Mon Dec 24, 2012, 04:59 PM

Bruce Springsteen, Darkness on the Edge of Town. The Promise the making of record

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Is there any doubt that this is the album that made Springsteen into what he became. It is incredible the hard work and perseverance that went into this album. I just watched this again last night when I stumbled across this on youtube. I hope you enjoy it. This is the start of the working class hero.

For some reason part one will not come in. All three are on my website: http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2012/12/bruce-springsteen-darkness-on-edge-of.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=psPbzqZE-DE&feature=endscreen

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Bruce Springsteen, Darkness on the Edge of Town. The Promise the making of record (Original post)	geefloyd46	Dec 2012	OP
Rec # 2 from your friendly neighborhood E Streeter	abq e streeter	Dec 2012	#1
This seemed a more complete thematic unit than anything he'd done earlier...	geefloyd46	Dec 2012	#5
I can think of four songs off that were intended for this album but were done by others	Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin	Dec 2012	#2
Part one	rocktivity	Dec 2012	#3
thanks for whatever reason that wasn't coming through	geefloyd46	Dec 2012	#4

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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 06:52 PM

abq e streeter (7,453 posts)

1. Rec # 2 from your friendly neighborhood E Streeter

Have seen this; outstanding if you're a Springsteen fan.If not, good, just makes it easier for the rest of us to be able to get tickets to what is STILL the rockinest band in the known universe. Saw Bruce a month ago; he's 63 and had the energy of a 25 yr old (bet he felt it plenty the next day)...I think Born To Run was the one where he really started laying out the characters and themes he'd follow, but also, Darkness was where those characters started growing up and facing some cold realities, so in that sense, Darkness was the template for everything that came after. BTW, in his keynote speech at SXSW last March, he talked about The Animals, and picked up his acoustic and sang We Gotta Get Out of This Place, and then said " that's every song I ever wrote...and I'm not kidding".

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Tue Dec 25, 2012, 10:17 AM

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