The Boss wasn’t playing around when he opened his Land of Hope and Dreams Tour on Tuesday (3/31) at Target Center in Minneapolis.
After the band emerged on a dark stage, 76-year-old Bruce Springsteen, intentionally unlit delivered a solemn welcome to the 19,000 as a hint of keyboards provided a heavy mood behind his serious words.
“I want to begin tonight with a prayer for our men and women in service overseas,” the rocker began. “We pray for their safe return. The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock ‘n’ roll in dangerous times. We are here in celebration and defense of our American ideals, democracy, our Constitution, and our sacred American promise.”
He told the crowd how the USA he loves and has been writing about for 50 years is currently being damaged by leaders he called “corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless and treasonous.”
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