{"id":2547,"date":"2007-10-23T10:59:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T15:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2011-07-13T12:09:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T19:09:56","slug":"the-boss-at-the-united-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2547","title":{"rendered":"The Boss at the United Center."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/1719657218\/\" title=\"IMG_8025.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2113\/1719657218_985659d029.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_8025.JPG\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/1719578604\/\" title=\"IMG_7959.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2184\/1719578604_c0cee0eafa.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_7959.JPG\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night I went to see <a title=\"The Boss.\" href=\"http:\/\/brucespringsteen.net\">The Boss<\/a> for the first time and the show was awesome.  I knew a good portion of the songs which was good considering I&#8217;m not a Springsteen fanatic like some one I know.  I opted out of waiting in the rain for the numbered wristbands for the pit but the rest of the floor was still general admission.  My view of the stage was pretty good and besides a douchebag taking photos with his Blackberry all night it was a great spot.  I was surprised by the crowd which was mostly middle aged men.  I figured middle aged but not men.<\/p>\n<p>The sound was great and I got to see <a title=\"Wikipedia:  Clarence Clemons.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clarence_Clemons\">Clarence<\/a> so I can&#8217;t really complain.   The highlight of the night for me was &#8216;<a title=\"Brucespringsteen.net:  Spirit  in the Night.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brucespringsteen.net\/songs\/SpiritInTheNight.html\">Spirit in the Night<\/a>&#8216; which of course reminds me of driving to <a title=\"Black Hand Productions:  Hockey Day in Montreal.\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=1678\">Montreal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the review from the <a title=\"Chicago Tribune:  Brooooooooooooce!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/services\/newspaper\/printedition\/tuesday\/chi-1023edit3oct23,0,3280466.story\">Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/1719540950\/\" title=\"IMG_7968.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2314\/1719540950_e65379ac21_t.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"IMG_7968.JPG\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/1719632068\/\" title=\"IMG_8008.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2296\/1719632068_820ddcfe32_t.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"IMG_8008.JPG\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/1719593100\/\" title=\"IMG_7979.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2215\/1719593100_2056b8ab6d_t.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"IMG_7979.JPG\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/1718702357\/\" title=\"IMG_8024.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2118\/1718702357_4bec351494_t.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"IMG_8024.JPG\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/1719603128\/\" title=\"IMG_7980.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2225\/1719603128_0daa148548_t.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"IMG_7980.JPG\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/1718707673\/\" title=\"IMG_7916.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2384\/1718707673_2c42b65ef4_t.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"IMG_7916.JPG\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/1718716857\/\" title=\"IMG_7952.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2146\/1718716857_8fb467c5f9_t.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"IMG_7952.JPG\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/1719612530\/\" title=\"IMG_8006.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2315\/1719612530_c09481460e_t.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"IMG_8006.JPG\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to see The Boss for the first time and the show was awesome. I knew a good portion of the songs which was good considering I&#8217;m not a Springsteen fanatic like some one I know. I opted out of waiting in the rain for the numbered wristbands for the pit but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[87,348,386],"class_list":["post-2547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-common-man","category-music","tag-chicago","tag-springsteen","tag-united-center"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-F5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5355,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions\/5355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}