Concert Information and Comments
1973
10th January 1973
WBCN, Boston, Mass
Track List:
Satin Doll/Bishop Dance/Wild Billy's Circus Story/Song
To The Orphans/Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street
Comments:
The first of the 70's radio shows, excellent performance.
CD : Bound For Glory ( 1CD - Flamingo)
31st January 1973
Max's Kansas City, NY
Track List:
Mary Queen Of Arkansas/Bishop Dance/Wild Billy's Circus
Story/Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street/Thundercrack
Comments:
Another laid back radio show.
2nd March 1973
Community Centre, Berkley, CA
Track List:
Lost In The Flood/Spirit In The Night/Circus Song/Bishop
Dance/Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street/
Blinded By The Light/Thundercrack
Comments:
A great early show with a fantastic version of Thundercrack.
Includes the first known live
performance of Lost In The Flood and the last live Bishop
Dance.
CD : Prodigal Son ( 2CD - DOS)
24th April 1973
The Main Point, Bryn Mawr, Penn
Track List:
New York Song/Circus Song/Spirit In The Night/Does This
Bus Stop At 82nd Street/Hey Santa Ana/
Tokyo/Thundercrack
Comments:
A great show with some wonderful early versions of later
hits, including New York Song, also contains
an amusing draft avoidance story.
CD : Thundercrack ( 1CD - Great Dane)
--/05/73
WGOE Radio Studios, Richmond, Virginia
Track List:
The Fever
Comments:
Wild and Innocent outtake aired by several radio stations
31st May 1973
ALFA Radio, Richmond, VA
Track List:
Satin Doll/Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street/Wild Billy's
Circus Story/Growin' Up/NYC Serenade/
You Mean So Much To Me
Comments:
An early appearance of Growin' Up.
CD : A Day Out In Richmond ( 1CD - Homemade)
31st May 1973
The Coliseum, Richmond, VA
Track List:
Hey Santa Anna/Secret To The Blues/Tokyo/Thundercrack
Comments:
Partial recording of the show played on the evening after
the above ALFA radio broadcast.
CD : A Day Out In Richmond ( 1CD - Homemade)
2nd June 1973
WHFS Radio, Bethesda, Maryland
Track List:
Satin Doll/Wild Billy's Circus Story/NYC Serenade/Growin'Up/
Mary Queen Of Arkansas
Comments:
A standard and very enjoyable radio set.
12th June 1973
Community Theatre, Binghampton, New York
Track List:
Spirit In The Night/Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street/Phantoms/Secret
To The Blues/Take Me Out To The Ball Game/
Seaside Bar Song/Thundercrack
Comments:
Phantoms is an early version of Zero And Blind Terry.
Secret To The Blues is a re-working of an old Steel Mill
song.
The correct date of this concert may be 13th June.
CD : Take Me Out To The Ball Game ( 1CD - Homemade)
18th July 1973
Max's Kansas City, NY
Track List:
NYC Serenade/Sandy/Spirit In The Night/Does This Bus Stop
At 82nd Street/Something You Got/
Zero And Blind Terry/Thundercrack
Comments:
First known version of Sandy, Something You Got and Zero
And Blind Terry in it's completed form.
NYC Serenade and Sandy are superb, both have lyrical differences
from later versions.
Sandy in particular is something special, a real laid back
song for a summes day.
20th July 1973
Max's Kansas City, NY
Track List:
NYC Serenade/Sandy/Spirit In The Night/Does This Bus Stop
At 82nd Street/Something You Got/
Zero and Blind Terry/Thundercrack
Comments:
This show start's to focus around the songs that will make
up the first two albums.
27th July 1973
Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Track List:
Circus Song
Comments:
The date of the CBS Record Sales Convention. Bruce
was not well received as he played for 30 minutes
when only allocated 10. Four songs were performed
at the show, Sandy, It's Hard To Be A Saint, Thundercrack
and Circus Song. Outtakes of the last two exist on
video. The live recording of Circus Song comes from a 7" CBS
playback single released in October 1973.
31st July 1973
My Father's Place, Roslyn, NY
Track List:
Spirit In The Night/Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street/Its
Hard To Be A Saint/
You Mean So Much To Me/Thundercrack
Comments:
An early show widley regarded as a classic.
CD : MY Fathers Place ( 1CD - Great Dane)
31st October 1973
The Main Point, Bryn Mawr, Penn
Track List:
Sandy/NYC Serenade/Spirit In The Night/Does This Bus Stop
At 82nd Street/E Street Shuffle/Growin' Up/
Walking The Dog/For You/Lost In The Flood/It's Hard To
Be A Saint/Zero And Blind Terry/
Blinded By The Light/Thundercrack
Comments:
Another classic early 70's show with a fantastic track
list, including the first known live version of
E Street Shuffle.
CD : Before The Flood ( 2CD - No Label)
17th November 1973
The Roxy, Manayunk, PA
Track List:
Walking The Dog/Spirit In The Night/Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street/E Street Shuffle/New York City Serenade/
You Mean So Much To Me/It's Hard To Be A Saint/634-5789/For You/Thundercrack/Twist And Shout
Comments:
Fantastic recent find of a late 1973 show in decent sound quality.
CD : Electric Surges Free (2CD - No Label)
25th November 1973
University Of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Track List:
Walking The Dog/Spirit In The Night/New York City Serenade/Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street/
Kitty's Back/Thundercrack/634-5789 (Soulsville USA)
Comments:
Newly discovered recording. Sound is very muddy at the start but improves slightly as the show progresses.
CD : Amherst '73 (1CD - No Label)
6th December 1973
Childe Harold, Washington DC
Track List:
Walking The Dog/For You/E Street Shuffle/Kitty's Back/Does
This Bus Stop At 82nd Street/
Let The Four Winds Blow
Comments:
First known live versions of Let The Four Winds Blow and
Kitty's Back.
CD : PLay The Tuba And Run ( 1CD - Copy Cat)