Nebraska songs after the opening of the set starting in September 84. Later, he had 80,000 people in front of him and he presented a great set that illustrates what he wants to say. USA/Badlands/OutNTheStreets/Johnny 99/Seeds/AtlanticCity...then that version of the River. God it is so good!!!
Berkely 78 then NJ 85 and now Fenway 2012. 2021 maybe is the best year of the archive series ever....Now I need another 81 show to make it so.
Now sometimes tomorrow comes soaked in treasure and blood
Here we stood the drought, now we'll stand the flood
There's a new world coming, I can see the light
I'm a Jack of all trades, we'll be alright
So you use what you've got and you learn to make do
You take the old, you make it new
If I had me a gun, I'd find the bastards and shoot 'em on sight
I'm a Jack of all trades, we'll be alright
I'm a Jack of all trades, we'll be alright
Listening now to the versions of this masterpiece recorded in New Jersey in late summer 2016. Oddly, we only have the Apollo version from 2012 to listen to from the proper tour. I like what he did with it with the string section in 2016, such a stately version played to great affect with other topical songs played before a large audience in a stadium. Our hero is great at presenting material to an unsuspecting audience. That material is often presented in way to take the listener on a ride of sorts....I'd like to comment on Giants Stadium 1985 as an example. The opening stretch is so devastating in it's order and intensity. To be a performer at that time, able to do anything with his audience he pleases. Instead of flag waving, or even complaining that the President of the US used his name in a way to make his policies seem to match the aims of a Springsteen song, when in actuality Reagan's vision was so the opposite of what Bruce was talking about he took it upon himself to align with groups that were taking care of the underclass all through the tour. He injected the Nebraska songs after the opening of the set starting in September 84. Later, he had 80,000 people in front of him and he presented a great set that illustrates what he wants to say. USA/Badlands/OutNTheStreets/Johnny 99/Seeds/AtlanticCity...then that version of the River. God it is so good!!!
Berkely 78 then NJ 85 and now Fenway 2012. 2021 maybe is the best year of the archive series ever....Now I need another 81 show to make it so.