Springsteen on Jimmy Fallon, 2/27/12

The performance was, quite honestly, amazing.

It was amazing because they are clearly rehearsed within an inch of their life, and everyone looks good and healthy and strong and the playing is strong. I predict the usual start-of-tour roughness we are all accustomed to will just plain old not exist in the early shows.

We got routed to the platform on stage left, in the front row right above Roy. As anyone who has ever read my show reports previously will already know, that is the location we a...