BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND-Live/ 1975-85
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Live 1975-85 (Display Box)
Long before he sold substantial numbers of records, Bruce Springsteen began to earn a reputation as the best live act in rock & roll Fans had been clamoring for a live album for a long time, and with Live/1975-85 they got what they wanted, at least in terms of bulk. His concerts were marathons, and this box set, including 40 tracks and running over three and a half hours, was about the average length of a show. In his brief liner notes, Springsteen spoke of the emergence of the album's "story" as he reviewed live tapes, and that story seems nothing less than a history of his life, his concerns, and his career. The first cuts present the Springsteen of the early to mid-'70s; these performances, most of them drawn from a July 1978 show at the Roxy in Los Angeles, present the romantic, hopeful, earnest Springsteen The second section begins with his first Top Ten hit, "Hungry Heart" -- this is the Springsteen of the late '70s and early '80s, an arena rock star with working-class concerns. After an acoustic mini set given largely to material from Nebraska -- songs of economic desperation and crime -- comes a reshuffling of Born in the U.S.A. songs in which the artist and his characters start to fight back and rock out. Finally, he brings it all back home to New Jersey, starting with the unofficial state anthem, "Born to Run." Fans could rejoice in the seven previously unreleased songs, but Live/1975-85 wasn't as funny, moving, or exhilarating as a Springsteen show could be. Maybe no single album could have been, but where Springsteen impressed in concert because he tried so hard, here he seemed to have tried a little too hard to make a live album carry the freight of everything he had to say. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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Credits »
Nils Lofgren - Performer
Bruce Springsteen - Songwriter
Bruce Springsteen - Producer
Bruce Springsteen - Main Performer
Bruce Springsteen - Performer
Bruce Springsteen - Liner Notes
Clarence Clemons - Performer
Patti Scialfa - Performer
Joel Bernstein - Photography
Roy Bittan - Performer
Barbara Carr - Assistant
Bob Clearmountain - Mixing
Jeff Evans - Technical Support
Danny Federici - Performer
Paul Hamingson - Mixing Assistant
Jimmy Iovine - Engineer
Bruce Jackson - Engineer
Jon Landau - Producer
Bob Ludwig - Mastering
Scott Mabuchi - Assistant
Jim Pace - Technical Support
Chuck Plotkin - Producer
Toby Scott - Engineer
Garry Tallent - Performer
Steven Van Zandt - Performer
Max Weinberg - Performer
John Landau - Producer
Tim Kramer - Assistant
Allen Weinberg - Package Redesign
Mark Corbin - Assistant
Aaron Rapoport - Photography
David Gahr - Photography
Neal Preston - Photography
Neal Preston - Cover Photo
Dave Powell - Audio Supervisor
Billy Miranda - Assistant
Peter Cunningham - Photography
Annie Leibovitz - Photography
Jimmy Wachtel - Photography
Sandra Choron - Art Direction
Bob Schwall - Technical Support
Paul Wortheimer - Assistant
Eric Meola - Photography
Craig Vogel - Assistant
Michael Keating - Audio Supervisor
Frank Stefanko - Photography
Jim Marchese - Photography
Tony Rossi - Audio Supervisor
Jim DeVenney - Audio Supervisor
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