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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have announced their “Wrecking Ball” tour schedule for 2012 for the first Springsteen concerts without Clarence Clemons. The 2012 Bruce Springsteen tour will kick off in the US on March 18 at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia and will hit several cities for multiple nights including The Wells Fargo Center, the Izod Center and Madison Square Garden.

This is only the first leg of the US Bruce Springsteen tour and the second leg of the tour should be added after the European tour finishes up in late July. Bruce Springsteen tickets go on sale to the general public from January 28 through February 4th.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will release a new album “Wrecking Ball” on March 6 and will be touring in support of that album. The first single for the album is out and it’s called “We Take Care of Our Own” and will be one of many performed live along with hits from the past Bruce Springsteen albums. Bruce Springsteen tickets can be found at the usual outlets and premium seats for Bruce Springsteen will be on sale at Preferred Seating Tickets.

2012 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band US Tour Dates

March 18 – Atlanta, GA – Philips Arena (on sale Feb 4)
March 19 – Greensboro, NC – Greensboro Coliseum (on sale Feb 3)
March 23 – Tampa, FL – Tampa Bay Times Forum (on sale Jan 28)
March 26 – Boston, MA – TD Garden (on sale Jan 28)
March 28 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center (on sale Jan 28)
March 29 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center (on sale Jan 28)
April 1 – Washington, DC – Verizon Center (on sale Jan 28)
April 3 – East Rutherford, NJ – Izod Center (on sale Jan 27)
April 4 – East Rutherford, NJ – Izod Center (on sale Jan 27)
April 6 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden (on sale Jan 27)
April 9 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden (on sale Jan 27)
April 12 – Detroit, MI – The Palace of Auburn Hills (on sale Jan 28)
April 13 – Buffalo, NY – First Niagara Center (on sale Jan 28)
April 16 – Albany, NY – Times Union Center (on sale Jan 28)
April 17 – Cleveland, OH – Quicken Loans Arena (on sale Jan 28)
April 24 – San Jose, CA – HP Pavilion (on sale Feb 3)
April 26 – Los Angeles, CA – Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena (on sale Feb 3)
April 29 – New Orleans, LA – New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (on sale now)
May 2 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Center (on sale Jan 27)

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have announced European tour dates for 2012 for the first concerts without Clarence Clemons who died earlier this year. The Bruce Springsteen tour will kick off on May 13 in Sevilla, Spain and run through July 27. The US tour dates are rumored to be starting in March with a number of outdoor stadium concerts including Wrigley Field in Chicago.

Bruce Springsteen ticket prices have not been announced yet for the US tour and the on sale date for tickets for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band has not been set yet. Bruce Springsteen last toured in 2009 and was on tour for the four previous years as well but without Clarence Clemons this will be a first for Bruce and the band. Bruce Springsteen tickets and premium seats will be available at PreferredSeat.com.  

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Tour 2012

Cheap concert tickets appear to be getting more common in the secondary market making it tough for Ticketmaster to sell full priced seats at the last minute. Ticket brokers have been dropping prices on a variety of concerts throughout the country including the Bruce Springsteen concerts at Giants Stadium.

It didn’t help that Bruce has a five day run there, but ticket brokers have already cut prices in the upper level to $25 a seat and lower level seats for $50 each for tonight’s Springsteen concert. Concert ticket prices across the country are way down this year and many artists are feeling the pinch including Barry Manilow, Jamie Foxx, Ron White and Rascal Flatts.

In the secondary ticket market, many of these artists are barely selling for face value for the premium seats that used to go for double that. Ticketmaster is having a tough time because customers are turning to ticket brokers to buy these last minute cheap tickets at a discount, usually face value or less for a poor selling artist.

It’s no wonder Ticketmaster is pushing the paperless tickets so they can have a monopoly on the resell of concert tickets. Then there wouldn’t be any competition for last minute tickets because nobody but Ticketmaster would be able to resell the tickets. How often do you get a good deal from a company that has a stranglehold on the market?