May 16, 2007

Springsteen @ Berkeley Community Theatre in '73

Wolfgang has done it again. I'm not sure where or how they get these but their featured live show is Springsteen again, this time at the Berkeley Community Theatre in 1973.




Recorded just weeks after the release of his first album, Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ, this historic opening set from Bruce Springsteen comes from a time when Bruce and the entire band could still (just barely) fit in one car. The E Street band, as Bruce’s famous cast of backup musicians were called, came to encompass a particularly different and larger configuration, and the classic lineup from the mid-1970s only has three of the members from the backup band Springsteen plays with here.

Seven songs were recorded from this opening set:
1. Lost in the Flood
2. Spirit in the night
3. Wild Billy's Circus
4. Bishop Danced
5. Does this bus stop at 82nd street
6. Blinded by the light
7. Thundercrack

Oh to have seen Springsteen at this time in his career...Enjoy.

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