New for 2023: Audio for 1978; video for 1993
1973: Bruce and the E Street Band play their third consecutive night at Fat City in Seaside Heights, New Jersey.
1978: Bruce and the E Street Band bring the Darkness Tour to the Pacific Northwest, starting with a show at the Paramount Theater in Portland.
1984: Bruce and the E Street Band rehearse for their upcoming Born in the U.S.A. Tour at the former site of Big Man’s West in Red Bank, New Jersey. Nils has come down with chronic laryngitis, so Bruce invites Asbury Jukes back-up singer Patti Scialfa to try out as a backing vocalist for the E Street Band.
1989: Bruce sits in with Bobby Bandiera at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park for three songs, including “Under the Boardwalk.”
1993: A momentous night: Bruce and his touring band play a special “Concert to Fight Hunger” at the Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford. Among the many, many guests: Joe Ely, Southside Johnny, The Miami Horns, Steve Van Zandt, Max Weinberg, Patti Scialfa, Soozie Tyrell… and in a thrilling moment: Clarence Clemons, who joins at the perfect moment in “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.” For a brief moment in time, the E Street Band is almost reunited. Watch that moment below, along with news coverage, and then go get the official live recording, available for purchase here.
1999: Night Two in Stockholm on the Reunion Tour.
2006: The Seeger Sessions Tour starts its last American stand at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey.
2007: Bruce performs “If I Should Fall Behind” at a wedding for friends of his in River Vale, New Jersey; he later joins the wedding band for “You Never Can Tell.”
2012: Bruce and the E Street Band headline at the Isle of Wight Festival.
2019: Western Stars debuts at #2 on the Billboard Album chart, just behind Madonna’s Madame X album–the first time Bruce and Madonna have sat atop the chart together since 1985.
2021: Bruce holds a friends-and-family rehearsal show for the return of Springsteen on Broadway at the St. James Theater in New York City.
