Still, there are imperfections: Images of Steve Van Zandt’s solo on “Jungleland” are missing, perhaps because they were reloading cameras. Unlike much of the surviving footage of Springsteen from those days, Zimny was working with quality film, shot by a crew that could provide multiple angles. ‘Feel like a woman’: Britney Spears talks freedom in new video “It was something that I did because I missed the band so much,” Zimny said. He turned it into the film that is being released now partly as a pandemic project. Mostly, the footage remained locked away in a vault until Zimny was given access. So does a recording Springsteen’s first show in London, at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1975.Ī couple of Springsteen’s performances appeared on the “No Nukes” documentary and album.
Portions of a Houston show, taken for an arena’s in-house use, survive. One show in Phoenix turns up on YouTube, recorded by his record company for a commercial to promote Springsteen in parts of the country where he wasn’t well known yet. There actually wasn’t much incentive for filming shows in the pre-MTV, pre-YouTube days, said Chris Phillips, editor and publisher of Backstreets, the website for Springsteen news, With no real outlet on television or the movies, “you were just playing rock ‘n’ roll,” he said.Īs a result, footage of more than snippets of Springsteen onstage then are relatively rare, he said. Sneak peek: Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade floats Little wonder, then, to see them burst onto the stage with a roaring version of “Prove it All Night.” That’s exactly what they intended to do. Sharing a bill with artists including Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, and Bonnie Raitt, they burned to show peers what they could do. Their typical four-hour show was condensed into 90 minutes. They’d been off the road in 1979, recording “The River,” and were thrilled to be before an audience again. It’s found money.īefore a friendly crowd at New York’s Madison Square Garden, Springsteen and his gang of Jersey toughs crackle with pent-up energy. That makes this week’s release of a 90-minute film that shows them performing at the “No Nukes” benefit concerts in September 1979 significant for fans and music historians. Without a ticket and a good memory, they passed you by. NEW YORK (AP) - If there’s one thing Bruce Springsteen’s fans can find fault with in their hero, it’s his early aversion to film cameras.īecause of that, there is very little onscreen documentation of Springsteen onstage in the mid- to late-1970s, when the power and majesty of the E Street Band combined with youthful exuberance for some truly epic concert experiences.
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