Bruce Springsteen - 1978-09-21 - Capitol Theatre, Passaic NJ (SBD)

Bruce Springsteen

& The E Street Band

1978-09-21

Capitol Theatre

Passaic, NJ

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Introduction

02. High School Confidential

03. Badlands

04. Spirit In The Night

05. Darkness On The Edge of Town

06. Sweet Little Sixteen

07. Independence Day

08. The Promised Land

09. Prove It All Night

10. Racing in the Street

11. Thunder Road

12. Meeting Across The River

13. Jungleland

14. Set Outro

15. Set Intro

16. Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town

17. Fire

18. Candy's Room

19. Because The Night

20. Point Blank

21. Kitty's Back

22. The Fever

23. Incident On 57th Street

24. Rosalita

25. Born To Run

26. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out

27. Quarter To Three

Bruce Springsteen - 1978-09-21 - Capitol Theatre, Passaic NJ (SBD)

1970s - #3: On August 23, 1978. I saw Bruce Springsteen for the first time, a show that was part of  Bruce's first run headlining at Madison Square Garden. While the Boss had become a big enough draw to fill 20,000 seat arenas, he was still at a point in his career where he could also play smaller venues. For example, in the late fall of that year, he played a host of college campuses, including the November 1, 1978 show from Princeton posted on this blog. Prior to that, he spent 6 nights at two of the NY/NJ areas most famous small concert theaters, the Palladium on September 15 to 17 and the Capitol on September 19 to 21. Perhaps inspired by being on home turf in venues where he could almost touch his audience, Bruce was at the top of his game for those half dozen shows. This soundboard recording captures the last night at the Capitol,, on September 21, 1978, 44 years ago today,  Note - while it looks like the September 19 and 20 shows have been officailly released, as far as I can tell, this one has not been!