"...something in remembrance of Danny" - Nugs/Live Archives drops the 2nd 2008 Federici-focused show
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April 11, 2025
This month's "First Friday" archival Nugs live-recording release actually has ended up being a "Second Friday" release, due to last week's big Tracks II announcement. But that's especially appropriate, in a way, because Amway Arena, Orlando, FL, April 23, 2008 was the second concert that Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band performed with a focus on their recently fallen comrade, the late, great "Phantom" Dan Federici, after Danny passed on April 17, 2008. (The first concert they performed after Danny's death was released in the archival Nugs live-recordings series as St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, FL, April 22, 2008 back in 2019.)
As was the case with the first Federici-focused show in Tampa on the previous evening, the Orlando show opened with what Springsteen called "something in remembrance of Danny." It was a rare performance of "Blood Brothers," made even rarer by it being performed in the hard-rocking Greatest-Hits-sessions outtake version first released on the 1996 Blood Brothers CD-EP included with the VHS home-video release of Ernie Fritz's film Blood Brothers: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
Other highlights of this great Magic Tour show included extra-intense versions of three Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ songs - "Spirit In The Night," "Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?," and "Lost In The Flood" - scattered throughout the set "for Dan," as Bruce said when introducing the first Greetings... song of the evening. Later, during the encores, The Byrds' Roger McGuinn joined Springsteen and the E Street Band for back-to-back performances of The Byrds' classic arrangements of "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)" and "Mr. Tambourine Man."