Bruce Springsteen the E Street Band
Live 1975-85
3 Cassette Box - Columbia CXT 40558 (1985)
Near Mint Tapes with Color Booklet
Condition: Near Mint Tapes and VG++ (EX) Cover. Tapes was play-tested and plays really well throughout. Box cover is fully intact with no splits or writing, very light wear. Includes color booklet with photos and liner notes in near mint condition.
Live 1975?85 is a live album by Bruce Springsteen The E Street Band. It consists of 40 tracks recorded at various concerts between 1975 and 1985. The venues are The Roxy, Nassau Coliseum, Hinterland, Meadowlands Arena, Arizona State University, Giants Stadium and Los Angeles Coliseum.
The album was released as a box set by Columbia Records on November 10, 1986. Box set release includes five vinyl records or three cassette tapes, and a nice color booklet. It broke the record for advance orders, and according to the RIAA, is the second-best-selling live album in the US. Rolling Stone hailed it as "an embarrassment of riches", while The New York Times said it was "an unprecedented event in popular recording" and "monumental".
Most reviews were overwhelmingly positive. The New York Times found it to be the "equivalent of an epic American novel, its story told in the ungrammatical, rough-hewn vocabulary of rock", possessing an "historical resonance that goes beyond pop culture". Rolling Stone said it was "an extraordinary demonstration of how Springsteen?s telepathic command of a concert audience has increased in direct proportion to the size of his stage." It lauded Springsteen's "raw power, lyric honesty and spiritual determination".
Track listing
A1 Thunder Road
A2 Adam Raised A Cain
A3 Spirit In The Night
A4 4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
A5 Paradise By The "C"
A6 Fire
A7 Growin' Up
B1 It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
B2 Backstreets
B3 Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
B4 Raise Your Hand
C1 Hungry Heart
C2 Two Hearts
C3 Cadillac Ranch
C4 You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
C5 Independence Day
C6 Badlands
C7 Because The Night
C8 Candy's Room
C9 Darkness On The Edge Of Town
D1 Racing In The Street
D2 This Land Is Your Land
D3 Nebraska
D4 Johnny 99
D5 Reason To Believe
E1 Born In The U.S.A.
E2 Seeds
E3 The River
E4 War
E5 Darlington County
E6 Working On The Highway
E7 The Promised Land
F1 Cover Me
F2 I'm On Fire
F3 Bobby Jean
F4 My Hometown
F5 Born To Run
F6 No Surrender
F7 Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
F8 Jersey Girl
Personnel
Bruce Springsteen ? vocals, electric guitar, harmonica, acoustic guitar on "No Surrender"
The E Street Band
Roy Bittan ? piano, synthesizer, backing vocals
Clarence Clemons ? saxophone, percussion, backing vocals
Danny Federici ? organ, accordion, glockenspiel, piano, synthesizer on "My Hometown", backing vocals
Nils Lofgren (beginning in 1984) ? electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals
Patti Scialfa (beginning in 1984) ? backing vocals, synthesizer on "Born in the U.S.A."
Garry Tallent ? bass guitar, backing vocals
Steve Van Zandt (through 1981) ? electric guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Max Weinberg ? drums
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