Re: Single Best Springsteen Moment...

It's really hard to list one Adam, dasm you ;-) I wish I was as articulate
as you but here's my pick.

August 29, 1978. Pittsburgh, the Stanley Theatre. Had seen Bruce for the
first time at St. Vincent's College in 1977 after a friend of mine had
gotten the BTR album while we were in high school and I got hooked on it. I
can't remember why we didn't have tickets for the show but had listened to
the live Cleveland FM broadcast a few weeks before and wanted to go. So
decided to take the family car (live 30 miles south of the city my mom would
have flipped if she had known) and we were outside of the theatre and a guy
comes up to us and says, 'you girls need tickets? My friends are not here
yet and I want to go in.' Talk about luck the show was sold out, he sells
them for face AND they were on the floor. Not that it mattered much it was a
great venue, seated about 2,500.

I could pick many moments from this show (Bruce's version of 'It's My Life'
could be a whole post on it's own it was that spectacular, the extended
guitar solo preceding Prove It ect ect) but I'm going to go with
Backstreets/Sad Eyes.I was totally moved by the emotion and passion in which
he did the Sad Eyes interlude I had *never* heard anything like this. And
while I love Backstreets this version was just something else. This was a
person, like me, who for that short period of time was trying to find
something, maybe himself, something I was looking for too. I felt something,
a connection to music at that young age I had never felt before. It changed
my life, seriously, and ruined me as my standards for live shows have mostly
never been attained by any other artist. Two years later I went to NYC with
money I had saved and picked up two bootlegs, The Winterland and Piece de
Resistance on LP (still have them) at Second Coming Records and played the
living crap out of them reliving some of those memories over and over
again...


"A to Z" <THECAPSaddietzARE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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that YOU have seen. In person

Single moment = one song, one bit, one speech. Not a whole concert, not a
set. One moment, or one song, or one speech.

and Single, means just list one. Even you Billy. Just one.

and why.

--
You know, the Parker Brothers took time to figure this all out! - Bobby
"Bacala" Baccalieri



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