SEALED LP: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: LIVE/1975-85

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Bruce Springsteen: Live/1975-85

FACTORY SEALED LP

Format: Sealed LP
Country: U.S.A.
Record Company & Release Number: Columbia: C5X 40558
Original release date/year: 1986
Bar Code: NONE
Condition of the cover: Near Mint
Condition of the record: Sealed - Assumed Mint
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds, 14 ounces
My inventory number: 208349
Notes: Original 5 LP box set. Sticker on the shrink wrap. There is minor damage to the front of the box as shown in the photo below.
Please contact me if you have any difficulty viewing the photos. Songs

• Thunder Road
• Adam Raised a Cain
• Spirit in the Night
• 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
• Paradise by the "C"
• Fire
• Growin' Up
• It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City
• Backstreets
• Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
• Raise Your Hand
• Hungry Heart
• Two Hearts
• Cadillac Ranch
• You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
• Independence Day
• Badlands
• Because the Night
• Candy's Room
• Darkness on the Edge of Town
• Racing in the Streets
• This Land Is Your Land
• Nebraska
• Johnny 99
• Reason to Believe
• Born in the U.S.A.
• Seeds
• The River
• War
• Darlington County
• Working on the Highway
• The Promised Land
• Cover Me
• I'm on Fire
• Bobby Jean
• My Hometown
• Born to Run
• No Surrender
• Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
• Jersey Girl

Credits

• Joel Bernstein : Photography
• Roy Bittan : Synthesizer, Piano, Vocals (bckgr), Performer
• Barbara Carr : Assistant
• Sandra Choron : Art Direction
• Bob Clearmountain : Mixing
• Clarence Clemons : Percussion, Saxophone, Vocals (bckgr), Performer
• Marc Cobrin : Assistant Engineer
• Mark Corbin : Assistant
• Peter Cunningham : Photography
• Jim DeVenney : Audio Supervisor
• The E Street Band : Group
• Jeff Evans : Technical Support
• Danny Federici : Organ, Synthesizer, Piano, Accordion, Glockenspiel, Vocals (bckgr), Performer
• Flo : Vocals (bckgr)
• David Gahr : Photography
• Paul Hamingson : Mixing Assistant
• Stan Harrison : Sax (Tenor)
• Peter Hefter : Assistant Engineer
• Jimmy Iovine : Engineer
• Bruce Jackson : Engineer
• Michael Keating : Audio Supervisor
• Tim Kramer : Assistant Engineer, Assistant
• Richie La Bamba : Trombone
• John Landau : Producer
• Jon Landau : Producer
• Annie Leibovitz : Photography
• Nils Lofgren : Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Guitar (Rhythm), Vocals (bckgr), Performer
• Bob Ludwig : Mastering
• Scott Mabuchi : Assistant Engineer, Assistant
• Jim Marchese : Photography
• Eric Meola : Photography
• Billy Miranda : Assistant Engineer, Assistant
• Jim Pace : Technical Support
• Mark Pender : Trumpet
• Chuck Plotkin : Producer
• Dave Powell : Audio Supervisor
• Neal Preston : Photography, Cover Photo
• Aaron Rapoport : Photography
• Tony Rossi : Audio Supervisor
• Bob Schwall : Technical Support
• Patti Scialfa : Synthesizer, Vocals (bckgr), Performer
• Toby Scott : Engineer
• Bruce Springsteen : Guitar (Acoustic), Bass, Guitar, Harmonica, Songwriter, Guitar (Electric), Vocals, Producer, Performer, Liner Notes, Author
• Frank Stefanko : Photography
• Garry Tallent : Bass, Vocals (bckgr), Performer
• Steve VanZandt : Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Vocals (bckgr), Performer
• Steven Van Zandt : Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Vocals (bckgr), Performer
• Craig Vogel : Assistant Engineer, Assistant
• Jimmy Wachtel : Photography
• Allen Weinberg : Package Redesign
• Max Weinberg : Drums, Performer
• Paul Wortheimer : Assistant Engineer, Assistant

Album Review
Review by William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

• 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.

Biography
Bruce Springsteen biography by William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

• When Bruce Springsteen finally broke through to national recognition in the fall of 1975 after a decade of trying, critics hailed him as the savior of rock & roll, the single artist who brought together all the exuberance of '50s rock and the thoughtfulness of '60s rock, molded into a '70s style. He rocked as hard as Jerry Lee Lewis, his lyrics were as stirring as Bob Dylan's, and his concerts were near-religious celebrations of all that was best in music. One critic became so enamored that he quit reviewing to become Springsteen's manager.
• But the hosannas, when piped through the publicity machine of a major record company, were perceived as hype by a significant part of the public as well as the mainstream media. Springsteen landed on the covers of Time and Newsweek, but both magazines were covering the phenomenon, not the music. Springsteen's album, Born to Run, became a hit, and he jumped to arena status as a live act, but as many people were turned off by the press campaign as turned on by the records and shows.
• Two decades later, however, Springsteen remained an established star who could look back on a career that had produced one of the best-selling albums of all time, sold-out stadium shows, Grammy awards and an Oscar, and a group of imitators who constituted their own subgenre of popular music. If he no longer seemed divine, he remained popular enough for his Greatest Hits album to enter the charts at number one, and he had won over many of those skeptics from 1975.
• Growing up in southern New Jersey, Springsteen turned to rock & roll as a teenager and played in a series of bands from the mid-'60s on, varying in style from garage rock to power trio blues-rock. By the early '70s, he was trying his hand at being a folky singer/songwriter in Greenwich Village. But when he was signed to Columbia Records in 1972, he brought into the studio many of the New Jersey-based musicians with whom he'd played over the years.
• The result was Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., which went unnoticed upon its initial release in January 1973 (although Manfred Mann's Earth Band would turn its leadoff track, "Blinded by the Light," into a number one hit four years later). The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (September 1973) also failed to sell despite some rave reviews. (Both albums have since gone platinum.)
• The following year, Springsteen revised his backup group — dubbed the E Street Band — settling on a lineup that included saxophone player Clarence Clemons, second guitarist "Miami" Steve Van Zandt, organist Danny Federici, pianist Roy Bittan, bassist Garry Tallent, and drummer Max Weinberg. With this unit he barnstormed the country while working on his third and last chance with Columbia. By the time Born to Run (August 1975) was released, the critics and a significant cult audience were with him, and the title song became a Top 40 hit while the album reached the Top Ten.
• What Springsteen needed to do in the wake of the hype, of course, was to play and record more to consolidate his position. He was prevented at least from the latter by a former manager, who kept him in court during the next couple of years. Meanwhile, the musical world changed. Part of the reason critics had welcomed Springsteen so enthusiastically in 1975 was that he seemed a return to basic rock & roll values in a world of soft rock, heavy metal, and art rock.
• By the time Springsteen returned with his fourth album, Darkness on the Edge of Town (June 1978), however, the punk/new wave movement had outflanked him, pushing him from the vanguard to the mainstream. Similar sounding heartland rockers such as Bob Seger had appeared, so that Springsteen sounded less like an innovator than a member of an established genre.
• Nevertheless, he set about winning fans with an album that found the lost children of his early albums stuck in factory jobs, still longing for some escape. The album was a hit, though it did not match the success of Born to Run. Springsteen returned with the double album The River (October 1980), which topped the charts and featured his first Top Ten hit, "Hungry Heart."
• Nobody was calling him a hype anymore, but Springsteen retreated from his expanding success, next recording the low-key album Nebraska (September 1982), a virtual demo tape on vinyl. (Springsteen did not tour to promote the album, and in the interim E Street Band guitarist Van Zandt amicably left the group for a solo career, to be replaced by Nils Lofgren.)
• But then came Born in the U.S.A. (June 1984) and a two-year international tour. The album threw off seven hit singles and sold over ten million copies, putting Springsteen in the pop heavens with Michael Jackson and Prince. After touring for more than a year, he released a five-LP/three-CD concert album, Live/1975-85 (November 1986), which topped the charts.
• Characteristically, Springsteen returned with a more introverted effort, Tunnel of Love (October 1987), which presaged his divorce from his first wife. (He married a second time to singer Patti Scialfa, who had joined the E Street Band.)
• After another marathon tour, Springsteen gave the E Street Band notice in November 1989, breaking up a celebrated unit who had stayed together 15 years. In March 1992, he simultaneously released Human Touch and Lucky Town, and though the albums premiered near the top of the charts, they were less successful with fans than previous efforts. In the fall, Springsteen taped an MTV Unplugged segment (though he plugged in after one song), and the performance was released as an album in Europe in 1993.
• Springsteen continued to tour until July 1993. In the fall, he wrote and recorded "Streets of Philadelphia" for the soundtrack to the film Philadelphia, which concerned a lawyer dying of AIDS. The song became a Top Ten hit in 1994, winning the Academy Award for Best Song and cleaning up at the Grammys the following year. At the same time, Springsteen had readied his Greatest Hits album (February 1995), reassembling the E Street Band to record a few new tracks. The album was an immediate best-seller. Springsteen followed it with The Ghost of Tom Joad (November 1995), another low-key, downcast, near-acoustic effort and embarked upon a brief solo tour. In 1999, shortly after his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Springsteen reunited with the E Street Band (including both Lofgren and Van Zandt on guitars) and embarked on a world tour that lasted until mid-2000, its final dates resulting in the album Live in New York City.
• Bruce Springsteen then set to work on The Rising, his first full-length studio album to feature the group as a whole since Born in the U.S.A.. Released in July 2002, it was also Springsteen's first album of new studio recordings since The Ghost of Tom Joad. Another successful tour followed, as did the release of Devils & Dust in 2005. One year later, the songwriter released the first covers album of his career, a tribute to the songs of Pete Seeger titled We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. Live in Dublin, featuring concert material from the tour supporting Springsteen's Seeger project, was released on both CD and DVD in 2007. Springsteen then returned to his work with the E Street Band and released Magic in the fall of 2007, followed by another round of touring. Several months later, however, longtime E Street organist Danny Federici succumbed to a three-year battle with melanoma.
• Springsteen finished the tour in 2008 and held several additional shows in support of Senator Barack Obama, whose presidential campaign had kicked into hyperdrive earlier that year. While playing an Obama rally in early November, Springsteen debuted material from his forthcoming album, Working on a Dream, whose tracks had been recorded with the E Street Band during breaks in the group's previous tour. The resulting album, which was the last to feature contributions from Federici (as well as his son, Jason), arrived on January 27, 2009, one week after Barack Obama's historic inauguration.

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