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Thoughts from Friday:
Apr. 14th, 2003 05:19 pm( mostly cut for length )
There'd been some discussion before the show as to whether Bruce would do "Born In The USA". He has brought back the full-band rock version this tour. March 10th he introduced it, "I wrote this song about the Vietnam War... I hope I won't have to write this song again. So we'll offer this as a prayer for peace, for the safety of our young men and women in uniform, for the lives of innocent Iraqi civilians... and add our voice to those against war in Iraq."
Bruce didn't sing "Born In The USA" in BC. He sang "My Hometown". At the end of the song, he turned to each side of the coliseum in turn to sing "This is your hometown", and waited for us to sing the next line back. There was something deliberate about how he did it, as if he wanted to ingrain 'This is where to you live. Act like it.'
Couple dedications: "City of Ruins" to a local foodbank. He'd arranged for volunteers to be in the lobby collecting any donations after the show. "Land of Hopes and Dreams" to the Iraqi people.
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There'd been some discussion before the show as to whether Bruce would do "Born In The USA". He has brought back the full-band rock version this tour. March 10th he introduced it, "I wrote this song about the Vietnam War... I hope I won't have to write this song again. So we'll offer this as a prayer for peace, for the safety of our young men and women in uniform, for the lives of innocent Iraqi civilians... and add our voice to those against war in Iraq."
Bruce didn't sing "Born In The USA" in BC. He sang "My Hometown". At the end of the song, he turned to each side of the coliseum in turn to sing "This is your hometown", and waited for us to sing the next line back. There was something deliberate about how he did it, as if he wanted to ingrain 'This is where to you live. Act like it.'
Couple dedications: "City of Ruins" to a local foodbank. He'd arranged for volunteers to be in the lobby collecting any donations after the show. "Land of Hopes and Dreams" to the Iraqi people.
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