Springsteen repeatedly says "Hello, Ohio" at Michigan concert

Well the night was like any other, I got a call 'bout quarter to nine
There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line
Bruce Springsteen, "Highway Patrolman," 1982.

There was trouble for Bruce Springsteen north of the Ohio line in suburban Detroit last night, as the Detroit Free Press croons. And "that call" about trouble came from "Little Stevie."

A little geography snafu couldn't keep Michigan from being rocked by Bruce Springsteen.

The iconic rocker greeted his Palace of Auburn Hills audience Friday night with a hearty "Hello, Ohio!" -- a reference he repeated several times over the next half hour before catching his mistake, with what appeared to be a whispered assist from guitarist Steven Van Zandt.

"I'm all right," said the grinning Springsteen, who remained visibly self-conscious about the slip. "That is every front man's nightmare."

Bob Seger, a Detroit rocker who was a rival of Springsteen in the '70s and early '80s, would not have made that mistake.

Next week Ohio State travels to Ann Arbor to play their bitter gridiron rival, Michigan.

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