1975‐08‐15, early show: The Bottom Line, New York City, NY, USA (1975-08-15)

First of two separate admission shows. Show broadcast live by “New York”’s influential “WNEW‐FM”. Thunder Road is performed in the slow version with Roy on piano and Bruce on harmonica and vocals. The E Street Shuffle includes Having a Party. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) includes a snippet of Theme From Shaft in the midsection.

The first (early) show was broadcast live by New York’s influential WNEW‐FM, and it was a cannibalized home taping of this show off the radio that appeared on two of the first Springsteen vinyl bootlegs ‘Live At The Bottom Line 8/15/75’ (unknown label) and ‘Bruce Springsteen / Live’ (Coral Records), both issued in late 1975. However these boots, as well as countless permutations of the performance that came afterwards, were heavily edited, with no in‐between song chatter/stories and, in some instances, tracks missing. Forty years on the show was upgraded, for the first time ever the entire broadcast without edits, on the CDR ‘The Way It Was – The Complete Bottom Line Broadcast’, and subsequently CDs ‘The Punk Meets The Godfather’ (Godfather), ‘Vintage Broadcast 75’ (None Listed) and CDR ‘The Bottom Line On The Bottom Line’ (Hot Stuff). A better quality yet version was released on ’From The Coastline To The City: The Pre‐FM Reels" (JEMS) in 2017.