{"id":23257,"date":"2011-10-07T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23257"},"modified":"2011-11-06T15:47:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T21:47:34","slug":"a-ticket-to-passaic-night-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23257","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Across The River – Night One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among the Bruce Fan nation, among the most legendary concerts ever were the three night stand the E Street Band did at the Captol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey on September 19-21, 1978, deep in the middle of the\u00a0Darkness on the Edge of Town\u00a0<\/em>tour.<\/p>\n

It was, by all accounts, a very special engagement – it was right around Springsteen’s 29th birthday, it the midst of a “comeback” of sorts, as Springsteen celebrated both the critical and commercial triumph of\u00a0Darkness<\/em>, and a tour where he was finally being regarded on a national rather than regional stage as one of the best live performers of the day.<\/p>\n

The series was broadcast live on the radio – leading to the concert being among the most bootlegged concerts in history, with examples of widely-varying quality surfacing all over the place for the past 33 years.<\/p>\n

Anyway – through the miracle of Youtube, videotapes of the concerts have finally been popping up over the past year or so. \u00a0I’ve been putting bits and pieces out there – but since the Springsteen fan\/maniac community is so very thorough about keeping things like setlists and posting them online, I figured it was time to reconstruct these dates in all their original glory.<\/p>\n

The concert is below the fold – the whole page takes some time to load, with all the separate video containers.<\/p>\n

Enjoy.<\/p>\n


\nWatch this show for a while, and the biggest things that smack you are…<\/p>\n