New for 2023: Audio for 1975 and 1980
1968: Earth plays to their largest crowd yet at the Crystal Ballroom in New York City’s Hotel Diplomat, but the show almost doesn’t happen. One week out, not even 100 tickets had been sold for this fundraiser in an 1,800-seat ballroom, but the administration of Ocean County College contributed funds and transportation to help drive attendance and support their students who organized the event.
1973: Bruce and the E Street Band play two shows on their second of four nights at The Main Point in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
1975: On their second of a four-night stand at Philadelphia’s Tower Theater, Bruce and the band open with a new arrangement of “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” and play “Sha La La” for the last time for 34 years.
1978: Bruce opens Night Two in Pittsburgh on the Darkness Tour with a world premiere: the as-yet-unreleased and still work-in-progress “Ramrod.”
1980: Christmas may be over, but you’d never know it in Uniondale. Bruce opens his three-night, year-closing stand at the Nassau Coliseum by playing “Merry Christmas Baby” for the very first time. And that’s not the only world premiere at this show–toward the end of the first set, Bruce debuts his cover of “This Land is Your Land.” In the second set, Flo and Eddie guest star on “Hungry Heart.” “Because the Night” and “Hungry Heart” from this show will be officially released six years from now on Live 1975-85. This show is available as part of Bruce’s official archive series–get it here.
1983: Bruce makes a surprise appearance at La Bamba’s Holiday Hurrah benefit show for the Monmouth County chapter of Big Brothers.
1998: Bruce joins Mike Ness in the studio in Los Angeles, lending his vocals and guitar on “Misery Loves Company.”
2008: Bruce releases “Life Itself,” the second advance single from his upcoming Working on a Dream.
2017: Patti Scialfa is sick with the flu, so Bruce continues playing the “B” setlist at Springsteen on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theater in New York City.
