13-Sep-1968 Red Bank,NJ Off Broadway Coffee House,USA
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Early of two shows (8:30 PM) – with EARTH the sole act on the bill.
13-Sep-1968 Red Bank,NJ Off Broadway Coffee House,USA
Unknown setlist
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Late of two shows (10:30 PM) – with EARTH the sole act on the bill.
18-Sep-1968 Toms River,NJ Ocean County College,USA
- This date is a DUMMY DATE indicating the generic period
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01 Fire - Hendrix
02 Get out of my life, woman
03 Shapes of things
04 Dear Mr Fantasy
05 Outside woman blues
06 Swlabr
07 Crossroads
08 Politician
09 Spoonful
10 Toad
11 Sunshine of your love
12 Purple Haze
13 Foxy lady
14 Sitting on top of the world
14 Slow blues in G
15 Fast blues break in G
16 The war drags on
17 Sitting on top of the world
18 Help me
19 Smokestack lightning
20 I'm a man
21 Hootchie cootchie man
22 Jeff's boogie
23 Another morning
24 Ride on baby
25 Born to be wild
26 Back door man
Notes:
From Brucebase:
Springsteen (along with fellow EARTH members John Graham and Michael Burke) entered Ocean County College in September 1968. Bruce ended up staying for 3 semesters, dropping out in December 1969 shortly after his parents moved to California. EARTH is believed to have performed several times at Ocean County College during the Sept thru Dec, 1968 period. Springsteen even contributed a piece of poetry to “Seascapes”, the school’s Literary Yearbook.
The 26 above-mentioned songs are taken from the only known EARTH-era repertoire listing (see photo on Brucebase). The document is likely to have been created by Springsteen in September or October 1968. The amount of tracks displayed, their sequencing, plus the header and numbering notation by Bruce – all point to this as being an inventory of Earth’s live repertoire of “cover” material. For this reason it is of greater historical significance than an individual gig setlist, particularly in that no EARTH audio is circulating.
A few of these songs are performance holdovers from the CASTILES era. Since Earth was a 3-piece band it’s hardly surprising that material from both Cream and The Jimi Hendrix Experience (the era’s two premier 3-piece bands) are abundantly represented. Most are well known songs. However there are several obscurities. “Slow Blues in G” and ‘Fast Blues Break in G” are public domain titles, likely influenced by Eric Clapton’s arrangements during his 1965-66 Bluesbreakers period. There is also Donovan’s protest anthem “The War Drags On”, plus Cream’s “Swlabr” and ‘Toad”. “Help Me” is a track from Ten Years After’s 1967 debut LP. “Another Morning” is courtesy of The Moody Blues. From a timeline standpoint the latest released song titles are Steppenwolf’s “Born To Be Wild” (July 68) and Cream’s “Politician” (Aug 68)
20-Sep-1968 New Shrewsbury,NJ Le Teendezvous,USA
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ONE show, with EARTH the sole act on the bill. The band performed a 2hr show consisting of four 30-minute sets with intermissions between sets.
28-Sep-1968 Red Bank,NJ Off Broadway Coffee House,USA
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Early of two shows (8:30 PM) – with Bruce performing solo with acoustic accompaniment, billed under the seemingly one-off moniker of BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE FOUNDERS. The identity of “The Founders” is uncertain but may have been Off Broad Street Coffeehouse managers James Hutcheson and Richard Levine (both acoustic guitarists).
28-Sep-1968 Red Bank,NJ Off Broadway Coffee House,USA
Unknown setlist
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Notes:
Late of two shows (10:30 PM) – with Bruce performing solo with acoustic accompaniment, billed under the seemingly one-off moniker of BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE FOUNDERS. The identity of “The Founders” is uncertain but may have been Off Broad Street Coffeehouse managers James Hutcheson and Richard Levine (both acoustic guitarists).
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