The Boss Live at the Roxy, 1978 (Part One)
My wife made me watch David Hasselhoff sing on America’s Got Talent, and now I feel sick to my stomach. I thought she loved me.
This must be rectified now. We need live Boss, and we need it now. I am getting seriously geeked about the new boss album and E Street tour coming up in a matter of weeks. This show here, this has to be my favorite Boss show of all time. You’ll feel the energy from the second Bruce takes the mic to apologize to those who got shut out after waiting in line all day: “I wasn’t trying to turn this into no private party, ’cause I don’t play no parties no more…except my own. [crowd cheers wildly] So give me a little slap back on this microphone… One…we gonna do some rock n’ roll for you...” ZOWWW! They don’t call him Boss for nothing, as you’ll hear with this show.
The show goes on for well over three hours, so this is going to be a three parter. I’ll have 2 and 3 up soon. But let’s get started with this. You Bruce fanatics, you probably have this show. But if you don’t, God are you in for a treat. I recommend downloading it all, queuing it up on your iPod or iTunes, and listening to it straight through. Certainly string the intro and “Rave On” together to see how this show kicks off. It’s amazing.
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
The Roxy, Hollywood, California
July 7th, 1978
Part One
Intro
Rave On
Badlands
Spirit in the Night
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Candy’s Room
For You
Point Blank
The Promised Land
Prove It All Night
Racing Intro
Racing in the Street
Thunder Road
Outro
Come back soon for parts 2 and 3.
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Man, I’ve had this show since I don’t know when (bought the boot several times:tape, Lp, cd) but I haven’t thought about it for ages. Now it is right what I need to listen, a huge thank you for bringing it again to my ears!
Also you wrote a hell of intro to it
At long last, I can hear this legendary show and see how it holds up against the classic Cleveland WMMS 10th Anniversary show from August of ‘78.
Thanks for posting!
great great show!!
Wow, this is great
One of the great Springsteen sets. Thanks.
Thanks, Pete. I can not get enough Bruce boots. Every new show that I get, he brings something new and different, whether musically or emotionally, to songs that had been so familiar. This one is great (so far!).
Part 2 coming tonight……
wow!!! this is awesome! i have never heard this whole show before and it really jumps out of my headphones….he is just the best..i have never seen him live, one of my regrets, but just hearing this early show makes me realise how much i love all his stuff, right up to the latest. thanks a lot for putting this up , i will be first in line to buy the new cd….excellent, made my night!!!
The Roxy show went out live over KMET-FM in Los Angeles and while there is no doubt that the performance is unbelievably good, the audio was some of the most gawd awful crap I’ve ever heard. Every time the band started, you could hear the compression kick in and just squash the sound all to hell.
I have seen a bootleg CD set from this show, but it was obviously from the radio, since it had the exact same compression. Is there a recording of this concert that perhaps came from the board and doesn’t suffer from the compression, so that all the dynamics and clarity come thgrough?
The links to parts 1 & 2 of the Bruce Springsteen show at the Roxy in ‘78 appear to be broken.
Part 3 has links, but Parts 1 & 2 has no mp3 links. Can this be fixed please?
http://ickmusic.com/mp3/roxy/
Hi Pete…
I am desperately looking for Bruce Springsteen Live at the Roxy 1978 and I see your write up on it. I can;t find it anywhere to buy it!! Can you help??? I would appreciate it more than you know.