{"id":480248,"date":"2018-12-26T14:06:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T21:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=772755"},"modified":"2018-12-26T14:06:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T21:06:07","slug":"bruce-springsteen-releases-complete-no-nukes-1979-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/bruce-springsteen-releases-complete-no-nukes-1979-concerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen Releases Complete \u2018No Nukes 1979\u2019 Concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/12-26_BruceNoNukes.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bruce-springsteen\/\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a> gave fans an unexpected Christmas gift when he added the E Street Band\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/live.brucespringsteen.net\/live-music\/0,20918\/Bruce-Springsteen---The-E-Street-Band-mp3-flac-download-09-21-79-Madison-Square-Garden-New-York-NY.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">famed No Nukes concerts to his ongoing archives series<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Recorded September 21st and 22nd, 1979 at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden, <em>No Nukes 1979<\/em> marks the first time Springsteen\u2019s complete sets from the benefit concert have officially been made available.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Selections from Springsteen\u2019s sets originally appeared in the <em>No Nukes<\/em> concert film and soundtrack; those recordings were the first Springsteen\u2019s live performances ever released.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The September 21st show featured the live debut of \u201cThe River,\u201d which would eventually serve as the title track of the double-LP studio album that arrived the following year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i1UohYHXvGo?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On both nights, the E Street Band performed a cover of Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs\u2019 \u201cStay\u201d; on September 21st, No Nukes co-organizer Jackson Browne (who paired \u201cStay\u201d with his 1977 hit \u201cThe Load-Out\u201d) and Rosemary Butler joined in on the rendition, while Tom Petty also appeared on the September 22nd version. Both versions appear on the archives release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt and John Hall \u2013 as Musicians United For Safe Energy (MUSE) \u2013 organized the string of No Nukes show as MSG. As part of the archives\u2019 <em>No Nukes 1979<\/em> release, $2 from every purchase \u2013 available as digital music files or preorder on compact disc \u2013 will benefit MUSE. The archives also shared Erik Flannigan\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nugs.net\/2018\/12\/24\/lights-camera-action\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">detailed Nugs.net essay<\/a> about Springsteen\u2019s performances at the benefit concert.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>December has proved to be a fruitful month for Springsteen fans as he also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bruce-springsteen-roxy-1975-live-album-766317\/\">released his Roxy 1975 concerts<\/a> through the archives as well as the <em>Springsteen on Broadway<\/em> soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bruce-springsteen-no-nukes-1979-concerts-772755\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Springsteen gave fans an unexpected Christmas gift when he added the E Street Band\u2019s famed No Nukes concerts to his ongoing archives series. Recorded September 21st and 22nd, 1979 at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden, No Nukes 1979 marks the first time Springsteen\u2019s complete sets from the benefit concert have officially been made available.\u00a0Selections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 01:42:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}