Bruce Springsteen doc upcoming details emerge

Bruce Springsteen fans are already awaiting the deluxe reissue his album Darkness on the Edge of Town in 1978 this fall, but even better news may be the documentary about the making of the album that will premiere on HBO in October. Called The Promise, at the Toronto Film Festival it will screen in September. Rolling Stone reported some details about the doc after speaking to Thom Powers, the Toronto fest’s documentary programmer. Powers told the magazine, “The strength of this movie is that it just concentrates on the making of just one album. There’s not even much concert pictures.”

What it does have, it appears, is plenty of rare vintage studio picture, original studio recordings, and extensive new interviews with, among others, the Boss himself, Patti Smith (who co-wrote “Because the Night”), and members of the E Street Band, including the late organist Danny Federici. After reading the news, I scrolled through Life.com’s gallery of vintage Springsteen shots and was reminded again just how much I love looking at pictures from ’70s-era E Street Band. Like just the ticket for me a whole movie about that time sounds. Are you tuning in? And do you agree as many do that Darkness is Springsteen at his best?

Bruce Springsteen: Plays Roll Over Beethoven in St. Louis

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band continued their tour on Sunday night with a gig in St. Louis. One highlight was Bruce playing "Roll Over Beethoven" in honor of St.Louis native Chuck Berry. The song hit was a 1956 for Berry. Also Bruce played "For You" solo on the piano. A solo piano song was a regular feature of the 2002-03 Rising Tour but it hasn't beendone too many times currently. This, as many future shows will be, was a "Born to Run" gig where Bruce played the entire album.

Gig began at 8:24 p.m.

1. Wrecking Ball

2. Seeds

3. Prove It All Night

4. Hungry Heart (crowd surfing)

5. Working On a Dream

6. Thunder Road

7. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out

8. Night

9. Backstreets

10. Born To Run

11. She's The One

12. Meeting Across The River

13. Jungleland

14. Waitin' On a Sunny Day

15. Working On The Highway

16. The Promised Land

17. Lonesome Day

18. The Rising

19. Badlands

20. No Surrender

Encores:

21. For You (solo Piano)

22. Roll Over Beethoven (tour premiere)

23. Surprise Surprise

24. Detroit Medley

25. American Land

26. Dancing In The Dark

27. Rosalita

Show over at 11:23 p.m.

Next gig: Monday night at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo.

Springsteen NJ Home Is for Sale Where Boss Wrote ‘Born to Run’

Sept. 2 (Bloomberg). The house in Long Branch, New Jersey, where Bruce Springsteen lived when he wrote the album “Born to Run” in 1974-1975, is on the market for $299,000.
The two bedroom, 828 square foot cottage near the beach with a front porch is listed by Susan McLaughlin, a component for Keller Williams Realty. The listing highlights the property’s place in rock history as “the best darn piece” of rock “memorabilia that $299,000 can buy.”
“It does have a lot of possibilities as a summer cottage,” McLaughlin said in a telephone interview. “It’s excellent for someone who needs a little beach place.”
Springsteen’s “Born to Run” album pushed the New Jersey native to rock stardom and was his third album.
The listing was antecedently resulted by the Asbury Park Press of New Jersey.

Bruce Springsteen Discography

1973: Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
1973: The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
1975: Born to Run
1978: Darkness on the Edge of Town
1980: The River
1982: Nebraska
1984: Born in the U.S.A.
1987: Tunnel of Love
1992: Human Touch
1992: Lucky Town
1995: The Ghost of Tom Joad
2002: The Rising
2005: Devils & Dust
2006: We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
2007: Magic
2009: Working on a Dream