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I am dead tired. But! I have songs! They are tinny but you should try them out anyway.
Prove It All Night - Agora 1978. This is from one of those legendary Darkness era shows. It's 10 minutes long, and just over 4 minutes of the song is the intro. This song - a lot of the songs from that tour - show just how frustrating an album Darkness On the Edge of Town really is; it's good, it's fine, but once you hear the live cuts, you can't really believe they ever released it as is. Honestly, the intro alone is worth the download. It's all Roy Bittan on piano and Bruce on guitar. The last three minutes is nothing to sneeze at either.
Backstreets w/Sad Eyes - Jacksonville 1977 (I think). Uh, 1977 through 1988 were kind of shitty years for Bruce. In 1977, they were touring after his first producer had fucked him over a bit, and there was a lawsuit, and blah. So Backstreets, which was already about betrayal, got some very raw sounding stories incorporated in the live performances for a while. They were all along the same theme of betrayal, but there were different details in many of them. Some of them were just general sadness or anger at the betrayal. This track is suicidal.
Incident on 57th Street - Columbus 2008. An old song, a newer performance. Possibly my favorite live outro of this song, one of my favorite performances. It's really a young man's song, but he wasn't phoning it in. Bruce in storyteller mode.
Tomorrow, maybe some solo tracks. Or later today, I suppose.
Prove It All Night - Agora 1978. This is from one of those legendary Darkness era shows. It's 10 minutes long, and just over 4 minutes of the song is the intro. This song - a lot of the songs from that tour - show just how frustrating an album Darkness On the Edge of Town really is; it's good, it's fine, but once you hear the live cuts, you can't really believe they ever released it as is. Honestly, the intro alone is worth the download. It's all Roy Bittan on piano and Bruce on guitar. The last three minutes is nothing to sneeze at either.
Backstreets w/Sad Eyes - Jacksonville 1977 (I think). Uh, 1977 through 1988 were kind of shitty years for Bruce. In 1977, they were touring after his first producer had fucked him over a bit, and there was a lawsuit, and blah. So Backstreets, which was already about betrayal, got some very raw sounding stories incorporated in the live performances for a while. They were all along the same theme of betrayal, but there were different details in many of them. Some of them were just general sadness or anger at the betrayal. This track is suicidal.
Incident on 57th Street - Columbus 2008. An old song, a newer performance. Possibly my favorite live outro of this song, one of my favorite performances. It's really a young man's song, but he wasn't phoning it in. Bruce in storyteller mode.
Tomorrow, maybe some solo tracks. Or later today, I suppose.