I feel like I am hearing some of these songs for the 1st time on this new bootleg...something about how fresh they were at the time....
Sure I have heard Spirit in the Night hundreds of times...but the images of Crazy Janey and our hero making love in the dirt...whilst the two others dance in the moonlight. I feel the summer muggy evening and the way they move with those spirits....it feels new again and dirty.
Laying here in the dark, you’re like an angel on my chest
Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness
Remember all the movies, Terry, we’d go see
Trying to learn to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be
And after all this time, to find we’re just like all the rest
Stranded in the park and forced to confess
To hiding on the backstreets
It would always make sense to me that they were lovers who also had guilt about being who they truly were. In 1975 it was very different to be queer than it is today. It also makes sense in the context of outsiders fighting for a place to stand.
Sudden Backsteets revelation... I have always interpreted this song as a story about a girl who had betrayed him. This was so obvious, and I have never been convinced that it could possibly be about a male friendship.
I guess the interludes confirm this idea. 🙂
As I was listening to this version numerous times since Saturday I realized that it might actually be about Terry, a male friend. But there is also the unnamed girl he's singing to, not just to Terry. He is addressing them both, simultaneously. Bruce has the characters so intertwined, that it is really hard to determine when he's dealing with one, and when with the other. He shifts between the two throughout the song, back and forth, creating intentional confusion, like he was talking to them, face to face, with emotions overflowing,
Your love leaving with your best friend. The worst possible heartbreak. Double killer. No wonder the song is so intensely piercing.
A deceptive and magical homage to fathers both here, and in spirit...He hit it out of the park both honoring Clarence and his own father this father's day weekend. A truly magical performance. I am so loving it.
I do find this Backstreets to be best of all the 78 versions I have so far. I really don't have the ears you guys do for this mix and that mix to pin point the difference's, I just seem to enjoy it more. As I do 9/20/78 Prove It and 12/16/78 Darkness. But before that Backstreets and after it, it all seems to be the same as all others from 78's I have.
@Mario Brega but if one is only voicing their opinion as you just did in that review, how is it annoying as fuck and or an entitled attitude? I don't get it! I welcome all opinions as long as I can voice mine! I think I only posted once in their Broadway thread as I'm simply not interested at all. Someone there paid $850 for a ticket, and I commented to paid $850.00 for ticket I would need to see Bruce with the ESB, The Doors and Jimi! But I'm a cheap screw!
@klavallee I think there's a little bit of a difference between saying:
"I don't like this particular performance / this song / This performance was flawed." or "Personally, I'm not a fan of this creative endeavour / I prefer Bruce with the Band compared to something like Broadway."
and "He's doing Broadway again? Well, obviously he's creatively shot!" and "The 68th concert release in his varied Archive Series is the 8TH show from 1978? Ugh, I mean, it might be his most revered tour and this might be a show that's nevercirculated in its entirety before, but they clearly have nothing left to release!"
You see the difference between voicing a fair opinion and being a bit of a moaning, entitled dick?
@Mario Brega Did someone really say that? When I lose interest in a thread I very seldom go back to it. I think since I posted my short little outburst over the cost of Broadway. I haven't been back in there.
I feel like I am hearing some of these songs for the 1st time on this new bootleg...something about how fresh they were at the time....
Sure I have heard Spirit in the Night hundreds of times...but the images of Crazy Janey and our hero making love in the dirt...whilst the two others dance in the moonlight. I feel the summer muggy evening and the way they move with those spirits....it feels new again and dirty.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/bruce-springsteen-queerness-essay/
Laying here in the dark, you’re like an angel on my chest
Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness
Remember all the movies, Terry, we’d go see
Trying to learn to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be
And after all this time, to find we’re just like all the rest
Stranded in the park and forced to confess
To hiding on the backstreets
It would always make sense to me that they were lovers who also had guilt about being who they truly were. In 1975 it was very different to be queer than it is today. It also makes sense in the context of outsiders fighting for a place to stand.
Sudden Backsteets revelation... I have always interpreted this song as a story about a girl who had betrayed him. This was so obvious, and I have never been convinced that it could possibly be about a male friendship.
I guess the interludes confirm this idea. 🙂
As I was listening to this version numerous times since Saturday I realized that it might actually be about Terry, a male friend. But there is also the unnamed girl he's singing to, not just to Terry. He is addressing them both, simultaneously. Bruce has the characters so intertwined, that it is really hard to determine when he's dealing with one, and when with the other. He shifts between the two throughout the song, back and forth, creating intentional confusion, like he was talking to them, face to face, with emotions overflowing,
Your love leaving with your best friend. The worst possible heartbreak. Double killer. No wonder the song is so intensely piercing.
While I've never been blown away by Bruce's live solo renditions of The Promise, this performance is so raw and ragged and perfect. I love it.
The Archive Series, I'm certain, still holds many surprises to come.
A deceptive and magical homage to fathers both here, and in spirit...He hit it out of the park both honoring Clarence and his own father this father's day weekend. A truly magical performance. I am so loving it.
Badlands into Night... Jesus, what a combo! THAT is how you start a set.
You know by now that I have a special thing going with the intros and interludes...
Backstreets is killing me. In a good way.
To have you hold me in your aaaarms...
And when it washes away with the rain, thunder road, you learn to walk among the remains... ❤
Gravestone material. Essence.
That first I don't give a damn... Explosion 💥. That was the moment I knew I was going to love this show.
Badlands sounds amazingly fresh to me today.
The Promise 😍😍😍
The sound on this show is stunning!
Enjoy 🙂
Was this show delayed three weeks just so we get Paradise By The 'C' as a tribute to the Big Man on the 10th anniversary of his passing?
I've never heard this show before, looking forward to it.
People on Greasy Lake are insane. That's the post.
Also, great cover art. A true fan's eye view and though I might hate watching through that dancing couple's arms in person, I think it's perfect here.
Actually, I don't think I'd hate that view in person, either.
Worth the wait. Always is.
Oh my God... I didn't know they had this one!! I'm so hyped for this, can't wait to get it!
It's fantastic!!
Badlands sounds heartbreakingly gorgeous...the power, the promise, the majesty of Rock n' Roll.
Great god googlie gooo !!!!!!!!!