Bruce Springsteen
1978-06-16
Memorial Hall
Kansas City,MO
Soundboard Recording
224 kbps
Artwork Included
CD 1
01.Darkness On The Edge OF Town
02.For You
03.Promised Land
04.Prove It All Night
05.Racing In The Street
06.Thunder Road
07.Jungleland
08.Paradise By The C
09.Fire
10.Adam Raised A Cain
CD 2
01.Mona
02.She´s The One
03.Grovin`Up
04.Backstreets
05.Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
06.The Promise
07.Born To Run
08.10th Ave Freeze Out
09.Quarter To Three
On May 23, 1978, Bruce Springsteen launched a 115 show tour that would last through the end of the year in support of his new album, Darkness On The Edge Of Town, which was released on June 2. Darkness was Springsteen’s first disc since Born To Run In 1975, the 3 years wait the result of a legal battle with his former manager, Mike Appel. All 10 songs from the album found their way into the Bruce’s set list at some point during the tour, with Badlands taking the prominent role of show opener. Perhaps the long wait for the album had increased the level of emotion among Bruce’s loyal fans, as thee shows on this tour are often described as intense. Springsteen biographer Dave Marsh wrote, for example, “"The screaming intensity of those '78 shows are part of rock and roll legend in the same way as Dylan's 1966 shows with the Band, the Rolling Stones' tours of 1969 and 1972, and the Who's Tommy tour of 1969: benchmarks of an era.” This soundboard recording captures Bruce early on during that tour, in Kansas City on June 16, 1978, 35 years ago today. Download this one to hear Springsteen during what many say was the best tour of his long storied career.
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