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1968: The Castiles play their final gig ever, one last show at Le Teendezvous in New Shrewsbury, New Jersey. Bruce has already assembled a new band, which will come to be known as Earth.
1972: Bruce continues his solo stand (the second of six nights) opening for Dave Van Ronk at Max’s Kansas City in New York. At one of these shows, Bruce opens with “Henry Boy” and closes with “Growin’ Up,” and both are captured on video by Barry Rebo.
1974: Bruce cancels a scheduled gig in Port Chester, New York to make room for ongoing Born to Run recording sessions.
1975: There’s a before and an after with Bruce’s career, and both pivot around Bruce’s legendary residency at New York’s Bottom Line. This is the last before show at the Allen Theater in Cleveland. Bruce closes the show with a solo piano tour premiere of “For You” — a quiet end to this phase of Bruce’s career.
1978: Bruce and the E Street Band take the Darkness Tour to the Community War Memorial in Rochester. Listen to the boys open the second set with “Sweet Little Sixteen” below.
1982: Bruce (along with most of the E Street Band and Asbury Jukes) attends and performs at the wedding of Southside Johnny Lyon and Jill Glasner.
1992: Bruce wraps up the eleven-night World Tour 1992 stand at the Meadowlands in style, opening with an acoustic “Sherry Darling” (with only Roy as accompaniment) and the only tour performance of “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight).” Steve Van Zandt joins the band for “Glory Days” and “Darlington County.”
Entertainment Tonight airs a segment covering the end of the marathon run of shows. Here it is, with footage from tonight’s show:
1995: Bruce makes a guest appearance at Cheers in Long Branch for the second time in a week, this time with Solar Circus at a Jerry Garcia tribute concert.
1996: After practicing with the band the night prior, Bruce joins local band The Fanatics for six songs at Toby Scott’s wedding in Whitefish, Montana, including “Hold On, I’m Comin’,” and “Long Tall Sally.”
2002: Night Two on the Rising Tour is pretty similar to opening night. At the MCI Center in Washington, DC, Bruce drops “Two Hearts” and replaces it with the tour premiere of “Bobby Jean.”
2005: Bruce (with Evan in tow as guitar tech) takes the summer leg of his solo acoustic tour into its home stretch in the Pacific Northwest, starting with this gorgeous set in Portland. Bruce opens with the tour premiere of “Soul Driver” (played here for the first and only time since the 1992-93 tour to date) and plays beautiful renditions of “Valentine’s Day,” “One Step Up,” and “Two Hearts” as well. For more highlights from this show, see my Where the Band Was report.
2018: Springsteen on Broadway continues its theatrical run at the Walter Kerr Theater in New York City. In attendance tonight: Carole King.
