Bruce Springsteen
Concert Information and Reviews
1976
4th April 1976
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Track List:
Night/10th Avenue Freeze Out/Spirit In The
Night/It's My Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Born To Run/Frankie/
Meeting Across The River/Backstreets/Growin'
Up/It's Hard To Be A Saint/Jungleland/Rosalita/
Raise Your Hand/Sandy/Devil With The Blue
Dress Medley/Quarter To Three
Comments:
A great show which features all the tracks
from the Born To Run album.
CD : Hidden World That Shine ( 2CD - E Street)
7th April 1976
Allen Theatre, Cleveland, OH
Track List:
Night/10th Avenue Freeze Out/Spirit In The Night/It's
My Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Born To Run/Incident On 57th Street/
Frankie/Backstreets/Growin' Up/It's Hard To
Be A Saint/Blinded By The Light/Jungleland/Rosalita/Sandy/Detroit Medley
Comments:
First known Incident On 57th Street and Blinded
By The Light since 1974.
Incident On 57th Street, Rosalita and Quarter
To Three are incomplete on the original recording.
CD : Runners In The Night ( 2CD - Doberman)
8th April 1976
Allen Theatre, Cleveland, OH
Track List:
Night/10th Avenue Freeze Out/Spirit In The
Night/It's My Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Born To Run/
Incident On 57th Street/Every Time That You
Walk In The Room/Frankie/Backstreets/Growin' Up/It's Hard To Be A Saint/
Jungleland
Comments:
CD : Leaving The Allen In Rubble ( 2CD - BTS)
9th April 1976
Colgate College, Hamilton, NY
Track List:
Night/10th Avenue Freeze Out/Spirit In The
Night/It's My Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Born To Run/
Incident On 57th
Street/Frankie/Backstreets/Growin' Up/It's Hard To Be A Saint/Blinded By The
Light/
Jungleland/Rosalita/Raise Your
Hand/Sandy/Detroit Medley/Quarter To Three
Comments:
Last known full band version of Blinded By
The Light.
Unfortunatly the only surviving recording of
this show is lousy quality which is a pit considering the
excellent setlist.
10th April 1976
Choate School, Wallingford, OH
Track List:
Night/Tenth Avenue Freeze Out/Spirit In The
Night/It's My Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Born To Run/Pretty Flamingo/
Incident On 57th
Street/Frankie/Backstreets/Growin' Up/It's Hard To Be A
Saint/Jungleland/Rosalita/
Raise Your Hand/Sandy/Detroit Medley
Comments:
Benefit concert played at the request of John
Hammond.
CD : Choate School '76 (2CD - No Label)
13th April 1976
Recreation Hall, University Park, Penn State University, PA
Track List:
Night/10th Avenue Freeze Out/Spirit In The
Night/It's My Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Incident On 57th Street/
Frankie/Backstreets/Growin' Up/It's Hard To
Be A Saint/Jungleland/Rosalita/Raise Your Hand/Sandy/
Detroit Medley/Quarter To Three
Comments:
CD : Penn State '76 (2CD - No Label)
22nd April 1976
Virginia Polytechnic, Burrus Auditorium, Blacksburg, VA
Track List:
Night/10th Avenue Freeze Out/Spirit In The
Night/It's My Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Born To Run/
Incident On 57th Street/Frankie/Backstreets/Growin'
Up/It's Hard To Be A Saint/Jungleland/Rosalita/
Raise Your Hand/Sandy
Comments:
Last known Frankie until the Reunion Tour.
CD : Blacksburg '76 (2CD - No Label)
29th April 1976
Ellis Auditorium, Memphis, Tenn
Track List:
Night/10th Avenue Freeze Out/Spirit In The
Night/It's My Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Born To Run/
Pretty Flamingo/Incident On 57th
Street/Growin' Up/It's Hard To Be A Saint/Backstreets/Jungleland/
Rosalita/Raise Your Hand/Knock On Wood/Yum
Yum (I Want Some)/ Sandy/Detroit Medley
Comments:
A good mix of all three early albums.
Following this show Bruce made his notorious
visit to Graceland.
CD : Knock On Wood ( 2CD - Ragamuffin)
10th May 1976
Municiple Auditorium, Mobile, AL
Track List:
It's Hard To Be A
Saint/Jungleland/Rosalita/Raise Your Hand/Sandy
Comments:
The above soundboard tracks are all that
exist of this show.
CD : Down In Jungleland Vol.2 (1CD - Winged
Wheels)
13th May 1976
Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans, LA
Track List:
Night/10th Avenue Freeze Out/Spirit In the
Night/It's My Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Born To Run/
Pretty Flamingo/Growin' Up/It's Hard To Be A
Saint/Backstreets/Jungleland/Rosalita/Raise Your Hand/
Sandy/New Orleans
Comments:
CD : New Orleans ’76
(2CD – No Label)
27th May 1976
US Military Academy, Eisenhower Hall, West Point, NY
Track List:
Night/10th Avenue Freeze Out/Spirit In The
Night/It's My Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Born To Run/
Pretty Flamingo/Growin' Up/It's hard To Be A
Saint/Backstreets/Jungleland/Rosalita/Raise Your Hand/
Sandy/Detroit Medley
Comments:
1st August 1976
Monmouth Arts Centre, Red Bank, NJ
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/Mona/She's The One/Something In The Night/
Backstreets/10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Jungleland/Rosalita
Comments:
CD : First Rendezvous In Red Bank ( 2CD - B
Street)
THE MONMOUTH SHOWS - A Contemporary Review
2nd August 1976
Monmouth Arts Center, Red Bank, NJ
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Born To Run/Something In The Night/
backstreets/10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/Raise Your Hand/Sandy/You Can't Sit Down
Comments:
CD : Second Rendezvous In Red Bank ( 2CD - B
Street)
THE MONMOUTH SHOWS - A Contemporary Review
3rd August 1976
Monmouth Arts Center, Red Bank, NJ
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Born To Run/The Promise/Backstreets/
10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/Sandy/Raise Your Hand/You Can't Sit Down
Comments:
Show includes the live debut of The Promise.
CD : Delivering On The Promise ( 2CD - B Street)
THE MONMOUTH SHOWS - A Comtemporary Review
5th August 1976
Monmouth Arts Center, Red Bank, NJ
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Born To Run/Something In The Night/
Backstreets/10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/Sandy/Raise Your Hand/You Can't Sit Down
Comments:
CD : Fourth Rendezvous In Red Bank (2CD - No Label)
THE MONMOUTH SHOWS - A Contemporary Review
6th August 1976
Monmouth Arts Center, Red Bank, NJ
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In the Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Born To Run/Something In The Night/
Backstreets/10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/Sandy/Raise Your Hand/You Can't Sit Down
Comments:
CD : Fifth Rendezvous In Red Bank (2CD - No Label)
THE
MONMOUTH SHOWS - A Contemporary Review
7th August 1976
Monmouth Arts Center, Red Bank, NJ
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Born To Run/Something In The Night/
Backstreets/Growin' Up/10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/Sandy/Raise Your Hand/Quarter To Three
Comments:
CD : Red Bank '76 Final Night (2CD - No Label)
THE
MONMOUTH SHOWS - A Contemporary Review
21st August 1976
Palace Theatre, Waterbury, Connecticut
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In the Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Born To Run/Something In The Night/
Backstreets/10th Avenue Freeze Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/Born
To Run/Sandy?Raise Your Hand/You Can't Sit Down
Comments:
CD : Palace Theatre '76 (2CD - No Label)
22nd August 1976
Springfield College, Mass
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Born To Run/
Something In The Night/Backstreets/10th
Avenue Freeze Out/Jungleland/Rosalita
Comments:
The date of this show may be open to doubt.
CD : Streets Of Life ( 2CD - Flashback)
4th September 1976
The Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ
Track List:
Havin' A Party
Comments:
Guest appearance with Southside Johnny
26th September 1976
Veterans memorial Coliseum, Phoenix, AZ
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Born To Run/Something In The Night/
Backstreets/10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/Sandy/Raise Your Hand/Growin' Up/You Can't Sit Down
Comments:
Something In The Night has a new trumpet
arrangement.
29th September 1976
Civic Centre, Santa Monica, CA
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Something In The Night/Backstreets/
10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/Sandy/Raise Your Hand/The Promise/Born To Run
Comments:
The Promise returns for the first time since
the Red Bank shows, but now with different lyrics.
CD : Santa Monica '76 First Night (2CD - No Label)
30th September 1976
Civic Center, Santa Monica, CA
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Something In The Night/Backstreets/
Growin' Up/10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/Sandy/Raise Your Hand/The Promise/Born To Run
Comments:
CD : Santa Monica '76 Second Night (2CD - No Label)
2nd October 1976
Paramount Theatre, Oakland, CA
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Something In The Night/
Backstreets/Growin' Up/10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/Sandy
Comments:
5th October 1976
County Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's the One/Something In The Night/
Backstreets/Growin' Up/10th Aveune Freeze Out/Jungleland/Roaslita/Sandy/Raise
Your Hand/Born To Run
Comments:
CD : County Bowl '76 (2CD - No Label)
9th October 1976
Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In the Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Something In The Night/Backstreets/
Growin' Up/10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Rosalita/Sandy/Raise Your Hand/The Promise/Born To Run
Comments:
Great show although Something In The Night is
severly cut.
CD : It's Only Rock And Roll (2CD - No Label)
10th October 1976
Miami University, Oxford, OH
Track List:
Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Something In The Night/
Backstreets/10th Avenue Freeze Out/Growin'
Up/Jungleland/Rosalita
Comments:
Tape runs slow, this was a problem with the
original recording.
12th October 1976
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Something In The Night/
Backstreets/Growin' Up/10th Avenue Freeze Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/Sandy/Raise Your Hand/The Promise/Born To Run
Comments:
CD : Shut Out The Lights And Steal Away (2CD - No Label)
13th October 1976
Wilkens Theatre, Kean College, Union, NJ
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Something In The Night/Backstreets/
Growin' Up/10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/Sandy/Raise Your Hand/The Promise/Born To Run
Comments:
CD : Kean College '76 (2CD - No Label)
16th October 1976
William And Mary College, Williamsburg, VA
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Something In The Night/Backstreets/
Growin' Up/10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/
Comments:
Incomplete recording.
CD : Williamsburg '76 (2CD - No Label)
17th October 1976
Georgetown University, Washington DC
Track List:
Spirit In The Night/It's My Life/Thunder
Road/She's The One/Something In The Night/Backstreets/Growin' Up/
10th Avenue Freeze Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/Sandy/Raise
Your Hand
Comments:
CD : Georgetown '76 (2CD - No Label)
18th October 1976
Georgetown University, Washington DC
Track List:
Growin' Up/10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/Raise Your Hand/You Can't Sit Down/The Promise
Comments:
Only an incomplete recording exists recorded
at a very low level.
CD : Georgetown '76 Second Night (1CD - No Label)
25th October 1976
The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Something In The Night/Backstreets/
Growin' Up/10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/Sandy/A Fine Fine Girl/Raise your Hand/The Promise/Born
To Run
Comments:
First known Fine Fine Girl.
CD : Arena Rock ( 2CD - Palace Records)
27th October 1976
The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/Incident
On 57th Street/Thunder Road/She's The One/Something In The Night/Backstreets/
Growin' Up/10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/Sandy/A Fine Fine Girl/Raise Your Hand/The Promise/Born
To Run
Comments:
Something In The Night contains a re-written
last verse that was never used again.
CD : Spirit Of '76 (2CD - No Label)
28th October 1976
The Palladium, New York, NY
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Something In The Night/Backstreets/
Growin' Up/10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/Sandy/A Fine Fine Girl/Raise Your Hand/The Promise/Born
To Run
Comments:
Some
sound distortion, probably caused by an over sensitive microphone.
CD : The Promise In New York (2CD - No Label)
29th October 1976
The Palladium, New York, NY
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Something In The Night/Backstreets/
Growin' Up/10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/Quarter To Three/Sandy/Raise Your Hand/The Promise/Born
To Run
Comments:
Gary US Bonds guests on Quarter To Three.
CD : Twistin' The Night Away ( 2CD - Red)
30th October 1976
The Palladium, New York, NY
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Something In The Night/Backstreets/
Growin' Up/10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/A Fine Fine Girl/Sandy/Raise Your Hand/
The Promise/Born To Run
Comments:
Patti Smith Joins on Rosalita.
CD: The Palladium '76 Third Night (2CD – No Label)
2nd November 1976
The Palladium, New York, NY
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/She's The One/Something In The Night/Backstreets/
Growin' Up/10th Avenue Freeze Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/The
Promise/A Fine Fine Girl/Raise Your Hand
Sandy/Born To Run
Comments:
CD : The Palladium '76 Fourth Night (2CD - No Label)
3rd November 1976
The Palladium, New York, NY
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/Mona/She's The One/Something In The Night/Backstreets/
Growin' Up/10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Jungleland/Be True To Your School/Rosalita/Sandy/
A Fine Fine Girl/Born To Run
Comments:
Last known Fine Fine Girl and the first
Mona. Be True To Your School serves as an introduction to Rosalita.
CD : The Palladium '76 Fifth Night (2CD- No Label)
4th November 1976
The Palladium, New York, NY
Track List:
Night/Rendezvous/Spirit In The Night/It's My
Life/Thunder Road/Mona/She's The One/Something In The Night/
Backstreets/Growin' Up/10th Avenue Freeze
Out/Jungleland/Rosalita/Baby I Love You/
Walking In The Rain/Be My Baby/Sandy/We
Gotta' Get Out Of This Place/Born To Run
Comments:
CD : We Gotta' Get Out Of This Place ( 2CD -
Great Dane)
Now available re-mastered from 3 different source tapes
CD : A Streak Of Light Through The Tunnel (2CD - No Label)