Somewhat improbably, I find myself pulling into Greensboro, North Carolina on the first evening of a ten-day cross-country bus trip\/publicity stunt for work (long story, not relevant), about an hour before Bruce Springsteen is due to take the stage at the Coliseum.<\/p>\n
I manage to snag an entire row of late-breaking side-stage tickets and drag my co-workers (some fans, some newbies) to the show. I’m fully expecting a standard Working on a Dream show, but that’s fine by me–this is a “bonus” show, after all.<\/p>\n
If you want to read my full account of that night, I wrote about it here<\/a>. Suffice to say, I was blown away by the crowd and resolved on the spot to never miss a Greensboro show again.<\/p>\n But if you’d shown me the set list in advance, I would never have predicted that the high-energy highlight of the night would be a cover of The McCoys’ 1965 smash hit, “Hang On Sloopy.”<\/p>\n