SPRINGSTEEN "PIÉCE DE RÈSISTANCE" 3-LP BOX SET 9-19-78 CAPITOL THTR. PASSAIC, NJ

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SPRINGSTEEN "PIÉCE DE RÈSISTANCE" 3-LP BOX SET 9-19-78 CAPITOL THTR. ~ PASSAIC, NJ
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E-STREET BAND "PIÉCE DE RÈSISTANCE" RARE DELUXE 3-LP BOXED SET LIVE SEPTEMBER 19TH, 1978 ~ CAPITOL THEATER ~ PASSAIC, NJ LABEL: PISTE DISQUES / FULL TILT RECORDS – EF 6339 RELEASED: ORIGINALLY RELEASED 1979, THIS PRESSING EARLY 1982 MATRIX (SIDE A): (Etched) SPRING-A (ORIGINAL PLATES)
CONDITION: VINYL: EX    BOX & SLEEVE: VG+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I've been going thru my large vinyl record collection the past few months and pulling out some LPs that I thought that someone else would want for their collection. I've been collecting records for nearly 50 years and it's time to pass some of them on to the next generation of collectors.
After all, we are just temporary 'caretakers' of these musical gems until the next owner and next collection takes them in.
This week on EBay I'm offering up this rare, clean, excellent condition, excellent sounding, vintage pressing of the legendary Bruce Springsteen 'collector' record 'Pièce De Résistance'
This is my personal, original copy that I purchased back in NYC in the early 80's and it has remained sleeved and stored properly in my vinyl record collection ever since.
The vinyl is in excellent condition, and the box and slip-sheet cover are still quite nice.
Please read the full description of this album's great content, history, and more details on the record's condition below. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bruce Springsteen's 'Pièce De Résistance' is one of the best and most famous Springsteen 'collector' records of all time.
This is the complete show, recorded live at the Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ on September 19th, 1978.
This is considered by many Bruce fans to be his best live show, one of the greatest rock shows of all time, and one of the best sounding 'collector' records ever pressed.
This is simply as good as it gets! Absolutely essential.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Pièce De Résistance
This is a 3-lp set, released in a sturdy, plain black cardboard box, with a paper slip-sheet insert. The cover shot shows Bruce on stage during the Darkness Tour with his well-worn Fender Telecaster.
The slip sheet paper insert is printed with the 'Piste Disques' logo, making it appear like a French pressing, but this pressing was released in 1982 and is on the 'Full Tilt' label, one of many labels used by Vicky Vinyl on the west coast.
Pressed on heavy, high quality vinyl.
Record 1 has a red label. Records 2 & 3 have a cream colored label. 
'Full Tilt' Records was one of Vicky Vinyl's 'collector' labels used in the in early eighties, after her notorious 'bust' in 1980, that released several titles. Despite the actual group on the record, all of her 'Full Tilt' releases used the exact same label, in different colors, with the band listed as 'Serious Endeavor', the catalog number EF 6339, and the futuristic date 1984, despite the records being pressed several years earlier.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This 3-record box set captures Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band live at the Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ on Tuesday September 19th, 1978 during the 'Darkness' tour.
The tour began in Buffalo at Shea’s Theater on May 23rd, a few days before the Darkness album was released on June 2nd, and ended with a show on New Years Day 1979 at the Richfield Coliseum in Cleveland. It was an absolute marathon tour, with 117 long, sold-out, multi-hour shows over 7 months. 
Those 'Darkness' tour shows were some of the best the E. Street Band ever did, and shows that made Bruce and the band famous. Amazingly, Bruce was only 28-years old. He had a long career still in front of him.
By the time they rolled into New Jersey for these 'homecoming' shows, Bruce and the band were 5-months into their 'Darkness On The Edge Of Town' tour and the group had their show tight and polished. Due to playing together nearly every night over the past 5 months, the band were as tight as they would ever be. 
The band played 3-sold out shows (September 19th, 20th and the Boss’s birthday show on the 21st) at the 3,000 seat Capitol Theater in the small north Jersey town of Passaic.
The shows on the 'Darkness' tour were legendary, but these 'homecoming' shows at the Capitol Theater were outstanding, and head and shoulders above all the rest. 
It was quite a show that night. Absolutely superb, with Bruce and the band at their finest and a killer set-list, with every song performed flawlessly. 
The E. Street Band at this time was: Max Weinberg-drums, Garry Tallent-bass, Danny Federici-organ, Roy Bittan-piano, Steve Van Zandt-guitars & vocals, Clarence Clemons-sax, and the Boss himself.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The first, opening night of his 3 night 'homecoming' run at the Capitol Theater, Tuesday September 19th 1978, was broadcast live, uncut, and in its entirety up and down the Eastern seaboard live on FM radio.
The 24 songs on this complete concert recording include:
Badlands Streets Of Fire Spirit In The Night Darkness On The Edge Of Town Independence Day The Promised Land Prove It All Night Racing In The Street Thunder Road Meeting Across The River Jungleland Kitty's Back Fire Candy's Room Because The Night Point Blank Not Fade Away / She's The One Backstreets / Sad Eyes Rosalita 4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) Born To Run Tenth Avenue Freezeout Devil With The Blue Dress Medley: Good Golly Miss Molly / C.C. Rider / Jenny Jenny / Raise Your Hand
An absolute killer of a setlist! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Boss changed up his set list almost nightly, and this show has some great, rarely played songs and performances purposely chosen for the hometown Jersey crowd.
Songs like 'Sandy', 'Meeting across the River', 'Because The Night' and a joyful 'Kitty's Back' all had special meaning to the Jersey crowd.
In his introduction to Sandy, Bruce acknowledges his Jersy roots and says: "This is for everybody from Sea Bright and Long Branch….….all the guys from North Beach…and this is for everybody who´s still back in Asbury Park ….”
From the opening chords of Badlands, you could tell that Bruce was kicking off his homecoming shows with passion and was ready to rock. 
The show included all his hits and classic songs; Badlands, Backstreets, The Promised Land, Thunder Road, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Jungleland, Rosalita, Born to Run, and 10th Avenue Freeze-out,
There's great versions of 'Because The Night', 'Streets Of Fire', 'Prove It All Night', 'Fire', and 'Point Blank'.
The extended intros to “Prove it All Night” and “Because the Night” make those performances outstanding.
Bruce was a very underrated guitar player & he was on fire and really letting it rip that night, getting some amazing sounds and tones out of his Fender Telecaster.
There's a long solo guitar introduction to 'Prove It All Night' and the song features an incredible, extended guitar duel between Bruce and Miami Steve Van Zandt.
Bruce also plays fantastic, flawless guitar solos on 'Because The Night'  and 'Backstreets'.
The songs and performances were all great, but there was something really outstanding and magical about how Bruce sequenced his material, transitioning from one song to the next, that made it all flow with an intense, emotional power and beauty. Great 'theater' in addition to great music.
For example, his transition from 'Racing in the Streets' into 'Thunder Road' is simply magical and really touches your soul.
Many Bruce fans consider this Capitol Theater version of those 2 classic songs to be the ultimate live versions, the best versions he ever performed.
In his introduction to ´Thunder Road´ Bruce says: "….we were out in the desert….over the summertime…..driving, driving to Nevada and we came upon this, this house on the side of the road this Indian had built….. it had a big picture of Geronimo out front with ´Landlord´, said ´Landlord´ over the top, and had a big sign, that said ´This is the land of peace, love, justice...and no mercy´….and it pointed down this little road that said ´Thunder Road´…
Another example of his perfect transitions is how he comes out of an epic 'Meeting across the River', following it up with a powerful, flawless performance of 'Jungleland' with Clarence, the Big Man, nailing that sax solo.
Bruce also creates a perfectly smooth medley out of Buddy Holly's 'Not Fade Away', blending it seamlessly into 'She's the One'. A masterclass in fusing the old sounds with the new.
To add to the retro, vintage rock feel, he sings some of the lines of 'She's the One' in a very Elvis Presley vocal style, the new Boss of rock and roll giving his nod to the King of rock.
His set-closing 'Detroit Medley' is another example of how Bruce and the E Street band could blend and fuse different styles and genres of music into one, and create something that sounded fresh, hip and modern.
On this September 1978 night in New Jersey, his next album was still years away, but Bruce was already thinking ahead, writing new material and hinting at 'The River' with early renditions of "Point Blank" "Independence Day", and an embryonic "Drive All Night," which appears as a spoken-word poetry interlude collectors call 'Sad Eyes' in the middle of "Backstreets"
Bruce builds up the lyrics of "little Girl You Lied" and "little girl you've got to stop' to a crashing crescendo, screaming 'Stop!, as the house lights go out to pitch black, before the 'Backstreets' theme returns and the song finishes out with Bruce's closing wordless howls. Some of Bruce's best ever 'theater of the mind'. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Around the time of these shows, Bruce was best known for his live performances and he was considering releasing a live album.  He knew that these NJ shows were going to be 'special', so his team arranged for all three nights at the Capitol Theater to be professionally recorded on multi-track tape by the Record Plant's mobile unit, which drove out from Manhattan and parked out on the street in front of the theater.
The Record Plant mobile unit captured the performances on multitrack tape but was also responsible for generating the live stereo 2-track broadcast feed that went out over the airwaves.
Jimmy Iovine, who mixed the 'Darkness' album and intimately knew the songs and material, was in charge of mixing the live broadcast feed that went out over the air.
Jimmy Iovine did a fantastic job and his original broadcast mix sounded amazing, perfectly capturing the live spontaneous sound of the E St band.
Bruce's guitar sounds bold and intense, Miami Steve's guitar and vocals are up front, Max's drums and Gary's Bass are strong and punchy, keeping the band's tight, cohesive sound together, but they aren't overpowering.
You can hear all sorts of details and nuances from Clarence, including his backing vocals, comments, and his small percussion touches and effects on woodblocks and triangle.
Years later, when Bruce officially released this show as part of his Live Archive series in 2019, that release was mixed from the multi-track masters, not Jimmy Iovine's original radio feed, and the differences are drastic and significant.
Although the Archive release sounds crisper and cleaner, the new mix they created is considered by most true Bruce fans to be inferior to the 'original'.
Most Springsteen fans were very familiar with this show and accustomed to hearing it from the original broadcast feed, as captured on vintage 'collector' albums like this one.
The new mix was very bass heavy, Steve’s rhythm guitar is low in the mix, the backing vocals from Steve and Clarence are suppressed in favor of Bruce's vocals, and much of the original spontaneity, 'character' and detail is lost.
Many Bruce fans had become quite attached to the sound on these old vinyl 'collector' records and still preferred the mix that Jimmy Iovine captured live on the original broadcast version.
On the original live feed, Bruce's guitar sounds amazing; powerful, raw and biting. The dynamics of the performances are more lively and real, less 'smoothed out'. Steve and Clarence are more prominent, with Steven's tasty rhythm guitar licks up front in the mix, and the emotional impact and intensity of the songs are captured beautifully.
When Bruce's guitar rips into the 'Prove it All Night' solo, it sounds like a buzzsaw. When Clarence blows the first note of any solo, the crowd roars like when a baseball player hits a home run.
The Archive release tones much of that impact and crowd reaction down.
Jimmy Iovine's broadcast mix sounds like you're right there in the theater, live on stage with the band. It has a real presence and an amazing 'you are there' vibe and feeling.
That's what is captured on 'Piece de Resistance'.
Although the official Archive Series release sounds great, this album is still considered the 'proper' and 'correct' way to hear this show. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The sound on this early 'Full Tilt' record, made from the original "SPRING" plates and stampers, is superb and beyond amazing quality!
A 3-lp box set, the complete show, with encores, professionally recorded, taken from Jimmy Iovine's mix of the original broadcast feed, and presented in outstanding stereo sound fidelity.
It sounds fantastic: a booming, thunderous performance played to a diamond-hard precision, with every instrument mixed and balanced perfectly. 
It's really hard to beat. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
One of the reasons that Bruce's 1978 'Darkness' Tour is so well-remembered, so legendary, and considered the peak of Bruce and the E Street band's long career is that several complete shows were broadcast live on progressive rock and album-oriented rock radio stations. 
By this point, Bruce was huge in the New York metro area and on the east coast, but in order to get Bruce's music more recognized and more popular on the west coast, his team arranged to have his July 7th show at West Hollywood’s Roxy Nightclub broadcast locally, live as it happened, on Los Angeles' rock station KMET.
The broadcast was hugely successful, turned many young people on to Springsteen's music, and record sales spiked, so Bruce decided to do it again in areas and markets where he wasn't that well known and established.
His August 9th show at Cleveland’s Agora Ballroom was broadcast live on WMMS, the Midwest's leading rock station.
His September 30th show from the Fox Theatre in Atlanta was broadcast live on a handful of Southeastern rock stations, and finally, his December 15th show from the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco was broadcast locally on KSAN-FM, the Bay Area's classic rock station.
These broadcasts were heard by Millions of young rock fans, who were amazed by what Bruce and his band were capable of performing, and his legend exploded.
Reel to reel and cassette tapes of those 5 legendary FM-radio broadcasts from the 1978 Darkness tour circulated among fans and collectors, and those 5 shows from 1978; The Roxy: 7-7-1978 in L.A., The Agora: 8-9-1978 in Cleveland, The Capitol Theatre: 9-19-1978 in Passaic, NJ, The Fox Theatre: 9-30-1978 in Atlanta, and the Winterland show: 12-15-1978 in San Francisco, soon became the 'core' of many Springsteen fans live collections.
They are all fantastic, great sounding, perfectly performed concerts and should all be part of any serious Bruce collection or 70's rock collection. If you don't already own them, they are all worth hunting down and hearing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
At the time, the fall of 1978, this broadcast from the Capitol Theater became the most important show of his career.
This one show, heard live by millions of listeners up and down the East coast, and then heard by many others on these 'collector' records that popped up in the shops right after the broadcast, did more to help spread the word and legend of Bruce, and create more new fans, than any other single show in his career.
Bruce's other 1978 radio broadcasts helped generate new fans and helped spread the word of how great Bruce was live, but they were broadcast by one local radio station to regional markets and only reached a limited audience.
This Capitol theater show was broadcast by WNEW-FM in New York and nine other radio stations up and down the East coast,  including WBCN-FM and WCOZ-FM Boston, WIOQ-FM Philadelphia and WIYY-FM Baltimore. 
This magnificent 24-song, three-hour live concert was heard by millions that night, and changed Bruce's trajectory.
The mass spread of this show, on records such as 'Piece de Resistance', and on cassette tapes, popular with collectors at the time, led directly to huge interest in Bruce and the “you gotta see him live“ buzz that surrounded him.
This album 'Piece de Resistance', helped solidify Bruce's reputation as THE guy to see live, generated new fans, and led directly to increased ticket sales which started the ball rolling.
Bruce grew into being a popular 'must see' act for the masses, not just for his local NY/NJ hardcore fanbase, which led to selling out larger arenas and stadiums on the River Tour and turned Springsteen into a rock superstar. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This album, 'Piece de Resistance', started to appear in shops very soon after the broadcast aired. Unlike today, obscure 'collector' records were rare, hard to find treasures back then. High quality, great sounding, live Bruce recordings were scarce back in the late 70's in the pre-computer, pre-internet days, and when this album first appeared it was an amazing find.
A 3-lp box set, a fresh, recent complete show, professionally recorded, and presented in outstanding stereo sound fidelity.
It quickly became very sought after and the Holy Grail of Bruce's 'collector' records. 'Piece de Resistance' is still one of the most popular and most famous Springsteen 'collector' records of all time.
Although a very popular album in my local New York City record shops at the time, this record was released by Vicki Vinyl and her partner Ken Washburn's 'Idle Minds' enterprise on the west coast. This was a 3-LP, 24 song, boxed set first released in 1979.
Originals came in a plain black box with a paper slip-sheet cover saying it was a '3 Disques' Piste Records pressing out of France.
The earliest pressings came with pale yellow or pale blue generic labels, marked 'Record 1', 2, or 3 with a side indication.
These were quickly replaced by custom black 'Slipped Disc' Records labels with the dancing skeleton. The paper insert covers still carried the Piste Records name.
The box sets were numbered with a rubber stamped serial number on a small white sticker that was pasted on the paper slip-sheet insert. The original pressing matrix was etched with "SPRING - A" thru "SPRING - F ".
'Slipped Disc' was the name of a real record store located in the Panorama City district of L.A. that, along with the 'Beggar’s Banquet' record store in Anaheim, openly sold 'collector' records and were part of Vicky Vinyl and her partner Jim Washburn's network of stores that were associated with their Amazing Kornyfone, Idle Minds, and other record labels.
My earliest copy of this album has custom black 'Slipped Disc' labels with the dancing skeleton. The paper insert has a slightly pale blue color, has the Piste name in the corner, a '3 Disques' box mentioning that it was the 75th performance of the tour, and is numbered with a stamped number printed directly on the insert.
Later 1979 pressings were made from the same plates, with the "SPRING" matrix markings, using the same black 'Slipped Disc' labels, but the paper insert slick now had no number and the "3 DISQUES" box no longer had text and was empty.
After Vicky Vinyl was busted in 1980, she slowly got back to business and this boxed set version was released in early 1982, pressed from the original plates, with the "SPRING" matrix markings, but using her new 'Full Tilt' labels.
The black cardboard box is identical to previous issues.
The slip-sheet cover is also identical, with the Piste logo, but they are not numbered and the "3 DISQUES" box is empty. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The sound quality, vinyl quality, and packaging of these early pressings of 'Piece de Resistance' was so good that, after hearing this 3-record set in July 1979, Bruce and CBS were forced to file charges against Andrea Waters ("Vicky Vinyl") and her partner Ken ('Jim') Washburn, a Springsteen fan, for “infringements of copyrights" and producing 'collector' records.
Back in the early days, Bruce was thrilled, enthusiastic and supportive about having 'collector' records of his music being made, but as he revealed in a 1981 Creem magazine interview, his opinions changed.
"I felt that there was a point there where, when it first started, a lot of those 'collector' records were made by fans, and there was more of a connection. But it became...there were just so many that it was big business...made by people who, you know, they didn’t care.
It just got to the point where I just thought it was a rip. I thought I was getting ripped, I wrote the music, the songs – it all came out of me! ... I felt it was a rip, and the people who were doing it were just sitting back, getting fat. I just got really mad about it at one point."
In February 1980, the FBI and Canadian RCMP raided 150 different places on the same day;, people, stores and pressing plants, from Georgia to California to Ontario, trying once and for all to stamp out the 'collector' record business. 
While some players like Vicky Vinyl, Ken Washburn, Kurt Glemser and John Wizardo and their record labels were stopped, putting a sudden end to many classic 'collector' record labels, the 1980 bust did little to stem the tide. 
In the Civil suit, Bruce and CBS were awarded $50,000 for each violated music copyright, on 43 different 'collector' records made by the "Long Beach record ring", which added up to $2,150,000 plus court costs of $105,573. 
Waters and Washburn declared bankruptcy, Wahburn moved to Spain to avoid prosecution, and in the end, in December 1980, Waters ('Vickie Vinyl') pleaded guilty to one count of copyright infringement and was fined $5,000.
Bruce/CBS never collected anything on the $2 Million dollar judgement and Vickie Vinyl, $5,000 poorer, continued doing what she loved and did so well, just with more caution, new people and new record labels.
This copy of 'Piece de Resistance' on the Full Tilt label was one of those post-bust releases, first showing up in early 1982. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This record, Piece de Resistance, has long been considered one of the best, the essential, and the 'classic' Bruce collector records out of the hundreds that are out there.
A fantastic Springsteen record and one of the classic, best packaged, great sounding, most famous and important releases in the history of Springsteen 'collector' records. 
A powerful, dynamic, intense and emotional performance. Springsteen at his finest. Easily one of the top ten shows of the Boss’s career. 
You would be hard pressed to find a better show than this one.
They don’t get any better than this…essential and a 'must have' record for any Springsteen fan. It's an album that every Springsteen fan should have in their vinyl collection and also deserves to be in any 70s rock vinyl collection. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CONDITION: I tried to show good hi-resolution photos of the cover, labels and vinyl in my pictures. VINYL: This copy is beautifully pressed on thick, heavy, high quality black vinyl and this pressing has a terrific sound to match. 
The vinyl is still fantastic. Clean and bright. No scratches, scuffs or damage.
There's not enough room to show details of the vinyl, but I tried to get the lighting right, so you can get an idea of how clean the vinyl is. Hopefully you can see from my photos how terrific it looks.
LABELS: This album was pressed with the 'Full Tilt' labels that Vickie used as she returned full-tilt to record production after her 1980 bust. 
The band is listed as 'Serious Endeavor', the catalog number EF 6339, and the futuristic date 1984 is printed on the right, despite these records being pressed in early 1982.
There's no mention of the real artist or song titles, typical of 'collector' records. 
The labels are clean and bright. No dings, scuffs or damage, and the spindle holes are clean and sharp, suggesting infrequent playing and my careful handling over the years.
BOX AND SLEEVE: As you can see from my pictures, the black cardboard box is still in excellent condition and looks fantastic. No corner damage or 'split' corners as is often found. 
Some very very minor edge wear from being stored and shifted around in my collection for decades, but otherwise a beauty.
The slip-sheet paper 'cover' is in excellent condition. Clean and bright. No names, writing or marks. The corners are relatively sharp, except note that there is a 'bite' out of the top right corner. That's how I purchased it.
The image of Bruce on the cover and the lettering is sharp and clear.
Later pressings have a more washed-out, 'Xeroxed' look to them and the printing isn't as crisp. This cover looks fantastic. I tried to show details in my photos.
Also, when i got this record home and took it out of the vinyl sleeve, I was surprised to find that the original owner pasted some 'Born in the USA' era stickers on the back of the box. The stickers look to be home made and 'unofficial', somebody's artwork. I never bothered to try to remove them, so they remain. They sort of change the whole vibe of this record, but they are easily covered up by the paper slip-sheet insert, and you don't even know they are there. Just thought I should point them out.
I've owned this record since the early 80's and it has been sleeved and kept in great condition for around 45 years now. It's about as good a copy of this classic release as you're likely to find these days.
Very nice, all original, and a real gem. I'm sure you'll be very happy to add it to your collection. It would make a great addition to any Classic Rock or Springsteen vinyl record collection.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
** NOTE: I'm selling this rare Springsteen 'Collector' record "AS IS" and "NO RETURN". It's rare, and as described, and I'm sure you'll be very happy with it. A great, rare, original, excellent sounding copy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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THANK YOU for looking and reading if you got this far. I know I rambled on a bit, but can't help it. I have a passion for records, especially 'Collector' records and Bruce Springsteen. 
I hope this listing was entertaining and informative.   -- JOHN