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Newch91

javis el errante wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

javis el errante wrote:

so this is how it went today...

first, the promise... then, the darkness on the edge of town... and I've just finished watching BS and ESB live in NYC 2001 DVD, thanks to popmarket.com... now it's time for Real Time with Bill Maher... I guess I will leave Live in Barcelona for tomorrow...

That's hilarious! I just finished watching the first disc of the NYC DVD that I got from Pop Market last week.

I am watching Bruce Springsteen Live in Barcelona DVD, those people are insane, the crowd is as good as PJ in Buenos Aires... I'm thrilled, sound is at top volume, feels like I'm at the show, Dancing in the dark has just finished, the roar of the crowd is deafening...

I've seen that one on TV before but I can't wait to rewatch it. I still have to watch disc 2 of the NYC DVD.

javis el errante

Newch91 wrote:

I've seen that one on TV before but I can't wait to rewatch it. I still have to watch disc 2 of the NYC DVD.

Watching the London Calling DVD, half way disc one... Out on the street, just fastastic...

bootlegger10

javis el errante wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

I've seen that one on TV before but I can't wait to rewatch it. I still have to watch disc 2 of the NYC DVD.

Watching the London Calling DVD, half way disc one... Out on the street, just fastastic...

This DVD is awesome. I just love how you can see how much fun the band is having. I'm really debating skipping the Berlin PJ shows and doing the Springsteen shows in Paris.

Newch91

javis el errante wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

I've seen that one on TV before but I can't wait to rewatch it. I still have to watch disc 2 of the NYC DVD.

Watching the London Calling DVD, half way disc one... Out on the street, just fastastic...

That DVD got me hooked on Bruce. After watching it, I was mad I didn't see him when he came to CT twice in 2009. Absolutely amazing DVD. I love that version of "Out On the Street". "Johnny 99" is also really fun to watch.

norm

Whatever happened to the legendary "master tape" of Bruce Springsteen's famed 1978 show at the Agora?

If he can get an approving nod from Springsteen's management, visionary Agora owner Henry LoConti hopes the recording can be heard by fans, and yield a Boss-scale benefit for the city that first embraced him 40 years ago.

For now, however, the reel-to-reel tape, handled only by gloved hands, rests in a vault at the Western Reserve Historical Society, where LoConti donated it.

Visitors can hear other Springsteen material on listening stations at the society, spokeswoman Angie Lowrie said, but that tape is not in a format to be included.

The tape, more than three hours long, was for a live album that never was. The show was the WMMS 10th anniversary concert of Aug. 9, 1978, for which more than 1,200 fans, who were awarded free tickets in a postcard giveaway, packed the Agora's original site on East 24th Street. Springsteen and the E Street Band, who had been touring since May, stayed in town for several days for it.

WMMS simulcast the concert live in stereo to a network of FM stations -- more than 30 of them, in LoConti's recollection, including Chicago and Detroit -- which made it one of Springsteen's most widely bootlegged shows. Former WMMS programmer John Gorman recalls in his book "The Buzzard" that Bob Seger told him he recorded it off the radio in Detroit, calling it "the greatest rock 'n' roll show I ever heard," and drummer Max Weinberg called it the best show the E Street Band ever did.

One audio feed from the show went to a production truck outside the Agora for radio.

agora1.jpgPeggy Turbett, The Plain DealerHenry LoConti would like to release the boxed set to support the Western Reserve Historical Society, but so far Springsteen's manager won't approve the release.

Another line, LoConti said, went directly upstairs to Agency Recording Studios, and was captured on 24-track tape for a possible album. That's the pristine master recording in the vault.

"It's one of the biggest bootlegs out there," LoConti said, which may explain why the album never happened. But he notes that bootlegs don't have the full show, because Springsteen played an encore after the radio broadcast ended, "and not the quality of 24-track."

LoConti recently made the recording into a very limited edition four-disc box set (so limited there were only 10 copies) that also included the 16-track recording of an hourlong Springsteen show at the Agora from June 1974, when the E Street Band included keyboardist David Sancious.

He sent copies to Springsteen, Miami Steve Van Zandt and Springsteen's management, asking permission to issue the set for sale, with all proceeds going to the Western Reserve Historical Society.

"Unfortunately," he said, "the manager said no."

But LoConti hasn't given up the idea. He would, in fact, like to take it up a notch with a higher-cost version of the box set that would add a DVD from an Aug. 30, 1978 show at the Agora with Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. For its last 28 minutes, they're joined onstage by Springsteen, Miami Steve and Clarence Clemons, who came from playing a show at the Richfield Coliseum.

Five cameras recorded video because the show was being shot for the "Live at the Agora" TV series. Miami Steve would not allow the 28-minute closing jam to be used in the show, however, because he did not want the high-profile guests to take attention away from Southside Johnny.

LoConti hopes he now can get permission to use the video. In his vision, the money from the box sets would be used to give the historical society's Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum its own separate home in Midtown on the Euclid Corridor.

"I put the box set together for that purpose," he said. "It's a good-sounding album. And it's history."
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ss ... sprin.html

Newch91

I don't know why Landau is saying no. I wonder if Bruce is also saying no?

javis el errante

I wonder how great the Born In The USA 30th Anniversary reissue is gonna be... may be they are working on that...

Newch91

javis el errante wrote:

I wonder how great the Born In The USA 30th Anniversary reissue is gonna be... may be they are working on that...

That would be a really good one, but we're still waiting on "The River" and "Nebraska". There were outtakes released on the "Tracks" collection.

Better Dan

Newch91 wrote:

javis el errante wrote:

I wonder how great the Born In The USA 30th Anniversary reissue is gonna be... may be they are working on that...

That would be a really good one, but we're still waiting on "The River" and "Nebraska". There were outtakes released on the "Tracks" collection.

I wonder if they'll ever release the "Full Band" version of Nebraska, which is rumored to exist.

Newch91

Better Dan wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

javis el errante wrote:

I wonder how great the Born In The USA 30th Anniversary reissue is gonna be... may be they are working on that...

That would be a really good one, but we're still waiting on "The River" and "Nebraska". There were outtakes released on the "Tracks" collection.

I wonder if they'll ever release the "Full Band" version of Nebraska, which is rumored to exist.

Yeah, that would be really interesting to hear. I know they've done full band versions of songs like "Atlantic City", "Mansion on the Hill", and "Johnny 99" live. I wonder if they resemble those versions. If he does reissue "Nebraska", I hope we get the full band version also.

Better Dan

Newch91 wrote:

Yeah, that would be really interesting to hear. I know they've done full band versions of songs like "Atlantic City", "Mansion on the Hill", and "Johnny 99" live. I wonder if they resemble those versions. If he does reissue "Nebraska", I hope we get the full band version also.

I absolutely love full band version of Reason to Believe that they've done live...great song..lots of energy!

Newch91

Better Dan wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

Yeah, that would be really interesting to hear. I know they've done full band versions of songs like "Atlantic City", "Mansion on the Hill", and "Johnny 99" live. I wonder if they resemble those versions. If he does reissue "Nebraska", I hope we get the full band version also.

I absolutely love full band version of Reason to Believe that they've done live...great song..lots of energy!

Never heard that one. Will have to look it up.

GivenToJam88

Newch91 wrote:

Better Dan wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

Yeah, that would be really interesting to hear. I know they've done full band versions of songs like "Atlantic City", "Mansion on the Hill", and "Johnny 99" live. I wonder if they resemble those versions. If he does reissue "Nebraska", I hope we get the full band version also.

I absolutely love full band version of Reason to Believe that they've done live...great song..lots of energy!

Never heard that one. Will have to look it up.

I got to hear it at Nassau 08 it was great!! Open All Night is another great one off Nebraska i cant stop listening to it. Eddie did a great cover of it at the beacon!

Newch91

Are there anymore full band versions of "Nebraska" that haven't been discussed in the last few posts?

Newch91

This was a really good band performance of "Reason to Believe".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piMODx-_KYk

Newch91

Someone get me video of this!!!

http://www.nj.com/springsteen/index.ssf ... _1978.html

MysteryTrain

Newch91 wrote:

Are there anymore full band versions of "Nebraska" that haven't been discussed in the last few posts?

There's Open All Night, Seeger Sessions band.

ilockyer

Newch91 wrote:

Someone get me video of this!!!

http://www.nj.com/springsteen/index.ssf ... _1978.html

Not a video per se, but audio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... yv4VG6p8FQ

Lanternjaw

ilockyer wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

Someone get me video of this!!!

http://www.nj.com/springsteen/index.ssf ... _1978.html

Not a video per se, but audio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... yv4VG6p8FQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hGA_rkQOt0

Newch91

Even the outtakes for "Born in the USA" are incredible! Just heard Bruce's version of "Protection" that he wrote for Donna Summer. Amazing. I wonder how many songs he wrote for that album? I hope when he reissues the album that he puts all the outtakes on there, released and not released.

Here's "Protection".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMIs8Y23mBc