Bruce Springsteen kicks off tour at Atlanta’s Philips Arena
Bruce Springsteen hits the road again in March and the first show of the tour is at Philips Arena on March 18. Tickets go on sale Feb. 4. Photo: Jo Lopez
The Boss is back.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be hitting the road again in March, touring behind Springsteen’s 17th album, “Wrecking Ball.” The album will be released on March 6. The first single from “Wrecking Ball,” “We Take Care of Our Own,” is already out and you can hear it at Springsteen’s official website.
The tour’s first show is at Philips Arena on March 18 and tickets go on sale Feb. 4. Tickets are $69 and $99 (plus the usual fees).
Why begin the tour in Atlanta? Perhaps it’s because Springsteen seems to have a fondness for Atlanta, or at least for our Southern Tracks recording studio. Many of his albums since the turn of the millennium have been completely or partially recorded there.
A new Springsteen tour is always reason to celebrate, but there’s a bit of sadness associated with it, too. It will mark the band’s first tour since the passing of the Big Man, Clarence Clemons, the E Street Band’s beloved sax player since 1972. Clemons died at age 69 on June 12, 2011, from complications following a stroke.
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Jersey boy but
January 26th, 2012
11:08 pm
For those haters out there, the boss is not the common man, his an artist of gift and talent that relates his background which is from an Americana of middle class and common roots. The tickets for the best seats are $100, not $500 – $1,000 they’d be for any other musician of his caliber. His shows sell out in minutes and if he wanted he could charge a hellva a lot more. He also plays for 2 & 1/2 -3 hours.
maxman
January 27th, 2012
10:24 am
tired of all these washed up has beens still hanging around,do any of theses old farts springsteen, van halen etc.think anybody in this younger generation gives a damn about these old codgers
joe
January 27th, 2012
10:46 am
Anytime a singer or actor opens his or her mouth about their liberal political agenda, they are dead to me. Not gettin a dime outta me, Bruce…
quake
January 27th, 2012
10:52 am
A hundred bucks for Bruce is a bargain. As others have said, if you don’t want to go, don’t.
More available seats for those of us who want to be there. Cannot wait, though it will be so bittersweet without Clarence. Bruce is going to need a horn section to replace the big man!
That was
January 27th, 2012
11:13 am
Good point about the food banks! He leaves 15- up to 30K (NJ area) in just about every City he plays. Never a word from the press about this. LOL about the old guys still playing. Son, this is still music,you know, MUSIC! Not like the junk out there today that you can’t even understand what they are saying,and when you can understand it,its nothing but vaugar/smut coming out of a boom-boom that shakes the State of Georgia.
Carl
January 28th, 2012
12:31 am
One more thing; I’ve seen Bruce the past 4 times he’s been through Atlanta (3 times with the E Street Band and once solo.) I can tell you that he doesn’t spend a lot of time talking about politics during his shows. Do you know what he stands for? Yeah, probably. But go back and listen to “The Rising.” The guy wrote an album that reflected the national conscience following 9/11. The reality is that politics in entertainment is like politics in anything else: it’s fine to talk about it as long as you agree with the person doing the talking.
Frank Furter
January 28th, 2012
11:29 am
Maybe we can open for him !! BRUCE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.notquitedevils.com
kellibee2133
January 28th, 2012
11:59 am
“younger generations” don’t give a damn about these old codgers? I’m 29 years old, and my boyfriend, who actually is the one that turned me on to Bruce, is 28. don’t attempt to define a generation’s preferences based on your embarrassing lack of appreciation for talented musicians. March 18 cannot get here fast enough!!!!!!!!!!
Musiclover1
January 28th, 2012
4:22 pm
Can’t wait for The Boss. Will be different without Clarence. Ticketmaster has got to figure out a way to stop the scalpers.
AwayBBL
January 29th, 2012
12:55 pm
The first time I saw Bruce and the E-Street band was in March of 1972 at a club called the Satellite Lounge in Wrightstown NJ. At the time I was stationed at McGuire AFB and had no clue of who they were, in fact I’ve come to learn over the years, that was their first ever performance as the official E-Street band.
Since that time, I’ve lost count on the shows, including 3 nights at the Bottomline in NYC, many Garden shows, opening of Brendan Byrne Arena, and many others… Each time was like discovering him as new.
To the nay-sayers… I can understand your frustration with Bruce’s claim to be “common” man, but you miss the point, which is that regardless of our station in life, it’s our humanity that binds us.
You can hide ‘neath your covers
And study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers
Throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a savior to rise from these streets
Well now I’m no hero
That’s understood
All the redemption I can offer, girl
Is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
Hey what else can we do now
Except roll down the window
And let the wind blow back your hair
Well the night’s busting open
These two lanes will take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back
Heaven’s waiting on down the tracks
Oh oh come take my hand
Riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road
oh Thunder Road