BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND 25 March 2003 Brisbane Entertainment Centre Brisbane, Australia 1. promoter’s intro* 2. BORN IN THE U.S.A. (solo acoustic) 3. WAR 4. NO SURRENDER 5. THE RISING 6. LONESOME DAY 7. PROVE IT ALL NIGHT 8. EMPTY SKY 9. YOU'RE MISSING 10. WAITIN' ON A SUNNY DAY 11. DARLINGTON COUNTY 1. WORLDS APART 2. BADLANDS 3. SHE'S THE ONE 4. MARY'S PLACE 5. JUNGLELAND 6. INTO THE FIRE 7. THUNDER ROAD encore 1. BOBBY JEAN 2. RAMROD 3. BORN TO RUN 4. MY CITY OF RUINS 5. LAND OF HOPE AND DREAMS - PEOPLE GET READY 6. DANCING IN THE DARK Great show from Bruce and the band from the Australian leg of The Rising tour. Set and band mood influenced by the start of the Gulf War II earlier that week. ================ taper: audiowhore lineage: SP-CMC-8 > Samson PM-4 > Minidisc (Panasonic SJ-MR220) > Cool Edit Pro > flac8 > Dime location: 10th row on the floor, Nils' side of the stage. 10th anniversary torrent - 10 years burnin' down the road... Thanks to NV65 for the ticket. Thanks to BruceBase for the set list scan. Does anyone have any photos from this show? ================ * Very interesting story and series of events surrounding the promoter and planning of this show, so I have put as the first track Kevin Jacobsen’s rambling intro to the show that night where he is basically pleading with people to buy tickets for the following night’s show in Brisbane. Some background about this is below- This concert was originally scheduled for ANZ stadium (an outdoor sporting venue capable of holding approx. 40,000 people in concert mode) but was moved to the indoor Brisbane Entertainment Centre that holds approx. 12,000. The reason for this venue change can only be explained as a massive stuff up on behalf of the promoter when planning the tour and booking the tour dates. How do you not realise during logistical planning that it wasn't feasable for all the staging equipment to get transported from Brisbane to Auckland, New Zealand and have it set up in time for the next show there two days later? Read the press release attached with this folder for their announcement of this. Also check out the links to the news stories below to see how this stuff up contributed to Springsteen’s five concert tour of Aus/NZ in 2003 losing the promoter AUS$1.7 million (approx. US$3 million at the time) and the subsequent financial dramas that the promoter’s company and family faced. One of these articles mentions how ticket sales were slow for this tour for various reasons. What they don’t say is the enormous (and likely very costly) advertising campaign that was launched to try and shift more seats and also how the stuff up with the scheduling of the Brisbane concert contributed to this loss. Instead of paying Bruce & co. for one concert in Brisbane where they could have aimed to sell 40,000 tickets, they now had to pay Bruce for 2 shows where they could only sell a combined maximum of 24,000 seats. With the second of these shows not selling out, that makes for a large shortfall (and the obvious desperation of the promoter in his intro). I understand that after the tour finished Jacobsen contacted Jon Landau and asked if he would refund him $1 million to partly cover the losses he suffered promoting the tour. Landau not surprisingly said no. Wondering if these behind the scenes dramas have had anything to do with Bruce not returning to Australia for the last 10 years? Performance turns sour at Jacobsen- http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/14/1050172536227.html Kevin Jacobsen Out of a Job- http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/busrpt/stories/s961216.htm The war of the Jacobsens- http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac;jsessionid=B32483F3BFFE319ADE997CC1584E98C1?sy=afr&pb=all_ffx&dt=selectRange&dr=1month&so=relevance&sf=text&sf=headline&rc=10&rm=200&sp=brs&cls=1142&clsPage=1&docID=SMH120804425GU50UGUA ================