“Everybody gets a little nervous when their boss shows up for work, right?” Brandon Flowers asked the crowd as The Killers closed out their show at Madison Square Garden on Friday. The band then brought out The Boss himself, Bruce Springsteen, who joined in for an epic 3-song encore which included Springteen’s ‘Badlands’, ‘Dustland Fairytale’, and ‘Born to Run’.
Flowers has always evoked some spiritual kinship lyrically to Springsteen’s working class Jersey emo vibes in his work with the Killers. This combo felt like peanut butter and chocolate. Imagine being at this show and you get Bruce as a surprise too? That has to be a really fantastic thing to take in live.
