He released a live anthology after Tunnel of love that was a 8 cassette set at the time and pretty much had every song that Springsteen had done recorded live in concerts.
It went from their early stuff which was clearly in a small bar or club right up to the arena stuff for Born in the USA.
the River intro is one of my favorites and shows what kind of a story teller he was. To be honest whenever I heard him telling this story, I would feel the tears coming.
How are you doing out there tonight?
That's good That's good This is uhh….
When I was growing up.
Me and my Dad used to go at it all the time
Over almost anything
I used to have really long hair
Way down past my shoulders
When I was 17 or 18
Oh man he used to hate it
We got to where we would fight so much that I
That I would spent a lot of time outside the house
In the summertime it was not so bad
Cause it was warm and your friends were out
But in the winter
I remember standing downtown and it would get so cold
When the wind would blow I had this phone booth that I used stand in
I used call my girl like for hours at a time
just talking to her all night long
and finally I would get my nerve up to go home
I'd stand there in the driveway
and he would be waiting for me in the kitchen
and I'd tuck my hair down in my collar, and I'd walk in
and he'd call me back to sit down with him
and the first thing that he always asked me was
"What did I think I was doing with myself"?
and the worst part about it was I could never explain it to him
I remember I got in a motorcycle accident once
I was laid up in bed
He had a barber come in and cut my hair
and man, I can remember telling him that I hated him
and that I would never ever forget
He used to tell me I can't wait till the army gets you
When the army gets you they are gonna make a man out of you
They gonna cut all that hair off
And They will make a man out of you
And this was in I guess '68
and there was a lot of guys from the neighborhood going to Vietnam
I remember the drummer in my first band coming over to my house with his marine uniform on
Saying that he was going and that he did not know where it was
And a lot of guys went
And a lot of guys didn't came back
And a lot that came back
Weren't the same anymore
I remember the day I got my draft notice
I hit it from my folks
And three days before my physical me and my friends went out and we stayed up all night
we got on the bus to go that morning man
we were all so scared
And I went, and I failed
I came home
It is nothing to applaud about
I remember coming home after I had been gone for three days
Walkin' in the kitchen and my mother and father were sitting there and my dad said "where you been?"
I said "I went to take my physical"
He said "What happened ?"
I said "They didn't take me"
And He said "That's good"
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