Bruce Springsteen Verizon Center, Washington, DC Monday May 18, 2009 AT-822 > Sony D8 > WAV > CDR > EAC > flac16 Disk 1: 1. Badlands 2. No Surrender 3. Outlaw Pete 4. She's The One 5. Working On A Dream 6. Seeds 7. Johnny 99 8. The Ghost Of Tom Joad Disk 2: 9. Raise Your Hand 10. Out In The Street 11. Little Latin Lupe Lu 12. Hava Nagila - Blinded By The Light 13. Waitin' On A Sunny Day 14. The Promised Land 15. The Wrestler 16. Kingdom Of Days 17. Radio Nowhere 18. Lonesome Day 19. The Rising 20. Born To Run 21. encore applause and donate to those in need request Disk 3 - Encore: 22. Hard Times (Come Again No More) 23. Kitty's Back 24. Land Of Hope And Dreams - People Get Ready 25. American Land 26. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) Max Weinberg returns. Tour debuts of tour "Little Latin Lupe Lu" and "Blinded By The Light", only performed once and twice on the tour respectively. "Outlaw Pete" includes a snippet of "Apache" in the introduction. "American Land" includes a snippet of "Theme From Shaft" in the midsection. Roy Bittan plays a snippet of "Hail To The Chief" as an intro to "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)". "Out In The Street", "Little Latin Lupe Lu", "Hava Nagila", "Blinded By The Light", and "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" are played by sign request. Bruce Springsteen The E Street Band Roy Bittan Clarence Clemons Nils Lofgren Patti Scialfa Garry Tallent Steven Van Zandt Max Weinberg Charles Giordano Soozie Tyrell The E Street Choir Curtis King Cindy Mizelle 18.05.09 Washington, DC, intro to “Badlands” “Washington! (crowd cheers) are you ready to be delivered? (crowd cheers)…” 18.05.09 Washington, DC, middle of “Working on a Dream” “Good evening, Washington (crowd cheers) we’re so glad to be here in our nation’s capital tonight (crowd cheers) and we’re here tonight to fulfil our solemn vow to rock the house! (crowd cheers) but we’re not here tonight just to rock the house, we’re here tonight because we’re gonna build a house (crowd cheers) that’s right, right here in this room tonight we’re gonna build a house (crowd cheers) we’re gonna take the fear that’s out there and we’re gonna build a house of hope (crowd cheers) we’re gonna take the despair that’s out there and we’re gonna build a house of love (crowd cheers) we’re gonna take the doubt and we’re gonna build us a house of faith (crowd cheers) and we’re gonna take the sadness and we’re gonna build ourselves a house of joy and happiness (crowd cheers) and we’re gonna take that cooling off and we’re gonna build ourselves a house of sexual healing! (crowd cheers) that’s right…and we’re gonna use the bad wood and we’re gonna use the good wood…and we’re gonna use the bad news that’s out there and we’re gonna use the good news that’s here tonight…and we got all the tools we need right here on this stage and in these seats (crowd cheers) we got everything we need…but we’re here tonight because we can’t do it by ourselves…we’re here tonight and night after night after night the E Street Band comes out to bring the down power but we can’t do it by ourselves (crowd cheers) if we’re gonna build a house out of music and spirit and noise…the E Street Band is here tonight and we’re gonna bring down the power of the music but, Washington, we need you to bring the noise (crowd cheers) now sing it like you mean it …” 18.05.09 Washington, DC, intro to “Out in the Street” “That’s a good sign…(?) whose sign is that? whose sign is that? whose sign is this?…(?) are you ready, are you ready?…” [According to Backstreets, “played for a nine-year-old girl who made it to the front of the stage to sit with Bruce during part of the song.”] 18.05.09 Washington, DC, intro to “Little Latin Lupe Lu” “Give me the drumbeat, Max, key of E…” 18.05.09 Washington, DC, intro to “Kingdom of Days” “Oh yeah…Patricia! (chuckles) bring your sassy self out here (chuckles) we got Patti with us tonight, it’s nice (crowd cheers) oh yeah…(chuckles) alright…gonna dedicate this, gonna dedicate this to her because it’s great to have her with us tonight…’cause you’re nice, that’s just ‘cause you’re nice, that’s nice…” 18.05.09 Washington, DC, intro to “Hard Times” “Thank you (crowd cheers) thank you for coming out to the show tonight (crowd cheers) we wanna thank and salute our, our great friends from the Walter Reed Hospital and Bethesda Naval Hospital, let’s hear it for our veterans that are with us tonight (crowd cheers) yeah, right there (crowd cheers) come on, give it up, give it up, give it up, give it up! (crowd cheers) we thank you, oh…we also have some friends from the Washington DC Central Kitchen, for twenty years the DC Central Kitchen has been using the food that we waste to feed the homeless and the hungry, each day they collect and serve more than a ton of surplus from area restaurants and they get it to the Washington DC’s struggling citizens, all you have to do is pick up the newspapers to see the millions of jobs that have been lost, hundreds of thousands just over the past few months, you realise there are many, many, many, many people out there that are truly struggling…grassroots organizations like the Washington DC Central Kitchen are very often their last safety net between having their kids go to bed with some nutritious food or hungry, please support your neighbours and support the Washington DC Central Kitchen (crowd cheers) this is, uh…this is a song written by Stephen Foster in 1855…it’s called “Hard times come again no more”…” 18.05.09 Washington, DC, intro to “American Land” “We wanna thank you all for coming out to the show tonight (crowd cheers) thank you for supporting our band over all these years… (…) The unbelievable Little Steven (crowd cheers) the gorgeously luscious and talented, Miss Patti Scialfa (crowd cheers) from the Sessions Band, Curtis King (crowd cheers) Sister Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) the unstoppable Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) the thunder from down under, Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) with an I.Q of three hundred thousand, Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano from the Sessions Band (crowd cheers) Cindy Mizelle on the vocals (crowd cheers) one of the greatest guitarists in the world, Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) and the biggest man you’ve ever seen: Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers) Washington! (crowd cheers) Washington! (crowd cheers) Washington! (crowd cheers) Washington! (crowd cheers) Washington! (crowd cheers) Washington! (crowd cheers) you’ve just seen the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, hard-rocking, earth-shaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary (crowd: “E Street Band”)(crowd cheers)…” 18.05.09 Washington, DC, intro to “Rosalita” “[There is a request sign that says “Obama called, he wants Rosie”] … [Roy plays a little bit of “Hail to the Chief”]…By executive request (crowd cheers)…let me hear it, Roy [Roy again plays a short bit of “Hail to the Chief”]…”