{"id":10474,"date":"2019-06-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=10474"},"modified":"2019-06-15T06:11:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T13:11:45","slug":"cover-me-omaha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/15\/cover-me-omaha\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me: Omaha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s go way, way,\u00a0<em>way\u00a0<\/em>back for today&#8217;s installment. So far back, in fact, that we arrive at the earliest known live Springsteen recording, on September 16, 1967.<\/p>\n<p>On that night, 17-year-old Bruce Springsteen and his high school band The Castiles played a show at the short-lived The Left Foot teen club in Bruce&#8217;s hometown of Freehold, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>On the setlist was a cover (the entire set was covers) of Moby Grape&#8217;s &#8220;Omaha,&#8221; released a few months earlier. The original song is, shall we say, lyrically light, but to focus on the lyrics is to miss the point. &#8220;Omaha&#8221; is a guitar showcase, ranked #95 on\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time list.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c_FlNwQlBmU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Bruce was already building a reputation as a lightning-fast guitarist, so &#8220;Omaha&#8221; was a perfect song for the band to tackle. How&#8217;d they do? Give a listen below, and remember: you&#8217;re listening to a seventeen-year-old high school student.<\/p>\n<div id=\"v-KPeoRbvt-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='758' height='426' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/KPeoRbvt?hd=1&amp;cover=1&amp;loop=0&amp;autoPlay=0&amp;permalink=1&amp;muted=0&amp;controls=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;useAverageColor=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/video\/assets\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js'><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Of course the big mystery is: how in the world did a recording of this performance come to exist, let alone survive to the present?<\/p>\n<p>For that story, listen to the interview with the man who recorded it <a href=\"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/01\/roll-of-the-dice-mr-jones\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Omaha<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>First performed<\/strong>: September 16, 1967 (Freehold, NJ)<br \/>\n<strong>Last performed:<\/strong> September 30, 1967 (Freehold, NJ)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set the wayback machine to September 16, 1967, and we&#8217;ll listen to 17-year-old Bruce Springsteen tear up Mobey Grape&#8217;s &#8220;Omaha&#8221; in the earliest known live Springsteen recording.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[2369,545,578],"class_list":["post-10474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-me","tag-moby-grape","tag-omaha","tag-the-castiles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/omaha.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-2IW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18300,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/16\/cover-me-eleanor-rigby\/","url_meta":{"origin":10474,"position":0},"title":"Cover Me: Eleanor Rigby","author":"Ken","date":"May 16, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"It takes guts to cover The Beatles' orchestral \"Eleanor Rigby\" with just a four-person high school rock band, but Bruce Springsteen has never lacked in the guts department. 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