kayorocks
Jul 7th, 2008, 02:10 PM
Phoenix July 8, 1978
My first [and still, the ultimate] Bruce Springsteen concert!!!!! The '78 Darkness Tour was the best
of all time...
One of the clips from the pro shot video..PROVE IT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB5gOj_uTUE
and to further memorialize this event, here is a link to the Dave Marsh Rolling
Stone article which describes one of the greatest concert weeks in Springsteen History....
http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/brucespringsteen/articles/story/5933433/cove
r_story_bruce_springsteen_raises_cain
Phoenix, Saturday, July 8th
"Phoenix was the first town outside of the New York-New Jersey-Philadelphia-Boston region where Springsteen became popular. In the words of Danny Federici, "This is the first place I ever felt like a star." It's hard to believe, driving past these deserted desert streets at 7:30 on a Saturday evening, that the 10,000-seat Veterans Memorial Coliseum is sold out. But when the show is over, I know what Robert Hilburn felt.
It's not that it's just another fantastic show. This is another goddamn event, and it goes farther than the Roxy, with all of that's show's intimacy, innocence and vulnerability, but with an added factor of pandemonium. It's the sweetest-tempered crowd I've ever seen, and at the same time, the most maniacal. Bruce dedicates the show to the town in memory of the time "when this was about the only place I could get a job," and the crowd gives it back. During "Prove It All Night," three extremely young girls in the front row hold up a hand-lettered sign written on a bedsheet. Quoting the song, it says, JUST ONE KISS WILL GET THESE THINGS FOR YOU. And he gets them, during "Rosalita," one after another, as they race up to kiss him, lightly, on the cheek. A fourth darts up, and just. . .reaches out and touches his hand. And finally, three more race up and bowl him over. ("This little girl, couldn't have been more than fifteen, and she had braces on her teeth," Springsteen exclaims later. "And she had her tongue so far down my throat I nearly choked.")
I've never seen anything like this in such a big hall. Before the encores -- which include "Raise Your Hand" and the inevitable "Quarter to Three" -- are over, not seven, but seventeen girls have climbed up to hiss him, and there are couples dancing, actually jitterbugging, on the front of the stage. The cameramen are torn between filming Bruce, who is pouring it all out, and simply shooting the crowd, which is pushing him farther and farther.
It's a perfect climax to a week of rock & roll unparalleled in my experience..."
let's hope that this concert gets the full "remaster" video treatment and is
released as part of the Darkness 30th Anniversery set....SOON!
My first [and still, the ultimate] Bruce Springsteen concert!!!!! The '78 Darkness Tour was the best
of all time...
One of the clips from the pro shot video..PROVE IT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB5gOj_uTUE
and to further memorialize this event, here is a link to the Dave Marsh Rolling
Stone article which describes one of the greatest concert weeks in Springsteen History....
http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/brucespringsteen/articles/story/5933433/cove
r_story_bruce_springsteen_raises_cain
Phoenix, Saturday, July 8th
"Phoenix was the first town outside of the New York-New Jersey-Philadelphia-Boston region where Springsteen became popular. In the words of Danny Federici, "This is the first place I ever felt like a star." It's hard to believe, driving past these deserted desert streets at 7:30 on a Saturday evening, that the 10,000-seat Veterans Memorial Coliseum is sold out. But when the show is over, I know what Robert Hilburn felt.
It's not that it's just another fantastic show. This is another goddamn event, and it goes farther than the Roxy, with all of that's show's intimacy, innocence and vulnerability, but with an added factor of pandemonium. It's the sweetest-tempered crowd I've ever seen, and at the same time, the most maniacal. Bruce dedicates the show to the town in memory of the time "when this was about the only place I could get a job," and the crowd gives it back. During "Prove It All Night," three extremely young girls in the front row hold up a hand-lettered sign written on a bedsheet. Quoting the song, it says, JUST ONE KISS WILL GET THESE THINGS FOR YOU. And he gets them, during "Rosalita," one after another, as they race up to kiss him, lightly, on the cheek. A fourth darts up, and just. . .reaches out and touches his hand. And finally, three more race up and bowl him over. ("This little girl, couldn't have been more than fifteen, and she had braces on her teeth," Springsteen exclaims later. "And she had her tongue so far down my throat I nearly choked.")
I've never seen anything like this in such a big hall. Before the encores -- which include "Raise Your Hand" and the inevitable "Quarter to Three" -- are over, not seven, but seventeen girls have climbed up to hiss him, and there are couples dancing, actually jitterbugging, on the front of the stage. The cameramen are torn between filming Bruce, who is pouring it all out, and simply shooting the crowd, which is pushing him farther and farther.
It's a perfect climax to a week of rock & roll unparalleled in my experience..."
let's hope that this concert gets the full "remaster" video treatment and is
released as part of the Darkness 30th Anniversery set....SOON!