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40 years ago: Bruce Springsteen @ The Main Point

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[The concert] ..is that of a legendary Springsteen show, a seminal moment in his career, a classic performance and an essential part of any fan’s library of the Boss’s work. This is one of his greatest ever performances.
~Andrew Muir (sleeve notes)

Not only is it one of the longest (160 minutes) single-show gigs up to this point but it’s one of the most compelling performances of Springsteen’s entire career. There are spellbinding renditions of “Incident On 57th Street”, “New York City Serenade” and “For You” (in the solo piano arrangement),….
~Brucebase

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Chuck Berry, Music Calendar

Jan 06: Chuck Berry recorded “Johnny B. Goode” in 1958

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Chuck Berry recorded “Johnny B. Goode” in 1958

DeepdowninLouisiana’crossfromNewOrleans,
waybackupinthewoodsamongtheevergreens.
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode,
Who never ever learned to read or write so well
But he could play a guitar just like a ringin’ a bell.

You can’t copyright guitar licks and maybe that’s good, because if you could, Chuck might have hoarded them as he does his Cadillacs. Without The Chuck Berry Riff, we’d lose not just the Beach Boys, but essential elements of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, and Bruce Springsteen — to mention only the most obvious examples. In a way, what was at the center of the first wave of the British Invasion could be described as a Chuck Berry revival.
~Dave Marsh (The Heart of Rock and Soul)

Live 1958:

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Bruce Springsteen, Great albums, Music Calendar

Jan 05: Bruce Springsteen released Greetings from Ashbury Park NJ in 1973

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Bruce Springsteen released Greetings from Ashbury Park NJ in 1973

“This boy has a lot more of the Dylan spirit than John Prine. His songs are filled with the absurdist energy and heart on sleeve pretension that made Dylan a genius instead of a talent.”

– Robert Christgau, Creem magazine

Greetings from Asbury Park NJ is the first studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1973. It only sold about 25,000 copies in the first year of its release, but had significant critical impact. It was ranked at #379 by Rolling Stone on its list of 500 greatest albums of all time. The album also hit the number sixty stop on the Billboard 200 albums listing.

The new release that is part of the new box-set (released autumn 2014) sounds amazing!

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Bruce Springsteen, Classic Concert, Music Calendar

December 15: Bruce Springsteen Winterland Ballroom SF in 1978

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winterland3 “Tonight you’re gonna hear the concert of your life”, the guy of KSAN states to his listeners at the beginning of this radio broadcast, and it is the truth!Interview with Bob Harris from 1978:

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