As a follow-up to the recent post about the European leg of The River Tour, I'd like to post a little story that a reader named Jonathan Scott submitted to us. Just thought it radiates the sort of innocence that must have been dominating these shows for the European fans.

Back in March 1981 I read an ad on an Italian music magazine called Ciao 2001 (long defunct...) by a guy called Carmine who had organized two buses from Milan + tickets for the forthcoming April 11, 1981 Zurich concert by Bruce Springsteen. I spoke to a friend and to a colleague at work, and "hey presto" - 5 of us were ready to take the plunge in sending "Carmine" a fair amount of cash to go to the concert.

Carmine was true to his word (in spite of our worries...) and so five kids in their (very) early twenties, who had heard only 4 or 5 Springsteen songs (and that was just a few days before the concert itself) left Genoa early in the morning of the 11th to go to what would be for four of us a pivotal event in our lives!! The kids were called Jonathan Scott (me), Gabriella Trevisanutto, Marina Morri, Enrico Rosasco, and Paolo Saba.

Gabriella and I got together the following day and were married the following year (still are), Enrico and Marina got together a few days later and were married 18 months later!

So the love affairs that started that night were not only with Bruce and the band...

With the 30th anniversary of the concert approaching, I thought I should share this little story and a few pictures with you and the readers.

Ciao from Italy!!