July 2006: Update to the May 2006 Brucejuice seed: * Removed the end of track gaps (Cool Edit 2000) * Re-tracked using CDWave & Shntool * Encoded to FLAC ORIGINAL TEXT FILE AS UPLOADED BY BRUCEJUICE (May 2006): Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band "The Promise" AWESOME AUDIENCE RECORDING!!! ARTWORK INCLUDED The Forum, Los Angeles July 5, 1978 CDR Trade>EAC (Secure)>WAV>FLAC (level 8) Disc 1: 01 - Badlands 02 - Night 03 - Spirit In The Night 04 - Darkness On The Edge Of town 05 - For You 06 - The Promised Land 07 - Prove It All Night 08 - Racing In The Street 09 - Thunder Road 10 - Jungleland 11 - Fire 12 - Adam Raised A Cain Disc 2: 01 - Mona 02 - She's The One 03 - Growin' Up 04 - Backstreets 05 - Rosalita 06 - The Promise 07 - Born To Run 08 - Because the Night 09 - Quarter To Three 10 - Rave On From Brucebase: 05/07/78 - THE FORUM, INGLEWOOD, LOS ANGELES, CA S/C: RAVE ON BADLANDS (4.27)/ NIGHT (2.59)/ SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT (6.47)/ DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN (4.13)/ FOR YOU (4.56)/ THE PROMISED LAND (5.00)/ PROVE IT ALL NIGHT (cut)(6.25)/ RACING IN THE STREET (8.25)/ THUNDER ROAD (5.30)/ JUNGLELAND (9.19)/ PARADISE BY THE C (3.17)/ FIRE (2.39)/ ADAM RAISED A CAIN (5.21)/ MONA - SHES THE ONE (10.58)/ GROWING UP (12.17)/ BACKSTREETS (11.58)/ ROSALITA (9.47)/ THE PROMISE (5.53)/ BORN TO RUN (4.39)/ BECAUSE THE NIGHT (6.17)/ QUARTER TO THREE (10.54) Audience Tape - excellent quality. Report from the tour at this time from Dave Marsh had Bruce soundchecking Rave On which appeared in the main set on the next date. Apparently there is another source tape with Prove It All Night uncut, but with Backstreets cut. Released on CDR "Forum Heat" (Smokey Joe). The show was filmed in part by KABC TV (see the footage on the "This Is Your Life" DVD release) - An interview was carried out for "Eye Witness News" J J Jackson reporter - with Bruce backstage after the show, ten minutes of this were broadcast on 07/07/78 NOTES - This show is from the 2 CD version called "The Promise" which is missing "Paradise by the C", but includes the soundchecked "Rave On" Check out the attached picture of Bruce during Prove All Night at The Forum 05/07 - uncharacteristically using a Fender Strat STORYTELLER (Great Quotes and stories from the show): 05.07.78 Los Angeles, CA, intro to ‘Night’: ”Are you ready to step out ?....” 05.07.78 Los Angeles, CA, intro to ‘Spirit in the Night’: ”Hey....gimme some lights, I can’t see....how was everybody’s Fourth of July, huh ? (cheers).....I went down to the Santa Monica Pier (cheers).....it’s like a combat zone down here, you got.....you got the right.....did you see all the fancy stuff in the paper ? ....about me ?.....big deal, huh ?.....I got to tell you, I only levitate up to the upper decks only on Monday and Wednesday shows (cheers).....today’s Wednesday ?..... Wednesdays and Fridays.....Wednesdays and Fridays and I don’t do no windows..... (…)(two security guys push fans off Bruce) Who are you two guys ?.....you guys work here ?.....get outta here, these guys are my friends (cheers).....” 05.07.78 Los Angeles, CA, intro to ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town’: ”You guys oughta sit down, we’re gonna playing a long time.....sit down so everybody can see....if you ever spend time waiting in the darkness on the edge of town, this is for you.....” 05.07.78 Los Angeles, CA, intro to ‘For You’: ”This is a song I wrote back in 1972.....it was uh....covered by Greg Kihn on Beserkley Records, he made a real good.....he made an album I liked a lot.....was uh.... and uh.....this is greetings from Asbury Park ....” 05.07.78 Los Angeles, CA, intro to ‘The Promised Land’: ”Bruuuce (chuckles).....this is for uh.....this is for Mary Turner (?) KMET....you guys, you guys can’t see what she looks like, she’s real pretty and .....I asked her for a date last night, I don’t know if she’s gonna go out with me or not (chuckles)(cheers) ...... this is for her and uh.....we’ve got a new album around about a month.......and this is a pretty good song, this is called The Promised Land.....” 05.07.78 Los Angeles, CA, intro to ‘Prove It All Night’: ”They put....we come into town, they put this....when you got records out, they put these big billboards up, you know.....and like....it’s funny ‘cause I came into town and I see mine, I said ‘Goddamn, that’s....that’s ugly’ (chuckles).....I’m ugly (?) (chuckles).....my nose ain’t that big (chuckles)....you know so.....last night....around two or three in the morning....yesterday we bought all these spraycans of black paint .....as you drive down there (?) ‘cause we painted it up a little bit (chuckles) (cheers) .....we made a few improvements , I couldn’t reach my nose, though, it was too (laughter)....my face was like....way up (chukles)....anyway....” 05.07.78 Los Angeles, CA, intro to ‘Racing in the Street’: ”Alright.....I got....I got this little sister....and she, she’s here tonight, she’s just turned 16 (cheers)....and it’s funny because she’s got a license, you know, I hear they let you guys drive here.....(?) back home you can’t drive till you’re 17....it’s like, she’s got her license so I go out with her in her car, she’s got an old....a late 60’s Mercury (?) 302....and you know we go out there and ‘soon as we get in the car, she says....no.... she says....’How many tickets you got ?’.....I say ‘Well, you know, I got like....What you mean, like parking tickets , I got a lotta parking tickets’....’No’ she says..... ’Speeding tickets’... I say ‘Well, you know I’ve got like....I’ve got one or two’....she says ‘I’ve got two and I’ve only been driving for a month’ (chuckles)....you know she’s like, she’s got a lot of nerve....I remember I got this one ticket once , I got this old white pick-up truck.....and this guy gave me a motorcycle, I was driving up to his motorcycle shop....and I was like just following in a truck, like I’m driving along but everybody else was going, doing about 70.....so I was doing about 70 and I was like, I was the last car.....so the cop.....coming up behind me and puts his light on but I got the bike in back and I can’t see him so I don’t stop, you know....so I’m just driving on (chuckles)....finally this (?) with the siren on pulls me over....says ‘Let me have your license, I.D’, I don’t have ‘em (chuckles)(cheers) and uh.....I always forget to carry that stuff with me when I go out, you know, I never carry my wallet, I’m always (?) .... but anyway I tell him who I am and he gets back in the car and he.....signals me to come back, I come back, he says ’Hey....are you.....are you that rock and roll singer ?’ (chuckles)(cheers).....so, so it was funny, I think then I said.....I got made here.....this guy’s gonna .....this guy’s gonna let me go (cheers)....I say ‘Yeah, yeah I’m him’, he says ‘Man, they’re blasting your ass all over the radio here, you really him ?’, I say ‘Yeah, yeah, I’m him’.....he says ‘Well, boy....you’re in a lot of trouble’ (chuckles) (cheers)......I say ‘What you....what you mean ?´.....we go down to the station, you know the cop station , it was way out in the sticks....I remember I opened the door and this, this....policeman in his blue uniform jumped out in front of me with a roll ....of what looked like wallpaper....and went ‘One for the money, two’ (chuckles), you know.....that’s like....unfortunately true but it’s like you know (chuckles)....it’s like, they let me go....(?) but they said ‘Next time I’ll be looking for you’....they let me go with two tickets that is....but this is for my little sister.....and this is Racing in the Street....” 05.07.78 Los Angeles, CA, intro to ‘Growin’Up’: ”I remember....one night.....I was coming in kinda late....and....my father used to....wait for me every night in the kitchen....and uh....he’d just be sitting there in the dark, you know, with a six pack of beer , drinking, waiting for me to come in....and I remember I come in....slick my hair back real tight so it didn’t look too long.....and uh....he said ‘Bruce....sit down, I wanna talk to you for a while´....so I sit down, you know....and we start talking ....then we’d always start yelling at each other (chuckles)...pretty soon would be like (?), he would be chasing me....around the kitchen table.....you know....I never made it to the diningroom to be chased around the diningroom table, it was always like (chuckles)...I got into the first room, he chases me around the table.....I’d run out the screen door....round side I got a (?) ....and uh....I still don’t know what the livingroom looks like in the house (chuckles) .....but I’m sure it was very nice (chuckles)....but....one night I was out....you know, I was little boomed (?) , you know.....and.....I looked up in the sky.....and saw this star I never seen before....and for just one moment.....I remember it didn’t last long.....for just one, one second..... (….) The other night.....we went down to....saw ‘Buddy Holly Story’....and it was funny because.....I could never picture Buddy Holly....moving....you know it was like, it was always like....like James Dean was in the movies....so he was moving, you know (chuckles).....Buddy Holly....I always used to have a picture of him like standing..... in the old bowtie and the guitar....so....I liked the picture because it made him a lot more.....lot real, a lot more real for me, you know, made him lot more human for me and ....I know it’s funny because there was this one scene in the movie that.....must’ve happened to everybody that.....played the guitar.....or did....(?) they wanted to do , you know, and parents didn’t want ‘em to.....they’re sitting at the kitchen table.....and..... they were talking ‘(?) guitar is ok for a hobby, you know....but you really oughta think about doing something serious, you know’.....and like (chuckles).....you know, that’s what my mother and father used to.....they used to say to me....as I remember for the first.....first two years I played guitar, my father could never even figure out what kinda guitar I was playing.....you know he used to like.....he didn’t know it was a Fender guitar or a Gibson......to him, it was just.....that goddamn guitar....that’s how he used to refer to it.....his head’d stick in, ‘Turn down that goddamn guitar’, you know......he must’ve thought that everything in my room was the same make.....’Turn down that goddamn radio’.....’Take that goddamn record off that goddamn stereo’ (cheers).....you know, ‘Get up off that goddamn bed’....how God could damn so many things in my room I could never figure out (laughter).....but that was....that was always funny, you know.....he didn’t know like....I remember it was getting , it was getting late, you know, I think I was 18 or something, they were saying ‘Listen.....you gotta start thinking ‘bout doing something serious with yourself....guitar is ok for a hobby but..... but you need something to fall back on..... you can do it on the weekends....you know... I think there’s people in my office, they ‘....my mother’d say ‘There’s people in my office, they play on the weekends, why can’t you ?´.....so....I said ‘Well, listen’.....’You just better, what you should do’....my mother was very Italian....and uh......still is (chuckles)....she says ‘Well, you should’ .....(chuckles).....you know and.....’So what you should do, you gotta talk to the priest...you go down to the rectory, I’m gonna call up Father Ray, you talk to the priest, you have a serious discussion about your future with him’, I go ‘Ok’.....’cause my mother wanted me to, no....my father wanted me to be a lawyer, my mother wanted me to be an author.....and they said ‘Now, you go down and you talk to (?) but you don’t tell him nothing ‘bout that goddamn guitar’..... so I say ‘Ok, ok’.....so I went down to the rectory....rang the bell....said ‘Hey, Father Ray (?)’ (chuckles).....so he comes up, it was a nice summer day, we were walking around.....and I was telling him, you know.....’My mother wants me to be a lawyer, my father wants me to be a doctor.....but I like to play this guitar’......he said ‘This is a lifelong decision, I don’t really feel qualified to make this, you better talk to God about this.....I’m gonna send you direct to the Big Man’....number one (chuckles) , it’s like.... number two, it’s like (chuckles).....’I’m gonna send you direct to the Big Man....you tell Him about being a lawyer, an author......but’ , he said, ‘don’t tell Him nothing about that guitar’.....said ‘Ok, ok , Father’.....so I used to spend some time, I used to try to think (?) talk to God, where am I gonna talk to Him.....I can’t talk to Him in my bedroom ‘cause I don’t know Him that well, I don’t go to church too much ......(?)..... I can’t talk to Him in church.....figured I’d let (?) get out of the house for a while..... so me and Big Man.....number one or two (chuckles)....he says ‘Listen, you come with me in the car and I will take you out to this place called Crematory Hill which is supposed to be this indian burial ground......and at night in the dark down there , it’s real peaceful.....you can go up (?) and talk to God, you’ll get it straight’, I said ‘Ok’.... so we drove out there.....he didn’t tell me that it was like.....right next to the graveyard ....it’s midnight, spooky as hell....I go ‘Big Man, I’m not gonna go up there tonight’, he says ‘Go on, get , Boss, go on, get up there.....Aren’t you supposed to be so brave and tough ?’ (chuckles).....’Get up on that hill’.....so I said ‘Ok’.....so up the hill I go, I’m shaking and I’m scared (?) , it’s real dark....and finally I find a nice little spot ....and I kneel down, you know....I’m looking up and there’s stars in the sky....I say ‘God.....my mother.....she wants me to be an author, write great books.....or at least, dirty novels and stuff’ (chuckles).....’that’s better than rock and roll’....then I go ‘My father, he wants me to be a lawyer ‘cause he says lawyers they own the world..... but I don’t think they do, you know’.....and....and it was real quiet (?)....I said ‘I got this guitar’.....and it was real quiet for a real long time....and then there was some thunder .....and then there was some lightning....little bit of lightning, please.....and all I heard was this big voice saying.....’Let it rock !’......” 05.07.78 Los Angeles, CA, intro to ‘The Promise’: ”Thanks....thanks.....people always bring these flowers....what I’ll do?...plant ‘em in the bus ? (chuckles) ....it’s like....thanks anyway.....this is a song (chuckles)....this is uh, this is a song called The Promise.....I wrote this right after I wrote Born to Run .....” 05.07.78 Los Angeles, CA, intro to ‘Born to Run’: ”I wanna thank everybody for coming down.....to the show tonight (cheers).....I want you to know that we really appreciate it, we do and I’d like to thank you all for supporting ....the band.....the way you did over the past three years when we were out (?)....this is for you.....I hope you like them loud (chuckles)” 05.07.78 Los Angeles, CA, intro to ´Paradise by the C’ ´´Hey !....(?) you should get your popcorn out there.....gimme that thing again.....are you ready for round two ? (cheers)....in this corner....master of the universe....king of the world....weighing in at 260 pounds....Clarence Clemons.....” 05.07.78 Los Angeles, CA, intro to ´Fire´ ´´I wrote this song (?) (chuckles) and every place I go I see your face.....this is uh..... this is on Robert Gordon’s second album, this is called ´Fire´......” 05.07.78 Los Angeles, CA, middle of ´Backstreets´ ´´Hello baby, I remember you.....yes, I remember you.....standing on the corner of Richmond Avenue.....dressed up....(?)....with your hair up (?) looking so fine....baby, looking so fine.... I´d drive all night.....baby, I´d drive all night.....little girl, I´d drive all night just to, just to buy you some shoes.....and to taste, to taste your tender charms....to have you hold me in your arms.....to feel your pretty arms around me.....for just one look.....baby, for just one look..... from your sad eyes.....oh, how they cried.....from your sad eyes, we let ´em cry till they´re all cried out, oh, we let ´em cry till they´re all cried out, let ´em cry till they´re all cried out, baby, till they´re all cried out, baby, till they´re all cried out, let them fall till they´re all cried out, baby, until they´re all cried out.....let ´em cry....only me and you knew....girl, only me and you knew....girl, only me and you knew....the way that they lie....they could tell such pretty lies....they could tell such pretty lies....you could hold me in your arms and tell such pretty lies....and now you´re back.... and now, baby, you´re back.....(the end is missing from the source tape)....´´