My grown daughter is at her first Springsteen concert on the other side of the country right this very moment, he's playing the shit out of the Darkness / River catalog, and I'm thinking back to a May afternoon in 1984, walking my paper route and listening to the just-released Dancing in the Dark on my Sony FM Walkman and I just had no idea in the world about the staying power this man would have.
@ct_bergstrom
Know two people who went last night who have been to multiple shows on the tour. There are a lot of complaints about the static nature of the setlist but they have loved them all regardless. It is his capacity to make even the same setlist amazing that accounts for the staying power you are talking about.