Can I dub this month Boss-tober? Okay, I will. Hey everybody, it’s Boss-tober!

The Boss is back where he belongs, on the cover of the latest Rolling Stone. I hope I’m looking that badass when I’m closing in on 60. There should be a “badass” pill 20 years down the road, right? Somewhere in a far-off laboratory, there’s some pretty badass mice or monkeys strutting about. In 20 years, it’s our turn. Who knows, maybe I won’t need the pill.

So the new issue has some cool features:

• An interview.
• A vintage photo gallery.
• A Springsteen RS cover gallery.

And of course the tour is just getting started, and is really revving it up. The Boss & Band took Chicago by storm the last couple of nights (21st and 22nd). He busted out some tasty tour premieres last night: “Tunnel of Love”, “Spirit in the Night”, and “Thunder Road”. The latter was a request from a young boy in the crowd who was holding up a sign. I guess the video screens were zoomed in on the kid during the song. Now there’s a story of a lifetime.

Check out the set list from Monday night, and listen in on the tour premieres…

October 22, 2007
Chicago, Illinois
United Center

Radio Nowhere
Prove It All Night
Lonesome Day
Gypsy Biker
Magic
Reason To Believe
Candy’s Room
She’s The One
Livin’ In The Future
The Promised Land
Tunnel Of Love (Tour Premiere)
Spirit In The Night (Tour Premiere)
Darlington County
Devil’s Arcade
The Rising
Last To Die
Long Walk Home
Badlands
Thunder Road (Tour Premiere)
Born To Run
Dancing In The Dark
American Land