{"id":807016,"date":"2020-05-01T11:58:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T17:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=992953"},"modified":"2020-05-01T11:58:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T17:58:37","slug":"bruce-springsteen-releases-1981-new-jersey-concert-for-covid-19-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/bruce-springsteen-releases-1981-new-jersey-concert-for-covid-19-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen Releases 1981 New Jersey Concert for COVID-19 Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The newest chapter in Bruce Springsteen<\/a>\u2019s monthly live concert download series is a show he played at New Jersey\u2019s Brendan Byrne Arena on July 9th, 1981. The show can be downloaded on MP3 for $9.95<\/a> ($12.95 for lossless) and all net proceeds will be given to the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund.<\/a><\/p>\n

The concert took place at the beginning of the third and final U.S. leg of The River<\/em> tour when Springsteen and the E Street Band played six consecutive nights at the newly-opened Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (In later years, it would be known as the Continental Airlines Arena and the Izod Center.) Every night was professionally recorded and select songs from the stand appeared five years later on the Live 1975\u201385<\/em> box set, but only \u201cJersey Girl\u201d from the July 9th show made the cut. The rest of the recording has never been heard anywhere, though audience tapes from the show have circulated.<\/p>\n

The concert is noteworthy for a guest appearance by singer Gary U.S. Bonds on \u201cJol\u00e9 Blon\u201d and \u201cThis Little Girl.\u201d It also boasts an epic \u201cThe Detroit Medley\u201d containing snippets of \u201cI Hear a Train,\u201d \u201cSock It To Me, Baby!\u201d and \u201cSweet Soul Music,\u201d while Clarence Clemons sings a bit of \u201cStagger Lee\u201d prior to \u201cRosalita (Come Out Tonight.)\u201d There\u2019s also a performance of the rarity \u201cJohnny Bye-Bye,\u201d which was released three years later as the b-side to \u201cI\u2019m on Fire.\u201d You can hear a preview of that right here.<\/p>\n

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