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Bruce Springsteen - Providence 1975
Live at the Palace Theater, Providence, RI, July 20, 1975 (first show of the Born To Run Tour). Very good master audience recording ...
Okay folks, this is history here. Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run Tour in 1975 started about a month before the release of the album. Ever the showman, Springsteen opened his first show of the tour with the relatively contemplative Incident On 57th Street (with an edginess on the side) - just to warm up the audience - before the (again relatively) more familiar tune of Spirit In The Night.
From the new album, Springsteen started with the crowd-pleasing Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out before performing Thunder Road (the opening track) and he made the effort to introduce the song to the crowd. As can be seen from the setlist, Springsteen was still relying on tracks from his earlier two albums but that would change over time when Born To Run not only became his breakthrough album but one of the rocker's defining albums.
If the 1975 year-end charts were dominated by Elton John, The Eagles, Olivia Newton-John, The Average White Band, John Denver, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Jefferson Starship, it is not surprising that to a lot of jaded ears, Springsteen was a breath of fresh air and rock's new hope. And if his songs dealt with losers, no-hopers and those marginalised on the sideline, his shows reflected a desperate urgency which gave a glimmer of hope to anyone game enough to try one more time...
Tickets seem to have cost $4, $5 and $6.50, according to the poster in the upper left of the photo.
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