Bruce Springsteen’s current E Street Band has so much depth at guitar and vocals that no less than three members can get sidelined by COVID-19 on the same night and not miss a lick. That’s precisely what happened in Dallas in February 2023 when guitarist/vocalist Steven Van Zandt, acoustic guitar/vocalist Patti Scialfa, and violinist Suzee Tyrell all busted out at the COVID-19 blackjack table, requiring the more-than-capable Nils Lofgren to step up admirably. Springsteen thanked the sold out crowd for the support by calling an audible in the fourth quarter, a rare performance of the Detroit medley “Devil with the Blue Dress On/CC Rider/Good Golly Miss Molly/Jenny Take a Ride”. -Redbeard
( Clemons, Springsteen, Van Zandt turning a triple play at Chicago Wrigley Field August 2023. Photo by Jack Lindstrom)
Tag: Dallas TX
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Bruce Springsteen & the E St. Band- Detroit medley- Dallas 2-10-23
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Alice Cooper- Under My Wheels- Dallas 4-29-73
Music historians and longtime fans often emphasize what a good live band the original Alice Cooper outfit was from 1971 to 1974 before the sideshow theatrics moved center stage, but not a lot of examples exist to support that contention, which is why this rare performance of “Under My Wheels” in Dallas in April 1973 is a real treat. –Redbeard
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Texxas Jam ’78 Dallas Cotton Bowl 7-4-78
On July 4th weekend in 1978, almost 100,000 people crammed into the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on the hottest day of the decade for the first Texxas Jam ’78 to watch Van Halen, Heart, Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, Journey, Eddie Money, Walter Egan, Head East, & Frank Marino. It was one of the first stadium rock shows of this magnitude ever held in the South, and more importantly, it was the first of more than a decade of Texxas Jams to follow. To tell the story in an independent film documentary has been the long odyssey of producer/ actor Brian Hedenberg . Against all odds in the worst economy since the Great Depression, Hedenberg completed his dream and unveiled this thorough telling of the tale by the promoters who imagined it, bankrolleded it, and organized it; the bands who played the first Texxas Jam that day in 1978; and the fans who made rock history. Check out the video from Texxas Jam ’78 , truly a labor of love from Hedenberg. – Redbeard