{"id":8435,"date":"2026-01-30T19:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/bruce-springsteen-tom-morello-minneapolis\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:56:31","slug":"bruce-springsteen-tom-morello-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/bruce-springsteen-tom-morello-minneapolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen Crashes Tom Morello ICE Benefit In Minneapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-462898018-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Bruce Springsteen and Tom Morello performing in 2015 (photo: Lester Cohen \/ WireImage).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bruce Springsteen made a surprise appearance this afternoon (Jan. 30) in Minneapolis during a Tom Morello-organized daytime benefit concert for the families of slain protestors Renee Good and Alex Pretti, during which he live debuted his just-released protest song, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/01\/bruce-springsteen-minneapolis\/\">Streets of Minneapolis<\/a>,\u201d and then dusted off his 1995 track \u201cThe Ghost of Tom Joad\u201d for a guitar-solo filled electric version backed by Morello and other musicians.<\/p>\n<p>In Springsteen\u2019s most full-throated rebuke yet of the Donald Trump administration, \u201cStreets of Minneapolis\u201d found him blasting the \u201cfederal thugs\u201d who killed Pretti and Good and vowing, \u201cwe\u2019ll remember the names of those who died on the streets of Minneapolis.\u201d \u201cCitizens stood for justice \/ Their voices ringing through the night,\u201d the 76-year-old rock legend sang. \u201cAnd there were bloody footprints \/ Where mercy should have stood \/ And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets \/ Alex Pretti and Renee Good.\u201d See fan-shot footage below.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/01\/netflix-documentary-red-hot-chili-peppers\/\">Netflix Doc To Cover Red Hot Chili Peppers\u2019 \u2018Rise\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/01\/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-chris-cester-of-mystic-knights\/\">5 Albums I Can\u2019t Live Without:\u00a0Chris Cester of Mystic Knights<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/01\/deep-cut-friday-paint-a-vulgar-picture-by-the-smiths\/\">Deep Cut Friday: \u2018Paint A Vulgar Picture\u2019 by The Smiths<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Morello only announced the Concert of Solidarity &amp; Resistance To Defend Minnesota at the 1,550-capacity First Avenue two days ago, dovetailing with Springsteen having released \u201cStreets of Minneapolis\u201d that same day despite having only written it last Saturday. The event also featured performances by Rise Against, Ike Reilly and jazz guitarist Al Di Meola, while Morello played songs from Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave such as \u201cKilling in the Name\u201d and \u201cLike a Stone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It concluded with an all-hands-on-deck run through of John Lennon and Yoko Ono\u2019s \u201cPower to the People,\u201d after which hometown hero Prince\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Go Crazy\u201d blared over the house speakers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a celebration of resistance, and that one day we\u2019ll create a little bit of the world we want to see,\u201d Morello told the crowd. Earlier this week when announcing the show, he said, \u201cwe are coming to Minneapolis where the people have heroically stood up against ICE, stood up against Trump, stood up against this terrible rising tide of state terror,. Where the people have stood up for their neighbors and themselves, for democracy and justice. Ain\u2019t nobody coming to save us except us and it\u2019s now or never.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"_jHeCwz4LGA\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Springsteen and Morello have worked together frequently over the past two decades, with the latter subbing for E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt during tours in 2013 and 2014. Morello and his Rage Against the Machine bandmates frequently covered \u201cThe Ghost of Tom Joad\u201d in concert and eventually released their version on the 2000 album <em>Renegades.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Springsteen and Tom Morello performing in 2015 (photo: Lester Cohen \/ WireImage). 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