Bruce Springsteen releases this Friday his complete performance with The E Street Band from 1979’s No Nukes concerts at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
It will be available on CD, DVD, Blu-ray and digitally, followed by vinyl at a later date.
The best of his performances from both nights — September 21st and 22nd, 1979 — have been edited together for a full-length Springsteen concert film. This was his only performance between the Darkness on the Edge of Town and The River tours.
The two-CD, one-DVD set features 13 songs performed over two nights, newly remixed and remastered. The DVD has the film of the show, newly edited from original film footage, restored and remixed in HD. This package includes a 24-page book with rare photos and memorabilia, an essay, a vintage ticket envelope, a ticket reproduction, and a sticker.
Track List:
- Prove It All Night
- Badlands
- The Promised Land
- The River
- Sherry Darling
- Thunder Road
- Jungleland
- Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
- Born to Run
- Stay
- Detroit Medley
- Quarter to Three
- Rave On
Bruce Springsteen on why he didn’t like to film himself performing in the early days.
“I was very superstitious about filming anything in those days. I always thought a magician should not look too closely at his magic trick as I’ve said. And so I was like, ‘Nah, I don’t want to see it. It’s working. It’s working really good, I don’t want to see it. I don’t want to see what I’m doing because it might change what I’m doing, and what I’m doing is working for me and it’s working for the audience so I don’t want to see it.’ And it wasn’t til many years later that I got used to seeing us on film and I still find that I gotta settle in for a second and, ‘Oh, I’m not as good looking as I thought.'”
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