The News-Gazette revealed the contents of the 37-page document, which comprises more than 100 specific requests, following the announcement that the Boss had postponed all this year’s remaining shows as he continues treatment for peptic ulcer disease.
After the concert, he wants 16 fresh, cold shrimp "with homemade seafood dip" and two bags of Rold Gold pretzels (no "substitutions" allowed).
Bruce also need a 16-ounce (about half a liter) bottle of hand-squeezed lemon juice, a blender, a toaster, and an electric kettle, as well as six hard-boiled eggs with the yolks removed, peeled and sliced apples, diced watermelon (presumably for summer dates) and four bottles of pear juice from Congo, Clementine and Kula watermelon drinks from Costa Rica.
His wife, Patti Scialfa, asks for three "high fashion magazines" like Vogue, Elle or Vanity Fair – but "no Cosmopolitan-type magazines, please" – in her dressing room, along with a "vase of quality white roses with no filler ” (roses only, no ornamental plants/flowers in the bouquet), a jar of store-bought Martini olives, a fruit basket “includes only bananas, seedless white grapes, green apples, pears,” plus bottles of Belvedere vodka and Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio wine.
His main meal is skinless chicken breast, salmon or tuna with vegetables “sautéed in a little olive oil” and no courgettes.
The band and crew need 408 towels, 21 sofas, 27 dimmable floor lamps and 15 table lamps, 16 non-flowering potted plants, three large and three small refrigerators, 47 upholstered chairs, nine office chairs with wheels and seven full-length mirrors.
“All vehicles must have English-speaking, nonsmoking, COVID-vaccinated drivers,” the rider notes. “Drivers shall remain masked with a mask covering their nose and mouth while Artist’s personnel are in their vehicle. Proof of recent negative COVID test may be required.”
Bruce Springsteen: "When the tour is over, I want to get an ice cream cone at the Jersey Freeze — to walk inside, step up to the counter and say, 'Soft vanilla dipped in chocolate, please.'
In fact, during the height of the COVID-19 shutdowns, he dreamed of a return."
That seems to be his favorite.
“He's usually a vanilla cone with a chocolate dip, a chocolate hard shell, when he comes in. If somebody's with him, it's usually a milkshake," co-owner Matt Cangialosi told the Asbury Park Press at the time.
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