Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Passaic 9/19/78

THE REVIEW

And last but not least... Do I have to say his name?... Do I have to speak his name?... Do I have to say his name?... In this corner... King of the World... Master of the Universe... Weighing in at 260 pounds... the Big Man, Clarence Clemons!!!!!

It's three in the morning, and I still can't sleep. I have just witnessed, no, I have just taken part with my soul and body in my first Bruce concert, right in my city, Bologna...

Only 20 years have passed since then, just a blink, I have grown up with the awareness that in dark moments, when “I feel so bad I want to explode, explode and devastate this entire city, take a knife and cut this pain from my heart”. In those moments when you want to “Find someone eager to start something” and who can tell me, I would like to “Blow away the dreams that tear you apart, Blow away the dreams that break your heart, Blow away the lies that leave you lost and brokenhearted […] Hey, I’m no boy, no, I'm a man, and I believe in the promised land”.

I dreamed of being able to talk to my father and being able to tell him “Daddy go to bed now, it's getting late, nothing we can say will change things now, I'll leave in the morning from Saint Mary's Gate we wouldn’t change things even if we could somehow because the darkness of this house possesses the best of us, and so do the shadows in this town, but now they can't touch me, and now you can't touch me, they won’t do to me what I saw them do to you. So say goodbye, it's Independence Day, it's Independence Day, say goodbye, it's Independence Day, it's Independence Day this time”. Then the Big Man's sax cleared the way for tears... Today, I can’t listen to it without thinking that if there's a rock god, without a doubt those two are playing and dancing together.

If I want, I can hear a voice calling me Mary “The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves Like a vision, she dances across the porch As the radio plays Roy Orbison singing for the lonely Hey, that's