Leekbrookgull
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Some decent footage on Youtube,however any released dvd material ?
One of the most boring sets I've ever seen from a headliner at Glastonbury.
That's your point of view of a legendary live performer-obviously The Wombles at Glastonbury are more your cup of tea!
Yes that is my view: he was very disappointing and bored on for far too long. Playing for 2 hours and 45 mins is no measure of greatness if no -one knows what you're playing. Unlike Neil Young, who played the night before with a brilliant set ending with a stunning cover of the Beatles "A day in the Life," Springsteen completely failed to understand the Glastonbury audience. He should have played a shorter set, full of his best known songs. That's what you have to do at a festival like Glastonbury. Instead, he chose to play a set which only real Spingsteen aficionado's would like. It was very self indulgent.
Yes that is my view: he was very disappointing and bored on for far too long. Playing for 2 hours and 45 mins is no measure of greatness if no -one knows what you're playing. Unlike Neil Young, who played the night before with a brilliant set ending with a stunning cover of the Beatles "A day in the Life," Springsteen completely failed to understand the Glastonbury audience. He should have played a shorter set, full of his best known songs. That's what you have to do at a festival like Glastonbury. Instead, he chose to play a set which only real Spingsteen aficionado's would like. It was very self indulgent.
The set included Born to Run, Dancing in the Dark, Badlands, Glory Days, The River. He even played Because the Night, which is one of his most famous songs as recorded by someone else. I had a friend who went who felt similar to you, but it basically seemed to boil down to the fact that he didn't play "Born in the USA", which is very silly as a) that's one song out of loads of Springsteen classics, b) he doesn't really play it anymore because of how iconographic it has become and c) it's far from his best anyway!