Bruce Springsteen's Favorite Cafe Wha? After Five-night Bottom Line residency tied to 'Born to Run' release
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Where the Castiles — Bruce Springsteen's first band — played Greenwich Village afternoon sets in 1967, still pouring drinks tonight on MacDougal.
Two Greenwich Village venues anchor Bruce Springsteen's early New York story. In 1967, when he was still leading the Castiles, Springsteen played a two-month run of afternoon sets at Cafe Wha?, the basement club at MacDougal and Minetta Lane that had launched Dylan and Hendrix a few years earlier. Eight years later, August 13–17, 1975, Springsteen returned for the now-mythic five-night Bottom Line residency tied to the release of 'Born to Run' — he's since said it ranks among the most memorable runs of his career. The Bottom Line closed in 2004, but Cafe Wha? is still operating at 115 MacDougal Street, which makes it the verifiable, still-visitable Springsteen pilgrimage stop in NYC. Fans walking from Bleecker to Washington Square can stand on the corner where the Boss played his first New York gig.
Team/Artist: Five-night Bottom Line residency tied to 'Born to Run' release
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Where Bruce Springsteen Goes: Cafe Wha?
cocktail-bar: 115 MacDougal St, New York, NY 10012
The legendary Greenwich Village basement club at MacDougal and Minetta Lane, opened by Manny Roth in 1959. The first New York stage for Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and a young Bruce Springsteen.
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Where the Castiles — Bruce Springsteen's first band — played Greenwich Village afternoon sets in 1967, still pouring drinks tonight on MacDougal.
Bruce Springsteen is regularly seen at Cafe Wha? (115 MacDougal St, New York, NY 10012). The legendary Greenwich Village basement club at MacDougal and Minetta Lane, opened by Manny Roth in 1959. The first New York stage for Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and a young Bruce Springsteen.
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