Title: Back At The Old Tower 'Label': Ev2 Format: 3CD Source: Audience Date: May 17, 2005. Location: Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, PA. -------: Taper: George Wang Source: DPA4022 > Sonosax SX-M2 > Mogami interconnect > Edirol R-1 @ 24/44.1 Location: Sec ORCH RGT CENTER Row QQ Seat 125, 21st row stage left stack -------: Disc One: 01 Intro 02 My Beautiful Reward 03 Reason To Believe 04 Devils & Dust 05 Youngstown 06 Empty Sky 07 Intro / "Amazing Grace" 08 Black Cowboys 09 Intro / "Fabulous Tower Theater" 10 Iceman 11 Incident On 57th Street 12 Introduction 13 Part Man, Part Monkey 14 Maria's Bed 15 Silver Palomino 16 Reno 17 Introduction 18 Wreck On The Highway 19 Real World Disc Two: 01 The Rising 02 Further On (Up The Road) 03 Intro / "Jesus Is My Homeboy" 04 Jesus Was An Only Son 05 Intro / "Windsurfer" 06 Leah 07 Introduction 08 The Hitter 09 Introduction 10 Matamoros Banks 11 Ramrod * 12 Land Of Hope And Dreams 13 The Promised Land 14 Dream Baby Dream 15 Outro Music Disc Three (BONUS from G. Wang's master recordings): 01 Introduction / "Shut The Fuck Up" 02 The Wish 03 Paradise 04 I'm On Fire 05 Two Faces 06 Nothing Man 07 If I Should Fall Behind 08 Blinded By The Light 09 Wild Billy's Circus Story 10 Fade Away 11 Introduction 12 Santa Ana 13 Janey, Don't You Lose Heart 14 Drive All Night 15 Jesus Was An Only Son (no speech in middle) * D2 Track11 has some audio problems - D3Tracks 1-4: May 19, 2005. The Theatre at Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ. - D3Tracks 5-10: July 24, 2005. Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, NC. - D3Tracks 11-15: November 13, 2005. Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, NJ. - D3Track 16: May 17, 2005. Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, PA. Speech removed from middle of the song. - Every show, every track from "George Wang"'s master recordings (thankyou!). ====== The only time ever "Iceman" has been played live. Tour premiere of "Ramrod". These are all from George Wang's master recordings. ====== "Nice to see some things don't change: 30 years ago, touring for Born to Run, Springsteen played a four-night stand at Philly's Tower Theatre; tonight, as on the Ghost of Tom Joad tour, he returned to this nearly 80-year-old venue. "It's great to be back at the Tower," he said, adding that the alley out back had given him flashbacks. Of course, Springsteen's 2005 model is quite a different evening at the theater, and despite his usual penchant for his older tunes in Philly, Bruce played not a single song from that 1975 stand -- "Incident" was the only song in tonight's set that even dated back that far. But it's not like there wasn't anything for the aficionados: "This is something I recorded for the Darkness record, and have never played before... something special for the Tower." And with that, at the piano, he went into "The Iceman," the long-cherished outtake that finally surfaced on Tracks in 1998, here a live world premiere. We can exhale, as "Real World" finally returned to the set (where we hope it stays) as an audible. And a tour debut kicked off the encore, a reworking of "Ramod" on acoustic guitar and harmonica -- a light, upbeat arrangement that borrowed the tune from Nick Lowe's "Half a Boy and Half a Man." So though "Wreck on the Highway" stayed in, tonight wasn't quite as dark as the previous pair of arena shows. Not as much talk from Springsteen (could be he was biting his tongue -- it was a rowdy crowd), but lots of subtle musical differences (like a new intro to "Further On") keep the show moving forward as we near the end of the U.S. leg." -backstreets.com