E Street Shuffle: The Glory Days of Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
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Rambali, Paul—Review of Darkness, NME [6/10/78].
Rath, Fred—Interview w/ Bruce Springsteen, Record Mirror 7/22/78.
Robertson, Sandy—Preview of BITUSA, Sounds 6/9/84.
Robinson, Lisa—review of Bottom Line gig, NME 8/30/75.
Robinson, Lisa—Interview w/ Bruce Springsteen, NME 3/26/77.
Rockwell, John—“Springsteen’s Rock Poetry at its Best,” New York Times 8/29/75. [RITS]
Rockwell, John—“New Dylan from New Jersey?,” Rolling Stone 10/9/75.
Rockwell, John—Review of Buffalo gig, New York Times 5/25/78.
Rockwell, John—Interview w/ Bruce Springsteen, New York Times 5/26/78.
Rolling Stone [eds.]—100 Best Singles [inc. “Born To Run”], Rolling Stone 9/8/88.
Rolling Stone [eds.]—100 Greatest Albums of the Eighties [inc. BITUSA], Rolling Stone 11/16/89.
Rose, Cynthia—“Old Glory Days,” NME 10/5/85.
Sacks, Leo—“Springsteen Speaks,” ??? June 1978.
Santinelli, Robert—Interview w/ Vini Lopez, Backstreets #15 [Fall 1985].
Santinelli, Robert—Interview w/ Boom Carter, Backstreets #17 [Summer 1986].
Santinelli, Robert—Interview w/ Vini Roslin, Backstreets #19 [Winter 1987].
Santinelli, Robert—Interview w/ George Theiss, Backstreets #20 [Spring 1987].
Santinelli, Robert—“Exit Off E Street,” Backstreets #42 [Spring 1993].
Schruers, Fred—“Bruce Springsteen & The Secret of the World,” Rolling Stone 2/5/81.
Schwartz, Tony—“Springsteen Resprung,” Newsweek 6/5/78.
Sciaky, Ed—Transcript of interview w/ Bruce Springsteen on WIOQ 8/78, Thunder Road #3 [Spring 1979].
Silverton, Pete—Review of Darkness, Sounds 6/10/78.
Simmons, Sylvie—Interview w/ Bruce Springsteen, Sounds 7/29/78.
Springsteen, Bruce—Transcript of induction speech for Bob Dylan at R’n’R Hall of Fame 1/88, Backstreets #24.
Springsteen, Bruce—sleeve-notes to Greatest Hits (Sony, 1995).
—sleeve-notes to The Essential Bruce Springsteen, 3–CD edition (Sony, 2003).
—sleeve-notes to Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75 (Sony, 2006).
—2010 sleeve-notes, lyric drafts and related ephemera, circa 1976–77, in The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge of Town story (Sony, 2010).
—letter to Jon Landau, circa January 1982, reproduced in Songs (Avon Books, 1998).
—transcript of key-note speech @ South By South West, Austin, TX, March 15, 2012 on rollingstone.com.
Springsteen, Bruce—sleeve-notes to Greatest Hits (Sony, 1995).
Springsteen, Bruce—sleeve-notes to The Essential Bruce Springsteen, 3–CD edition (Sony, 2003).
Springsteen, Bruce—sleeve-notes to Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75 (Sony, 2006).
Springsteen, Bruce—sleeve-notes, lyric drafts A releated ephemera, circa 1976–77, in The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge of Town Story (Sony, 2010).
Springsteen, Bruce—letter to Jon Landau, circa January 1982, reproduced in Songs. (Avon Books, 1998) pp 137, 140–41.
Springsteen, Bruce—transcript of key-note speech @ South by South West Austin, TX, 3/15/2012 on rollingstone.com.
Sutcliffe, Phil—Interview w/ Bruce Springsteen, Mojo #146 [January 2006].
Sutherland, Steve—Review of Tunnel of Love, MM 10/10/87.
Swartley, Ariel—“The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle,” in Stranded, ed. Greil Marcus (Knopf, 1979).
Sweeting, Adam—Review of Born In The USA, MM 7/28/84.
Sweeting, Adam—“Springsteen: The Boss Is Back,” MM 6/8/85.
Sweeting, Adam—Interview w/ Bruce Springsteen, Uncut #64 [September 2002].
Taylor, Neil—Review of Tunnel of Love, NME 10/10/87.
Thrills, Adrian—“What The Boss Does After Work,” NME 6/20/81.
Turner, Steve—“Was Bob Dylan the previous Bruce Springsteen?,” NME 10/6/73.
Tyler, Andrew—Interview w/ Bruce Springsteen, NME 11/15/75.
Tyler, Tony—“The Buck Stops on E Street,” review of Hammersmith gig, NME 11/29/75.
Viola, Ken & Cohan, Lou—Interview w/ John Hammond, Thunder Road #5 [Winter 1979/80].
[Viola, Ken]—Interview w/ David Sancious, Thunder Road #5 [Winter 1979/80].
Waller, Johnny—Review of Nebraska, Sounds, 9/25/82.
Waller, Johnny—“Boss A Nova!,” Sounds 7/6/85.
Walls, Richard C.—Review of Nebraska, Creem 1/83.
Ward, Ed—Review of The Wild, The Innocent, Creem 4/74.
Washburn, Jim—“I Owe Bruce Springsteen $63,536.50: A History of Orange County’s Illicit Recording Industry,” O.C. Weekly 4/4/96.
Watts, Michael—Interview w/ Bruce Springsteen, Melody Maker 11/30/74.
Watts, Michael—Interview w/ Bruce Springsteen, Melody Maker 7/22/78 [includes quotes from Mike Appel and Jon Landau].
Watts, Michael—Interview w/ Bruce Springsteen, Guardian []/5/81.
Werbin, Stuart—“Bruce Springsteen: It’s Sign Up a Genius Month,” Rolling Stone 4/26/73.
Wheelock, Jim—“Growin’ Up Part 1: Early Asbury Park,” Thunder Road #4 [Summer 1979].
Williams, Paul—The Lost Bruce Springsteen Interview 10/13/74, Backstreets #24 [Spring 1988]. [RITS]
Williams, Richard—“A Responsible Rocker,” Sunday Times 5/31/81.
Wolcott, James—“The Hagiography of Bruce Springsteen,” Vanity Fair December 1985. [RITS]
Zeff, Sharisse—Interview w/ Bruce Springsteen, Upbeat December 1980.
(v) Websites
Backstreets.com
brucebase.wikispaces.com
Killing Floor database [brucespringsteen.it]
Springsteenlyrics.com
brucespringsteenspecialcollection.net
A Selective Bootleg CD Discography
The official discography of the E Street era—the seven studio albums and a ghastly 3–CD live anthology—has been significantly expanded since 1998, with the release of Tracks, The Essential Bruce Springsteen (with a bonus disc of rarities), a complete Hammersmith 1975 show, and the 2–CD set of Darkness outtakes, The Promise. But there remains a substantial body of live and studio recordings from the years 1972–85 available only on bootleg CD (and, as an inevitable by-product, download). Since I remain a fan of the artifact, and since a bootleg CD is likely to exist somewhat longer than some of the website links which afford fans the opportunity to download these precious, unauthorized moments, I have provided a subjectively selective list of recordings that will help fill in the blanks, affirming to anyone with ears the E Street Band’s incontestable status as the most consistently great live American rock band of the seventies!
Studio CDs:
Note: Of the four classic vinyl bootlegs of Springsteen studio outtakes—The Demo Tapes, Fire On the Fingertips, E Ticket and Son You May Kiss the Bride—all save E Ticket have been issued on CD (in Fire On the Fingertips’ case, as the equally splendid Forgotten Songs). However, the Son You May Kiss the Bride CD should be avoided at all costs, being simply a very poor transfer of the vinyl version. The release of Tracks and the unauthorized Prodigal Son has rendered Fire On the Fingertips largely redundant. As for E Ticket, all the tracks can be found on the 2–CD Godfather set, Running Out of Innocence. Of the nineteen volumes of Lost Masters issued from the Mike Batlan tapes in 1996, a significant number were taken from band rehearsals, recorded with a condenser mike on a ghetto blaster, and probably qualify as “for completists only.” The few highlights of these rehearsal tapes do, however, appear on the second of the two 2–CD Essential Lost Masters anthologies, issued at the same time by Labor of Love. As for the recent 6–CD set of Darkness outtakes issued by Godfather—The Unbroken Promise—it probably represents overkill, and I have preferred an earlier collection on the inestimable E Street label. In the anthology department, for all its failings in presentation, The Genuine Tracks remains the best one-stop shop of Springsteen rarities—live and studio—available in the n
etherworld of boots. Suffice to say, equally essential is some version of the 1979 single-album he aborted, The Ties That Bind; if not the bootleg CD, then the recent upgrade available online.
Prodigal Son (bootleg version)—2 CDs, Demos & studio o/ts 1972–73 + Berkeley 3/73.
The Demo Tapes—1972–73 publishing demos.
The Unsurpassed Springsteen Vol. 3: CBS Audition (Yellow Dog)—The John Hammond demos 5/3/72.
Running Out of Innocence (Godfather)—2 CDs, Studio o/ts 1973–75.
The Definitive Darkness Outtakes Collection (E St. Records)—2 CDs, Darkness o/ts 1977.
The Ties That Bind—Unreleased 1979 LP.
The Lost Masters Vol. I (Labor of Love)—The “original” Nebraska tape 1/82.
The Lost Masters Vol. II (Labor of Love)—Darkness o/ts 1977.
The Lost Masters Vol. III (Labor of Love)—Darkness o/ts 1977.
The Lost Masters Vol. IV (Labor of Love)—Rehearsals & demos 1979.
The Lost Masters Vol. X (Labor of Love)—Solo demos 1–4/82.
The Lost Masters Vol. XIII (Labor of Love)—Band rehearsals 1/80.
The Lost Masters Vol. XVI (Labor of Love)—Solo demos 1–4/82.
The Lost Masters Vol. XVII (Labor of Love)—Solo demos 1–4/83.
The Lost Masters Vol. XVIII (Labor of Love)—Solo demos 1–4/83.
The Lost Masters Vol. XIX (Labor of Love)—Born In The USA o/ts 1982–83.
The Lost Masters (Labor of Love)—Essential Collection I. 2 CDs, Demos & studios o/ts 1977–83.
The Lost Masters (Labor of Love)—Essential Collection II. 2 Cds, Studio o/ts, demos & rehearsals 1977–83.
Murder Incorporated: The Lost Masterpiece—Born In The USA o/ts 1982–83.
The Genuine Tracks (Scorpio)—4 CDs. Misc. studio/live 1972–96.
Deep Down In the Vaults (E St. Records)—3 CDs. Misc. studio/live 1966–96.
Live CDs:
Note: Remarkably, the twenty-odd-year-old 5–CD boxed-set, All Those Years, from the first of the pro-Springsteen bootleg CD labels, Great Dane, remains a terrific collection of great performances from the halcyon days and, save for marginal upgrades in the sonic department, could hardly be bettered, even now. Though Godfather have recently been responsible for a fine series of classic seventies performances of the E Street Band (and beyond), the benchmark for most live Springsteen bootleg CDs was set many years ago by three Springsteen-specialist labels, Crystal Cat, E Street Records and the –R label, Doberman. The first of these continues to match presentation to quality source material in a way that puts most official record labels—and certainly Sony—to shame. Both Godfather and Crystal Cat also maintain a surprising willingness to keep their perennial sellers in print, so many of the following titles should still be available from your local bootleg emporium, should such a thing still exist.
All Those Years (Great Dane)—5 CDs. Misc live 1971–82.
Max’s Kansas City Night (Crystal Cat)—Max’s Kansas, NY 1/31/73.
My Father’s Place (Great Dane)—My Father’s Place, Rosslyn, NY, 7/31/73.
Live From Joe’s Place (Godfather)—Joe’s Place, Boston, 1/6/74.
The Lost Radio Show (Whoopy Cat)—KLOL, Houston, Tx. 3/9/74.
Rock & Roll Punk (E St. Records)—Harvard Sq. Theater, Cambridge, Ma. 5/9/74.
Flesh & Fantasy (Doberman)—2 CDs. Music Hall, Boston, Ma. 10/29/74.
You Can Trust Your Car to the Man With the Star (Labor of Love)—2 CDs. Main Point, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 2/5/75.
A Star Is Born (Godfather)—2 CDs. Palace Theater, Providence, RI 7/20/75.
The Roxy Theater Night (Crystal Cat)—2 CDs. Roxy, Hollywood, LA 10/17/75.
London Calling—2 CDs. Hammersmith Odeon, London. 11/24/75.
Mountain of Love (Godfather)—Tower Theater, Upper Darby, Pa. 12/31/75.
Hidden Worlds That Shine (E St. Records)—2 CDs. Michigan State Uni., East Lansing, Mi. 4/4/76.
Runners in the Night (Doberman)—2 CDs. Allen Theater, Cleveland, Oh. 4/7/76.
We Gotta Get Out of This Place (Great Dane)—2 CDs. Palladium, New York 11/4/76.
Higher and Higher (Doberman)—3 CDs. Music Hall, Boston, Ma. 3/22–25/77.
Roxy Night (Crystal Cat)—3 CDs. Roxy, Hollywood, LA 7/7/78.
Passaic Night (Crystal Cat)—3 CDs. Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ 9/19/78.
Second Night at the Capitol Theater (Godfather)—3 CDs. Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ 9/20/78.
Last Night at the Capitol Theater (Godfather)—3 CDs. Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ 9/21/78.
Winterland Night (Crystal Cat)—3 CDs. Winterland, San Francisco. 12/15/78.
Coliseum Night (Crystal Cat)—3 CDs. Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY 12/29/80.
Follow That Dream (Godfather)—3 CDs. Isstadion, Stockholm. 5/7/81.
A Night for the Vietnam Veteran (Scorpio)—3 CDs. Sports Arena, LA 8/20/81.
Alpine Valley Night (Crystal Cat)—3 CDs. Alpine Valley, East Troy, Wi., 7/12/84.
Where The Rivers Meet (E St. Records)—3 CDs. Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA 9/22/84.
Broken Dreams & Reasons to Believe (Godfather)—3 CDs. Live versions of Nebraska songs: 1984, 1990, 1996 & 2005.
Greetings From Buffalo, Dream Night (Crystal Cat)—3 CDs. HSBC Arena, Buffalo, NY 11/22/09.
Index
The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. To find the corresponding locations in the text of this digital version, please use the “search” function on your e-reader. Note that not all terms may be searchable.
Page numbers followed by “fn” indicate a footnote
“Action In The Streets” 136
“Adam Raised A Cain” 153–4, 160 fn, 168, 290
Ahrens, Susan 96
“Ain’t Good Enough For You” 156
“Ain’t Got You” 293
Album #3 101
Album #4 14, 155, 168, 170, 187, 193, 200, 208, 250
Album #5 156, 168
Album #6 169–70, 208
Alfano, Bobby 22, 23
“All Night Long” see “Breakout”
Allen, Woody 253
Alpine Valley 281
Altman, Billy 216, 217
Amnesty tour 275, 294
“The Angel” 44, 46, 47, 53, 298
“Angel Baby” see “Night Like This”
The Animals 12, 14, 15, 134
“The Answer” 239
Appel, Mike 4, 35, 43–4, 45–6, 47, 48–9, 50–2, 54, 61, 62, 65, 66, 71, 74, 77, 80, 82, 83, 84, 87, 89, 91, 92–3, 97, 99, 100–1, 103, 104, 105, 106, 108–9, 110, 111–12, 116, 118, 119, 121–2, 173, 200–1, 290–1, 296–7
lawsuit against 137–41, 142–3
management contract 58, 123, 124–8
relationship with Hammond 48, 50, 51–2, 72–3
Springsteen’s production deal with 45, 50–1, 58
Appel, Steve 79
Appleton, Michael 118
“Arabian Night” 41 fn, 43, 44, 53, 54
Arista 72, 88
Asbury Park 16, 23, 35, 130
Astral Weeks (Van Morrison) 53, 81, 129
“Atlantic City” 242–3, 247, 249, 261, 278
Atlantic Studios 144–5, 149, 152, 153, 154, 159, 161
The Attractions 59
Avery, Kevin 185
“Baby Doll” 35
“Baby I” (Castiles) 18–19
“Baby I’m So Cold” 231, 245, 246, 252, 254
Back In The USA 103
“Backstreets” 15, 96, 100, 106, 108, 111, 114, 134–5, 149, 180, 184, 291
“Badlands” 149, 160 fn, 161, 167, 168, 174, 175, 218, 225–6
Badlands (film) 235
Baker, Arthur 280
“The Ballad (Castaway)” 156
“Ballad of a Self-Loading Pistol” 67
The Band 59–60, 75, 250
“The Band’s Just Boppin’ The Blues” 34
Bangs, Lester 59, 60, 85, 117
Barry, Jeff 91
Batlan, Mike 242, 250
, 261, 282
“Be True” 194, 195, 198, 199, 211, 214, 293
Beach Boys 95
Beatles 10, 14, 86, 91, 138
Beaver, Ninette 235
“Because The Night” 135, 144–5, 147, 148, 156, 159, 174, 178, 179, 219
“Because You’re Young” (Duane Eddy) 91
Beck, Jeff 167
Bernstein, Joel 199, 200, 213
Berry, Chuck 9, 47, 156, 220
“Betty Jean” 263, 264
“Between Flesh & Fantasy” 101
“The Big Payback” 245–6
Biograph (Bob Dylan) 290
“Bishop Danced” 1, 2, 66, 78, 190
Bittan, Roy 94, 115, 185, 294–5, 298
Black Oak Arkansas 70
“Blinded By The Light” 46, 54, 57, 70, 71, 103, 136–7, 297
Blond On Blonde (Bob Dylan) 18, 117, 250, 259
Blood, Sweat & Tears 70
Blue Belles 86
Blue, David 55
“Bobby Jean” 269, 270, 272
Bonds, Gary US 208, 210, 223–4, 245
bootleg recordings 1, 100, 116, 136, 176, 187–90, 193, 236 fn, 238, 245, 259, 268
“Born In The USA” 227, 232, 238–9, 242fn, 243, 247, 249, 251–2, 257, 269, 279, 282, 284, 289, 293
Born In The USA
album 1, 129, 168, 229, 246, 248, 251–7, 263, 268, 270, 271–4, 275, 276, 278, 280, 291, 293
tour 78, 151, 235, 275, 276, 280–6, 288–9, 293
“Born To Run” 89, 90–2, 98–9, 100, 111, 112, 140
Born To Run
album 89, 101–12, 122, 129, 150–1, 166, 170
tour 113–22, 129, 134–5
Bottom Line 87, 88, 90–1, 113, 115–16, 132–3, 136, 170
Bowie, David 39, 62, 93–4, 137, 138, 185, 276
“Breakaway” 144
“Breakout” 156
Brendan Byrne Arena 225
Brickman, Marc 87, 179, 198, 282
“Bright Lights, Big City” (Jimmy Reed) 86
“Brilliant Disguise” 292
“Bring On The Night” 193, 194, 195
Broken Dreams & Reasons To Believe (bootleg recording) 236 fn
“Brothers Under The Bridges” 271
Brown, James 64, 173, 227
Brown University 82–3
Browne, Jackson 55, 124
Bruce Springsteen Band 17, 33–5, 39, 44, 45, 79
Burchill, Julie 216–17, 224
Burdon, Eric 15, 134