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context: Bruce Springsteen was the single worst and best concert I've been to...in the same concert.  First half of the concert he exclusively played songs off a new album that had just come out.  No one knew any of them and it was a really dead vibe.  Then he's like, "Okay, how about some of the hits?" and it was like a powder keg going off.  Maybe he was just building anticipation, but it was not obvious that there'd be a payoff and it was really starting to feel like a waste of my time. >
  
  hehehe this reminds me of the time i saw tom morello play a few years ago. the first half of the "concert" was a self-serving interview, where a local DJ asked tom questions like: "so tom, when you were growing up in illinois did you know that you were going to be one of the world's best guitar virtuosos? or were you more interested in changing the face of electric guitar for the future of the world?"
  at one point someone in the crowd even yelled out "WHERE'S YOUR GUITAR???"
  after 90 interminable minutes of this fluff-ass interview he made us watch "music videos" (more like "lyric videos") from his new album. that went on for a good 20-30 minutes.
  THEN, FINALLY, he came out with his fuckin' baby blue strat clone and just ripped the tits off that place. he ended the show by inviting everyone up on stage to a group performance of "this land is your land"