Assorted track from Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band at The Main Point in Bryn Mawr, PA Feb. 5, 1975: Vinyl name: You Can Trust Your Car to the Man Who Wears the Star, and possibly other titles I don't know about.
One of my favorite 'early mid period' Bruce recordings.
Notes: Violin and backing vocals by Suki Lahav, who was part of the band for a few months, late '74, early '75. She's Israeli, and was married to Louis Lahav, engineer for the Born to Run sessions.
Bruce played all guitar parts. "Miami Steve" Van Zandt didn't join until July, 1975, but had played with Bruce in previous bands, either The Bruce Springsteen Band, Steel Mill, or Dr. Zoom and the Sonic Boom, or some combination of those.
In Dr Zoom and the Sonic Boom, they had a table on stage, during the show, with guys playing the board game Monopoly, so they could tell women "Yeah, I'm in Dr. Zoom and the Sonic Boom. I play Monopoly" True story.
Roy Bittan had joined by this point. I don't know who was on drums, probably Ernest Carter. Vinnie Lopez had already been fired.
The tracks above include Voice/ Piano/ Violin version of Incident on 57th Street, (Suki on backing vocals), Voice/ Piano version of For You, the "slow" version of The E Street Shuffle, with Bruce' funny story about meeting Clarence Clemons intro, cover of Bob Dylan's For You, and early versions of Thunder Road, ("Wings for Wheels"), and Jungleland, both with different lyrics.
There is actually a much earlier version of Jungleland, live, with David Sancious on piano. I have that on audio cassette, and may have it in the 16.1 GB collection of Bruce bootlegs I found on Demonoid a few years ago.
There is a black and white DVD of the previous or subsequent night's show at the Main Point, and I know a guy who has it, but he's notoriously hard to trade with. I'll get it, one way or another, eventually. I also have a very poor quality VHS cassette of Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, September 23, 1978. I know the date is right, because it was Bruc's birthday, and someone in the audience gave him a cake, and he ate some, between songs.
He was still going into the audience to sing Spirit in the Night as the 3rd song then. At the November 8, 1978 show, he was close enough that I was able to touch his shoulder, (which I did), 17 rows back from the stage.
A few more random tracks, from different shows:
Cover of Jackie Wilson's Higher and Higher, Boston Music Hall, March 25, 1977:
Bruce was in court proceedings against former manager Mike Appel, and was legally prevented from releasing material. The 1977 tour paid the bills in the interim. This show had The Miami Horns, from The Asbury Jukes on selected songs, including this one. This was the last song of the last show of the tour.
My buddy mentioned in this thread recorded the show from the audience, and for years, it was the jewel of his trading collection, until someone who had a copy made a CD, and it became valueless. I just have the whole show on audio cassette, dubbed from the master, by the master. In 1998, he took his daughter to see The Spice Girls, and she made her first bootleg.
Rosalita, (acoustic), WBCN-FM, Boston, April 9, 1974
Live in the radio station, promoting a night club gig, probably that night, or the next day.
Prove it All Night, December 15, 1978, Winterland, San Francisco, with long piano and guitar intro.
From a radio broadcast. Bruce played the lead guitar.
This was released on vinyl in a three album set called Live in The Promised Land. I got it in a trade for ten rare singles I stole from my college radio station. I know one was Apeman/ Rats by The Kinks, another was the 12 inch coloured vinyl DJ copy of Living Thing by ELO, with a blank B side, and another was No Such Animal parts 1 & 2, by Jimi Hendrix, on the Audio Fidelity label, (1966?).
I kept Say Goodbye to Hollywood by Ronnie Spector and the E Street Band on Cleveland International, and later gave that to my taping buddy, because it was one of the very few Bruce related recordings he didn't have.
I have a bootlegged DVD of the 1978 show in Houston, Texas, that might still be available online. The sound is great, but the stage lighting is poor, so it's mainly an audio show, with a bit of picture.
Does this Bus Stop at 82nd Street? WBCN-FM, Boston, January Oct 1, 1973 or January 10, 1973, I can't be sure. Acoustic, in the radio station.
Satin Doll, by Duke Ellington, from the same radio station show.
Kitty's Back - Roxy Theater, Los Angeles, September or October, 1975, (19 minute long version).
Bruce played two nights at the Roxy. At least one was broadcast on radio. The vinyl bootleg version I had was called Flat Top and Pin Drop, but the same show has been released with different a different title.
Some versions have the saxophone muted, this one doesn't.
Van Morrison played something with a very similar arrangement at the Rainbow Theater in London, UK, July, 1973. I have a bootleg DVD of the show, sourced from a BBC broadcast, and an Xvid compression that I shared on two private TV torrent sites. It's too big to put on ge.tt, but if you want it, (Xvid or .VOB), let me know by PM, and I'll put it somewhere online for you, possibly in multipart .rar, if necessary. Upload speed I don't have in bulk, but I have unlimited bandwidth.
So, I know a lot about Bruce Springsteen, but not enough that I would consider myself an expert. I don't collect much of his stuff after the Darkness on the Edge of Town tour, except demos, B sides, and the Nebraska album, from 1982. I won't put any released studio recordings up, because that might be frowned upon from above.
That's enough for tonight. I'll put more up another time, either in this thread, or in another one, if this gets buried with pork.
Keep in mind that ge.tt links expire, if no one downloads for a specific period of time, (1 week? 2? I don't know, I don't download things I upload). I'm not going to put them up a second time, someone else can keep them alive.
Jasper, I'll bet some of the guys here will listen to the songs, and just stare at the player on ge.tt, because they never figured out that they can open two browser windows at the same time, and minimize the ge.tt. You don't need to stare at an .mp3. They still don't know that, because they didn't read this far.
