Bruce Springsteen - 1976-04-08 - Cleveland, OH (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band 
April 8, 1976 
Cleveland, Ohio 

Disc 1: 
01. Night 
02. 10th Ave Freezeout 
03. Spirit In The Night 
04. It's My Life 
05. Thunder Road 
06. She's The One 
07. Born To Run 

Disc 2: 
01. Incident On 57th Street 
02. Everytime You Walk In The Room 
03. Frankie 
04. Backstreets 
05. Growin' Up 
06. It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City 
07. Jungleland 

This colorfully-named tour began on March 25, 1976; the official 1984 Springsteen chronology would state of that date, "The fabled 'Chicken Scratch Tour' begins, taking Springsteen and E Streeters on an extremely meandering route through the south, midwest, and northeast United States." The name was actually given by the band's road crew, due to many of the shows being in secondary markets in the South. 

After the April 29 show in Memphis' Ellis Auditorium, Springsteen decided to catch a taxi to Graceland. Upon arrivial he had noticed a light on in the house and proceeded to jump the gates and walk to the front door. Security intervened at which point Springsteen asked if Elvis Presley was home, but the King was in fact in Lake Tahoe. The guards not having any idea who this visitor was, even after Springsteen tried to explain it to them and state that he had been on the covers of Time and Newsweek, politely escorted him to the street. Years later Springsteen would tell the story in concerts and reminisce about what he would have said to Elvis had he answered the door.