1974-03-10 Liberty Hall, Houston, TX (Late)

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Scheduled: 23:00 Local Start Time ??:?? / End Time ??:??

Info & Setlist | Venue

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Late show (11.00pm), double bill, with Springsteen and band headlining and Jimmie Spheeris opening. As advertising for the Liberty Hall residency states, the final night was originally scheduled as one show only. However due to strong demand a second (late) show was added at the very last moment. Attendee recollections from March 10 that have surfaced over the years have caused great confusion due to the fact that both shows featured somewhat different setlists and because it was not generally known/confirmed that two shows were performed on March 10. For the second show Bruce changed the two opening songs, instead, he began the late show with an acoustic "Mary Queen of Arkansas" followed by a semi-acoustic "The Fever". The second show has several interesting features. Springsteen sings the "The Fever" for the first time of the year in a concert setting and predicates the rendition by mentioning the studio demo that has been sent out to some radio stations (but doesn't mention the fact he played the song the day before inside the KLOL-FM studio). By performing "The Fever" at this show Bruce appears to have been delivering on a promise he made to the Liberty Hall audience the night before. Additionally, Bruce breaks a guitar string during "Spirit In The Night" and so we get the first known rendition of Clarence's time-filling comedy number "Gimme That Wine". We're also treated to the only known live performance of "Angel's Blues" (known to most fans by the titles of "She's So Fine" and "Ride On Sweet William") a rather unspectacular song that dates from mid-1973. The performance is very ragged, indicating it may not have been rehearsed much. "For You" is the solo piano version. It should also be noted that there are unsubstantiated reports that this second show included two additional songs ("4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" and "Let The Four Winds Blow") that don't seem to be circulating anywhere.

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On Stage

• Bruce Springsteen
• The E Street Band
  • Ernest "Boom" Carter
  • Clarence Clemons
  • Danny Federici
  • David Sancious
  • Garry Tallent

Setlist

MARY QUEEN OF ARKANSAS THE FEVER SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT GIMME THAT WINE THE E STREET SHUFFLE SOMETHING YOU GOT IT'S HARD TO BE A SAINT IN THE CITY DOES THIS BUS STOP AT 82ND STREET? KITTY'S BACK ANGEL'S BLUES THUNDERCRACK FOR YOU ROSALITA (COME OUT TONIGHT) Setlist may be incomplete.

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Performances

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• 1974-03-10 Liberty Hall, Houston, TX (Late)
• 1974-03-10 Liberty Hall, Houston, TX (Early)
• 1974-03-09 Liberty Hall, Houston, TX (Late)
• 1974-03-09 Liberty Hall, Houston, TX (Early)
• 1974-03-08 Liberty Hall, Houston, TX (Late)
• 1974-03-08 Liberty Hall, Houston, TX (Early)
• 1974-03-07 Liberty Hall, Houston, TX

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Media

Recording

The above-mentioned thirteen-song setlist for the late show (believed to be in the proper sequence) is taken from audio that has been sourced from home tapings of radio broadcasts. Current evidence suggests this show was not simulcast live at the time but, rather, was first broadcast in November 1974 to promote Springsteen's later Texas tour. There is also some evidence that the material was broadcast in bits and pieces in November 1974, rather than in one complete program segment. The original taper's utilized modest recording equipment, so the sound quality is good but not outstanding. With a running time of about 98 minutes (depending on between-song edits) this is most likely the complete show, although it is possible that a couple of songs are missing. Comments Springsteen makes between several songs offer quite compelling evidence all this audio is from the late show on March 10. The thirteen songs that are known from the late show only appeared coherently on a mainstream bootleg in 2009. The CD boots 'Liberty Hall' (Mistral), 'All Those Years' (Templar) and 'Live & Unreleased' (Seagull) each include the same five recordings ("Mary Queen of Arkansas", "The Fever", "Gimme That Wine", "Angel's Blues" and "Thundercrack"). 'Liberty Hall' also includes "Something You Got". 'All Those Years' and 'Live & Unreleased' also includes "The E Street Shuffle". The six 'rare/missing' recordings ("Spirit In The Night", "It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City", "Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?", "Kitty's Back", "For You" and "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)") are available on CD 'Greetings From Liberty Hall TX' (Wonderland Records). The full show is also included in the set also featuring the prior night's radio broadcast 'The Complete Liberty Hall Tapes' (Burning Love). The audio quality of this CD is somewhat different to the old versions - it appears to be sourced from an alternative recording.

Storyteller

10.03.74 Houston, TX, intro to ´The Fever´
´´We’re gonna try something now, something….this is a song we haven’t done in about a year but we found out that they sent a demo….down here….yeah, bring out the rest of the band ….we’ll give it a try for you, hope we’ll remember….you know (?)….it’s a song we did about a year ago, no, we did it when we were recording the second album….as a demo tape for….to demo, I don’t know what for (chuckles) (?) and uh….and uh, they sent the tape, they sent the tape down here and I guess KLF has been playing…who?….is that wrong ? (Bruce means KILT)….sorry, folks but….but whoever, the radio station….is everybody here ?…. we’re gonna give it a try for you…..(plays the opening riff)…..sneaky mother of a song (chuckles)….”

10.03.74 Houston, TX, intro to ‘Spirit in the Night’
”We got to do this song every time we play or else we hasn’t played…..during the week , the kids, they live like shadows and they dance like spirits through the night….
(…) Wild Billy was a crazy cat and he shook some dust out of his cowboy hat…"

10.03.74 Houston, TX, after ‘Give Me That Wine’
(Clarence : ´I don’t really drink wine….really´)(laughs)….”

10.03.74 Houston, TX, intro to ´Something You Got´
´´This is an oldie…..it’s a song by Chris Kenner….we did it on the radio the other day….I’m gonna do it just for Mike (?)…”

10.03.74 Houston, TX, towards the end of "It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City"
"When you're walking down 8th Avenue all alone on a hot night in August…you feel the tension in the air…you're walking down the street, you turn the corner…watchout for that gun!…it's the cops!…"

10.03.74 Houston, TX, end of "It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City"
"Watchout for the cops!…"

10.03.74 Houston, TX, middle of ´She´s So Fine (Ride on Sweet William)´
And so she gets in my car and I take her home….she lives on 16th and E Street (chuckles) steps out of the car and she goes up the driveway, into the house and she’s gone….but, but that can’t be the end of this story, right….the door….´cause you know, I’m sittin’in the driveway…and the door opens a little bit and….(?)…and comes out with a suitcase….she’s all packed ….and she´s gonna come with me!….”

10.03.74 Houston, TX, intro to "Thundercrack"
"This next song is a song we haven't done, we haven't done down here yet and, uh…it's not a new song, we've been doing it a little while…it goes "Her…brains they rattle…
(…) Over to the far right of the stage we got the little Mr. Maestro himself, the Prince of Passaic (?) New Jersey, when the man plays the keys, the little teenyboppers fall right… they fall left…they fall right…they fall left…they fall down…to their knees…from Flemington, New Jersey, on the organ and accordion, Daniel Federici, yeah! (crowd cheers)…now on the bass guitar we got a man whose mother was a Tallent, whose father was a Tallent, whose sister was a Tallent, whose brother is a Tallent and whose great-great-grandfather is a great, great Tallent, from Long Branch, New Jersey, on the bass guitar, the Funky Chicken, Mr. Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) back on the piano we got a man who's twenty years old, digits of solid gold, from Belmont, New Jersey, Mr. Dave Sancious (crowd cheers) back on the drums we got a man who comes to you straight from the Little Royal Review, Ernest "Boom" Carter on the drums (crowd cheers) and of course last but not least a man who might laugh, joke, chew or eat or smoke those cornflakes but he don't mess around, the Duke of Paducah, the Kahuna of surf and soul, on the tenor saxophone, Mr. Clarence Clemons (crowd cheers)…"

10.03.74 Houston, TX, intro to "For You"
"(?) have a nice round of applause for my band (applauds) it's just a beautiful band (crowd cheers) and I wanna thank - this is the last set and I wanna thank everybody in the crowd, I know there's people that have been here two or three times, you know, and I wanna thank you very much, I wanna let you know how we really appreciate it because it's the first time we've been down here and everybody was worried about what we were gonna do, what was gonna happen and, uh, it's like, it's, you've been just the best crowd we've ever played to, really, you know (crowd cheers) and that's the truth, that's the truth, you know, that's not…that's not a bunch of jive, that's the truth, you know…(someone in the crowd yells out) Yeah, we're gonna be, we're gonna be in Austin next week (some cheers) at the, uh, Armadillo, I guess, Headquarters, and then we're gonna be in Dallas, and then we're gonna be in Phoenix and I think out to L.A…but I can't imagine it being any better than this right here so thank you very much (crowd cheers) this is something I wanna do for youse, it's a song off the first album and I wanna dedicate it to everybody that's been down here and to both radio stations and just say thank you very much, this is something for you…
(…) "Like Superman, you could leap tall buildings in a single bound…"
10.03.74 Houston, TX, middle of "Rosalita"
"This is Texas…so are you ready to draw?…"

Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi

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