{"id":9884,"date":"2026-04-01T14:27:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/bruce-springsteen-tour-opener\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:27:46","slug":"bruce-springsteen-tour-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/bruce-springsteen-tour-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen Preaches Hope, Defiance At Tour Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1246730974-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>(photo: Octavio Jones \/ Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/03\/bruce-springsteen-spring-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\">As expected<\/a>, Bruce Springsteen came out raging against the American political machine last night (March 31) at the kickoff of the E Street Band\u2019s Land of Hope and Dreams tour in Minneapolis, during which he debuted a full band version of his protest song about the two local citizens shot to death by I.C.E. agents, \u201cStreets of Minneapolis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Boss uttered a long, anti-Donald Trump preamble before opening with the first performance of Edwin Starr\u2019s \u201cWar\u201d since 2003. \u201cThis White House is destroying the American idea and our reputation around the world,\u201d he said. \u201cTo many, we are no longer looked upon as an often imperfect but strong defender of democracy standing for the global good. We are no longer the land of the free and the home of the brave. We are now, to many, America the reckless, unpredictable, predatory rogue nation. That is this administration\u2019s and this president\u2019s legacy. This is happening now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/weezer-new-single\/\">Weezer\u2019s Back \u2018Again\u2019 With New Single<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/slayyyter-is-the-best-when-shes-at-her-worst\/\">Slayyyter Is the Best When She\u2019s at Her Worst<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/daniel-pemberton-wanted-the-project-hail-mary-score-to-do-something-ai-wouldnt-or-couldnt-think-of\/\">Daniel Pemberton Wanted the \u2018Project Hail Mary\u2019 Score to Do Something AI Wouldn\u2019t (or Couldn\u2019t) Think Of<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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=\"2EN2kOjTx_Q\" 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>Musically, the set list didn\u2019t stray all that far from recent E Street Band tours, with favorites such as \u201cDarkness on the Edge of Town,\u201d \u201cThe Promised Land,\u201d \u201cHungry Heart\u201d and \u201cBadlands\u201d contrasted by the highly political \u201cAmerican Skin (41 Shots),\u201d a solo acoustic \u201cHouse of a Thousand Guitars\u201d and a show-closing cover of Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cChimes of Freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello played on 11 of the 27 songs, including a cover of local legend Prince\u2019s \u201cPurple Rain\u201d for the first time in a decade. Springsteen dedicated the performance to Prince as \u201cthe maestro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re feeling helpless, hopeless, betrayed, frustrated, angry, I know. I mean, that\u2019s why the E Street Band is here tonight,\u201d Springsteen said at one point. \u201cThis is a tour that was not planned. We\u2019re here tonight because we need to feel your hope and your strength, and we want to bring some hope and some strength for you. I hope we did that. All I can say is, god bless Alex Pretti, god bless Renee Good, god bless you and god bless America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Land of Hope and Dreams tour runs through May 27 in Washington, D.C.<\/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>(photo: Octavio Jones \/ Getty Images) As expected, Bruce Springsteen came out raging against the American political machine last night (March 31) at the kickoff of the E Street Band\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6,24,738],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-springsteen","category-news","category-pushly","category-tom-morello"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}