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05/01/82 - STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR / JOLE BLON
With the Lord Gunner Group
12/01/82 - ROYAL MANOR NORTH, NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ
LUCILLE / CAROL
Audience tape - With Nils Lofgren
00/02/82 - POWER STATION, NEW YORK, NY
OUT OF WORK / CLUB SOUL CITY / LOVE’S ON THE LINE / HOLD ON (TO WHAT YOU GOT) / ANGELYNE / ALL I NEED / RENDEZVOUS / SOUL DEEP
Sessions for Gary US Bonds and probably the most extensive Springsteen involvement in any outside album project to date. Although Springsteen & Van Zandt are listed as co-producers of all 11 tracks on the album, Bruce was actually involved with only 8 of them – “Soul Deep” (the old Box Tops hit) plus the 7 Springsteen songs, 6 of which were previously unreleased (“Rendezvous” had been covered by Greg Kihn in 1979). Bruce is not credited as playing or singing on the album but he did directly participate (along with the E Street Band) on most of them. Two or three additional Springsteen compositions were also recorded and considered during the Bonds sessions. All of the above-mentioned recordings were released on Bonds’ ‘On The Line’ in June 1982.
20/02/82 - BIG MAN'S WEST, RED BANK, NJ
AIN'T THAT A SHAME / MONEY / YOU CAN'T SIT DOWN
Audience tape - With Beaver Brown
Photo's courtesy of Dari.
00/03/82 - WESTLAKE STUDIOS, LOS ANGELES, CA
PROTECTION
Springsteen and Roy Bittan fly to Los Angeles in early March to participate in a Quincy Jones-produced recording session for Donna Summer’s work-in-progress album. The session took place either on or about March 8th. After initially considering “Cover Me” for donation, Bruce opted to give Donna the stylistically similar “Protection”. The owner of Summer’s record label (David Geffen) was friends with Jon Landau and had asked if Bruce might have a spare song available for her. Springsteen contributed vocals and lead guitar at the session, with Bittan on piano. Several uncirculating alternate different takes of “Protection” were recorded in Los Angeles, included a Summer-Springsteen duet. Collectors note: a fake “duet’ version (made in the late 1990’s by some fan by layering the official Summer version with a Springsteen studio outtake version) is in circulation. “Protection” was first released in August 1982 on Summer’s self-titled album.
09/04/82 - BIG MAN'S WEST, RED BANK, NJ
TWIST AND SHOUT
Audience tape - With Beaver Brown
10/04/82 - BIG MAN'S WEST, RED BANK, NJ
LUCILLE / JERSEY GIRL / JOLE BLON / TWIST AND SHOUT
Audience tape - With Beaver Brown
11/04/82 - BIG MAN'S WEST, RED BANK, NJ
LONG TALL SALLY / ROCKING ALL OVER THE WORLD / PROUD MARY / CAROL
Audience tape - With John Eddie & the Frontstreet Rockers. Bruce was also in attendance at The Stone Pony where the Cats On A Smooth Surface were playing - Bruce declined an invite to play on this particular occasion.
16/04/82 - BIG MAN'S WEST, RED BANK, NJ
TENTH AVENUE FREEZE OUT
With Clarence Clemons And The Red Bank Rockers
25/04/82 - STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
With Cats On A Smooth Surface. Bruce was present on this evening as he was on 11th April but again declined to join the group onstage as he was finishing off Nebraska and wanted to save his voice.
02/05/82 - STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
LONG TALL SALLY / TWIST AND SHOUT
With Cats. This was the start of a series of shows which grew in popularity and became well attended. Most of the songs that were performed with Bruce on any given night were either songs the band knew or quickly rehearsed with Bruce backstage at the Pony . He would then join them onstage after the last set at 2:30 AM where he , even at that hour , would put on an amazing show . Truly inspirational and energetic even though at that hour there would usually be 30 or 40 people left in the audience (at the earlier jams) before Bruce took the stage.
After the third or fourth time that he sat in with Cats , word that he was making regular appearances Sundays at the Pony quickly got out and the regular crowd of about 200 people grew to a capacity crowd of over 800 -- and that was every week whether he showed up or not . All local and national media had ongoing blurbs of his jams with Cats but neither the band nor the Stone Pony did any special advertising to exploit the fact that he played with them so regularly . The band felt priviledged to have him there with them and would never sour that relationship
Generic ticket courtesy of Billy Smith.
08/05/82 - THE FAST LANE, ASBURY PARK, NJ
JOLE BLON / JERSEY GIRL / LUCILLE / AROUND AND AROUND
Audience tape - With Beaver Brown
16/05/82 - BIG MAN'S WEST, RED BANK, NJ
10TH AVENUE FREEZE OUT
With Clarence and the band
16/05/82 - STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
With the Cats. In the years 1981 and 1982, Cats On A Smooth Surface consisted of members Bobby Bandiera on lead guitar/vocals, Harry Filkin on rhythm guitar/vocals, Peter Schulle on keyboards/vocals, Pete Gagen on drums, Ray Planet on saxophone and John Micco on Bass/vocals. They regularly performed a variety of new and vintage covers and original material at least five nights every week which would culminate with shows every Sunday night at the Pony.
Bruce's May 16 , 1982 appearance with Cats at the Stone Pony
23/05/82 - STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
CAROL / LONG TALL SALLY / TWIST AND SHOUT
With Cats. This date was previously listed as being at the Fast Lane, but the Cats did not play at that venue at this time - they had the Sunday night residency at the Stone Pony. Interestingly, it was a fledgling Bon Jovi band that was the resident artiste at the Fast Lane, and he would jokingly complain about the lack of audiences at the Fast Lane on those Sunday nights blaming it on Bruce playing with Cats at the Pony and taking all the crowds from him.
29/05/82 - BIG MAN'S WEST, RED BANK, NJ
LITTLE LATIN LUPE LU / SUMMERTIME BLUES / AROUND AND AROUND / HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL
Audience tape - With Beaver Brown and Southside Johnny (last song) 
06/06/82 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
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With Cats
12/06/82 - CENTRAL PARK, NY - RALLY FOR DISARMAMENT
THE PROMISED LAND / RUNNING ON EMPTY
Audience tape - With Jackson Browne, this show was broadcast live on WNEW radio in NYC and televised on Cable TV. Thanks to Sal for updated info.
12/06/82 - BIG MAN'S WEST, RED BANK, NJ
WALKING THE DOG / ROUTE 66 / CAROL
Audience tape. With Sonny Kenn
13/06/82 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
HEARTBREAK HOTEL / AROUND AND AROUND / LUCILLE / KANSAS CITY / TWIST AND SHOUT
With Cats
"Bruce onstage with Cats and with Cats' John Micco - 13th June 1982".
20/06/82 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
COME ON LET'S GO / LITTLE LATIN LUPE LU / SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN / AROUND AND AROUND / LUCILLE / TWIST AND SHOUT
With Cats
"Cats' Bobby Bandiera with Bruce"
26/06/82 - BIG MAN'S WEST, RED BANK, NJ
LUCILLE
Audience tape - With Billy Chinnock
27/06/82 - BIG MAN'S WEST, RED BANK, NJ
10TH AVENUE FREEZE OUT
With Clarence and the band
27/06/82 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
COME ON LET'S GO / FROM SMALL THINGS / SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN / LUCILLE / AROUND AND AROUND / TWIST AND SHOUT
With Cats
17/07/82 - BIG MAN'S WEST, RED BANK, NJ
MONY MONY / BYE BYE JOHNNY / WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN' GOING ON / SHOUT
Audience tape. Springsteen makes a guest appearance with Pittsburgh-based THE IRON CITY HOUSEROCKERS (the group’s leader and frontman was Joe Grushecky). According to Grushecky this was the first time he had ever met Springsteen, let alone jammed with him…the start of a long friendship.
23/07/82 - MONMOUTH COUNTY FAIR, FREEHOLD, NJ
SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN / LONG TALL SALLY / CAROL / SHAKE / LAND OF A 1000 DANCES
With Sonny Kenn & The Wild Ideas.
23/07/82 - THE FAST LANE, ASBURY PARK, NJ
TWENTY FLIGHT ROCK / BE BOP A LULA / LONG TALL SALLY
Audience tape. Bruce joins rockabilly masters The Stray Cats
Thanks to Sal for the photo.
25/07/82 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
COME ON LET'S GO / FROM SMALL THINGS / RAMROD / LUCILLE / AROUND AND AROUND / THE WANDERER / LONG TALL SALLY / TWIST AND SHOUT
Audience tape - With Cats
31/07/82 - BIG MAN'S WEST, RED BANK, NJ
SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN / READY TEDDY / RIP IT UP / AROUND AND AROUND / SWEET LITTLE ROCK'N'ROLLER
Audience tape - With Sonny Kenn & The Wild Ideas.
01/08/82 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
RIP IT UP / COME ON OVER TO MY PLACE / COME ON LET'S GO / LUCILLE / AROUND AND AROUND / TWIST AND SHOUT
With Cats
06/08/82 - BIG MAN'S WEST, RED BANK, NJ
READY TEDDY / LUCILLE / JERSEY GIRL / TWIST AND SHOUT
Audience tape - With Beaver Brown
07/08/82 - BIG MAN'S WEST, RED BANK, NJ
READY TEDDY / FROM SMALL THINGS / JERSEY GIRL / DO YOU WANNA DANCE / LUCILLE - ON THE PROWL / TWIST AND SHOUT
Audience tape, with Beaver Brown. “Lucille” includes a partial rendition (and first known public performance) of a brand new Springsteen composition called “On The Prowl”.
08/08/82 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
READY TEDDY / FROM SMALL THINGS / COME ON LET'S GO / COME ON OVER TO MY PLACE / AROUND AND AROUND / LUCILLE - ON THE PROWL / TWIST AND SHOUT
Audience tape, with Cats On A Smooth Surface. As was the case the previous night Springsteen gives a partial performance of his new song “On The Prowl”, which is blended into a rendition of “Lucille”. Springsteen would give a complete, stand-alone performance of “On The Prowl” on Oct 3, 1982.
10/08/82 - SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY WEDDING RECEPTION, ASBURY PARK, NJ
No set details known. Wedding reception for Southside Johnny and his bride, Jill Glasner. The newly-formed 1982 lineup of the Asbury Jukes (with former ESB member Boom Carter on drums) provided the musical entertainment at the reception, along with “special guest” Bruce Springsteen. Most ESB and Asbury Jukes members (past and present) were in attendance.
13/08/82 - TOWER RECORDING STUDIOS, FARMINGDALE, NJ
Springsteen rehearsal with Cats On A Smooth Surface to prepare for the August 15th show. No verified setlist details but the songs are likely to have closely mirrored those actually played on the 15th (see listing).
15/08/82 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
READY TEDDY / FROM SMALL THINGS / AROUND AND AROUND / JERSEY GIRL / YOU CAN LOOK / HAVIN' A PARTY / DETROIT MEDLEY - SHAKE - SWEET SOUL MUSIC
Audience tape - With Cats. After learning about The Cats upcoming 4th anniversary party that year held on Aug. 15 at the Pony , Bruce requested a special rehearsal with Cats three days earlier at Tower Recording Studios in Farmingdale , N.J. (where Cats rehearsed) where they learned most of that evenings' songs and medleys. News article from The Aquarian Weekly. 
"Bruce with Cats - 15th August 1982"
23/08/82 - BRIGHTON BAR, LONG BRANCH, NJ
TWIST AND SHOUT
With Mama Tried
30/08/82 - JON JON'S, WALL, NJ
With Cats. This was an impromptu "take over the stage" jam after the band's yearly Stone Pony owner / band dinner outing to which Bruce was invited and did attend .
04/09/82 - BIG MAN'S WEST, RED BANK, NJ
FROM SMALL THINGS / COME ON LET'S GO / LUCILLE
Audience tape - With Beaver Brown
18/09/82 - BIG MAN'S WEST, RED BANK, NJ
FROM SMALL THINGS / JOHNNY B GOODE / LUCILLE / LETS TALK ABOUT US / CAROL / BAMA LAMA BAMA LOO
Audience tape - With Dave Edmunds
Thanks to Carlo for the colour shots from Red Bank 18/09/92
19/09/82 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
READY TEDDY / FROM SMALL THINGS / COME ON LET'S GO / LUCILLE / COME ON OVER TO MY PLACE / AROUND AND AROUND / HAVIN' A PARTY / JERSEY GIRL / WOOLY BULLY / LOUIE LOUIE / HIGH HEELED SNEAKERS / TWIST AND SHOUT
With Cats
21/09/82 - PEPPERMINT LOUNGE, NEW YORK, NY
FROM SMALL THINGS
Soundboard tape - With Dave Edmunds
25/09/82 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
READY TEDDY / FROM SMALL THINGS / COME ON OVER TO MY PLACE / AROUND AND AROUND / LUCILLE / TWIST AND SHOUT
Audience tape - With Cats
29/09/82 - ON BROADWAY, WESTWOOD, NJ
AROUND AND AROUND / TWIST AND SHOUT
Bruce joins Billy Rancher & The Unreal Gods onstage for two songs.
03/10/82 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
FROM SMALL THINGS / COME ON LET'S GO / AROUND AND AROUND / OPEN ALL NIGHT / JERSEY GIRL / ON THE PROWL / DO YOU WANNA DANCE / LUCILLE / WOOLY BULLY / LOUIE LOUIE / ROCK BABY ROCK / COME ON OVER TO MY PLACE / HAVIN' A PARTY / TWIST AND SHOUT
Audience tape - With Cats - live premiere of Open All Night and On The Prowl is now a seperate song
Bruce onstage and backstage after the show - Upper right photo courtesy of Dari.
00/10/82 - CLOVER STUDIOS, LOS ANGELES, CA
PINK CADILLAC
Springsteen drops in to visit Chuck Plotkin and Toby Scott, who are the respective Producer and Recording Engineer for Bette Midler’s work-in-progress album “No Frills”. Springsteen donates his (at the time) unreleased and never-performed song “Pink Cadillac” to the Midler project. It is unclear if a pre-recorded demo was submitted or if Bruce spent some time teaching on-hand session musicians the song. The actual Midler recording of the song took place a couple of weeks later, but Springsteen wasn’t involved in that formal session. Midler gave the public world debut of “Pink Cadillac” on Dec 8, 1982 in Portland, Oregon. The song was performed as the show opener during Midler’s entire Dec 82 – Sep 83 Tour. However the Midler live version (which apparently mirrors her studio version) is a major adaptation, with Bruce’s middle lyric verse removed and additional lyrics of a song by John David Martin called “Cadillac Walk” sequenced into the end of Bruce’s song. Although Midler was allowed to perform the song in that arrangement throughout her 82-83 Tour, Springsteen, after hearing the Midler studio version, would not allow her to release it on her July 1983 “No Frills” album. “Pink Cadillac-Cadillac Walk” was pulled from the album and replaced by a Midler cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Beast Of Burden”.
27/11/82 - CLUB LINGERIE, HOLLYWOOD, CA
TWIST AND SHOUT
Audience tape. Bruce joins Jimmy & The Mustangs onstage for one song
03/12/82 - THE KEYSTONE, PALO ALTO, CA
LUCILLE / FROM SMALL THINGS
With Clarence and the band
31/12/82 - HARKNESS HOUSE, NEW YORK, NY
JOLE BLON / I'M A ROCKER / HUNGRY HEART / SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME / ROCKIN' ALL OVER THE WORLD / SHOUT
Bruce and others in a jam session after Little Steven's wedding
1983
08/01/83 - BIG MAN'S WEST, RED BANK, NJ
ROCKIN' ALL OVER THE WORLD / LUCILLE
Audience tape - Bruce, Max and Clarence join Larson on stage - Closing night of the club
24/04/83 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
FROM SMALL THINGS / AROUND AND AROUND / LUCILLE / TWIST AND SHOUT
With Cats
27/04/83 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
LUCILLE / LONG TALL SALLY
With The Diamonds. The Diamonds were a local (Jersey shore) all original rock and soul band that included Cats' then ex-members Harry Filkin and Pete Schulle who left Cats in mid October 1982. The Diamonds also included an original Cats member by the name of Joel Krause who left Cats in 1980. They performed their material in select Jersey and Manhattan clubs which catered to bands that showcased their original songs. The guitarist that replaced Cats' Harry Filkin was local boy Glen Burtnick of "Beatlemania" fame who played with Cats for a while before leaving to pursue original music of his own. He's now better known as a member for the last 15 years or so of the re-formed 70's band Styx.
Bruce backstage at the Pony 27th April - Photo courtesy of Dari
18/06/83 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
AROUND AND AROUND / LUCILLE / TWIST AND SHOUT
Audience tape - With The Diamonds
10/07/83 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
KEEP A KNOCKIN' / AROUND AND AROUND / WOOLY BULLY / LITTLE LATIN LUPE LU / TWIST AND SHOUT
With The Cats
16/07/83 - THE HEADLINER, NEPTUNE, NJ
LUCILLE / I HEAR YOU KNOCKIN' / WOOLY BULLY / SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN / TWIST AND SHOUT / LOUIE LOUIE
Soundboard tape - With Midnight Thunder.
00/07/83 - POWER STATION, NEW YORK, NY
SAVIN’ UP / SUMMER ON SIGNAL HILL
Sessions for Clarence Clemons & The Red Bank Rockers debut album. Springsteen provides the rhythm guitar on “Savin’ Up and arranges & co-produces the instrumental “Summer On Signal Hill”. Contrary to myth it is not Bruce and the ESB performing in disguise on non-LP “Summer” – the outstanding lead guitar on this track is courtesy of David Landau (Jon Landau’s brother). Both the album and the non-LP b-side were released in mid Oct, 1983. The Martin Kahan-directed video for “A Woman’s Got The Power” (the A-side of the “Summer” single) features a brief, non-speaking cameo appearance by Springsteen (as a car wash attendant). The video was filmed in early autumn 1983 and first released in February 1984.
02/08/83 - MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, NY
STAY / RUNNING ON EMPTY / SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN
Audience tape - With Jackson Browne
Photo Courtesy of Dari
14/08/83 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
READY TEDDY / AROUND AND AROUND / JERSEY GIRL / LUCILLE / TWIST AND SHOUT / AIN'T THAT LOVIN' YOU BABY
Audience tape - With the Cats
Bruce onstage 14th August 1983 - photo courtesy of Dari.
19/08/83 - BRIGHTON BAR, LONG BRANCH, NJ
BLUE SUEDE SHOES / ROCKIN' ALL OVER THE WORLD / AIN'T THAT LOVIN' YOU BABY / JERSEY GIRL / CAROL
Audience tape - With John Eddie
06/11/83 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK, NJ
IT'S ALL OVER NOW
With the Cats - 8 other tracks also performed
28/12/83 - MONMOUTH ARTS CENTRE, RED BANK, NJ
FROM SMALL THINGS / SANTA CLAUS / TWIST AND SHOUT
Audience tape - With La Bamba. Twist and Shout includes "La Bamba" in the intro.
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