Bruce Springsteen played a private/benefit show @ The Stone Pony 9.11.10

Bruce Springsteen & family on-stage at The Stone Pony 9.11.10 (via Rolling Stone)

Bruce Springsteen played an unannounced/private benefit show this past Saturday, September 11th at Asbury Park's Stone Pony. Rumors are that tickets for the 800 capacity standing room only show ranged from $5-20,000. The benefit was for underprivileged students at Bruce's son Evan's school, Boston College. It was drummer, Max Weinberger's second night in a row at The Pony as his solo band played there the night before. The 25 song setlist from Saturday nights performance can be found below. Check out a rather pointless video of a group of people outside The Stone Pony desperately trying to just get a glimpse of Bruce performing below as well.

Springsteen was backed by Bobby Bandiera and his band, with Max Weinberg on drums. Also joining "The Boss" throughout the standing-room-only gig was longtime friend -- and Jersey Shore music legend -- Southside Johnny.

Backstreets.com posted that covers included versions of Wilson Pickett's "634-5789" and "In The Midnight Hour," Moon Mullican's "Seven Nights To Rock," the Isley Brothers' "Twist And Shout," and Sam Cooke's "Havin' A Party." Springsteen closed the show with an acoustic version of "Thunder Road."

We asked Springsteen if it's gotten tougher putting himself through such strenuous workouts every time he hits the stage: "The show was always very physical, and I've had people ask me -- they say, 'Wow, wasn't that really hard?' I said it was as hard as it used to be to do it, but it wasn't any harder, you know? (laughs) It was always kind of hard, so it was. . . It was as hard as that, but I wouldn't say that it was any harder." [KSHE95]

1 Working on the Highway
2. Lucky Day
3. 634-5789
4. Seven Nights to Rock
5. Growin' Up
6. Spirit In the Night
7. Working on a Dream
8. Midnight Hour
9. Talk to Me
10. Two Hearts
11. Darlington County
12. Pink Cadillac
13. Fever
14. Sandy (4th of July)
15. I Don't Want to Go Home
16. Fourth of July Asbury Park
17. Cadillac Ranch
18. 10th Avenue Freeze-Out
19. Glory Days
20. Havin' a Party
21. Born To Run
22. Rosalita
23. Detroit Medley
24. Twist and Shout
25. Thunder Road (acoustic)

Comments

[viv]

soo lame... only cause I wasn't at this.

[Greg]

the crowd squealing when the guy closes the door is beyond hilarious.

[CB]

the setlist is pretty shitty until the end. I'd be pissed if I spent thousands of dollars

[Jenn]

too bad I don't have thousands of dollars to blow on concerts :(