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Entente HHHHhf ' -?*-y ;::x ,: iy | I I. , J f ^^':", /. :. :i'' -iSS? ^5 ainmenf vesi v/^H^HSBE^^RBB^^B^^^^S^BBIBKii^'mL * ^fcJi i i^flBHE. L ' j mrf H8MHfl^^^KBHHw WR> fJ ^wHf^BwljM)aB8H9MBwifl^r^^^',^:: vlBS ^^?qwm^^HD^MRHHHV >0. Jl* ^h^hhshs^b^bb j SKP^WHe?~Tl'~ ...? I w$|^S^^^^H^38|^?i^@:: The Gamecock/Chip Lowell ^ ' ** ' !? > If _: r Tr"^-? v' ^ J? Efctti P^HHI Jr By Michael Ri Staff W Punching the air with their f unison, and dancing in the ais Springsteen and his E Street grand three and one-half hour Springsteen led the Carolina coaster ride tnrougn landscape streets full of love and hate, jo loneliness that finally resulted i emotion. The crowd had been yelling it before The Boss finally took the the first explosive chords of "F then launched into a rollicki Street," led by massive saxm; pounds the perfect foil to the sm Bruce then shed his jacket an as the crowd shouted the choriu Out." Miami Steve Van Zandt, < toe, provided driving rhythm gi frequently leaped to his feet whi SPRINGSTEEN NEXT slowe harsher themes of separation a "Independence Day" with a sh of his childhood relationship w whpn vnn'r*? unnno anH fnmin j? j words you can think of sometim it's hard to tell your old man t you really do." Bittan's piano then fused to wrap around Sp Bruce sang the story about lea> "There's a darkness in this ho and there's a darkness in this tc can't touch me now, and you c; gonna do to me what I watched t The title song from his new Springsteen at his very best, h accentuating the story of an i forced marriage. He drew the ai the pain and frustrations that cc couple in the song struggled \ dream a lie if it don't come true, There were two stunning surp was a scurciung version 01 ure< "Who'll Stop The Rain," rielive conviction as any of The Boss's c a beautiful rendition of "This La THE BAND CLOSED the 75-i classic "Thunder Road." Spring help from the audience, whispe the band came to life with a roa of the song's "burned out Chevei rang out like a siren in the nig escape leaped to life: "Roll dowi blow back your hair: the night's will take us anywhere!" When S "It's a town full of losers, WE'R there wasn't a soul in the crowd i The E Streeters finally took a excitement of the first set linj intermission, the band jogged bj full-tilt, galloping version of Tallent's bass guitar propelled thenClemons,now decked out in hat, finished things off with a sta The Boss then put "Hungry H back to back, and the combinati in itself. The crowd bellowed joyousness that reached into coliseum. For a few minutes the new members as The Boss led a The next song was a stealth popular "Fire," with Springst carnation of Elvis Presley. H< microphone during a long, teasi song that sent the females in the BRUCE THEN FULLED ano into the early '70s for a pair < served up a driving version of " first album, then revived image: with "Sandy," which he dedicat home in Jersey." After ripping through "You C Touch" and "Badlands," the m( more menacing The stage ii tumbling piano led into ' Point I Van Zaudt's crying guitai lines en 11 amatowskl rh*r ists, howling out choruses in les, 10,500 fans joined Bruce Band on Sunday night for a celebration of rock 'n' roll. Coliseum crowd on a roller s of open highways and fiery y and pain, exhiliaration and n a pure triumph of spirit and self hoarse for a full half-hour stage at 8:45 and cranked out 'rove It All Night." The band ng version of "Out In The an Clarence demons, at 240 all, wiry Springsteen. d raced across the stagefront >es to "Tenth Avenue Freezeiressed in black from head to iitar while pianist Roy Bittan le pounding his keyboard. ;d the action to embrace some ind alienation. He introduced ort monologue about the pain ith h.;s father: "It seems like i out on your own, the only es are lighlin' words...! guess hat you love him, even when and Danny Federici's organ >ringsteen's raspy vocals as zing his home and his father ; use that's got the best of us, >wn that's got us too; but they jn't touch me now, they ain't hem do to you." ! album, "The River," was is mournful harmonica solos accidental pregnancy and a jdience in, sharing with them mid only build as the teenage vith shattered hopes: "Is a or is it something worse?" rises in the first set: the first idence Clearwater Revival's red with as much power and >riginals; and the second was nd Is Your Land " minute opening set with the *steen, once again receiving red the opening lines before r like the screaming engines rolets." Clemon's saxaphone Li H " ' ni as me images oi not rod i the window and let the wind busted open, these two lanes pringsteen sang the last line. E pullin' outta here to win!" lot raring to go with him. well deserved break, but the ?ered on. After a :>f>-minute ack on stage and unleashed a "Cadillac Ranch' Garry the song at breakneck speed white suit and black cowboy mpeding sax dash eart" and " Sherry Darling" on was almost a mini concert verses and choruses with a the uppermost rows of the ; E Street Band gained 10,(KK) tumultuous sing along l- ? : -- y vciaiun ui me nnnienst ly een as a swivel-hipping mj and Clemons froze at the ng pause in the middle of the front rows into hysterics. ther surprise, reaching back )f his oldest songs. He first For You," a classic from his s of his early boardwalk days ed to "all the folks from back an Look Hut You Better Not xki of the show subtly turned ghts dimmed and Hit tan's *lnnk " 1 ho crowd hushed as edged liko icv lingers up the