Arizona
Devils and Dust Glendale
Theater – Glendale Arizona
4-30-05
2 DVDs
Standalone version - very,very good
quality
Backstreet.com review :
April 30 / Glendale, AZ / Glendale Arena
Notes: Though "All I'm Thinkin'
About" is one of the catchiest songs on Devils & Dust, it's one
of the last to be played live. That song had its concert premiere at Saturday
night's Phoenix show, also the first show of the tour in
one of these half-arena configurations. Comapred to
theaters, the setup was a mixed bag in terms of acoustics and atmosphere, but
by several accounts it didn't hamper audience attentiveness or the
effectiveness of the show (having the concessions shut down during the
performance couldn't have hurt). The crowd was rewarded with the ultra-rare
"Book of Dreams" (a song only played live a handful of times, and not
since the 1992 Plugged performance), on piano for the first time. Bruce
described it as "a song about wedding days," before chuckling,
"I say 'days' plural, unfortunately...." Also on the piano,
"Racing in the Street" brought the biggest audience response of the
night; as on 4/22, Springsteen introduced it by talking about the 1971 film Two-Lane
Blacktop. "Highway Patrolman" came back to the set, and in the
encores, the first E Street guest of the tour: part-time Arizona resident Nils
Lofgren on dobro for
"This Hard Land."
Setlist: Reason to Believe/Devils &
Dust/Youngstown/Lonesome Day/Long Time Comin'/Silver
Palomino/For You*/Book of Dreams*/Part Man, Part Monkey/Maria's Bed/Highway
Patrolman/Reno/All I'm Thinkin' About/Racing in the
Street*/The Rising/Further On (Up the Road)/Jesus Was an Only Son*/Leah/The
Hitter/Matamoros Banks//This Hard Land (with Nils Lofgren)/Waitin' on a Sunny
Day/My Best Was Never Good Enough/The Promised Land
*=piano
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