Bruce Springsteen rocks the house at the Harley-Davidson 105th party!
September 5, 2008
By Jeff Bartucci
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have easily and routinely filled concert venues throughout the country with their legendary rock 'n' roll, but Saturday's performance in Milwaukee at Veterans Park closing the Harley-Davidson 105th anniversary celebration proved that the band's musical reach is bound only by the size of the venue he plays at.

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The “BOSS” played for three-and-a-half hours, running through a playlist of popular hits, occasional obscure song choices and two unexpected surprises and tour premiers before an estimated 100,000 fans and Harley enthusiasts. One might of called the evening more of an event rather than a concert. For the most part, all the die hard fans where quoting The “Boss” had seldom performed better.
“Gypsy Biker” was an appropriate song choice to open the evening, immediately followed by "Out in the Street." Springsteen knew his crowd, altering his playlist to meet their expectations.
The Harley date capped off a 100-city tour, and the band seemed to work harder and stretch farther than it had in recent memory. Springsteen playfully jumped into the crowd, let individuals sing choruses in to the wireless microphone and treated the front rows as his own personal mosh pit. At times he seemed a little tired, but one can hardly blame the artist, who turns 59 on Sept. 23. Few people half his age could easily match his boundless energy.

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The playlist covered a lot of ground: "Spirit in the Night," "Radio Nowhere," "Badlands," "She's the One," "The Rising" and 26 other songs by the time the night ended. Springsteen spent 15 minutes collecting hand-lettered signs from the audience requesting songs-"London Calling?" Really?-until eventually he found a suggestion he liked.
"Any bar band worth its salt knows this one," said Springsteen, launching the band into the tour premier of "Wooly Bully," Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs' 1965 hit.
A 10-song encore that included "Glory Days," "Tenth Avenue Freeze-out," "Rosalita," "Dancing in the Dark"-in which he danced with a fan on stage much like he did a young Courtney Cox in the 1984 music video-and "Thunder Road," the band ended with "Born to Be Wild,"