Shortly before the nineteenth, still during the day, with a covered sky that threatens Chaparrón, the liturgy begins. One by one the musicians go up the stairs from the scenario’s scenes to occupy their space. We applaud. Until his turn comes. The camera is its side waiting for the step. Start walking. We accompany him. The images contemplated by the public are a fundamental element of the show of their last tours. People shout while he advances calm towards his microphone. He knows it. It will not rain.
At 20.58 he looks at the tens of thousands of people who were waiting for him at Reale Arena Stadium (San Sebastián), where he gave this Saturday night the first of his two Spanish concerts (the second will be this Tuesday on the same stage). Foreground. He said nothing and smiled a couple of seconds, preparing us so that what would come during the two hours and forty -five minutes. Do not hesitate. He knows that he will revalidate the promise that is the theme of the first song of the night: the vital promise with rock from youth until today. As in two previous concerts of his tour he began with No surrender.
Black buttoned black vest and black tie with white points, white shirt with fine black stripes. And a band that works as a clock – the engine is the drums – and the demanding professionalism that revalidates in My Love Will Net You Down With his second only at night.
With the third song – after the Good morning Donosti– The objective of this tour already appears: to raise awareness of the audience about the critical moment that the United States is experiencing under the presidency of. Read the speeches, which appear subtitled on the screens, and some of the letters, the most political, are also translated. The most powerful, because he was there without anyone having warned the strength of his message, is Rainmaker: He works with the cultural imaginary of the and speaks of the hardship conditions that allow the appearance of a demagogic leader. Yes, he dedicates it to Trump. This is not a joke. Before singing Mi city in ruins He will even ask the public silence.
The first time you lower the stairs of the stage to sing face to face with the public is with The promised land. Suddenly it becomes a happy grandmother. He stops a girl who carries a poster, reads that he would like to selfie With him and Springsteen does not disappoint. The proximity to its first ranks is another resource to demonstrate communion with the public. Tonight Who will the Harmonician give? Today to a veteran fan. From this point the variations will be scarce. Touches Darkness on the edge of townwhose central stanzas recites more than sings, and interprets a The River With that howl in the final falsete where all the fears of an adult man are concentrated. Maybe the biggest surprise is to verify the strength that the band now plugs Long walk homewith a plethoric.
In Wrecking ball It encourages the public, forcing him to repeat the cry, the wind section enters and suddenly that minor song becomes a fiestón. People dance and see the little girl on their parents’ men’s men. Excuse me. I can’t keep writing. I get up, jump and I don’t feel until, away from the band and between the public, it ends Badlans. For the first time it is really tired, tonight and tomorrow the recovery sessions with the physiotherapist in María Cristina will be intense.
Feel. I am more alive than before the start of the concert. I go back. Take it again, Bruce: the moment of Thunder road And he walks again shaking the hand of the fans of the first rows. The final track arrives. The lights are lit, Donosti shouts and begins to sing the cursed anthem, the first of the three pieces of that commercial rock jewel that was the one that catapulted as a global star of the mass show.
In Bobby Jean All stir their arms from right to left, in Dancing in the dark The camera focuses the faces of enthusiasm. Will overflow with that Twist and shout which shows that the 75 -year -old grandfather remains the artist who best dominates the greats. Five more minutes, please. Five minutes for eternity.
Expected Epilogue: Chimes of freedomthe version that has recovered for this political tour. A celestial keyboard accompanies the interpretation. The lyrics of appears subtitled in Spanish on the screens. He no longer has a vest. God bless you. The soldiers of the night, at 23.45, we left Anoeta while by the speakers it resonates This land is your land.
