1973-03-02 Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA

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Scheduled: 20:00 Local Start Time ??:?? / End Time ??:??

Info & Setlist | Venue

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One show, 8.00pm, double bill, with Springsteen and band opening for headliners Blood, Sweat & Tears. Bill Graham, who'd nearly signed Bruce/Steel Mill three years earlier, organized this concert. The listed setlist derives from the circulating recording. Given Bruce's restricted performing time as the opening act, the circulating audio is likely to represent the complete performance.

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On Stage

• Bruce Springsteen
• The E Street Band
  • Clarence Clemons
  • Danny Federici
  • Vini Lopez
  • Garry Tallent

Setlist

LOST IN THE FLOOD SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT CIRCUS SONG BISHOP DANCED DOES THIS BUS STOP AT 82ND STREET? BLINDED BY THE LIGHT THUNDERCRACK

No Handwritten or Printed Setlist available.

Performances

^{incl. Rehearsals.}

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• 1995-11-30 Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA
• 1995-11-29 Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA
• 1978-07-01 Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA
• 1978-06-30 Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA
• 1973-03-02 Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA

Gallery

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Media

^{Note: "You Mean So Much To Me" is actually from My Father's Place, July 31, 1973.}

Recording

Excellent quality soundboard recording began circulating in the mid-1990s. The circulating audio is missing the opening seconds of "Lost In The Flood" and concludes with a series of announcements. Available on the CDs 'Prodigal Son' (Crystal Cat), 'Before The Flood' (CU) and in improved quality 'On The Road Night' (Crystal Cat). In an interview five years later promoting his return to California, Bruce stated that the last show they recorded in Berkeley was this one, suggesting that this show was recorded for posterity.

Storyteller

02.03.73 Berkeley, CA, intro to ‘Spirit in the Night’
”This is a song for Friday nights…..”

02.03.73 Berkeley, CA, intro to ‘Circus Song’
”This a song about uh….running away to, uh….join the police force….boys ready ?…. ah, this is Danny, plays accordion…..I found him playing in the audience of Lawrence Welks’Show…..a (?) protege…(?)….”

02.03.73 Berkeley, CA, intro to ‘Bishop Dance’
”That’s the Mexican rhythm section….ah….gonna do a song now about a bishop, his wife and a violin player in West Virginia….how they lost their daughter to mathematics while on a business trip in Detroit….’bout James Garner…..during his well-known, very popular stint….as a …..TV’s, uh, very own Maverick…..uh….did have an affair with and married a woman who, uh….had only one eye….operating at any given time… ‘bout a little boy, says the indians are still in the woods, only nobody sees ‘em….’bout the sexual pathos of elderly choirboys in Puke, Montana…..”

02.03.73 Berkeley, CA, intro to ‘Does This Bus Stop at the 82nd Street ?’
”Song about New York City….82nd Street bus….”

02.03.73 Berkeley, CA, middle of ‘Thundercrack’
”We, uh….now come….to the very, uh…..avantgarde portion of our show here….( a short and very strange ”musical” break) that’s pretty much it, uh (chuckles)….”

Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi

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