I had the very good fortune of getting to see Bruce a few times this last year on the Working on a Dream Tour, and I was also lucky to get some good seats / spot in the pit.
The first great moment was at GS Show #3 (10/3/09) when, during the final song, Thunder Road, Bruce walked toward us during the instrumental section, and saw the sign we had brought to the show:
It was towards the end of the song and we were waving the sign up and down hoping to get his attention... finally Bruce saw it and came over and pointed to us and played to us for a solid 10 or so seconds! Our sign even made it up on the Megatron!
In the above picture, the top part is the megatron (with Bruce on the right, and the yellow-front of our sign on the left), and down below, you can see the real Bruce and the red-back of our sign.
That was by far my greatest personal moment at a concert.... A close second though was lucking out and getting first row seats right behind the stage for the 11/7/09 show at MSG, where the band played Wild, Innocent... all the way through! I had desperately been trying to get tickets to this show, clicking away at ticketmaster, until finally, at 4:30pm on the day of the show, we get two seats right behind the stage, first row!
I recently found this great video where Bruce comes and sings right in front of us during "Working on a Dream" (see 2:23-2:25, and 2:34-2:40):
I was able to screen shot a few pictures where we are right in front of him!
Not sure if I'll ever get opportunities to see the E Street Band again from that close, but I sure hope so!
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