At least one member of my family has been going to Bruce Springsteen concerts for literally half a century.

My father visited him in the early 1970s, before Max Weinberg took his familiar place behind the drums and more than a decade before the album “Born in the USA” made him a household name.

And even at over 70, Springsteen still knows how to put on a show.

On his second night at PPG Paints Arena, The Boss played many of the same songs, but certainly not all of them. Opening with Weinberg’s wild hi-hat cymbals, they started the show differently with “Candy’s Room,” followed by a thumping “Adam Raised A Cain.” Both are from his record “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” which played a big part in Sunday’s set.

The E Street Band has always been a powerhouse with three guitars and two keyboards, but today it’s a complete wall of sound with a horn section, violinist Soozie Tyrell, drummer Anthony Almonte, saxophonist Jake Clemons and four backing singers who really turn the concert into a kind of rock ‘n’ roll church at times.

And Springsteen knows exactly how to play the rock reverend and keeps the energy high during a three-hour show without a break.

After the two “Darkness” openers, the band turned to more recent material with “Ghost” from 2020 and “Death to My Hometown” from 2012’s “Wrecking Ball” before returning to the title track of “Darkness” as well as “The Promised Land” and “Spirit in the Night”.

My father wanted to see Springsteen when he was a young, hungry rocker in a knit cap playing at the old Stanley Theater. I went to several shows with him, but this is the first time my son has come along, and with him three generations of Boss fans. (Note: It may be premature to call my son a fan yet; his main impression was, “Man, that’s real loudDad.” And he wasn’t wrong. Advances in audio technology have not made rock music in halls any less hard on the ears.)

The middle section of the show was similar to Thursday’s – the hard rock doom of “Youngstown” … the already funky “E Street Shuffle” capped off by an even funkier cover of the Commodores’ “Nightshift” … a sparse, acoustic “Last Man Standing” – but instead of returning to “Darkness” with “Racing in the Streets,” the PPG crowd got a wild, upbeat “Mary’s Place.”

The five-song sequence to close the main set was the same as Thursday night’s and rounds out the shows on this tour in a strong way, opening with the pounding “She’s the One” and culminating in the sing-along one-two punch of “Badlands” and “Thunder Road.”

Sunday’s crowd got much of the same encore, though “Glory Days” was substituted for Thursday’s performance of “Bobby Jean.” And Springsteen brought Pittsburgh’s own Joe Grushecky onstage to end the encore with the full band of “Twist and Shout” before closing with a solo of “I’ll See You in My Dreams.”

My dad, who is a few years older than Springsteen, had a certain twinkle in his eye during some of my favorite songs. After seeing this guy on stage for 50 years in Pittsburgh (and once in Cleveland and Atlanta), he knows one of those times will be the last.

Playing music for three hours straight is not easy for anyone. For a 74-year-old who is constantly running from one end of the stage to the other, it is sometimes hard to believe what he is seeing. But one thing is clear: everyone in the band is still having a lot of fun.

And when Springsteen turned on all the lights for the encore, it was clear that the 19,000 people in the PPG Paints Arena were having their own fun.