Older Springsteen News
May 23rd, 1997
ITALIAN TOUR SETLISTS
Teatro Augusteo, Napoli, Italy (May 22nd,1997)
The Ghost of Tom Joad/Atlantic City/Straight Time/Highway
29/Darkness On The Edge of Town/Johnny 99/Highway
Patrolman/It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City/Red Headed
Woman /Two Hearts/The River/Born in the U.S.A./Dry
Lightning/Reason to Believe/Sinaloa Cowboys /The Line/Balboa
Park/Across the Border//O Sole Mio/Growin’ Up/Working On The
Highway /This Hard Land/No Surrender//Galveston Bay/The Promised
Land//Thunder Road
Surprisingly, the italian classic “O Sole Mio” opens
the first encore.
Bruce plays “Thunder Road” from a balcony, half an hour
after the show, to the people waiting for him in a square outside
the theatre.
Firenze, Italy (May 21st,1997)
The Ghost of Tom Joad/Atlantic City/Straight Time/Highway
29/Darkness/Murder Inc./Highway Patrolman/It's Hard to Be a Saint
in the City/Red Headed Woman/ Two Hearts/The River/Born in the
U.S.A./Dry Lightning/ Long Time Coming/Sinaloa Cowboys/The
Line/Balboa Park/Across the Border// Growin' Up/Working on the
Highway/This Hard Land/No Surrender//Galveston Bay/ The Promised
Land
May 20th, 1997
FRENCH TOUR SETLISTS
Le Zenith-Omega, Toulon, France (May 19th,1997)
The Ghost of Tom Joad/Atlantic City/Straight Time/Highway
29/Darkness/Johnny 99/Nebraska/It's Hard to Be a Saint in the
City/Red Headed Woman/Two Hearts/ The River/Brothers Under the
Bridges/Born in the USA/Dry Lightning/Reason to Believe/Sinaloa
Cowboys/The Line/Balboa Park/Across the Border//You Can
Look/Working on the Highway/This Hard Land/No
Surrender//Galveston Bay/The Promised Land
Salle Apollon, Acropolis, Nice, France (May 18th,1997)
The Ghost of Tom Joad/Atlantic City/Straight Time/Highway
29/Darkness/Murder Inc./Highway Patrolman/It's Hard to Be a Saint
in the City/Little Things/Red Headed Woman/Two Hearts/Brothers
Under the Bridges/Born in the U.S.A./Dry Lightning/ Long Time
Coming/Sinaloa Cowboys/The Line/Balboa Park/Across the
Border//You Can Look/Working on the Highway/This Hard
Land//Growin' Up/Galveston Bay/The Promised Land
Opera Berlioz - Le Corum, Montpellier, France (May 16th,1997)
The Ghost of Tom Joad/Atlantic City/Straight Time/Highway
29/Darkness/Johnny 99/Point Blank/For You/Red Headed Woman/Two
Hearts/The River/Born in the U.S.A./Dry Lightning/Reason to
Believe/Sinaloa Cowboys/The Line/Balboa Park/Across the
Border//Bobby Jean/Working on the Highway/This Hard Land/No
Surrender//Galveston Bay/The Promised Land
Auditorium Maurice Ravel, Lyon, France (May 15th,1997)
The Ghost of Tom Joad/Atlantic City/Straight Time/Highway
29/Darkness/Johnny 99/Highway Patrolman/Growin' Up/Red Headed
Woman/Two Hearts/The River/Born in the U.S.A./Dry Lightning/Long
Time Coming/Sinaloa Cowboys/The Line/Balboa Park/Across the
Border//Working on the Highway/This Hard Land/No
Surrender//Galveston Bay/The Promised Land
May 14th, 1997
NEW SETLISTS
Congress Center, Prague, Czech Republic (May 12th,1997)
The Ghost of Tom Joad/Atlantic City/Straight Time/Highway
29/Darkness On The Edge of Town/Murder Incorporated/Highway
Patrolman/Freehold/Red Headed Woman/Two Hearts/ The River/Born in
the U.S.A./Dry Lightning/Long Time Coming/Sinaloa Cowboys/The
Line/ Balboa Park/Across the Border//Working On The Highway/Bobby
Jean/This Hard Land/No Surrender//Streets of Philadelphia/The
Promised Land
Sala Kongresowa, Warsaw, Poland (May 10th,1997)
The Ghost of Tom Joad/Atlantic City/Straight Time/Highway
29/Darkness On The Edge of Town/Highway Patrolman/Murder
Incorporated/Freehold/Red Headed Woman/Two Hearts/ The River/Born
in the U.S.A./Dry Lightning/Long Time Coming/Sinaloa Cowboys/The
Line/ Balboa Park/Across the Border//Working On The Highway/This
Hard Land/There’ll Never Be Any Other For Me But
You//Streets of Philadelphia/The Promised Land
Sala Kongresowa, Warsaw, Poland (May 9th,1997)
The Ghost of Tom Joad/Adam Raised a Cain/Straight
Time/Highway 29/Darkness On The Edge of Town/Johnny
99/Nebraska/Red Headed Woman/Two Hearts/Freehold/The River/ Born
in the U.S.A./Dry Lightning/Reason to Believe/Sinaloa Cowboys/The
Line/Balboa Park/Across the Border//Bobby Jean/This Hard Land/No
Surrender/Streets of Philadelphia //If I Should Fall Behind/The
Promised Land
May 9th, 1997
FIRST SHOWS OF THE 1997 EUROPEAN TOUR
Bruce received the Polar Music Award and performed two songs (The
Ghost of Tom Joad and Thunder Road) in the dinner that was held
the same night. The next two days he played the first shows of
the new european tour:
Austria Center, Vienna, Austria (May 6th,1997)
The Ghost of Tom Joad/Atlantic City/Straight Time/Highway
29/Darkness/ Johnny 99/Nebraska/In Freehold/Red Headed Woman/Two
Hearts/ Brothers Under the Bridges/Born in the USA/Dry
Lightning/Long Time Coming/ Sinaloa Cowboys/The Line/Balboa
Park/Across the Border//Bobby Jean/This Hard Land/ There'll Never
Be Any Other For Me But You//Galveston Bay/The Promised Land
Austria Center, Vienna, Austria (May 7th,1997)
The Ghost of Tom Joad/Adam Raised a Cain/Straight Time/Highway
29/Darkness/ Murder Inc./Point Blank/In Freehold/Red Headed
Woman/The River/Youngstown/ Born in the USA/Dry Lightning/Long
Time Coming/Sinaloa Cowboys/The Line/ Balboa Park/Across the
Border//Two Hearts (with Patti Scialfa)/This Hard Land/ No
Surrender//If I Should Fall Behind/The Promised Land
March 28th, 1997
UPCOMING EUROPEAN TOUR DATES CONFIRMED
Here's an excerpt from the official press release of Shore Fire
Media:
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Columbia recording artist Bruce Springsteen's international solo acoustic theater tour will resume in May 1997, with his first-ever concerts in Austria, Poland and the Czech Rupublic. Multiple dates in France and Italy are planned as well. By the time Springsteen completes his May 26th show in Paris, he will have performed over 125 solo acoustic concerts in more than 90 cities in well over a dozen countries worldwide, in a tour that will have lasted 19 months.
Prior to the resumption of the tour, Bruce Springsteen will be presented with the 1997 Polar Music Prize, from the Stig Anderson Music Prize Fund of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. His Majesty the King of Sweden will present Springsteen with the award at a ceremony in Stockholm on May 5th. According to the Prize Committee, winners are chosen irrespective of nationality for their significant achievement in music or in musical activity, or for an achievement esteemed of great potential importance within the musical realm. Previous winners include Paul McCartney, Elton John and Quincy Jones.
World Tour Dates - May 1997
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May 6, 7 Vienna Austria Center
May 9, 10 Warsaw Sala Kongresowa
May 12 Prague Congress Center
May 15 Lyon Auditorium
May 16 Montpelier Le Corum
May 18 Nice Acropolis
May 19 Toulon Zenith
May 21 Florence Teatro Verdi
May 22 Naples Veatro Augusteo
May 25, 26 Paris Palais de Congress
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March 27th, 1997
CONCERTS IN VIENNA
The definitive dates for the two concerts in Vienna are:
6 & 7 May - Austria Center, Vienna
Tickets on sale today at this phone number: +43 0660-5599
March 17th, 1997
FRENCH DATES CONFIRMED
See below for definitive dates of the french tour. Tickets will
go on sale April 9th in every city.
March 14th, 1997
UPCOMING EUROPEAN TOUR
Bruce Springsteen is set to continue his solo acoustic tour in
Europe this spring. Some dates are known yet, though they have
not been officially confirmed.
5 May - Stockholm (Bruce will attend
the Polar Prize Awards and will pick up the award he has won)
12 May - Prague, Czech Republic
6 & 7 May - Austria Center, Vienna, Austria
9 & 10 May - Warsaw, Poland
15 May - Auditorium Maurice Ravel, Lyon, France
16 May - Le Corum, Montpellier, France
18 May - Acropolis, Nice, France
19 May - Zenith-Omega, Toulon, France
21 May - Firenze, Italy
22 May - Napoli, Italy
25 & 26 May - Palais des Congres, Paris, France
Tickets for french shows rumoured to go on sale April 9th in each city.
Dates in Spain are on the works although nothing has been confirmed yet. If the french dates are confirmed, this magazine will organize a trip to see Bruce in Montpellier.
NEW ALBUM
In a recent interview in Australia Bruce mentioned he had an
album on the works, with some songs already recorded and others
pending to be recorded during the two-month break (March/April)
before the upcoming European Tour. He said the album would
continue the style of the former “The Ghost of Tom
Joad”, with guitar, accordion and violin (like in the Asbury
Park benefit shows). Possible songs would include “Brothers
Under the Bridges” and “Long Time Coming”.
BRUCE LIVE WITH THE WALLFLOWERS!!
Saturday March 8th the Wallflowers (Jakob Dylan’s band)
performed at the Tradewinds in Sea Bright, New Jersey. At about
12:15 the band got off the stage and returned two minutes later
with Bruce on guitar. Three songs later Bon Jovi also joined the
band and the guys were having a blast! The songs performed were
“God Don’t Make Lonely Nights” (A Wallflowers
original), “My Girl”, “Brand New Cadillac”,
“Bring it On Home to Me” and “Not Fade Away”.
Springsteen sang mostly back up and some lead and played guitar
throughout. The band had rehearsed with Springsteen during the
afternoon soundcheck, when they did “People Get Ready”
and “Tears of a Clown”.
RHYTHM & BLUES FOUNDATION AWARDS
Bruce and Little Steven presented an award to Gary US Bonds (the
1997 Pioneer Award) in New York City on Febr.27th. Little Steven
took the mic to give a very long and funny story.
GRAMMY AWARDS
Bruce performed “The Ghost of Tom Joad” at the Grammy
Awards on February 26th at Madison Square Garden. Bruce also won
an award for “Best Contemporary Folk Album, for “The
Ghost of Tom Joad”. Roy Bittan was also onstage because of
his involvement with Celine Dion’s album “Falling Into
You” (Album of the Year), and Tommy Sims also won as
co-author of the song “Change the World” (Record of the
Year).
JAPAN & AUSTRALIA
Bruce toured the far east during the last week of January and the
first two weeks of February. The shows were standard and
didn’t bring much surprises to the set list, except for the
addition of “In Freehold” to some of the last
australian shows. The most interesting gigs were the ones in
Melbourne where Bruce also performed “Sandy”, “The
River”, “Blinded by the Light”, “Racing in
the Street” and “Reason to Believe”.
December 29th, 1996
END OF THE AMERICAN TOUR
The last leg of the american acoustic tour ended Dec.14th in
Charlotte,NC after a series of impressive concerts in the last
weeks. Bruce didn’t add new songs to the set list, except
for the Dion-version of If I Should Fall Behind that he did
regularly as the first song of the second encore. Dion himself
was a guest at the Ft.Lauderlade concert on Dec.2nd. One of the
most impressive concerts took place at the Ryman Auditorium in
Nashville,TN, Dec.12th, where he dedicated Racing in the Street
to Emmylou Harris, who was in attendance. Bruce was joined again
by Patti Scialfa on vocals and Soosie Tyrell on violin.
Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN
The Ghost of Tom Joad/Atlantic City/Straight Time/Highway
29/Darkness/Johnny 99/Mansion on the Hill (with PS and
ST)/Pilgrim in the Temple of Love/Red Headed Woman/Two Hearts
(with PS and ST)/When You're Alone (with PS and ST)/Shut Out the
Light (with PS and ST)/Born in the USA/Dry Lightning/Long Time
Coming/Sinaloa Cowboys/The Line/Balboa Park/Across the
Border//Bobby Jean/This Hard Land/Racing in the Street (with
ST)/There'll Never Be Any Other For Me But You//If I Should Fall
Behind/The Promised Land
After a long and well deserved rest, Springsteen will resume his solo acoustic tour with concerts in the Far East and Australia, early 1997. Rumour is he will hit Europe or the U.S. after those shows, but no dates have been announced yet. Here’s the confirmed shows so far:
1/27 Tokyo, Japan--Tokyo International Forum
1/29 Tokyo, Japan--Tokyo International Forum
1/30 Tokyo, Japan--Tokyo International Forum
1/31 Tokyo, Japan--Tokyo International Forum
2/4 Brisbane, Australia--Brisbane Performing Arts Centre
2/5 Brisbane, Australia--Brisbane Performing Arts Centre
2/7 Sydney, Australia--Capitol Theatre
2/8 Sydney, Australia--Capitol Theatre
2/10 Sydney, Australia--Capitol Theatre
2/11 Sydney, Australia--Capitol Theatre
2/12 Sydney, Australia--Capitol Theatre
2/15 Melbourne, Australia
2/16 Melbourne, Australia
2/17 Melbourne, Australia
December 8th, 1996
SHOWS IN ASBURY PARK
The three shows in the Paramount Theatre were full of surprises
in the setlists and had a lot of unexpected guests. During the
course of the three nights Danny Federici, Soozie Tyrell and
Patti Scialfa helped Bruce in some songs and, occasionally, Vini
Lopez, Richard Blackwell, Big Danny Gallagher and Little Steven
showed up too.
The setlist for the first night (the
most surprising) was:
Blinded By the Light / Does This Bus Stop / Growin' Up / Atlantic
City / Independence Day / Straight Time / Darkness / Johnny 99 /
Mansion on the Hill (with ST and PS) / Wild Billy's Circus Story
(with DF and ST) / Red Headed Woman /Two Hearts (with ST and PS)
/When You're Alone (with ST and PS) / Shut Out the Light (with
DF, ST and PS) / Born in the USA / The Ghost of Tom Joad /
Sinaloa Cowboys/ The Line / Racing in the Street (with ST) /
Across the Border / Working on the Highway / This Hard Land (with
DF) / Rosalita (with DF and ST) / Sandy (with DF) / The Promised
Land.
Other rare songs performed the next two shows were:
For You / It's Hard To Be a Saint in the City / Tougher Than the
Rest / All That Heaven Will Allow / I Don't want to go Home /
Spirit in the Night / I Wanna Marry You.
November 22nd, 1996
THREE BENEFIT SHOWS IN ASBURY PARK
Three benefit concerts at the Paramount Theater in Asbury Park
have been confimed for November 24,25 and 26.
Tickets went on sale yesterday and sold out in about 2 hours.
BRUCE IN JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA
It's not been oficially confirmed yet but most of the dates for
the next Japanese and Australian tour are known. The tour will
begin next January 29th in Tokyo and dates in Brisbane, Sydney
and Melbourne will follow.
November 12th, 1996
EXCLUSIVE HOT NEWS: BRUCE IN ASBURY PARK
Although there's no official word yet, it is now confirmed that
Bruce will do 2 acoustic benefit shows at the Paramount Theatre
in Asbury Park, New Jersey, on November 25th and 26th. Phone
sales only. The official announcement should be any day now.
After the surprising Freehold concert last friday, hopes are up
these will be (again) two great concerts. We'll try to attend and
post the news here right after every show.
SPRINGSTEEN IN NEW JERSEY - SURPRISE
SHOW
Bruce Springsteen performed in Freehold last friday. It was a
benefit show for the Hispanic community of his hometown Freehold,
New Jersey. It was was announced just a few days prior to the
show, and 1,300 tickets were available only to Freehold Boro
Residents. The performance took place at the gym of St.Rose of
Lima School (which Bruce attended when he was young). With help
from Patti Scialfa (vocals) and Soozie Tyrell (violin) Bruce
delivered the best performance on this tour yet, with surprising
new additions to the set list. It was a very special show. Look
at the set list:
St. Rose of Lima School Gymnasium, Freehold, New Jersey,
Nov.8th 1996
The River
Adam Raised a Cain
Straight Time
Highway 29
Darkness
Johnny 99
Mansion on the Hill
The Wish
Red Headed Woman
Two Hearts
When You're Alone
Open All Night
Used Cars
Born in the USA
The Ghost of Tom Joad
Sinaloa Cowboys
The Line
Balboa Park
Across the Border
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Growing Up
This Hard Land
My Hometown
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Racing in the Street
The Promised Land
In Freehold
November 5th, 1996
"BLOOD BROTHERS" (VIDEO + CD-SINGLE) will be
released on Nov.19th.
Sony Music has announced the official release of the film
"Blood Brothers", which will be sold together with a
CD-Single with songs taken from the film, which are:
1. Blood Brothers (alternative version)
2. High Hopes
3. Murder Incorporated (live at Tramps)
4. Secret Garden (string version)
5. Without You
"Blood Brothers" was filmed
in January 1995 during the recording sessions for the album
"Greatest Hits". It's a 80-minute documentary of Bruce
and The E Street Band rehearsing and recording new songs in the
studio. You can see how the songs progress from the acoustic
version performed by Bruce in front of the band to the final band
version as released.
Yet more interesting is the fact that we get to see and hear the
other tracks the band recorded but never made it onto the album.
Those songs are featured in the Cd-Single, with the exception of
"Back in Your Arms Again", the best songs according to
most fans which, for unknown reasons, is not included in the
single.
After the film you'll also find in the video the clips for
"Murder Incorporated" (recorded live at Tramps in
February 1995) and "Secret Garden".
It's surprising that this film is finally released now, with a
2-year delay, and does not include (in the CD-Single) Back in
Your Arms Again. Also, two of the songs on the single (numbers 3
and 4) had previously been released as B sides of previous
singles.
POINT BLANK #8
The new issue of Point Blank is now out in the streets. A special
issue fully dedicated to the Tom Joad tour, with complete set
lists, comments, articles and exclusive photos. If you're not a
subscriber you should check our page How to
Subscribe, for more information. (Just 1 page in english this
time folks, but you'll enjoy just seeing the pictures, we have
totally changed the design on this issue).
BRUCE PLAYS AT POLITICAL RALLY IN
L.A. AGAINST PROP-209
"The seeds of injustice and racism do not sleep, and neither
can we. All Californians of good will must stand shoulder to
shoulder and say that we are better than this and won't be
fooled". These are words from Springsteen during his
anti-Prop 209 speech in Los Angeles, last October 27th. He
performed "The Promised Land" and "No
Surrender".
AMERICAN TOUR NEWS/SURPRISES
Here's the most interesting new songs/surprises Bruce has been
performing at recent dates during his current American tour.
16/10/96 Denver - A new song is premiered, "Long Time
Coming", Bruce introduces it as a song he wrote for the Tom
Joad album.
17/10/96 Denver - "Long Time Coming",
"Point Blank", "The Wish". After some time
performing Woody Guthrie's "Tom Joad", he opens the
show again with "The Ghost of Tom Joad"/"Adam
Raised a Cain".
19/10/96 Albuquerque - "Highway Patrolman",
"There Will Never Be Anyone For Me But You".
21/10/96 Tempe - "No Surrender" with Nils
Lofgren, special guest that night.
23/10/96 Fresno - "The New Timer",
"Deportee".
25/10/96 Santa Barbara - first US version "Pilgrim in
the Temple of Love". Danny Federici performs with Bruce
during "This Hard Land" and "There Will Never Be
Anyone For Me But You".
26/10/96 San Jose - benefit concert for the "John
Steinbeck Foundation".
29/10/96 Seattle - the october leg of the tour ends in
Seattle, where Bruce adds and extra encore: "Blinded by The
Light".
After some days off, the tour will resume November 12th in
Buffalo, NY, and will end on December 14th in Charlotte, NC.
September 19th, 1996
THE AMERICAN TOUR STARTS
The new american tour began in Pittsburgh. This first show's
setlist included songs played in the last part of the european
tour but not in the prior american tour, like Atlantic City or
Red Headed Woman. Joe Grushecky jumped onstage during the encores
to play Homestead, a song co-written with Bruce and included in
Joe's album "American Babylon".
The 2nd show (Wallingford) included the first surprise of the
tour: My Father's House. We hope it won't be the last one.
During the summer Bruce did two appearances in
Wallingford,Montana where he traveled to attend Toby Scott's
wedding. August 9th he joined the band The Fanatics at the Great
Northern Bar & Grill and played the songs Shake,Rattle &
Roll and Mustang Sally. Next day, at the wedding reception, he
joined again The Fanatics and played a longer set which included:
Round and Round, You Send me, Hold On! I'm a Comin', Mustang
Sally, Long Tall Sally and Shake,Rattle & Roll.
According to what an attendee at the reception said, Bruce told
that a new record would come out this winter. Let's hope it's
true.
August 8th, 1996
NEW AMERICAN TOUR
Following is the official press release from Shore Fire Media
announcing the new acoustic tour in the US:
Columbia recording artist Bruce Springsteen's first-ever solo acoustic theatre tour returns to the United States on September 16. Springsteen will perform in 33 cities in 24 states over a three-month period. With markets including Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Denver, San Diego, Seattle, Miami and Nashville, this leg of the tour takes Springsteen to different cities than the tour's first series of concerts.
In addition to the solo dates, two special performances by Springsteen have been scheduled. On September 29th, he'll participate in the Woody Guthrie Tribute Concert at Severance Hall in Cleveland, OH. The event will cap a week-long series of Guthrie remembrances planned by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and the Woody Guthrie Archives. A benefit concert by Springsteen for the John Steinbeck ResearchCenter at the San Jose State University is set to take place as well. Additional details regarding the event, scheduled for October 26th, will be announced soon.
The sold out first leg of the US acoustic theatre tour began in November 1995 in Los Angeles, and continued through January 1996 with 26 concerts in 20 cities in the United States and Cananda, and benefit concerts in Red Bank, NJ, New Brunswick, NJ and New York City. Springsteen's first-ever international solo acoustic theater tour took place during February, March, April and May 1996, and reached well over two dozen cities in 13 countries, including Germany, France, Holland, England, Scotland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Ireland, Belgium, Italy and Spain. The 35 performances marked Springsteen's most extensive series of Europeanconcerts ever.
Bruce Springsteen's thirteenth album, The Ghost of Tom Joad, was released in November 1995 and has been certified Gold by the RIAA. The Ghost of Tom Joad was chosen as one of the "Ten Best Albums of 1995" by Time Magazine, USA Today, The Wall St. Journal, and The Los Angeles Times, among others. Rolling Stone's Mikal Gilmore stated that the cd is Springsteen's "first overtly social statement since Born in the USA", and added, "I'm convinced it's Springsteen's best album in 10 years, and I also think it's among the bravest work that anyone has given us this decade". In Esquire magazine, Elizabeth Wurtzel wrote that Springsteen "dares to be heroic and write about what really matters to him and by extension, what really touches other people," and described him as "the last rock singer who is likely to make music that feels significant".
DATE CITY VENUE 9/16 Pittsburgh, PA Benedum Center 9/18 Wallingford, CT Oakdale Theatre 9/19 Providence, RI Performing Arts Center 9/24 Kalamazoo, Mi Miller Auditorium 9/25 Akron, OH EJ Thomas Hall 9/26 Ann Arbor, MI Hill Auditorium 9/29 Cleveland, OH Woody Guthrie Benefit 10/1 Normal, IL Braden Auditorium 10/2 Milwaukee, WI Riverside Auditorium 10/3 Minneapolis, MN Northrup Auditorium 10/15 Salt Lake City, UT Abravnel Hall 10/16,17 Denver, CO Paramount Theatre 10/19 Albuquerque, NM Kiva Auditorium 10/21 Tempe, AZ Gammage Auditorium 10/22 San Diego, CA Civic Theatre 10/23 Fresno, CA Saroyan Theatre 10/25 Santa Barbara, CA Arlington Theatre 10/26 San Jose, CA John Steinbeck Benefit 10/28 Portland, OR Schnitzer Auditorium 10/29 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre 11/12 Buffalo, NY Shea's Performing Arts Center 11/13 Syracuse, NY Landmark Theatre 11/14 Lowell, MA Lowell Memorial Auditorium 11/19 Memphis, TN Dixon-Myers Hall 11/20 Louisville, KY Palace Theatre 11/21 Indianapolis, IN Murat Theatre 12/2,3 Miami, FL Sunrise Auditorium 12/5 Columbia, SC Township Auditorium 12/6 Birmingham, AL Concert Hall 12/10 Cincinnati, OH Music Hall 12/11 Columbus, OH Veteran's Auditorium 12/12 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium 12/14 Charlotte, NC Ovens Auditorium
On Sale dates will be announced locally beginning later this month.
SPRINGSTEEN SUES U.K. LABELS TO STOP "UNEARTHED"
CD RELEASE
LONDON, Aug 5 (Reuter) - U.S. rock-and-roll singer Bruce
Springsteen, made famous by songs such as `Born in the USA', took
legal action on Monday against two alleged bootleggers of his hit
double album `Unearthed'.
Springsteen issued a British High Court writ against Flute
International of Bristol, England and Robert Tringham of
Hertfordshire, England, seeking damages.
The singer, who is based in New York, also sought a court order
restraining them from copying any part of the musical and
associated literary works on the album.
The album contains 23 songs dealing with familiar Springsteen
themes such as his working-class roots in the northeastern United
States.
August 4th, 1996
"MISSING" RELEASED IN SPAIN
The new single "Missing" has also been released in
Spain as a CD-Single, with the same live tracks from Berlin as
the french version.
NEW AMERICAN TOUR
Some dates of the new american solo acoustic tour are rumoured to
be:
Sept.18th - Wallingford CT
Sept.19th - Providence, RI
Sept.27th & 28th - Pittsburgh,PA
full itinerary for September and October will be announced soon.
August 1st, 1996
NEW SINGLE
The new Bruce Springsteen single has been released in France. It
contains the unreleased song “Missing”, from Sean
Penn’s film The Crossing Guard. No soundtrack was ever
released from the movie.
The new CD-single contains:
1. Missing
2. Darkness On The Edge of Town
3. Spare Parts
4. Born in the U.S.A.
The three extra tracks were recorded live in Berlín on April
19th 1996 during the european acoustic tour.
There is also another release of “Missing”: the french
have reissued the CD Greatest Hits as a double disc, containing
the Missing CD-Single. The difference to the commercial CD5 is
that the one you can find along with the Greatest Hits CD
doesn’t have a picture sleeve.
A promo CD5 was also released with only 1 track (Missing) and
with a cardboard cover.
NEW AMERICAN TOUR
It has been officially announced that the Solo Acoustic Tour will
resume in the US in September, to continue thru October. The tour
itinerary won’t be announced until August, but it’s
likely that the tour will hit cities not included in the first
american tour in the fall of ’95. Rumour has it the venues
will be bigger than the previous tour of American and Europe,
with capacities of 4 or 5 thousand people.
BOOTLEG HIT
The biggest distributor of bootleg CDs in American was busted
last June 24th. Acording to the RIAA this was the largest bootleg
seizure in history. The bootlegger was operating in the NY area
and some 400,000 discs were seized along with $370,000 in cash.
After this, some stores in the Village in NYC were also busted
(Revolver and Second Coming). Reports say other East Coast
bootleg dealers have pulled stock and that the news has curtailed
the open sale of boots at some record conventions. So it is now
very hard to find in American any bootleg CDs in the stores.
July 8th, 1996
At last the point blank homepage
is online!. Meanwhile, Springsteen is apparently recording new
songs in his home studio in L.A.
These are songs he wrote while on tour in Europe. Other musicians
may be involved also (including Randy Jackson, who told a fan
about this). But don't hold your breath for a quick release
before Xmas.
There are also rumours about a new live album before the end of
the year (from the acoustic tour) but we think it's very
unlikely.
In the bootleg field the storm is the
release of a collection of CDs called "The Lost
Masters". 19 CDs are said to be coming out, and 5 of them
are already out. They contains lots of unreleased songs from
1979/1983, including the E Street Band's version of
"Protection" (a song given to Donna Summer in 1982),
the rockabilly versions of "My Hometown" and
"Sugarland", many acoustic home demos and band
rehearsals and tons of unreleased tracks such as "Chain
Lightning", "Under the Gun", "Little
Girl", "I Need You", "Angelyne",
"County Fair", etc...
The quality is excellent in all of the 5 titles released so far.
Of note also there's the recent Crystal Cat titles "Brixton
Night" (which contains the complete Brixton show from 4/24
plus all the different songs performed in London, including a
rare performance of "The Angel"), plus "Berlin
Night" , and incredible 3-CD set (sold as a double, don't
pay more that what you'd pay for a double) with the complete
Berlin show on the first two discs (an outstanding audience
recording) and the 1-hour radio broadcast of the same show on the
third "bonus" disc. The surprise comes when you realize
the audience part has the same, or better, quality than the radio
broadcast. It's hard to believe an audience recording can achieve
such incredible quality, but it does.