The River Tour (2016)

The River Tour 2016

Tour by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Associated album	The Ties That Bind: The River Collection
Start date	January 16, 2016 (2016-01-16)
End date	March 17, 2016 (2016-03-17)
Legs	1
No. of shows	24
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert chronology

The River Tour 2016 is a concert tour by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in support of Springsteen's 2015 The Ties That Bind: The River Collection box set. The nine week tour was announced on December 4, 2015, with tickets going on sale on December 11, 2015. This marks the first tour in two years for Springsteen and the E Street Band.

Each night of the tour will be mixed for release on Live.BruceSpringsteen.net as high-quality downloads and CDs. Recordings will be available within days of each performance.

Background

Springsteen released The Ties That Bind: The River Collection on December 4, 2015. The extensive box set features the original 1980 The River album along with many outtakes from those sessions. Along with the full album performance, select outtakes are also expected to be performed live, some possibly for the first time.

Unlike the previous few tours, the touring lineup will be downsized and will not feature a full horn section or backing vocalists. Each night of the tour will feature a full-length sequential performance of The River album, a practice that began during 2009's Working on a Dream Tour (albeit with other albums performed at different times). This will be the first tour in which all dates will feature the same album performed in its entirety.

The original River Tour began in October 1980 and continued through September 1981. With sets that regularly approached the four-hour range, the 140-date international tour firmly established a reputation for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band as marathon performers.

Shows

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue

Date	City	Country	Venue
North America
January 16, 2016	Pittsburgh	United States	Consol Energy Center
January 19, 2016	Chicago		United Center
January 24, 2016	New York City		Madison Square Garden
January 27, 2016
January 29, 2016	Washington, D.C.		Verizon Center
January 31, 2016	Newark		Prudential Center
February 2, 2016	Toronto	Canada	Air Canada Centre
February 4, 2016	Boston	United States	TD Garden
February 8, 2016	Albany		Times Union Center
February 10, 2016	Hartford		XL Center
February 12, 2016	Philadelphia		Wells Fargo Center
February 16, 2016	Sunrise		BB&T Center
February 18, 2016	Atlanta		Philips Arena
February 21, 2016	Louisville		KFC Yum! Center
February 23, 2016	Cleveland		Quicken Loans Arena
February 25, 2016	Buffalo		First Niagara Center
February 27, 2016	Rochester		Blue Cross Arena
February 29, 2016	St Paul		Xcel Energy Center
March 3, 2016	Milwaukee		BMO Harris Bradley Center
March 6, 2016	St. Louis		Chaifetz Arena
March 10, 2016	Phoenix		Talking Stick Resort Arena
March 13, 2016	Oakland		Oracle Arena
March 15, 2016	Los Angeles		Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena
March 17, 2016

Songs performed

Originals/studio tracks/cover songs

The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle

• "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)"

Born to Run

• "Backstreets"
• "Born to Run"
• "Night"
• "She's the One"
• "Thunder Road"

Darkness on the Edge of Town

• "Badlands"

The River

• "Cadillac Ranch"
• "Crush on You"
• "Drive All Night"
• "Fade Away"
• "Hungry Heart"
• "I Wanna Marry You"
• "I'm a Rocker"
• "Independence Day"
• "Jackson Cage"
• "Out in the Street"
• "Point Blank"
• "The Price You Pay"
• "Ramrod"
• "The River"
• "Sherry Darling"
• "Stolen Car"
• "The Ties That Bind"
• "Two Hearts"
• "Wreck on the Highway"
• "You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)"

Born in the U.S.A.

• "Bobby Jean"
• "Cover Me"
• "Dancing in the Dark"
• "Glory Days"
• "No Surrender"

Tunnel of Love

• "Brilliant Disguise"

Human Touch

• "Human Touch"

The Rising

• "The Rising"

The Promise

• "Because the Night"

Wrecking Ball

• "Wrecking Ball"

The Ties That Bind: The River Collection

• "Meet Me in the City"

Cover songs'

• "Rebel Rebel"
• "Shout"
• "Take it Easy" (solo acoustic)

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Ticket scalping

Like with previous Springsteen tours, ticket scalpers were a major problem when it came to buying tickets. Tickets for Springsteen's New York shows began popping up on resale sites such as StubHub and eBay on December 7, 2015, four days before they went on sale to the public. Scaplers were re-selling tickets not yet available for as much as $5,000. This prompted the New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to launch an investigation into how this happened and wrote a letter forcing both companies to immediately remove any listings for ticket sales.When tickets finally went on sale on December 11, many fans again were shut out from buying tickets as most venues sold out quickly and within minutes, tickets were appearing for hundreds to thousands of dollars more on resale sites.According to reports, Springsteen's shows sold out in record time. Springsteen's show in Newark, NJ at the Prudential Center sold out in a few minutes. His previous 2012 show at the same venue took two hours to sell out.

Personnel

The E Street Band

• Bruce Springsteen — lead vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, harmonica, piano
• Roy Bittan — piano, synthesizer
• Nils Lofgren — rhythm guitar, lead guitar, pedal steel guitar, acoustic guitar, accordion, background vocals
• Patti Scialfa - background vocals, some duet vocals, acoustic guitar, occasional tambourine
• Garry Tallent — bass guitar, background vocals
• Steven Van Zandt — rhythm guitar, lead guitar, background vocals, occasional featured lead vocal
• Max Weinberg — drums

with

• Jake Clemons — saxophone, percussion, background vocals
• Soozie Tyrell — violin, acoustic guitar, percussion, background vocals
• Charles Giordano — organ, accordion, electronic glockenspiel, rare piano, occasional background vocals

External links

• Bruce Springsteen (Official Site)
• Backstreets.com Tour Info & Setlists