Talk:The Stone Pony

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Referring to the Pony as a "starting point" for Springsteen is inaccurate. He signed with Columbia in 1972, released his first album in January '73, and followed that up with the first E Street band album in August 1973. The Stone Pony didn't open until a year later, by which point Springsteen had already played the famous Cambridge show where Jon Landau called him the future of rock and roll. While several clubs between Virginia and New York helped Springsteen make a name for himself in the late 60s and early 70s, the one in Asbury Park where he really cut his teeth was the Student Prince, no longer in existence. Springsteen has dropped in on several friends' gigs at the Pony but, to date, has never played a scheduled show at the club and probably never will.