1978-06-29 San Jose Center For The Performing Arts, San Jose, CA

Scheduled: 20:00 Local Start Time 20:35 / End Time 23:45

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A contributor to the Greasy Lake website recalls "an intimate gathering (Billboard magazine reported an attendance of 2,463, a sellout) of enthusiastic Springsteen fans were treated to a high-energy show, the highlight coming about three-quarters of the way through when Bruce got on Clarence's shoulders and the two of them waded into the audience." The concert culminated with Bruce and Clarence dancing on the speakers flanking the stage before Springsteen collapsed, playing dead at the microphone. Several of the songs listed are per the contemporary diary of an attendee, a review in the Stanford Daily, or both. See our Gallery tab for some magnificent photos from Jack Bogdanski and Karl Buhler.

29.06.78 San Jose, CA, intro to ´´Darkness On The Edge Of Town´´
´´I tell you this is an insane place this place, what are you guys gonna do if you gotta go to bathroom or something?….(?)….you make a lot of noise (?)….(?)….(?) my mother and father, they live about a half-hour up the road, you know, and….I only, I only came down here once and it was funny because I was telling the guys on my way down here: ´Man, San Jose, I was down there about eight years ago, that´s a mean town´….(?) I remember I pulled into this gas-station around here, I was looking for, I was playing with this band up here in a garage with this bunch of young kids ´cause I was out here on my own, I didn´t have a band or nothing at the time so I was trying to keep practising, look for a job and so I went down and rehearsed with these guys who were like 13 years old and I had a good time, you know (chuckles) I remember I pulled into this gas-station in town, ´What do you want?´ ´I want some gas, you know´….´Get it yourself´ (chuckles)(?)….this is a new song, it´s called ´Darkness On The Edge Of Town´….´´

29.06.78 San Jose, CA, intro to ´´For You´´
´´(?)….everybody thought I was working for a year, I was out sunning….that´s how I got such a good tan, you see….and my mother, I go (?) she says ´You have a good tan´ (?)….(?) she always lures me home (?) ´We got strawberries´….she always gets me (?) this is a song, this is a song that was covered by a fellow out here on Berserkley Records called Greg Kihn…. it´s funny, I was in, I was in New York and this guy came up to me….he looked pretty berserk and he told me that Greg Kihn covered it so I liked it so much I stole the end and this is, uh, greetings from Asbury Park…..´´

29.06.78 San Jose, CA, intro to ´´The Promised Land´´
´´(?)….we´re gonna get to all those songs, we´re gonna do all of ´em…..now, this is, uh, this is something from the new album, it´s called ´Promised Land´….´´

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