Man, the Youngstown/Murder Inc double is absolutely incendiary. I commented at the time of the latest Magic tour show a few months back that when they fully dug into the three guitar attack it was one of the things that can really distinguish reunion era shows, and this is apparent across these two tracks also.
Classic era E Street never rocked this hard... it really is an extra dimension the band can and has employed since 1999 that just wasn't available in 75 to 88. Your milege may vary, and I myself wouldn't want E Street to be three hours of heavier guitar rock eschewing everything else they do so well, but just for two songs... crank the volume and get the Wayne's World head banging going.
On the other end of the spectrum, Indy Day is gorgeous with some great little musical motifs and nuances. Maybe the best Reunion tour version of this so far released.
Looking forward to hearing the rest when I get the chance...
So for all of you that listen religiously to all these archive releases ..... I have only 7-1-2000.....Yes i wish i could buy individual tracks ....I wish i had Incident and Sherry from Philly '99.....I wish I had a Reunion Adam ....But this one with the Three i mentioned above as well as a rare Gloria ....seems like something i should pull the trigger on ...... Anyone have a strong opinion if i were to add one or two reunion shows to the collection which ones would be good choices ?
The one from the Staples Centre LA October 99 is my favourite of all Reunion releases. It leaves 7-1-2000 in the dust IMO. For my tastes, a lot of set list choices I prefer on that one (for pretty much every song that differs, I prefer the song included on LA 99) but I also think basically all the common Reunion set standards are performed better on the LA release.
That one includes both Adam and Incident, if it helps.
I think it would be nice to have a thread where all gig attending memories, posted across many threads, could be copied and saved for the times we feel the need to read them.
Archiving oral history for the ones that will listen to Bruce when we are gone...
In the summer of '98 I moved east to Boston, Mass. I was 29 and single, no ties. I went to work for a non-profit that left me miserable and poor, living in a city I didn't know. I met some nice girls but nothing really came from it. Tracks came out and was a life boat of sorts. All those songs....then in spring came the annoucement of the reunion of the E street fucking band. I had a few Boston Brucebuds by then. I had my tapes and a boombox and a mattress on the floor, but none of that mattered. The band was back. I heard about euro shows and then it was the upcoming shows in Boston and New Jersey. I sat in line and on the phone. We got tickets for two shows in Jersey and one for Boston. Seeing Bruce on the east coast was a dream come true. Then I came back to California and shows in L.A. and Oakland. Work ended in Boston and I was home and penniless. After the shows that fall I met my wife, who is still with me. After the new year more shows were annouced: Anaheim, Vegas, and then New York. I made it to both nights in Anaheim. I had a bad tooth and was in severe pain. I went to the shows with my longest best friend....I needed pain meds for the rotten tooth. I texted my girlfriend how important the shows were to my life. The Pond is an austere and somewhat cold building. They mainly play hockey there. Orange county is close to L.A., but completely different spiritually. In L.A. there are liberals and Bruce shows attracted the types of people I am, liberal, democratic...Orange county is where Republicans move to. It was odd that Bruce would play there. The first night took a while to get going, but by the end the pure passion of the band set that building on fire. The next night, they brought the passion, and on this release you hear a band going on full power. Now, I cannot imagine a tour not hitting the Pond. He played there twice in 2008, and then in December 2012. I will say I actually prefer it to the Staples Center.
This recording is amazing. This night is in the top 5 of shows I have seen since 1999. Its impossible to compare it to the shows I saw in 1980, 81, 84, 85, or 88 in the L.A. sports arena. Compared to the Boston and Jersey shows, this blows them away....
What I think happens with Bruce in a unfamiar place is that he surrounds himself with the band and then attacks the audience with a power unlike anyone I have seen. They can litterally turn a room around with the music. I saw it happen night one in Anaheim with a throbbing angry tooth. The next day the tooth was pulled. I stood in line for the drop, got a ticket, and then stood twenty feet from one of the greatest Springsteen shows in the last twenty years.
Thanks to the magic of the archive series, we all get to enjoy it forever.
I always notice on Land Of Hope And Dreams that Steve plays the sort of mandolin style Bruce didn't want on This Hard Land and I think "You go, Steve!"
Oh man ..... for the most part the rarities didn't treat me well on the reunion tour .....No real favorites and a lot of the rarities ended up be played at two of my 3 shows ....I somehow got E Street Shuffle twice while these people got a somewhat full band No Surrender (before the Rising Tour when a full band rock version became a much more common animal ), an ESB version of Roll Of The Dice and one of my personal white whales Stand On it ....Its a nice setlist
One thing every reunion tour release in the series has in common is the way they remind me of the pure joy that had been missing from my life for ten years and the way I just kept saying to myself, at each show I saw, "they're really back."
I tend to take it for granted now that Bruce and the band will keep on rolling through my life until they or I leave the planet for good. Back then, before 1999, my faith was in serious doubt.
@Mario Brega With the stomp of his boot. Finished nicely with a fan hoedown at the back of the floor. That's the show security tried to throw me out of for standing on my chair. I told them to get a few ore guys if they think they're throwing me out of a Bruce show. But I did get off the chair.
I'm 56 today, so I'm calling this a present from Bruce to me.
@Jerseyfornia If they had dragged you out we could've envisioned ourselves as you while listening to the Wembley 1981 "Detroit Medley" version that ends with the "getting dragged out the arena" vibe soundboard snippet 😂
@Louisa Same. I'm not sure there is a common denominator... for most of Bruce's music, the passion and power of the live performance delivery just takes the song to another level but there are just a handful of tracks where they just captured something in the studio production that can't be replicated live. Two that immediately come to mind for me... firstly, Across The Border on GOTJ. That ghostly quiet beauty has never been matched live as far as I'm concerned. Secondly, Janey Don't You Lose Heart. Just an absolutely perfect pop rock recording. Maybe if they actually rehearsed it properly and played it semi regularly they might nail it, but that studio cut is just so great... the tempo, the main vocal, the ghostly sighs in the backing, the note perfect Brucebump inducing sax solo, Nils' vocal line in the outro. Just perfect moment after perfect moment.
@Bosstralian Janey is definitely one of them. I have no idea what the songs have in common, maybe nothing, but some just pale when performed live.
Radio Nowhere, I Wanna Be With You, No Surrender... There are others, probably. Not many, but I guess sometimes magic happens in the studio, and it doesn't venture out on stage.
I think it has to do with the time between when the track was recorded and when it was first performed live. And especially the River outtakes. Had Take 'em..., Where The Bands Are, I Wanna Be With You etc been performed in 80-81, I think they'd be more "rock" than "roll" (to use Bosstralian's description). Not necessarily, I mean what happened to Cadillac Ranch between 1980 and '81 (Tempe/Nassau vs. Live 75-85)? Songs seem to have been played slower since the ESB reunion. Not that slower is always a bad thing (has anyone listened to the bootleg version of ...Bands compared to the released track? And the Gothenburg 2012 version of the same song is slower, but still excellent/mint).
I Wanna Be With You...I see your point, but opening the 2nd Stockholm show with it in '99 was fantastic. I suppose it may have dragged a bit tempowise, but...
@Mario Brega Thoughts pending, I've been away and have only just had a chance to download it.
Listening so far, the little moment in Rendezvous where the music drops away for the 'I wanna rendez....I wanna rendez...' is just fantastic. Mint, at the least. Those little performance nuances are such a great aspect of the series by this point.
Man, the Youngstown/Murder Inc double is absolutely incendiary. I commented at the time of the latest Magic tour show a few months back that when they fully dug into the three guitar attack it was one of the things that can really distinguish reunion era shows, and this is apparent across these two tracks also.
Classic era E Street never rocked this hard... it really is an extra dimension the band can and has employed since 1999 that just wasn't available in 75 to 88. Your milege may vary, and I myself wouldn't want E Street to be three hours of heavier guitar rock eschewing everything else they do so well, but just for two songs... crank the volume and get the Wayne's World head banging going.
On the other end of the spectrum, Indy Day is gorgeous with some great little musical motifs and nuances. Maybe the best Reunion tour version of this so far released.
Looking forward to hearing the rest when I get the chance...
I wish these things would still embed. Oh well, here's to four years of writing these reviews!
https://cantfindtickets.wordpress.com/2022/01/09/new-from-the-springsteen-archive-may-22nd-2000-anaheim-ca-arrowhead-pond-of-anaheim/
So for all of you that listen religiously to all these archive releases ..... I have only 7-1-2000.....Yes i wish i could buy individual tracks ....I wish i had Incident and Sherry from Philly '99.....I wish I had a Reunion Adam ....But this one with the Three i mentioned above as well as a rare Gloria ....seems like something i should pull the trigger on ...... Anyone have a strong opinion if i were to add one or two reunion shows to the collection which ones would be good choices ?
No Surrender is lovely. Just lovely. Jesus, why hasn't he released that country-style album.
I've begun to believe this forum dies with us. I'm good with that, too.
I think it would be nice to have a thread where all gig attending memories, posted across many threads, could be copied and saved for the times we feel the need to read them.
Archiving oral history for the ones that will listen to Bruce when we are gone...
In the summer of '98 I moved east to Boston, Mass. I was 29 and single, no ties. I went to work for a non-profit that left me miserable and poor, living in a city I didn't know. I met some nice girls but nothing really came from it. Tracks came out and was a life boat of sorts. All those songs....then in spring came the annoucement of the reunion of the E street fucking band. I had a few Boston Brucebuds by then. I had my tapes and a boombox and a mattress on the floor, but none of that mattered. The band was back. I heard about euro shows and then it was the upcoming shows in Boston and New Jersey. I sat in line and on the phone. We got tickets for two shows in Jersey and one for Boston. Seeing Bruce on the east coast was a dream come true. Then I came back to California and shows in L.A. and Oakland. Work ended in Boston and I was home and penniless. After the shows that fall I met my wife, who is still with me. After the new year more shows were annouced: Anaheim, Vegas, and then New York. I made it to both nights in Anaheim. I had a bad tooth and was in severe pain. I went to the shows with my longest best friend....I needed pain meds for the rotten tooth. I texted my girlfriend how important the shows were to my life. The Pond is an austere and somewhat cold building. They mainly play hockey there. Orange county is close to L.A., but completely different spiritually. In L.A. there are liberals and Bruce shows attracted the types of people I am, liberal, democratic...Orange county is where Republicans move to. It was odd that Bruce would play there. The first night took a while to get going, but by the end the pure passion of the band set that building on fire. The next night, they brought the passion, and on this release you hear a band going on full power. Now, I cannot imagine a tour not hitting the Pond. He played there twice in 2008, and then in December 2012. I will say I actually prefer it to the Staples Center.
This recording is amazing. This night is in the top 5 of shows I have seen since 1999. Its impossible to compare it to the shows I saw in 1980, 81, 84, 85, or 88 in the L.A. sports arena. Compared to the Boston and Jersey shows, this blows them away....
What I think happens with Bruce in a unfamiar place is that he surrounds himself with the band and then attacks the audience with a power unlike anyone I have seen. They can litterally turn a room around with the music. I saw it happen night one in Anaheim with a throbbing angry tooth. The next day the tooth was pulled. I stood in line for the drop, got a ticket, and then stood twenty feet from one of the greatest Springsteen shows in the last twenty years.
Thanks to the magic of the archive series, we all get to enjoy it forever.
I've been seeing this for several minutes now and I predict the next post after this one will be Brother Buddha with something special
I always notice on Land Of Hope And Dreams that Steve plays the sort of mandolin style Bruce didn't want on This Hard Land and I think "You go, Steve!"
I have no excuse other than I'm extremely tired and mentally exhausted, but I cried all the way through Land Of Hope And Dreams.
And it felt fucking wonderful.
Roy and Danny playing out Racing In The Street's long coda will never not touch my heart. Roy's piano here is especially nice.
Bruce shouting out in the Light Of Day monologue, "and I know ya been...Republicanized" in a Republican stronghold in blue California makes me happy.
Oh man ..... for the most part the rarities didn't treat me well on the reunion tour .....No real favorites and a lot of the rarities ended up be played at two of my 3 shows ....I somehow got E Street Shuffle twice while these people got a somewhat full band No Surrender (before the Rising Tour when a full band rock version became a much more common animal ), an ESB version of Roll Of The Dice and one of my personal white whales Stand On it ....Its a nice setlist
One thing every reunion tour release in the series has in common is the way they remind me of the pure joy that had been missing from my life for ten years and the way I just kept saying to myself, at each show I saw, "they're really back."
I tend to take it for granted now that Bruce and the band will keep on rolling through my life until they or I leave the planet for good. Back then, before 1999, my faith was in serious doubt.
I have a 13 song shortlist for the 2022 Top 10.
It's gonna be one of those years lads and lasses.
"the E Street Band! The Motherfucking Legendary E Street Band!"
YES!!!!!
We've gotten two shows from 2000 in ten months, and three live releases from 2000, 1975 and 1980 in thirty-five days. Don't take this for granted.
Happy Birthday my Brother! I'm on your fan club on FB now, so get writing!
Nice. I missed this show by a night, saw the night before when he opened with Don't Look Back, which is still one of my favorite moments.
Why does none of the live versions of Take 'Em sound better to me than the Tracks version?
This is not a rhetorical question. Any ideas what's bothering me with the live versions?
This looks killer on paper. Several 'tour debuts' in terms of the Archive series here, which is great so far into the series.