The Boss makes history again

A little over a week ago, May 7 to be exact, Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band played a historic concert at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, N.J. The concert was designed as a benefit to raise money for the theater and, as I understand it, tickets for the show cost in the thousands of dollars. It wound up netting an incredible $3 million that will go to renovating the theater.

But that's not what made the concert historic. Although no one knew what was going to happen when the band took the stage, Bruce let them in on their plans in the show's opening moments. He and the band were going to play all the songs from his album "Darkness on the Edge of Town" in sequence, take a break and then play all the songs from "Born to Run" in sequence.

What you will see here are video highlights from this concert, including the announcement of their plans and the opening "mistake." The video leaps from song to song, often the view of the band is obscured by other audience members and sometimes the images are blurry. But you get a sense of what it must have been like to have been at this incredible show.

I understand there are bootleg copies of the entire concert that can be found in all the usual places.

By the way, I have heard that Columbia Records is planning a special deluxe box set commemorating the 30th anniversary of the original release of "Darkness" this fall. What do you think the chances are of an authorized DVD of this concert being part of that package? Just a thought.