New for 2024: Review for 1978; video for 2016; new entry for 2023
1973: Bruce and the as-yet-unnamed E Street Band play a gig at Waynesburg College in Pennsylvania.
1976: “The Promise” makes its second-ever appearance, still a work-in-progress, when the Lawsuit Tour stops in Santa Monica for the first of two nights.
1978: The Darkness Tour moves on to Boutwell Memorial Auditorium in Birmingham. (Photo credit: William E. Allen)
1982: Bruce plays two songs (although this is up for debate) with Billy Rancher & The Unreal Gods on stage at On Broadway in Westwood, New Jersey.
1985: Bruce and the E Street Band play their second of four shows at the final stand of the Born in the U.S.A. Tour in Los Angeles. In attendance tonight: The cast of television’s Growing Pains.
1989: Bruce makes a pit-stop at Matt’s Saloon in Prescott, Arizona while on a motorcycle trip from Los Angeles, joining house band Mile High Band on stage for about an hour and befriending and changing the life of a bartender before heading off to the Grand Canyon.
1992: Bruce and his new band play the San Diego Sports Arena on World Tour 1992.
1996: Bruce plays with Pete Seeger for the very first time at a Woody Guthrie tribute concert in Cleveland, along with Joe Ely, Arlo Guthrie, Ani DiFranco, the Indigo Girls, and more.
2002: Bruce tour premieres “Working on the Highway” when the Rising Tour stops at the Fargodome in North Dakota.
2004: Bruce, the E Street Band, and John Fogerty rehearse at Asbury Park’s Convention Hall for their upcoming Vote for Change Tour.
2016: Bruce makes a book tour appearance at the Free Library of Philadelphia to promote his new autobiography, Born to Run. A local schoolboy skips class to meet Bruce and convinces Bruce to sign his absence note, which he duly hands to his teacher the next day.
2017: Bruce holds his first and only dress rehearsal (invite-only) for Springsteen on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theater in New York City.
2018: Springsteen on Broadway continues its theatrical run at the Walter Kerr Theater in New York City. Patti is absent again tonight, so Bruce adds an extra encore of “This Hard Land” in place of his duet of “Tougher Than the Rest” with Patti. In attendance tonight: Hozier.
2022: Bruce announces his twenty-first studio album, Only the Strong Survive, and releases a video for the album’s lead single, “Do I Love You (Indeed I Do).”
That evening, Bruce and Patti perform “The Promised Land” at the first annual Albie Awards, sponsored by The Clooney Foundation for Justice.
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2023: Bruce’s scheduled show at Nationals Park in Washington D.C.–already rescheduled once from a month earlier–is postponed for almost another a full year.
