Bruce Springsteen - 1984-06-21 - Lancaster PA (SBD)

Bruce Springsteen

1984-06-21

The Village Nightclub

Lancaster, PA

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included          

01. Out In The Street

02. Prove It All Night

03. Glory Days

04. Hungry Heart

05. Dancing In The Dark

06. Rosalita   

Bruce Springsteen - 1984-06-21 - Lancaster PA (SBD)

On June 29, 1984, Bruce Springsteen launched the Born In The USA tour in support of the album of the same name, a 156 show extravaganza that ran until October 5, 1985. The album went to #1 on the Billboard charts and stayed in the top 10 for the duration if the entire tour. Robert Christgau gave the album an A+ grade, ranking it as the best disc of 1984. Rolling Stone gave it a 5 star review, and would eventually rank it as #85 on its list of the 500 best albums of all time. The video for Dancing In The Dark, the first single from the album, received extensive airplay on MTv which helped propel it to the #2 position on the Billboard singles charts. In all, the album would yield seven top 10 singles. The tour, which featured Nils Lofgren on guitar in place of Miami Steve Van Zandt, who had left the E-Street Band to pursue a solo career. The 1985 leg of the tour marked the first time Springsteen played outdoor stadiums, including his first 6 shows at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford NJ. Today’s soundboard, however, goes back about a week before the madness and mania of the Born In The USA tour. On June 21, 1984, 3 decades ago this very day, Bruce and the E-Streeters stopped in on a small club called the Village in Lancaster PA for an unannounced, half hour warm up show. Only about 500 people were in the club, a far cry from the 50,000 plus crowds that filled stadiums across the US during the tour’s Closing Leg.