{"id":5288,"date":"2009-09-23T07:33:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T12:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5288"},"modified":"2011-11-06T15:48:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T21:48:32","slug":"bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5288","title":{"rendered":"Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Bruce Springsteen’s<\/a>\u00a0sixtieth birthday today.<\/p>\n

Yeah, you read that right.<\/p>\n

Wish I had a ticket to the Stone Pony tonight. Not to mention airfare to Newark…<\/p>\n

And while Glory Days will indeed pass you by in the wink of a young girl’s eye, it’s good to remember what got a guy where he is.<\/p>\n

Someone did the world the estimable service of posting videos shot at two concerts at the old Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey – sorta Springsteen’s home turf in those years after he outgrew the clubs on the Shore, but before he could fill the Meadowlands.\u00a0 It was from two nights just a shade over 31 years ago, on the epic Darkness on the Edge of Town<\/em>\u00a0 tour.\u00a0 Bruce and the band – a very young Max Weinberg, a very thin Miami Steve, a very skeezy-looking Gary Tallent, a very tough-looking Danny Federici, a very Scorsese-esque Roy Bittan, and a very fly Clarence “Big Man” Clemons\u00a0– were in probably the best form ever, on home turf, playing as the rocket to “legend” was just blasting off from the station.<\/p>\n

The concert shows sides of the band we’ve rarely seen since super-super-stardom hit in the eighties; Federici stepping out front with the accordion on “Sandy”; the whole band coming down front to sing along on “Not Fade Away”; Miami Steve taking as many solos as Bruce (“Jungleland”, “The Promised Land”); the Big Man and Roy singing lots and lots of background vocals back in the days before Patti Scialfa and Nils Lofgren took them over, Clelmons’ jungle sounds in “She’s The One”…<\/p>\n

Check them out<\/a>.\u00a0 I’ve thought about trying to put the links in concert order – but that’s a project that’s gonna have to wait.<\/p>\n

Anyway – happy sixtieth, Bruce!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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