Bruce Springsteen — “Sherry Darling” (live, 1980)
Bruce Springsteen
Tonight at the show, during “Murder Inc.,” a lady probably in her mid-50s in a short skirt threw her leg up in the air and just kind of held it. This guy, presumably her husband, grabbed her ankle and pretended to strum her leg like it was a guitar as he yelled the chorus and pumped his fist with his other hand. It really stretched the boundaries of decent human behavior and was absolutely the best thing I’ve ever seen with my own eyes.
Still the man.
Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band 9/20/1978
Bruce Springsteen
Douceur de Vivre
Capitol Theatre
Passaic, NJ
September 20, 1978
JEMS Archive
01 Good Rockin’ Tonight
02 Badlands
03 Spirit in the Night
04 Darkness on the Edge of Town
05 Independence Day
06 The Promised Land
07 Prove It All Night
08 It’s My Life
09 Thunder Road
10 Jungleland
11 Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town
12 Fire
13 Candy’s Room
14 Because the Night
15 Point Blank
16 Kitty’s Back
17 Incident on 57th Street
18 Rosalita
19 Born to Run
20 Tenth Avenue Freeze-out (small patch at start from video soundtrack)
21 Detroit Medley
22 Twish and Shout (small patch at end from video soundtrack)
JEMS could not be more thrilled to release this significant upgrade of the second show at the Capitol Theatre, one night removed from the historic radio broadcast that would go on to become one of, if not the most bootlegged recordings in Springsteen history, Piece De Resistance. In homage to that bootleg classic, we’ve titled the upgraded second night Douceur de Vivre, which translates to “the sweetness of life.”
BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCE. Got tickets hell yeah ball so hard.
“I realized the faith I was beginning to put in Springsteen the December day in 1978 that I drove 400 miles to Tucson, Arizona, to see him in concert [for personal reasons, not as a professional assignment]. The show was part of a short western swing near the end of the Darkness tour that skipped Los Angeles…. [a] swell of emotion came to me during Bruce’s concert in Tucson … seeing Springsteen push himself so hard on stage and listening to the eloquence of his songs made me forget about doubts and think about my own dreams again.” — Robert Hillburn, LA Times
