Bruce Springsteen - 1978-12-31 - Cleveland, OH (SBD)

Bruce Springsteen 

& The E Street Band 

1978-12-31

Richfield Coliseum

Cleveland, OH

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Badlands

02. Streets Of Fire

03. Rendezvous

04. Spirit In The Night

05. Darkness On The Edge Of Town

06. Independence Day

07. The Promised Land

08. Prove It All Night

09, Pretty Flamingo

10. Thunder Road

11. Jungleland

12. The Ties That Bind

13. Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town

14. The Fever

15. Fire

16. Candy's Room

17. Because The Night

18. "Happy New Year!"

19. Rave On

20. Auld Lane Syne

21. Good Rockin' Tonight

22. "Firecracker Incident"

23. Point Blank

24. Mona > She's The One > I Get Mad

25. Backstreets

26. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)

27. Born To Run*

28. The Detroit Medley*

29. 10th Avenue Freeze Out*

30. Quarter To Three*

*audience source

Bruce Springsteen - 1978-12-31 - Cleveland, OH (SBD)

1978 - On May 23, 1978, Bruce Springsteen launched a 115 show tour that would last through the end of the year in support of his new album, Darkness On The Edge Of Town, which was released on June 2. Darkness was Springsteen’s first disc since Born To Run In 1975; the 3 years wait the result of a legal battle with his former manager, Mike Appel. All 10 songs from the album found their way into the Bruce’s set list at some point during the tour, with Badlands taking the prominent role of show opener. Perhaps the long wait for the album had increased the level of emotion among Bruce’s loyal fans, as the shows on this tour are often described as intense. Springsteen biographer Dave Marsh wrote, for example, “The screaming intensity of those '78 shows are part of rock and roll legend in the same way as Dylan's 1966 shows with the Band, the Rolling Stones' tours of 1969 and 1972, and the Who's Tommy tour of 1969: benchmarks of an era.” This soundboard recording captures Bruce on the final night of 1978, in Cleveland on December 31, 1978, 43 years ago today. Unfortunately The energy generated duirng the tour, however, got a bit out of hand during this show. Followinga cover of Elvis Presley’s "Good Rockin’ Tonight," someone in the crowd threw a firecracker onstage. It glanced off Springsteen’s face and then exploded. Fortunately, he was only slightly cut, with a bandage under his right eye marking where he got hit. Ironically, after asking the crowd to please not throw anything lese, Bruce launched into the song Point Blank.