Bootleg Friday – Bruce Springsteen – Nassau – 1980
The first draft of my book has been finished & sent off to readers to examine. It was a bit grueling but completely worthwhile. Still don’t have a title & it seems “An Idiot Abroad” has been absconded by some television show so I will have to figure that out sooner or later. As for the blog I needed time off to finish the book & then to just veg. Writing nearly everyday for 3 months is rough, but I think I’m ready to write often on here. I doubt I will put stuff up everyday, because I don’t have that much to say, but I will be contributing to this blog more regularly.
Fridays seem to be the worst day of the week (weekends don’t count, though Sundays are unusually heavy for traffic) for traffic & so I figure I’ll be moving Bootleg Thursdays to Bootleg Fridays so as to increase some form of flow through the weekend. Maybe it makes me more viable, maybe it just gives me an extra day to chill. I am a lazy man, but I am trying to break from the constraints of laziness. I hope to be covering more new music, instead of just older rock. There will, hopefully, be a nice mixture of both.
This week, with the re-release of Bruce Springsteen’s brilliant album Darkness on the Edge of Town & the box set with 3 Dvd’s & cd’s that accompanies it, I thought it’d be cool to go back & listen to one of the concerts from that time. Then I thought, I have a lot of time to think now, that I could share one of his epic 1980 concerts with you, my readership.I believe this is from his tour for The River, but it has many of his classic Darkness songs on there so enjoy.
Bruce Springsteen - Nassau – 1980
Who’ll Stop the Rain (CCR Cover)
This Land is Your Land (Woody Guthrie Cover)
10/08/2010 at 1:03 PM
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10/09/2010 at 10:16 AM
Hey Matty, nice post…did you get to see the Darkness documentary on HBO on Thursday? If not, it should be on DVD with the rerelease. Pretty great stuff…it makes you wish more great artists & bands let somebody hang out with a camera with them in the studio. This is one of the classic marathon shows…is this just one disc of it or a compilation? I used to work in a record store and I remember the owner was huge Bruce fan so he would order the official “import” Crystal Cat bootleg releases…I remember they cost about $25-30 a disc, but he would burn copies for friends and employees…this was before “Tracks” came out so it was the only way to hear some of the great stuff that didn’t make onto albums and I remember the Nassau show was one of those holy grails of the collection…seems like so long ago before easy internet downloads. With today’s significance, I just searched through my collection and listened to the shows from Philly Dec. 8-9 1980, when Lennon was shot. Supposedly at the minute it happened, Bruce coincidentally was in the middle of “Point Blank”…eerie stuff. He started the next night with a few words and dedicated to show to Lennon…very powerful stuff.
If you don’t already know about these sites, here are some great resources for shows and hard to find Bruce stuff…the first is a pretty complete torrent site for full shows (I’ve downloaded countless shows from there with no problem) and the other is a database for shows and individual live songs that’s searchable in different categories…they’re free and fully secure and safe in my experience…enjoy and keep up the great work.
http://jungleland.dnsalias.com/
http://btxmp3index.freeforums.org/index.php#start_here
10/09/2010 at 10:34 AM
Amazing, thanks Frank! I did not get a chance to see the Doc (No HBO), but I will most definitely purchase it on DVD. Been waiting for the whole box set to come out since I heard of its release a few months ago.