@LB posted:Fantastic! This has long been my favorite show from 1975, since first getting the London Calling bootleg. When they first announced the live archives series, this was one of the shows I was hoping for, along with the 1978 broadcasts, Nassau 1980, Vietnam Vets, and Shoreline 1988. Thank you Bruce and Nugs.
One interesting bit about this show is that many years ago I read an interview with Peter Gabriel in which he said that seeing this show caused him to want to leave Genesis and not continue doing the theatrics that culminated in Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. As I recall, Gabriel said seeing Bruce and the E Street Band convinced him that one could have more theatrical impact without using any costumes and stage props.
That seems to be somewhat of a myth but he was there and loved it (from a Rolling Stone interview):
"On a very random point, I’ve always read that “Solsbury Hill” was inspired not only by your decision to quit Genesis – but a Bruce Springsteen concert you saw in London in 1975. Is there any truth to that?
I’m trying to think, because I think that was written prior . . . I don’t know. I saw Bruce’s first gig in London, I think at the Odeon house. That blew me away. Second only in my favorite gig list to Otis Redding in 1967. But I don’t think it’s connected to “Solsbury Hill.”
The story goes that Bruce is the “eagle that flew out of the nest” and you were so inspired that you wanted to leave Genesis and do your own thing. Is that just a bunch of hogwash?
I think that is hogwash. Because when I left Genesis, I just wanted to be out of the music business. I felt like I was just in the machinery. We knew what we were going to be doing in 18 months or two years ahead. I just did not enjoy that.
I remember that once I met Bruce at CBS. He had an armful of Roy Orbison records under his elbow. So I think he drew from rich veins of rock history and absorbed and pulled them together in a very interesting way with a great band. "