1975-12-02 Music Hall, Boston, MA

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Info & Setlist | Venue

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Show includes the first known live performance of "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town" since December 1973 - and it's the earliest rendition that is audio-circulating. There's also one of only three known performances of Claudine Clark's 1962 hit "Party Lights". "Thunder Road" is the slow version with Roy on piano and Bruce on harmonica and vocals. The introduction to "Spirit In The Night" includes the opening lines of Lloyd Price's "Stagger Lee". "The E Street Shuffle" includes "Having A Party". "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" includes a snippet of "Theme From Shaft" in the midsection.

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On Stage

• Bruce Springsteen
• The E Street Band
  • Roy Bittan
  • Clarence Clemons
  • Danny Federici
  • Garry Tallent
  • Steven Van Zandt
  • Max Weinberg

Setlist

THUNDER ROAD TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT LOST IN THE FLOOD SHE'S THE ONE BORN TO RUN THE E STREET SHUFFLE GROWIN' UP IT'S HARD TO BE A SAINT IN THE CITY BACKSTREETS KITTY'S BACK JUNGLELAND ROSALITA (COME OUT TONIGHT) SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN DETROIT MEDLEY 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY) PARTY LIGHTS QUARTER TO THREE

No Handwritten or Printed Setlist available.

Performances

^{incl. Rehearsals.}

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• 1978-05-31 Music Hall, Boston, MA
• 1978-05-30 Music Hall, Boston, MA
• 1978-05-29 Music Hall, Boston, MA
• 1977-03-25 Music Hall, Boston, MA
• 1977-03-24 Music Hall, Boston, MA
• 1977-03-23 Music Hall, Boston, MA
• 1977-03-22 Music Hall, Boston, MA
• 1975-12-03 Music Hall, Boston, MA
• 1975-12-02 Music Hall, Boston, MA
• 1974-10-29 Music Hall, Boston, MA

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Recording

Audience tape of above average quality for its era available on CDR 'Party Lights'. Also can be found as an audience tape sourced from Steve Hopkins' master tapes (released by 'JEMS').

Storyteller

02.12.75 Boston, MA, intro to ´The E Street Shuffle´
´´How´s everybody been ? (cheers) we ain´t been back here in a while, we´ve been….we went to England, right, we went over there….and where else´d we go ?….we went to, uh, we went to, we went to Amsterdam (?)….it´s weird over there, it´s strange, Europe, Europe is different, you know….who´s here, how many folks here from New Jersey ? (cheers) then who´s here, who´s here from Boston ? (cheers)(?)…..”

02.12.75 Boston, MA, intro to ´Santa Claus Is Coming to Town´
´´(?)…you guys all know what time of the year it is, don´t you ?….you guys have been practising every night ?….even when I´m not there…..are you sure ?….I know what Clarence was practising (?) you wasn´t practising at your saxophone (?)….”

Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi

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