Re: quibble

["Anthony J. Rzepela" <rzepelaa>]

The Braens wrote:
>
> Actually, Bruce didn't play MSG until 9/79 and that was as part of the No
> Nukes shows. He didn't headline there until 11/80 during the River tour.
> It really wasn't until 1984-85 with the Born In the USA LP and tour that
> he became a mega-superstar.

> Aside from the East Coast and some scattered
> western cities, he was still a (pretty big) cult figure until then.

No one's denying he was a part-time superstar in 1978, but
he was way more than a cult figure.  Doing a gold/platinum
certification lookup at www.riaa.com shows that by the end of
1978, all of his records were either gold or platinum ("Darkness"
was platinum by the end of June 1978, all the others were gold
by the end of the year. At the start of that year, "Born to
Run" and "Wild, Innocent [blah blah blah]" were both gold.)

As I said, he played the Philadelphia Spectrum four times
before the year was out, and that Summer, according to at
least one setlist database site I found, he played Nassau
Coliseum, the Los Angeles Forum, the Cap Center, the
Hampton Coliseum, and _3_ shows at Madison Square Garden
(in August 1978). The tour was an an interesting mixture of
basketball arenas, theaters, and colleges, and by the
year's end, arena dates in dozens more cities were under
his belt.

> The
> bottom line is that even with his huge popularity Bruce has done what he
> wanted to do.

I don't know how it started or what the bottom line was,
but I assumed we were talking aboout Patti hitching her
wagon to a Major Star's. And in 1978, Bruce Springsteen
was indeed a Major Star.