That was a year after the release of his 1995 solo album, “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” which included the San Diego-inspired song, “Balboa Park.” Springsteen’s 1973 classic, “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight),” includes the memorable couplet: I know a pretty little place down in Southern California, down San Diego way / There’s a little cafe, where they play guitars all night and day.
His only other concert here since then was a solo acoustic date at the San Diego Civic Theatre in 1996.
