Date: 1971-10-30
Location: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 

Label: -
Catalog #: -

Taper: ?
Source: Audience Tape
Transferred By: ?
Transfer & Generation info: 


Total disc time: (35:24)

01 Got My Mojo Working (start cut) (1:53)
02 Livin' Rock And Roll (4:43)
03 Talking About My Baby (8:41)
04 Hootchie Cootchie Man (10:54)
05 Don't You Want To Be An Outlaw (9:12)


Known faults:


Notes:
ONE show, double bill, with The Bruce Springsteen Band opening for headliner CACTUS. As the undercard, 
Springsteen’s show would have been limited to around 60 minutes. The above-mentioned setlist is taken from 
an audience recording of fair quality that started circulating in 1984 and then widely propagated after it was 
booted onto vinyl in 1986, courtesy of the LP “BRUCE 1971” (Good Taste Records). Both the early circulating 
tape specimens and the 1986 LP identified the source venue for the audio as the Virginia Commonwealth 
University Gym. 

Seemingly as a consequence of no 1971 VCU gig being identified by any 1980’s or 1990’s concert history 
sources, some people began linking this audio to Springsteen’s headlining performance at University Of 
Richmond on 23/10/71. Although the manner in which the MC introduces the band (i.e., “from New Jersey”) 
clearly points to this as being a Richmond performance, the very subdued audience reaction to the MC’s 
introduction is not consistent with the BSB being the headliner. For these reasons BRUCEBASE has placed this 
audio under this recently unearthed gig date at VCU, although there is still a slight chance that another 
contending Richmond gig during this time period will surface. This 40 minutes of audio circulates these days via 
homemade CDR titles, sometimes with material from other shows added. The circulating audio is likely to 
represent most of Bruce’s show, with perhaps one or two songs (encores?) missing. Both “Livin’ Rock And 
Roll” and “Talking About My Baby” are not currently available via any other audio source. Bruce would later 
utilized the melody from “Talkin’ About My Baby” for his vastly superior 1972 composition “Janey Needs A 
Shooter”.


The BSB lineup heard on the audio is the core 5-piece band, plus the vocal duo of Delores Holmes & Francine 
Daniels (the ladies are heard on the three Springsteen compositions but not the two cover songs). This is 
currently the only positively identified appearance of Francine Daniels with the BSB, as all previous 1971 gigs 
seem to involve Barbara Dinkins partnering with Delores Holmes.



Infofile updated: 2005-01-31