The Nov. Nugs release: right in the middle of the '92 "Other Band" stand at a former swamp of Jersey
November 13, 2026
The latest nugs.net/Live Archives release arrived yesterday, a bit later than it normally would in the usual "First Friday" release pattern. Bruce Springsteen, Brendan Byrne Arena, E. Rutherford, NJ, July 31, 1992 is the fifth nugs.net/Live Archives release from Springsteen's 1992-93 tour with "The Other (non-E-Street) Band," supporting his simultaneously released albums Human Touch and Lucky Town. It captures Bruce and his band smack dab in the middle of their eleven-shows '92 stand at the famous arena that was built in - literally - the swamps of Jersey.
The show featured tour-premiere-performances of five songs: "Atlantic City," "Spirit In The Night" (in a unique-to-this-tour arrangement,) "Pony Boy" (a lullaby that Springsteen sang privately as a father - ironically/unintentionally prophesizing daughter Jessica's future equestrian pursuits - and might now have begun singing privately again, as a grandfather,) "I'm On Fire," and "Cross My Heart." With the exception of "Atlantic City," none of these songs has never appeared on any previous nugs.net/Live Archives releases from this tour. Human Touch tracks "Pony Boy" and "Cross My Heart" got performed only two times each on this tour.
