New for 2024: Video for 2016; new entry for 2023
1970: Robbin Thompson makes his Steel Mill debut at the band’s University of Richmond gig.
1978: Bruce tour premieres “Lost in the Flood” by request at his Darkness show in Pittsburgh. Elsewhere, Columbia Records produces new commercials to promote Darkness on the Edge of Town, and Rolling Stone publishes their first of what will prove to be many cover features of Bruce.
1981: At the final show of a six-night River Tour stand at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, Bruce and the E Street Band cover “Proud Mary” and “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)” for the first time, and Flo and Eddie make a guest appearance on “Hungry Heart” reprising their studio backing vocals.
1984: At Night Three (of four) at Washington DC’s Capital Center in the pre-teleprompter days of the Born in the U.S.A. Tour, Bruce tour premieres “Wooly Bully” and forgets the lyrics to “Independence Day,” leading to a comically and painfully awkward pause in the proceedings.
1992: World Tour 1992 moves on to Philadelphia for the first of two shows at The Spectrum, where “Soul Driver” makes its full-band debut.
1997: Bruce makes a guest appearance with Jimmy & the Gigolos at The Derby in Hollywood.
2003: The Rising Tour stadium leg returns to Giants Stadium, where Bruce and the E Street Band tour premiere “Independence Day” and Bobby Bandiera makes a guest appearance on “From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come).”
2007: Bruce releases the lead single for his upcoming Magic album, “Radio Nowhere,” and announces a tour in support of the album.
2016: Bruce’s ten-show River Tour victory lap continues with a stop at the United Center in Chicago, where “New York City Serenade” and “Jack of All Trades” continue to get the string treatment (this time with local musicians), and “None But the Brave” gets a rare outing.
2018: Springsteen on Broadway continues its theatrical run at the Walter Kerr Theater in New York City, with Sting in attendance.
2021: Springsteen on Broadway continues its limited return engagement at the St. James Theater in New York City. In attendance tonight: David and Brian Cichon, sons of Walter Cichon, frontman for The Motifs and an early influence on Bruce.
2023: A scheduled show at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. is postponed to late September. It will eventually be postponed again.
