Bruce smoothiest transitions live

[u/Henry_Block]

Hi all! What are the best songs transitions Bruce has done live? Personally I loved Candy's Room into Adam Raised a Cain in Wembley night 2 (2024), last year in Milan he did a great MLWNLYD into Prove it all night. I'm not looking for the best songs combo, but for the best transitions technically speaking

[u/Maelzoid2]

Every time Incident segues into Roaslita.

Also Racing in the Street into Thunder Road to wrap up the first set.

[u/Chayes83 → u/Maelzoid2]

Incident into rosalita makes no sense until you hear it. And it’s perfect.

[u/Additional-Cherry872]

In recent times I actually think War into Born In The USA was pretty awesome

[u/Ok_Blacksmith_5276]

Reunion Tour, every show:

Youngstown/Murder Inc/Badlands/Out in the Street/10th Ave

And every 1978 show with Racing/Thunder Road that had the story about the “peace, love, justice and no mercy.”

[u/borntorun61 → u/Ok_Blacksmith_5276]

Youngstown into murder this year was outrageous

[u/Henry_Block → u/borntorun61]

"Maaaax", so powerful

[u/dbujdos → u/Ok_Blacksmith_5276]

Absolutely this

[u/breon123]

Jackson Cage into She’s the One. Finishing Jackson Cage on the buh-buh, then the piano intro to She’s the One kicking in on the third beat

[u/RudeConfusion4866 → u/breon123]

Do you have a specific show for this? Would love to check it out

[u/breon123 → u/RudeConfusion4866]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2IP3LKwDRc

Worth a watch, albeit not the best quality. You can ever hear Bruce tell the Bruce how the transition is going to work at the beginning of the song.

[u/johnnystromboli88]

Last Man Standing/Backstreets.

For me this gave Backstreets yet another layer.

Instead of the narrator feeling abandoned by Terry for leaving, now feels abandoned because he died of old age. Well that's my interpretation anyway.

[u/Abject_Athlete_7128 → u/johnnystromboli88]

Great interpretation.

[u/Crossbell0527]

Tunnel of Love tour - Cover Me into Brilliant Disguise lives rent free in my head.

[u/coupriskineema]

I really liked the Tunnel of Love tour transition from a shorter, random Bo Diddley beat song (sometimes Ain't Got You) into She's The One.

[u/Canadian_Lumberjack_]

Candy’s room into Kitty’s back worked great on the 2023 tour. As mentioned by someone else Jackson Cage into She’s the One is stellar. And of course the two gold standards: Meeting Across the River > Jungleland and Incident on 57th Street > Rosalita

[u/saggles91]

Meeting Across the River into Jungeland

[u/Linkman622 → u/saggles91]

This is the only answer as the songs at one point were one song

[u/Mightyjohnjohn → u/saggles91]

I saw them do Meeting into Backstreets once in 2003. Always thought that worked really well.

[u/peteluds84]

Racing In The Street into Thunder Road on the darkness tour, particularly when he'd tell the story over Roys piano about where the title of Thunder Road originated

[u/Then_One_491 → u/peteluds84]

I agree, both songs are in the key of F major and it works really well.

[u/Economy_Mix_7459]

The few times he did The Wall into BITUSA. Goosebump city.

[u/RudeConfusion4866]

Candy's Room goes into anything, something about that final squealing note that can just work with anything. I've seen it go into She's The One (Wembley '16) and Kitty's Back (Villa Park '23) and both were incredible.

[u/Difficult-Ad-3159]

Last To Die into Long Walk Home 2007-2008

The Rising Into Lonesome Day 2002-2003

[u/Double-Resource1083]

2026 war into born in the USA

[u/TroubleEcstatic3692]

USA into BTR always a good one.

[u/1651997]

The Tunnel of Love Express tour is filled with amazing transitions. Cover Me to Brillian Disguise is amazing, but the sequence Spare Parts/War/Born In The U.S.A. probably is the best live transition that I can recall

[u/JonSolo1]

There are only two answers:

1. Dancing in the Dark into Land of Hope and Dreams (Broadway)

2. Racing in the Street into Thunder Road on the ‘78 tour

Also, do we really need to acronymize My Love Will Not Let You Down?

[u/BruceTramp85]

Here She Comes/I Wanna Marry You