Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played for almost four hours on Tuesday night (Aug. 23) to a hometown crowd at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, reports Billboard.
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The Springsteen fan website, Backstreets.com, says Thursday night’s show lasted almost four hours, breaking the previous record for the group’s longest US show of 3 hours and 52 minutes set at MetLife on Tuesday. Fans were treated to 33 songs, a guest appearance by Rage Against the Machine and Prophets of Rage guitarist Tom Morello, the youngest singer ever to join the Boss on stage for “Waitin’ on a Sunny Day” (she was three-years-old), and a marriage proposal during the finale of “Jersey Girl”. Another New Jersey shoutout came later in the set in the form of “My Hometown (which followed “Death to My Hometown”, played a few songs earlier)”. Springsteen’s tour has been celebrating the 35th anniversary of 1980’s “The River”, performing a healthy selection of tunes from the double-album like “Hungry Heart”. Opening night marked the first of three concerts at Bruce’s home state stadium, though a performance the United Center in Chicago splits the second and third New Jersey gigs.
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They are performing in seven USA cities, including East Rutherford, before ending the tour on September 14. However, it’s still some way off his all-time record, when he playe for 4hrs 6mins at Helsinki’s Olympiastadion in Finland in July 2012.
