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TomJoadIch lese gerade die wirklich sehr sehr lesenswerte Biographie „Bruce“ von P.A. Carlin. Darin wurde unter anderem eine Performance von „Backstreets“ erwähnt aus 1976 bei der der Boss seine ganze Wut auf Mike Appel rausschreit , zum Schluss schreit er mehrfach You lied , you lied usw. Auch der extrem wütende Anfang ist hörenswert , man möchte kein Feind vom Boss sein. Es kommt im Buch sehr gut raus, wie er einfach völlig enttäuscht von Appel war, fast so wie bei einem Liebesverhältnis, wo man die ganze Zeit dachte, der andere möchte eigentlich nur das Beste für den anderen . Hier das Audio : http://youtu.be/swUu9tX1Y4s
Die Biographie liegt schon ein paar Monate bei mir herum. Muß ich doch mal anfangen zu lesen ;-).
Erstaunt hat mich, dass Appel bei der sehenswerten Doku zu „Darkness“ dann trotzdem ausführlich interviewt wurde. Springsteen hat ihm offensichtlich verziehen oder zumindest besaß er die Größe, auch die Gegenseite zu Wort kommen zu lassen.
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WerbungTomJoadIch lese gerade die wirklich sehr sehr lesenswerte Biographie „Bruce“ von P.A. Carlin.
Eine der besten Musikerbios, die ich je gelesen habe.
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Radio StoneFM | "Solos come and go. Riffs last forever." (Keith Richards) | The fact that there's a highway to hell but only a stairway to heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic numbers.HIGHER AND HIGHER
Springsteen’s concert recordings and high-resolution releases initiatives get serious
November 17, 2014
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An already auspicious week in Springsteen catalog news just got better with the announcement of*live.brucespringsteen.net, a new addition to the official website offering high-quality live concert recordings as well as high-resolution digital releases of the Springsteen album catalog. It’s powered by*nugs.net, best known for its industry-leading work in the live download space with artists like Pearl Jam, Phish and Metallica, in cooperation with Columbia Records.
The new site launches today with the expanded re-release of 30 concerts recorded on this year’s High Hopes tour, plus the first in a collectors‘ dream come true: a planned series of vault releases that kicks off with the Apollo Theater, New York, NY, March 9, 2012.
The High Hopes shows were available for a limited time through Springsteen’s Live Nation store before being sunsetted at the end of June. The new release adds key additional formats including three-CD sets and high-resolution, 24-bit downloads, as well as MP3s and lossless, CD-quality downloads.
Nugs.net founder and CEO Brad Serling talked to*Backstreets*about the start of a new partnership that has massive implications for fans of Springsteen’s past and future live recordings. High hopes indeed.
The story begins more than five years ago, when it was announced that Bruce would make his first appearance at Bonnaroo.
„In January of 2009,“ Serling recalls, „I cold-called Landau’s office because the Bonnaroo line-up for that year was Phish and Bruce Springsteen. We knew we’d be doing Phish, and we were already doing a live Bonnaroo program. I called out of the blue and asked if this was something Bruce would be interested in doing, as an on-going program like what we do with Metallica. They politely said, ‚Thanks, but no thanks. It’s not something Bruce would ever go for.‘ Which is the same kind of answer I’ve gotten from lots of artists.“
Fast-forward five years and Serling sees the news of Springsteen entering the concert download space, albeit with an initial mixed reaction to elements like the USB wristband that had some fans posting, „Why don’t you do what Pearl Jam and Phish do?“ Serling says that soon thereafter, he got word that he should reach out to Landau’s office again. „Long story short, we had a series of calls, then we went to New York for a meeting with Jon, Barbara, Jan and everyone. We thought it was going to be a half-hour meeting and we were there for three-and-a-half hours. It was a meeting of the minds. Unbelievable, like meeting a kindred spirit.“
„The one question that we had,“ Serling offers, speaking for many fans, „was why now? We spoke to you five years ago. What changed? It was Bruce looking at YouTube and seeing fan-generated content from his recent shows, as well as archival stuff. And he was like, ‚We can do better than this. We own the masters!‘ What’s great is, he wasn’t saying, ‚Fuck those guys. Take that stuff down. Screw YouTube.‘ It was, ‚If this is happening, we should be doing it officially.'“
And with that, a new partnership was born, though Serling is quick to point out that it couldn’t have happened without commendable cooperation from Columbia and Sony.
„Sony really bent over backwards to accommodate us on this project,“ he says. „They gave us their blessing to release the live recordings directly on Bruce’s site, and they licensed Bruce’s catalog to us to sell direct-to-fan, which is really unprecedented for a major label and a marquee artist.“
The return of the High Hopes shows in superior quality (and on CD), the promise of even better live downloads on future tours and the official release of the Apollo is all great news, but what many fans most eagerly anticipate is the potential of true vault releases.
Serling is excited and justifiably cautious about the topic, as plans are still coming together. But he did share a few tantalizing tidbits. „We know, of course, that fans want to dig deep,“ he says, adding that there’s a working list of 30 shows „spanning Bruce’s entire career“ under consideration, and, by way of example, he confides a healthy percentage of them are circa 1973-78.
„It’s very exciting to think about the different eras that will be covered. And what’s really interesting is where the tapes are coming from. What’s in the vault, what isn’t. Not all of it is in their archives, so they are sourcing material now.“
The ubers among us will be pleased to hear multi-track recordings, true soundboards, and radio broadcasts are all in the mix. „Nothing’s off the table,“ says Serling, conceding even audience tapes have been used to patch gaps in prior releases from the Grateful Dead and Phish. While he was admirably tight-lipped about what shows are on the list, his history with those artists gives an indication of what to expect. And while it might seem somewhat counter-intuitive, his common-sense approach is likely spot on.
Serling told Landau his experience suggests the best-selling vault titles are the most widely circulated tapes. That’s been true of the Dead and of Phish. „Our biggest archive releases are the ones that were most widely traded,“ he explains. „There’s a simple reason for that: Free advertising. The one everyone already knows is the one everyone’s going to buy the moment it goes on sale. It doesn’t take a marketing genius to figure that out.
„The thing that you have to get over as an artist is just because everyone has it doesn’t mean they don’t want to buy it. And I don’t mean that in any crass or commercial way. It’s just that those shows are what’s [top of mind], and fans are going to get very excited about the one that was the favorite tape in their collection for many years. That’s apparent in what they are considering; it doesn’t mean that’s all they’re working on, but there’s a lot of overlap there.“
The new live store will also serve as a retailer for high-resolution downloads of Springsteen’s catalog albums through the*nugs.net*platform. To start, 24/48 versions of the first seven albums —*the remastered Plangent transfers also available today in CD and vinyl box sets — will be available, along with other albums already mastered for the 24/48 format including*We Shall Overcome – The Seeger Sessions,*Working on a Dream*and*The Promise. Expect all on-going high-resolution releases to be available there.
As mentioned above, the High Hopes shows are also being made available for the first time as high-resolution, 24/48 FLAC files, and Serling assures us he is committed to high-res formats long-term. „We will always release the highest-quality source available,“ he says. „In the case of the 2014 shows, John Cooper recorded them live at 24/48, so that’s what we’re releasing. Similarly, the Apollo show was recorded at 24/48, but later mixed by Bob Clearmountain and recently mastered for release by Bob Ludwig.“
Why was the Apollo chosen as the inaugural release? „Frankly, when you’re fortunate enough to sign a deal with Bruce Springsteen,“ Serling says with a laugh, „you don’t really argue with his choice for the first release from his archives! What I’ve found with any actively touring artist, big or small, is that recent always trumps older in the artist’s mind. *There’s an afterglow of big moments in the near-rear-view mirror that are more meaningful to them than the glories of the distant past.“
But more vault titles are coming, rest assured, the only question is when? That timing is dependent on a number of factors including the unknown of when Bruce gets back on the road, which would switch focus back to new shows. But Serling hopes to see releases happen at regular intervals as is common with other*nugs.net*bands.
One thing that’s very apparent throughout the conversation is that the voice of the fan has been heard, which is part of why*nugs.net*is now the platform of record. There’s an „open loop“ with the fans, Serling says, and the feedback, good and bad, is having an impact.
That Serling runs the most successful concert release platform is true to his roots as a taper of the Grateful Dead himself back in the day, bringing his deck and mics to shows in the ’80s and ’90s. Beyond the Dead, he grew up in Philadelphia listening to classic rock on WMMR and WYSP, on both of which Springsteen’s music was a constant.
Ironically, it wasn’t his Dead tapes, but the release of Springsteen’s own*Live 1975-85*in 1986 that first got Serling thinking about mass distribution of vault recordings. „A rock artist putting out a retrospective of their live material in a five-LP box, it was mind blowing,“ he says. After that, „a little light went off in my head.“
– November 17, 2014 – Erik Flannigan reporting--
summary: offizielle Live – Aufnahmen in bestmöglicher Qualität sind erhältlich. Mehr kommen.
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Bitte nicht von der schlechtesten Tour.
WG
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"You end up lika a dog that`s beat too much..."nail75
Ich bin eben grundsätzlich kein Fan davon, Reissues von Platten zu kaufen, die hundertfach in Läden stehen. Siehe auch Dire Straits, The Cure, Echo & The Bunnymen etc.Aber sind die nicht neu (und deutlich besser) gemastert. Die 3 LPs von Springsteen, die ich hier stehen habe, klingen alle bescheiden. Dafür würde es sich dann schon lohnen.
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"Man kann nicht verhindern, dass man verletzt wird, aber man kann mitbestimmen von wem. Was berührt, das bleibt!Von mir aus können gern jede Menge Aufnahmen aus den verschiedenen Dekaden veröffentlicht werden.
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Krimis, Thriller und Urban Fantasy - weitere Infos unter www.soeren-prescher.deTheMagneticFieldAber sind die nicht neu (und deutlich besser) gemastert. Die 3 LPs von Springsteen, die ich hier stehen habe, klingen alle bescheiden. Dafür würde es sich dann schon lohnen.
…zumal Amazon.de nur 106,84 für die LP-Box dafür haben möchte.
Es wird ein teures Vinyljahr, dieses 2014.
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neiliebly…zumal Amazon.de nur 106,84 für die LP-Box dafür haben möchte. Ich komme schon wieder ins Überlegen – eigentlich wollte ich nicht!
kann nur kurz etwas zur cd-box sagen, die man ja schon unter 50 euro
erhalten kann : der klang ist phänomenal , fällt besonders auf bei
“ born in the usa“ und “ the river“. wenn die lps das klangliche niveau
auch rüberbringen, könnte sich die investition lohnen….;-)--
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Die Remasters sind genial. nuff said.
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Hallo zusammen!
Habe auch „nur“ die CD-Box und muss sagen, dass die super remastert sind. Mir sind vor allem Greetings und Darkness irre positiv aufgefallen. Auch im Direktvergleich, und selbst mit der Remaster-Version aus der Darkness-Box von 2010. Auch Born To Run klingt noch einen winzigen Tick besser, direkter und dynamischer. Bei The River haben sie unten rum ein wenig mehr Rumms hinzugefügt, aber ohne den allgemeinen Klang des Albums, der ja schon eher dünn ist, zu verfremden. Es soll ja schon noch nach The River klingen. Und das ist insgesamt der Drahtseilakt, das Kunststück, das sie hingebracht haben: Den Sound zu verbessern, ohne ihn zu verfremden. Cheers!--
Am Freitag angekommen (die 4LP-Box) – ein Wahnsinns-Konzert der besten Tour die je gespielt wurde, dass ich schon aus dem Netz kannte.
Ich frage mich nur was das für ein obskures Label ist: Echoes (Soulfood)? Ich habe nicht einmal eine Internetseite gefunden.
Mitte Januar soll übrigens das Atlanta-Konzert vom 30.09.78 ebenfalls als 4-LP-Box erschienen, dass ich als noch besser empfinde. Ich kenne es unter dem Bootleg-Titel „The Same Old Played Out Scenes“.Schade, dass dies noch nicht auf Vinyl erschienen ist:
… übrigens konnte ich auch hier zum Label Klondike nichts, aber auch gar nichts in Erfahrung bringenIch frage mich nur was diese Label noch so auf Lager haben…
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LARS ist nur eine Abkürzung: Like A Rollin' Stoneerscheint am 23.01.2015
… auch als 4LP-Box
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LARS ist nur eine Abkürzung: Like A Rollin' Stone@fetenguru: Danke für den Hinweis, das 1978er Konzert aus Atlanta klingt spannend.
Die anderen beiden Plattensets, die du erstanden hast, sind Bootlegs.
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