I was anxious to check out Ministry and Meshuggah last night. (More on that in my next post.) So we sent film critic Soren Andersen to check out last night's biggest ticket, Bruce Springsteen, last night at KeyArena. And apparently he liked what he saw and heard. Here is part of his take:

No opening act. No introduction. No nonsense.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band got right down to business after a late start Saturday night at Seattle’s KeyArena. Taking the stage at 8:35, an hour later than the concert’s scheduled start time, they tore through five songs before the Boss paused and shouted “Good evening!” to the ecstatic capacity crowd.

The band jumped straight into “Trapped” and followed up with “Radio Nowhere,” “No Surrender,” “Lonesome Day” and Gypsy Biker,” with Springsteen racing to the back of the stage to grab a new guitar at the end of each number and then rushing back to the front to launch into the next song.

The musical mix of the opening set the agenda for the evening, in which the group performed more than two dozen songs, almost half from the band’s latest album, “Magic.” There would be new anthems from “Magic.” The driving “Radio Nowhere,” with its lyrics “I want a thousand guitars, I want pounding drums, I want a million different voices speaking in tongues,” set the table for the much darker, despairing but still pulsing “Living in the Future” an hour later.

Read the rest here.