From Ev2 Edited Shows Listing

Title: Summertime Santa
'Label': Ev2
Format: 3CD
Source: Audience
Date: July 11, 2008.
Location: Olympiastadion, Helsinki, Finland.

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source:
Zoom H2 (internal mics 120° setting)
Taper: Drunkenmaster
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Disc One:
01 Calliope Intro
02 Night
03 Out In The Street
04 Radio Nowhere
05 No Surrender
06 Hungry Heart
07 Spirit In The Night
08 Summertime Blues
09 Sherry Darling
10 "Madame Marie Story"
11 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
12 I'll Work For Your Love
13 Candy's Room
14 Youngstown
15 Murder Incorporated

Disc Two:
01 The Promised Land
02 She's The One
03 Livin' In The Future
04 Mary's Place
05 "I Think It's The Same Guy"
06 Point Blank
07 The Rising
08 Last To Die
09 Long Walk Home
10 Born In The U.S.A.
11 Badlands
12 "Suomalaisille Naisille"
13 Girls In Their Summer Clothes

Disc Three:
01 Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
02 Born To Run
03 Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
04 Dancing In The Dark
05 American Land
06 "Santa Does Come From Finland"
07 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
08 Twist And Shout

09 Adam Raised A Cain
10 Bobby Jean
11 Fire
12 For You (solo piano)
13 The River
14 Janey Don't You Lose Heart

- D3 Tracks 09-14: Parc des Princes, Paris, France. June 27, 2008. "Moerie" recording.


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- Edited from "drunkenmaster"'s master recording.
- Tour premiere of full band "Youngstown".

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"A gorgeous Friday night in Helsinki for the last show on the Scandinavian leg of the tour.
A sunny day in the mid-70s cooled down to mid-60s by the time the show began at 8 p.m. Olympia Stadion is a well-kept venue built in the 1950s,
complete with a real grass field which gave the event a very park-like feel.
The walk from the city center to the stadium is undoubtedly one of the most pleasant of all of the venues,
a short 15-20 minute stroll through a park teeming with gardens, ponds and people having picnics, sunbathing (yes they do that in Finland)
and some even engaged in pre-show festivities. Helsinki is a very refined, city and the reserved crowd seemed to reflect that:
there wasn't the rabid passion that was evident in, say, Goteborg, but the audience was warm, appreciative, and even polite. Unlike Sweden,
Finland hasn't been a regular stop for Bruce and the band over the years (much to the disappointment of some of the locals I talked to),
so I didn't really have any particular expectation about the night prior to the event.
And I certainly didn't expect a 31-song show with an eight-song encore,
which ended a bit later than the 11 p.m. curfew the locals insisted had to be adhered to.

Hard to find many faults with this show -- strong set list, good energy, and near perfect sound.
Highlights in the main set were three "summer specials": "Summertime Blues," "Sherry Darling," and "Sandy."
Bruce collected signs during the long intro of "Summertime Blues" and made a few comments about the short Finland summer and long winter
and made a funny remark about Santa Claus possibly being from Finland.
"I'll Work for Your Love" was a "small" request which Bruce honored and was a pleasant surprise.
But the night's real power was the three-pack of "Candy's Room," "Youngstown," and "Murder Incorporated."
With "Because the Night" not in tonight's setlist, Nils was showcased in "Youngstown" -- previously performed only once by Bruce on this tour,
solo-acoustic -- and it was searing. "Point Blank" was also a surprise, a request from someone who Bruce said had been "chasing [him] around for a while."
"Born in the U.S.A." was nicely weaved into the four-pack (now five-pack) to end the set, was very well received by the locals,
and Garry W. Tallent's bass work was exceptional. It felt as though there were a sub-woofer beneath the field.

As good as all this was, it wasn't until the encore that the locals really seemed to rock out.
An eight-song stunner, which didn't end with "American Land." After that traditional closer,
Bruce went on a hunt for a particular sign he had seen earlier in the night, found it, continued his story about Santa being from Finland,
and then the band broke into a surprise mid-summer version of "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (complete with some great Ho-Ho-Hos from Clarence)
just for Finland. The locals ate it up, and the band wasn't done. They went straight into "Twist and Shout" to close,
and even the most reserved Finns seemed to be up and dancing at this point. A nice Scandinavian send-off". - backstreets.com