99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1976!
That year PLR presented Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band at Waterbury’s Palace Theater. It was just one year after The Boss released his hugely successful “Born To Run” album, which featured hits like Thunder Road, Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out, Jungleland and the title track Born To Run. Seeing Springsteen in an intimate setting like the Place was a huge treat to the couple thousand in attendance, especially since The Boss wouldn’t play another “theater” show in Connecticut until his 1996 solo tour.
Today we look back at Springsteen in Waterbury in 1976…
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Tour: Born To Run
Saturday August 21, 1976
The Palace Theater in Waterbury, Connecticut
Ticket Price: $7.00
Setlist*
- Night
- Rendezvous
- Spirit In The Night
- It’s My Life (The Animals cover)
- Thunder Road
- She’s The One
- Born To Run
- Something In The Night
- Backstreets
- Tenth Avenue Freeze-out (with The Miami Horns)
- Jungleland
- Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
- 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) – Encore
- Raise Your Gand (Eddie Floyd cover / with The Miami Horns) – Encore
- You Can’t Sit Down (Phil Upchurch Combo cover / with The Miami Horns) – Encore
*source: setlist.fm
Check out these live performances from Springsteen’s 1976 tour…