Bruce Springsteen: 22. Quarter to Three - Live in Inglewood (July 5th, 1978)

Sound quality: A-

To kick off this channel, I am going to start with a Darkness Tour show. What better way to start it off, right? A very good audience recording done by the great Mike Millard (albeit, maybe one of his lesser recordings) captures this fantastic night at the Forum, just two days before one of the greatest Bruce shows of all time at the Roxy Theatre across town. While this show does have a relatively basic setlist, the performance is white hot, with blistering performances of Night, For You and Adam Raised A Cain to name a couple. Bruce’s voice is very strong tonight and everyone is firing on all cylinders as usual. It’s not the monster of a show that the Roxy show is, but I’d argue it’s at least on par with the Berkeley show released from the archives last year!

There are a couple facts about this show. For one, there is about ten minutes of silent 8mm footage of this show available. For another, Rave On was apparently played in a soundcheck at this show, and as many know, it is the opening song for the Roxy show on July 7th. Lastly, sadly, Prove It All Night is missing almost all of the outro solo on this recording.

This is sourced from the Forum Heat bootleg, with some speed correction done by me as it originally ran noticeably fast. Thumbnail is by me, apologies if it doesn’t look great, I only have the free version of Canva so I can’t access a lot of the cool features it has.

Enjoy! I’m probably going to do a 1981 show or two next.