Eleven days before being sworn in and beginning my career in law enforcement, I traveled to Giants Stadium to see Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band in concert. As I recall, we were last row in the upper deck in the 300’s section to the right of the stage. At that point, just being in the building was enough as Bruce was one of the biggest rock stars on the planet, especially in his home state of New Jersey, and we were just happy to have gotten tickets at all. In my opinion, Mr. Springsteen has lost touch with his fan base with overpriced Broadway shows and politically motivated alliances leaning in the wrong direction and contrary to his working class fans that made him the wealthy superstar he is today. Bruce Springsteen is undeniably one of the great rock and roll acts in popular music history, but would have been better off had he burnt out then fading away like he has.
In 2020, I went to the last concert performance by Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul, with opener the great Peter Wolf, at the Beacon Theatre just before the pandemic shut everything down. The show was being recorded for a live album and DVD release and it was rumored that Springsteen could show up and play with the band (but it never did happen despite the fact a Beacon bartender had told me that there were two potential end times, one if Bruce played and one if he did not, so it would appear that it was in the realm of possibility). We were in the third row center of the Beacon and a Bruce cameo would have been epic. Instead Peter Wolf put on one of his incredible performances as usual and a guy who used to be in the Sopranos and dressed as Maude fronted a soul revue. It was an interesting evening out on the town in Manhattan to say the least.

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GQ