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Asbury Park went back to the 70’s for a while yesterday afternoon. Springsteen reunited The E Street Band at the Carousel House, south of the famous boardwalk. With only a bunch of fans, family and friends in the audience, Springsteen performed a group of selected songs off his new double album The Promise.

After a lenghty soundcheck, Bruce sang 11 songs in front of a small audience and a film crew, with a shortened E Street Band (without Nils or Patti), plus help from a horn section and David Lindley on the violin (David had previously joined the E Street Band during the Darkness studio sessions in ’77/78).

«Racing in the Street» (in its ’78 rock version), «The Brokenhearted», «Talk to me», «Outside Lookin’ in», «One Way Street», «The Promise» or «Ain’t Good Enough for You» were some of the songs that were performed various times for the cameras.

The filmed performance ended with «Blue Christmas», with all the audience wearing Santa hats. The show was filmed for promotional purposes and will be webcast sometime at the end of this month. See complete set list.

According to an email sent by Backstreets.com, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be playing on Dec.7th «on the Jersey Shore to play tracks from The Promise for a special future webcast. And unlike the Darkness ’09 film, they don’t want to play to nobody… so we’ve got the chance to send a small number of fans to be extras for the filming. It’ll also be a unique opportunity to see Bruce and the Band in action and up close, working up performance debuts of songs from The Promise, and to be part of the small crowd in an intimate space when they capture it on film».

Backstreets is running a contest among his bulletin subscribers to attend this special performance. The exact time and location of the shooting has not been revealed yet.

Columbia Records has released a 7″ vinyl single for Black Friday, exclusively for independent stores in the U.S. It contains the songs «Save My Love» b/w «Because the Night», both from the recent 2CD The Promise. The single features a fabulous Eric Meola photo on the cover. Sure to become a collector’s item soon!