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The idea was to follow up Born To Run, the heroic 1975 breakthrough that made him a household name, with a tightly focused effort marked by "power, directness and austerity." I’m sure will be on the table, but this was an enormous amount of work and it’s too soon to be worried about what comes next.Bruce Springsteen calls his 1978 album Darkness On The Edge of Town his "samurai" record. It would have to be a different approach. We just couldn’t do this type of documentary. “We don’t have it on The River, and we have nothing on Nebraska. “If we do decide to do that, frankly, we don’t have the equivalent of Barry’s footage,” he says. “In the end we decided to go with this more austere presentation - without the audience - which best captures the starkness of the original album.”Īfter spending over three years on this project, Landau is unsure whether or not other Springsteen albums will get the same treatment. “We filmed the band playing the album straight through a number of times on the 2009 tour,” says Landau. To cap off the project, Springsteen and the members of the E Street Band who played on Darkness (with Charlie Giordano subbing for the late Danny Federici on organ) played the entire LP straight through to an empty Paramount Theater in Asbury Park last December. People aren’t going to sit there and say ‘Oh, I can tell what he did here.’ It’s not like that.” “In each case Bruce did what felt necessary to realize the song,” Landau explains. A lot of these things were cut in five minutes, and we quickly decided they weren’t going to make the album.” Springsteen recently returned to the studio the complete some of the songs. “When we played them back for the band, they were all shocked because they had forgotten recording them.
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“He really recorded four albums of material for this one album,” says Landau. It has an incredible ‘Streets of Fire’ and an a great ‘Backstreets.’”īeyond a remastered version of the original Darkness on the Edge of Town album, the box set includes twenty-one outtakes. The picture has been enhanced as much as modern technology allows. The sound is raw, but good in deliverance. Considering the various options, the Houston show worked on the most levels. Some the picture was good and the sound was primitive. Some had good sound, but the picture wasn’t so good. We had a variety of shows that we were considering releasing from the Darkness tour. “The footage comes from the in-house screens at the arena,” says Jon Landau, Springsteen’s longtime producer and manager, and a onetime critic for Rolling Stone. “We let things play out, so you see the development and writing style in the creative process.”Īlso included in the box set: a three-hour concert filmed December 8th 1978 at the Summit Arena in Houston. “A key early direction I got from Bruce was to not have a lot of people talking about the footage,” says Zimny. “You also see them working on versions of ‘The Promise.’” Other scenes show a shirtless Springsteen leading the E Street Band through songs at his house in New Jersey, and exhausted band members placing actual bets over how long Bruce was going to make them record that day. “In it you see an early, early, early sketch of ‘The Promised Land,’” says Zimny, explaining the special appeal for Springsteen fans. It’s an ultra-rare look into the recording of a key album from a major artist. The archival footage - which was shot by filmmaker Barry Reebo - sat in a vault unseen by virtually anybody for decades.