Bruce Springsteen 1971-12-17 The Ledge Bar, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

 

The Bruce Springsteen Band
DOWN THE ROAD APIECE 
Decenber 17, 1971** (See below)
The Ledge Bar, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Label: Golden Stars
Format: 1CD 
Catalog #: GZCD1071
Source: Audience 
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes 56 seconds


Transfer/Trade and Generation Info: Original Silvers -> Eac (Secure) -> Flac (Level 8, Align on SB, Verify)


Black Widow Spider (10:18) 
She's A Woman (3:54) 
C.C. Rider (6:27) 
Down The Road Apiece (4:04) 
You Mean So Much To Me (5:20) 
Nothing Can Stop Me Now (4:43) 
Last Night In Tulsa (4:32) 
Goin' Back To Georgia (7:56) 
'Instrumental Intro' (11:43) 
Darkness Darkness (5:44) 
Dance Dance Dance (6:15)

Notes: 
Performed as "The Bruce Springsteen Band" 


Brucebase Info:- 
Full set details are not known. ONE show, triple bill, with the 5-member BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN BAND headlining. Undercard acts are SOUTHERN CONSPIRACY and POWERHOUSE. Held at “The Ledge”, a club-coffeehouse located within the school’s Student Union facility.

The above-mentioned partial setlist is taken from a circulating 35-minute audience recording of poor quality that has a notorious history of being cannibalized. 
The MC’s introduction and the first two songs can be found on boot CD “DOWN THE ROAD APIECE” (Golden Stars)**. The remainder of the audio has never appeared on any mainstream boot but is circulating via private CDR sources, usually with no time-venue identification. Typically the final two or three tracks of this 35-minutes of audio are found combined with audio from an unrelated performance (see 03/12/71 listing in Brucebase). “Walking The Dog” is complete but it usually circulates incomplete. Only the first 3 minutes of “When You Dance” is in circulation. 

Unfortunately it sounds as if the taper placed his microphone in the middle of a table of student drinkers, so the band’s performance is obscured by close proximity crowd noise and chatting. However the conversation does confirm the venue as being The Ledge. Although it seems likely that more of this performance would have been recorded by this source, only the 35 minutes of audio has surfaced to date. Collectors should note that the remaining 54 minutes of audio found on 
the “DOWN THE ROAD APIECE” CD is from an outdoor gig at Brookdale Community College on 10/07/71**, not from this Rutgers show as that CD’s liner notes claim.

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