| Hot corner 04/07/2001 The Boss' TV debut
Rock concerts rarely come off well on television. But if any act can make the leap from 20,000-seat arena to 21-inch TV set, it's Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. HBO debuts the group's first TV concert Saturday at 8 p.m.
Taped last summer during the final two nights of the yearlong E Street reunion tour, the 110-minute show is a counterpart to Live in New York City, the oft-stunning double CD that came out Tuesday. Not all of the songs on the album show up in the HBO special. But many highlights do, ranging from "American Skin (41 Shots)" – a new song about the slaying of an unarmed West African immigrant in the Bronx – to a wonderfully theatrical 16-minute version of "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out."
The rest of the set list is heavy on time-honored classics: "Born to Run," "The River," "Badlands," "Out in the Street," "Prove it All Night," "Two Hearts," "Atlantic City" and "Mansion on the Hill." But there's also a handful of more recent tunes – "Youngstown" (from The Ghost of Tom Joad) and the newly penned "Land of Hope and Dreams" – and semi-obscurities like "Murder Incorporated" and "My Love Will Not Let You Down" (a rousing Born in the U.S.A. outtake).
Repeat times for the HBO concert are 8:30 p.m. Friday, 10 p.m. April 16 and 6 p.m. April 22.
Thor Christensen
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