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Bruce Springsteen
& The E Street Band
1978-08-23
Madison Square Garden
New York, NY
Audience Recording
192 kbps
Artwork Included
01. High School Confidential
02. Badlands
03. Streets Of Fire
04. Spirit In The Night
05. Darkness On The Edge Of Town
06. Heartbreak Hotel
07. Factory
08. The Promised Land
09. Prove It All Night
10. Racing In The Street
11. Thunder Road
12. Jungleland
13. For You
14. Candy's Room
15. Adam Raised A Cain
16. Fire
17. Sherry Darlin'
18. 4th July Asbury Park (Sandy)
19. Not Fade Away > She's The One
20. Saint In The City
21. Backstreets > Sad Eyes
22. Rosalita
23. Born To Run
24. Because The Night
25. Quarter To Three
On August 23, 1978, 4 dozen years ago today, as captured in this some times excellent, some times very good audience recording, I saw Bruce Springsteen for the first time, which was just the 11th concert I had ever attended up to that point. For Bruce, it was his first time headlining at Madison Square Garden. Springsteen had just recently released the album Darkness On The Edge Of Town, his first disc since 1975's Born to Run, the 3 year gap resulting from a long legal battle with his former manager. The songs on Darkness were leaner than his previous work, and began to reflect his growing social and political awareness. The tour was critical for Bruce, therefore, as he needed to gauge if his new material would resonate with fans and if his live shows would translate to 20,000 seat arenas. The August 23 show I attended was the last of his 3 nights at MSG, and to paraphrase the late, great, John Lennon, lets just say Bruce "passed the audition". Since that show, I've seen Springsteen headline 8 more times - another concert in 1978, then in 1984, 1985, 1988, twice in 1992, and then twice more in 2003. I also saw him as a guest of Sir Paul McCartney in both 2017 and 2022. That's 11 times I've seen him on stage across 6 decades!
7 comments:
Hi Speedy. Thanks so much for this concert. My first Bruce concert came a few years later during the "Born In the USA" tour, but I think this song set is about as good as can be found. You are very kind indeed. I enjoy your posts every day. Please keep up the great work.
Iggymo
Thanks for the kind words. I appreciate all the comments that folks like yourself post!
Thanks Speedy. Great show. Some of your older posts for Bruce have outdated links. Forget which ones now but would have to be able to hear them if you have timne to re-up as all the Bruce E Street shows here are really great.
Thanks for the kind words. Sorry but I just don't have time to go back through every show to see if the links are still up. But if you find one that is down and and leave a comment under the post, I'll be glad to re-up it.
Could you re-up this show? 1978 was my favorite Bruce & Co tour (I saw the Houston show, which I'm looking for). I attended the Stones a few week earlier and it was no contest (then again, that was my least favorite Stones tour). Thanks for all of your sweet work!
new link is up - enjoy
thanks for this show and all your hard work...regards
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