Photos: The Boss performs at a free outdoor concert in Philadelphia in support of Obama

[Hope And Change]

Sat Oct 4, 4:55 PM ET
Bruce Springsteen performs at a free outdoor concert in support of Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and in a push for voter registration in downtown Philadelphia Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)



Sat Oct 4, 5:03 PM ET
Bruce Springsteen performs at a free outdoor concert in support of Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and in a push for voter registration in downtown Philadelphia Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)



Sat Oct 4, 5:07 PM ET
Bruce Springsteen performs to tens of thousands of people at a free outdoor concert in support of Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and in a push for voter registration, in downtown Philadelphia Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008.(AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)



Sat Oct 4, 5:17 PM ET
Bruce Springsteen performs for tens of thousands of people at a free outdoor concert in support of Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and in a push for voter registration, in downtown Philadelphia Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008.(AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)



Sat Oct 4, 5:18 PM ET
Bruce Springsteen performs to tens of thousands of people at a free outdoor concert in support of Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and in a push for voter registration, in downtown Philadelphia Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008.(AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)



Sat Oct 4, 5:21 PM ET
Bruce Springsteen performs to tens of thousands of people at a free outdoor concert in support of Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and in a push for voter registration, in downtown Philadelphia Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008.(AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)



Sat Oct 4, 5:29 PM ET
Tens of thousands of people watch Bruce Springsteen perform at a free outdoor concert in support of Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and in a push for voter registration, in downtown Philadelphia Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008.(AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)



Sat Oct 4, 5:34 PM ET
Bruce Springsteen acknowledges the audience at a free outdoor concert in support of Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and in a push for voter registration in downtown Philadelphia Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)



Sat Oct 4, 5:37 PM ET
Bruce Springsteen waves to the audience at a free outdoor concert in support of Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and in a push for voter registration in downtown Philadelphia Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008.
(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)



Sat Oct 4, 5:45 PM ET
Bruce Springsteen performs to tens of thousands of people at a free outdoor concert in support of Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and in a push for voter registration, in downtown Philadelphia Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008.(AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)



Sat Oct 4, 5:46 PM ET
Bruce Springsteen performs at a free outdoor concert in support of Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and in a push for voter registration in downtown Philadelphia Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

[BeyondGeography]

1. Powerful stuff

K&R

[babylonsister]

2. Look at that crowd! I hope every last one is an Obama supporter! nt

[cyberpj]

13. I hope every last one votes! nt

[LynneSin]

29. Everyone was Obama supporters - they said they registered thousands of new voters today

I got some Obamagear but they didn't have the t-shirt I wanted. But I did buy a bootleg T-shirt because it was a nice memory of the concert. I'll stash that way for history.

[Bennyboy]

3. Nice....

It was a sweet set too. Hoping the YouTubes pop up soon....

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

4. Look at that crowd!

[phillysuse]

5. It was great! Just got home - the Boss was great

Ended with This Land is Your Land.

Your pics are great!

Crowd very diverse.

Casey was good and even Fast Eddie Rendell came through for Barack.

[BrklynLiberal]

55. Wow. How great it must have been to be there!!!

[sonias]

59. You lucky, lucky person

I love Bruuuucceee! I'm happy you were there.

Come on PA show Obama some love and turn out the vote.


:bounce:
:bounce:
:bounce:

Sonia

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. Dayummmm! Look at the size of that crowd!....k&r (nt)

:kick:

[RagAss]

7. The Boss !!!!!

[flpoljunkie]

8. Wow! K&R!

[Mabus]

9. Thanks to DU'er rhombus I was able to watch from home

Both my husband and I watched.

K&R

[OKNancy]

10. I think his "speech" was almost as good as the singing

It really wasn't a speech as much as words of wisdom.
He was so inspiring.

[horseshoecrab]

47. Agreed!

I loved his speech too. He was simply eloquent.

horseshoecrab

[nam78_two]

11. Holy shit-look at the size of that crowd

:bounce:
Gobama!

[BumRushDaShow]

12. If the crowd extended all the way to the Art Museum

then that's about 5 blocks worth of people. The Parkway is 12 car lanes wide (including the parking lanes) and has good-sized medians separating the local traffic lanes from the express lanes in the center. Can't tell if people were there in the street behind the stage but if they were, they could have stretched a few more blocks to 17th St. That is City Hall behind him in the shots with the tower, which is about 5 blocks SE of where the stage was.

Great turnout and a great day for this! :applause:

[Barack_America]

19. It extended about halfway to the Art Museum, but also spilled over into the green spaces...

On either side of the parkway (you're not seeing those people in this picture).

I'm a really bad estimate of crowd sizes, but Philly.com puts the estimate at 50,000 in this chat.

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/brucelivechat.html

[Phx_Dem]

14. He looks goooooood! And I'll bet he sounded even better.

I wouldn't know, personally, since the asshole cable music channels didn't feel like getting their off their lazy asses to broadcast the Boss.

[polichick]

15. Awesome sight! What's the crowd estimate, I wonder.

[Barack_America]

16. Hey! We just got back from the show!

I'm going to eat some dinner, then I'll work on uploading a couple of pics.

:hi:

[vaberella]

17. Look at all the Obama supporters and McCain thinks he still has a chance. n/t

[Barack_America]

21. Apparently the fire marshall made an estimate of 50,000.

And 21,000 new volunteers signed up with the campaign to get priority tickets.

:wow:

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/brucelivechat.html

[vaberella]

24. Are you fuckin' kidding me?! I still don't want to call "win"...but damnit..I'm tempted.

Wow..that's amazing news.
Oh the link you gave me doesn't work. Here's this one, I hopeit's the same: http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/30461149.html

Oh and the campaign were paying the tab for damages so people can come out and vote. Wicked cool. The freepers were there bashing thinking that the tax payers were picking up the tab. But the article clearly said the O-Team was paying for it...they got stuffed. I love when these assholes eat their own shit.

:kick:

[Barack_America]

26. Sorry, I forgot to mention you have to hit "replay" on the chat....

And then scroll through it. I couldn't find an official article with the info in it yet.

[stillcool]

wow..Sarah Palin had more at her rally?

didn't they say 60,000?

[Barack_America]

40. Lol. I'm pretty sure that 60,000 was the size of the town...

I have a hard time believing every last person went to her rally.

[Cha]

18. That's a lovely sight!

Thank you so much, Springsteen!

[Neecy]

20. Awesome photos.

Thanks for posting!

[Marnieworld]

22. I was there!

It was awesome! Bruce was awesome! Amos Lee performed as well and was awesome! I love Obama people!
:patriot:
I have horrible sunburn. :cry:

[LynneSin]

28. I was lucky - I was in the shade

I could just see Bruce's head between the bigscreen TV and the building that was holding it.

A better way to say it was I was near Puerto Rico (they have all the flags from around the world along Ben Franklin Parkway)

[Marnieworld]

30. It was my sacrifice to be super close

I can actually pick out my head in one of those AP photos. I was about 3-4 people away from being in the front row of the "blue ticket" sections, close to the VIP section.The TV screen was way behine me. I was there since 11am trying to volunteer but they didn't need me. I'm fair-skinned and normally I am religious about sunscreen but I thought since the forecast was cloudy that I'd be ok. Never again.

But it was so worth it. That was such a beautiful version of Thunder Road. His voice sounded perfect. His speech, totally off the cuff was so brilliant and so heartfelt and so perfect. It was like a group prayer with Bruce for close to an hour. And the songs he picked were just appropriate and I appreciated his poetry in a whole new way. I was tempted not to go this morning (I live 80 miles away and I had to do it alone unfortunately) but I am so glad I did. I was so jealous of the people who saw him campaign for Kerry that I knew I'd kick myself if I didn't. I just wish I got a shirt. I'll check on ebay tomorrow.

[LynneSin]

31. Are you doing any volunteering in Philadelphia?

My old campaign buddy moved to florida and I'm trying to find out if other DUers are working in Philly.

[Marnieworld]

32. I live 80 miles north of the city

I am volunteering in Luzerne and Carbon County. Today I was alone and I met so many nice people while we were waiting I bet you can meet other campaign buddies. Philly's a great city, I lived there for a few years. I have seen your screenname for years but I don't remember ever knowing that you were in PA? Small world.

[LynneSin]

33. I use to be Bucks County before 2000 but now I'm in Wilmington Delaware

Joe lives about 5-10 miles down the road from me

[Marnieworld]

34. I used to live that close to Bruce in NJ

Small world. :D

[windbreeze]

44. I used to live and work in that exact area right there...

used to sit at that fountain in the foreground, and visit Ben Franklin institute frequently...haven't been there since 1988...there is no place like Philly...NO PLACE...wb

[RollWithIt]

23. Any video available yet??? Would love to see it... nt

[LynneSin]

36. Enjoy!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x206566

[jenmito]

25. HUGE crowd-looks almost bigger than the crowd of "60,000" Palin got in FL!

Funny that this is the ONLY photo of the crowd of "60,000" people:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/21/palins-florida-debut-draws-thousands/?eref=ib_politicalticker

Most articles about this event just show a pic of her at the podium:

http://cmsimg.news-press.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=A4&Date=20080921&Category=NEWS0107&ArtNo=80921022&Ref=AR&MaxW=180&Border=0 (I can't get the pic to come up)
http://news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080921/NEWS0107/80921022

[LynneSin]

35. I've done several concerts on the Ben Franklin parkway

and that crowd can easily go over 100,000. You have to realize what they do count is those of us who were inside the barriers but there were even more circling the concert area outside of the barriers. In fact some estimates of Live 8 back in 2005 had the numbers over 1 million (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_8#Philadelphia.2C_USA)

Now, I doubt that 1 million people were at that event but looking at the pictures I think we hit close to 100K.

[jenmito]

37. I believe you...

I was being sarcastic. It's so "funny" that the media never talks about the size of Obama's crowds anymore but keep inflating Palin's numbers.

[barbtries]

51. looks more like 1000

if that :rofl:

i make me so mad when i get immature. on the other hand, fuck her and that ridiculous old man she rode in on.

[LynneSin]

27. If you look behind the big screen on the

My friend couldn't make it so I opted to go by myself and I'm so glad I did. It was a great concert and if you haven't seen the video of the speech Bruce did before he played "The Rising" it was amazing to listen to.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x206566

[me b zola]

38. ...

:loveya:

[Forkboy]

39. Not a fan of his music much...

(I like the lyrics usually, just not my bag music wise)..but he's a very cool guy. Glad he's on our side.

[AyanEva]

41. I was there!

lol I was somewhere in that crowd! I managed to snag a blue ticket, so I was towards the front.
See the jumbotron in the third pic? Yeah, I was just behind that. Great photos!


*goes back to lurking*

[Marnieworld]

43. Lurk schmurk

Post some more when you can. DU is more fun that way. :hi:

[AyanEva]

49. Well I would but...

In all honesty, I really only lurk regularly during elections so I can keep up with everything that's going on. This place is a great news source but the infighting and name calling that seems to go on discourages me from actually participating and eventually I just leave again. :/

There's really good stuff here but the drama resembles Live Journal; the difference being that I expect it on LJ.

That said, I do enjoy 80% of the things that are posted.

[Bennyboy]

42. Here's the whole show....

http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/36798/5m/cbslocalimg.dayport.com/htm/DayPortCBSPlayer.html?categoryID=5,222,214,215,218,216,221,217,8,6,225,7,220,210,219,223,238,239,234,247&limit=10&articleID=[e-mail]&adInsertionInterval=2&bannerAdConDefID=11&defaultPreviewImage=http%3A//cdn.dayport.com/vlnimg/img/PartnerPlayer/samplepreviewimage.jpg&domain=kyw.dayport.com&imageDomain=cdn.dayport.com/kywimg&limit_default=10&conDefID=5&videoAdObjectID=10&logoAdConDefID=4&logoAdObjDefID=9&hitboxAccountID=DM5307031CNM&hitboxDomain=cbs3.com&siteName=KYW%20TV&callLetters=KYW&isLiveStream=true&version=20071003#

[TheDonkey]

45. awesome! nm

[FVZA_Colonel]

46. He's still America's Blue Collar Rocker.

And he always will be. Damn glad to see him out there.

[Median Democrat]

48. Wow, That's Is Awesome, We May Actually Win This!

I still think corporate media will really start going 24/7 with free distribution of McCain's attack ads, but we may have a shot.

[barbtries]

50. great pictures!

so many people! i got chills looking at them

[Marnieworld]

52. The entire set is online here

http://cbs3.com/video

Scroll through the thumbnails to "WEB EXTRA- Springsteen Acoustic Set" to find it. The sound cuts out for a few minutes in the beginning but hang in there- it comes back.

[sonias]

60. Thank you!

Great find.


Sonia

[stuntcat]

53. WOW

Look at the crowd, omg Bruce ROCKS. Thank you for these!

[BrklynLiberal]

54. Great pics!! Bruce looks great..that crowd is amazing!!!!

[DebbieCDC]

56. I loves me some Boss!

Gobama, Biden and Bruce :loveya:

[L. Coyote]

57. In a true democracy, the act of voting should suffice for registration!

REC #48

[No Elephants]

58. Free concert . And people wonder why I love Dems so much.

[maxpower]

61. Love the Boss

Kick