Notes: Jungleland & NYC have violin backing. Incident On 57th Street is performed with just piano and violin backing. The show has the first known versions of Cupid and (?) She's The One (a verse from this early version later appears in Backstreets) as well as A Love So Fine and Quarter to Three.
Stage collapses at end of show
Notes: Held in the sold-out 2,000-seat Bollman Center. Springsteen & The E Street Band headline. Folk stylist JAE MASON (and his band) opened with 45-minute set. Although violinist Suki Lahav had made her debut the previous night, she is NOT present at this show or the following night at Clark University. The six above-mentioned songs (sequential as they were played) represent a partial setlist from the show and are mentioned in an extensive review that appeared in the school newspaper. THERE IS NO KNOWN AUDIO FROM THIS SHOW. Springsteen's set lasted for 2 hrs and half (no intermission) and Bruce actually comments to the student reporter after the show that this was one of his longest
shows to date. During "Kitty's Back" Bruce broke his guitar string and repaired it onstage, facilitating an exceptionally long rendition of the song. At one point Bruce was even running around in the audience. Of major historical
interest is Bruce's rendition of San Cooke's "Twistin' The Night Away" - the only verified performance by The E Street Band.
Notes: One show, held in the jam packed, 900-seat Atwood Hall. Bruce & The E Street Band is the sole act on the bill. Partial (but sequential as they appeared) setlist details above culled from Clark's Student Newspaper. According to the young student critic who reviewed the show the consensus around campus was that this was the best concert ever at the school. The opening "spotlight solo" during "Incident" was taken by Roy Bittan, not Suki Lahav Indeed, it seems clear from the quite descriptive nature of the newspaper concert review that Suki did NOT perform at this concert.
11-Oct-1974 Gaithersburg,MD Shady Grove Music Fair,USA
Notes: ONE show, double bill, with Springsteen & The E Street Band headlining and comedian MARTIN MULL opening. Shady Grove Music Fair in Gaithersburg, MD, was a theatre-in-the-round with a rotating stage which was knocked down to make way for a shopping center not too long afterwards. Partial setlist details above are from an audience recording, available on the CD "JUNGLELAND" (KMA). These represent the first 9 songs of the show. There final 4 or 5 songs from this show are missing, apparently not taped by this recording source.
Notes: Two shows, 7:30PM and 10:30PM, held in the 600-seat Alexander Hall. Bruce and the band have sole billing. Both shows were sellouts and one of the shows circulates in its entirety on an average quality audience tape. Given that there's no discernible stop-start during "Rosalita" (see fan comments below) then the complete 13-song setlist mentioned above is the late show. There's a rare blunder by the band on "Spirit In The Night", which is stopped and started again. A recording of the other show has yet to surface.
A BRUCEBASE reader comments: "I was 16 and wanted a Bruce T-shirt but there weren't any, so my friends and I made T-shirts from the Greetings album. During 'Rosalita' I jumped on stage and gave one to Bruce. I don't think he had ever seen one before and he stopped the song and looked at it before starting again. During the break between shows we went to the band's bus and gave shirts to everyone. They loved it and always looked out for us after that"
Notes: First known Spanish Harlem. Dan Fogelburg and John Sebastian open show. Bruce and the band are billed as opening act for John Sebastian, but he voluntarily took second spot after hearing about the events of 3/8/74
Notes: One show, held in the intimate Memorial Chapel Concert Hall as part of the school’s Homecoming Weekend, double bill, with Springsteen & The E Street Band headlining. An obscure 4-piece light rock local band called GOEBEL & LANG opened with a 60-minute performance. The concert was a sellout. The above-mentioned setlist is taken from a circulating audience recording of fair-good quality that likely represents the entire performance. The speed fluctuation problems heard during some songs are from the original source tape.
Notes: Springsteen & The E Street Band headlining and local country-rock band HANGE RANGE opening with a 45-minute set. Interestingly the show was held in the school's 400-seat dining hall, even though there was a larger capacity gymnasium available - in fact Bruce and some members of his entourage were spotted playing basketball in the gym late in the afternoon. The above-mentioned partial setlist is from a review of the show in the campus newspaper. Bruce performed a 2hr show, so there were about 4 or 5 songs played but not articulated in the review. THERE IS NO CIRCULATING AUDIO from this gig.
Bruce was seen in the Dickinson gym about 5:30 playing hoops with guys in the band and some girls. In the soundcheck you could hear a lot of saxophone riffs especially in "Spanish Harlem."
25-Oct-1974 Hanover,NH Dartmouth College,USA
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Notes: First of two shows, both sellouts. Bruce & The E Street Band headline in Spaulding Auditorium with no other act on the bill. Dartmouth was originally scheduled as a single show but demand was such that a second show was added. With no opening act Bruce and the band performed back to back 2hr+ concerts, with a mere 45-minute break between - making the 4hr+ stage time in one night one of the longest (possibly THE longest) 2-show gigs of the era.
25-Oct-1974 Hanover,NH Dartmouth College,USA
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Notes: Second of two shows. See early for details.
26-Oct-1974 Springfield,MA Julia Sanderson theatre,USA
Notes: ONE show, with Springsteen & The E Street Band the sole act on the bill. This gig is often mistakenly listed as having taken place at Springfield College, however there was no school association with this concert. The above-mentioned setlist is culled from an audience tape of fair quality (it distorts at the low end) and represents the entire performance. Interestingly "She's The One" starts with a rap that Bruce would use more extensively during the shows in the Fall of 1976.
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Notes: CANCELLED and never rescheduled This concert was scheduled as a ONE show, double billing, with Springsteen & The E Street Band headlining and Brazilian jazz-fusion legend EUMIR DEODATO opening. Bruce awoke in the morning with laryngitis from the previous night's performance in Springfield. To compound the problem Millersville was a rare afternoon show, which meant Bruce's voice had 6 or 7 hours less to rejuvenate than normal. Mike Appel was left with
the unenviable task of breaking the bad news to the Concert Committee only a few hours before a sold-out show that had been anticipated for weeks and was the key event in the school's 1974 Homecoming Carnival. Appel offered to play the following day but it was apparently not logistically feasible from the school's standpoint. A concert went ahead anyway, with EUMIR DEODATO providing an extended, 3hr performance to make up for Bruce's non-appearance.
