New for 2024: Video for 2017; new entry for 2023
1949: “Mad Dog” Vini Lopez, original E Street Band drummer, is born in Neptune Township, New Jersey.
1970: Bruce and Steel Mill open for the Elvin Bishop Band at The Matrix in San Francisco.
1971: Steel Mill’s last stand, the first of two nights at The Upstage in Asbury Park. Late in the show, the band makes a PSA to support The Upstage, and Bruce talks about how hard it’s been finding gigs thanks to the Clearwater incident from last summer.
1972: Bruce and the Sundance Blues Band open for Ruby Falls and the Rock City Band at The Captain’s Garter in Neptune, New Jersey.
1977: Springsteen guests with Pegasus at The Jail in Hillsdale, New Jersey for “Carol” and “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight).”
1994: Bruce wins the Best Original Song Golden Globe for “Streets of Philadelphia.”
1996: CBS Sunday Morning airs a segment profiling Bruce and his recent performance in Youngstown.
That evening, Bruce plays a solo acoustic show at the Saenger Performing Arts Center in New Orleans.
1998: Bruce, Danny, Jim Hanson, Marty Rifkin, and Gary Mallaber perform “The Ghost of Tom Joad” and “Across the Border” for a Rolling Stone 30th anniversary special. It won’t be aired until May, though.
2010: Bruce performs “We Shall Overcome” at a benefit for Haiti earthquake victims, joined by Charlie Giordano, Patti Scialfa, Soozie Tyrell, Curt Ramm, Curtis King, and Cindy Mizelle.
2014: Bruce releases his official video for “Just Like Fire Would.”
2016: Bruce and Patti chair the 2016 USET Olympic and Paralympic benefit for the U.S. Equestrian Team. (Their daughter Jessica is a champion equestrian.) Bruce and Patti perform “Money (That’s What I Want)” with the house band.
2017: Bruce and the E Street Band kick off their Australian Summer tour in Perth. This is the first show after Donald Trump’s inauguration, and Bruce makes reference to it right off the bat, both at an afternoon press conference and at the top of the show. This first show of 2017 feels like a continuation of the 2016 “autobiography tour,” but this will prove to be the last such set list. An encore highlight: an ultra-rare acoustic “Blood Brothers.”
2023: Bruce poses for photographer Danny Clinch at the site of the former Turf Club in Asbury Park. (Photo credit: Tom Parr)
