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Bruce Springsten
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THE FOLLOW THAT DREAM SERIES
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....Once upon a time....
20 years ago there was a beautiful italian Springsteen fanzine called "Follow That Dream",
published by mr.Ermanno LaBianca, about Bruce and all around him and his music.
The magazine were sold with a cd single, always containing something live of those times.
It was the time when bootlegs in Italy were legal, and, for those years, it was amazing to
have something live on cd.
So I decided to upload these cds, knowin' I almost don't give you anything new, but I think
it's nice for collectors.
Unlikely I don't have the entire collection, so I hope somebody will complete my work.
Artwork is included for any release.
Volume 1
THE LIVE EXPERIENCE - GOOD ROCKIN' TONIGHT (see artwork for details)
1 Good Rockin' Tonight
2 Heartbreak Hotel
3 (I Don't Want To) Hang Up My Rock' n' Roll Shoes
4 Sha La La
5 You Never Can Tell
Volume 2
THE LIVE EXPERIENCE - Recorded at Los Angeles Sports Arena August 21st, 1981
01 - Point blank
02 - Johnny bye bye
03 - Jersey girl
Volume 3
01 Darkness On The Edge Of Town (3:46)
02 Tougher Than The Rest (3:52)
03 Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (3:44)
04 Thunder Road (5:55)
05 Across The Borderline (5:17)
Volume 4
THE LIVE EXPERIENCE - BRUCE AND CLARENCE
S.O.S. RACISME
1 The Promised Land
2 My Hometown
3 Blowin' In The Wind
4 Bad Moon Risin'
Volume 5
THE LIVE EXPERIENCE - Rally for disarmament 1982-06-12
01 - The Pretender Feat. Jackson Brown & Gary U.S. Bond
02 - The Promised Land Feat. Jackson Brown
03 - Running On Empty Feat. Jackson Brown
Volume 6
THE LIVE EXPERIENCE - WBCN Studios 1973
WBCN Studio Boston Mass.
Jan. 10, 1973
FM Broadcast
Great Dane Records 05/1992
GDR CD FTD 6
01 - Satin Doll
02 - Bishop Dance
03 - Circus Song
04 - Song To Orphans
05 - Does This Bus...
Volume 7
THE LIVE EXPERIENCE - LIVE FROM STUDIO 8 Saturday Night Live NYC May 9, 1992
1 Lucky Town
2 57 Channes
3 Living Proof
Volume 8
THE LIVE EXPERIENCE - THE ACOUSTIC UNRELEASED LA Nov 17, 1990
1 Red Headed Woman
2 57 Channels
3 The Wish
4 Soul Driver
5 When The Lights Go Out
6 Real World
Volume 9
THE LIVE EXPERIENCE - CAPITOL SOUNDCHECK Passaic NJ Sept. 19, 1978
1 Wedding Bells
2 The Ties That Bind (alternate version)
3 Good Rockin' Tonight
Volume 10
THE LIVE EXPERIENCE - NILS LOFGREN BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN LEAN ON ME Stone Pony June 9, 1989
1 Lean On Me
2 Glory Days
3 Not Fade Away
4 Midnight Hour
Volume 11
A TRIBUTE TO CURTIS MAYFIELD
1 Tribute To Curtis Mayfield LA March 1, 1994
2 It's All Right Rome May 25, 1993
Volume 12
EARLY SPRINGSTEEN SERIES 1973 - MY FATHER'S PLACE Roslyn, NY July 31, 1973
1 4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
2 New York City Serenade
3 Spirit In The Night
4 Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street ?
5 It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
6 You Mean So Much To Me
7 Thundercrack |
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Many thanks to all previous posters!
Original silver discs > EAC (secure) > WAV > mkwACT > SHN (8-2003)
(Re)post newsgroup ABMS > Traders little helper verified SHN > WAV > FLAC Level8 (11-2006)
Info below taken from Brucelegs.
THE LOST MASTERS - ESSENTIAL COLLECTION II
Label: Labour Of Love Format: 2CD
Catalog #: LOVE 024/025 Source: Studio Demos - Outtakes
Total Time: 146:08 Sound: 8.8/38
Date: 1977-83 Performance: 8.7/38
Location: Various Locations Overall: 8.7/39
Disc 1: (71:40)
1. Prove It All Night (3:32) - w/ different lyrics
2. Factory (2:13) - w/ different lyrics
3. Sherry Darling (4:06)
4. Independence Day (6:26) - original version
5. Drive All Night #1 (8:29) - original version
6. The Promise (5:28)
7. Candy's Boy #1 (5:25)
8. Racing In The Street #1 (6:16) - alternate version w/ harp
9. One Way Street (5:51)
10. I Wanna Marry You #1 (3:36) - alternate take w/ new vocal
11. Walking On The Avenue #2 (3:43)
12. Baby Come Back (2:05)
13. Living On The Edge Of The World #3 (4:21)
14. Jole Blon #1 (4:46)
15. Restless Nights #8 (5:15)
Notes:
* Tracks 1-10 "Darkness On The Edge Of Town" studio sessions
* Tracks 1-2 Atlantic Studios or The Record Plant, New York City, NY August 1977
* Track 3 Atlantic Studios, New York City, NY June-August 1977
* Track 4 The Record Plant, New York City, NY September 1977
* Tracks 5, 7 & 9 Atlantic Studios, New York City, NY June 1977
* Tracks 6 & 8 Atlantic Studios, New York City, NY August 1977
* Track 10 "The River" studio sessions, The Power Station, New York City, NY 07/20/79
* Tracks 11-12 Solo acoustic demos, Los Angeles, CA early 1979
* Tracks 13-15 Studio rehearsals w/ The E Street Band, Telegraph Hill Studio, Holmdel, NJ
* Track 13 11/15/79
* Tracks 14-15 01/11/80
Disc 2: (74:28)
1. Wreck On The Highway (3:32) - country version
2. Slow Fade #3 (3:18) - aka "Fade Away"
3. Jackson Cage #2 (2:58) - different music & lyrics
4. Stockton Boys #2 (1:26)
5. Stockton Girls (1:45)
6. You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch) #2 (2:46) - reggae version
7. You Gotta Be Kind (2:01)
8. Fade To Black #1 (4:14)
9. Born In The U.S.A. (3:04)
10. Child Bride (5:26)
11. Working On The Highway (3:15)
12. Glory Days (5:27)
13. My Love Will Not Let You Down (4:23)
14. Frankie (7:39)
15. Delivery Man #1 (2:19)
16. Little Girl #1 (1:25) - double track vocals
17. Sugarland #3 (2:28) - country version
18. The Klansman (2:57)
19. Betty Jean (2:21)
20. Seven Tears (1:59)
21. Jackson Cage (1:49)
22. Stolen Car (3:26)
23. James Lincoln Dear (4:17)
Notes:
* Tracks 1-3 Studio rehearsals w/ The E Street Band, Telegraph Hill Studio, Holmdel, NJ
* Track 1 01/11/80
* Tracks 2-3 02/05/80
* Tracks 4-8 Solo studio demos, Holmdel, NJ
* Tracks 4-7 January 1980
* Track 8 07/08/81
* Tracks 9-10 Solo acoustic demos for "Nebraska", Colts Neck, NJ December 1981-January 1982
* Track 11-14 "Born In The U.S.A." studio sessions, The Hit Factory, New York City, NY
* Tracks 11 & 14 May 1982
* Tracks 12-13 January-May 1983
* Tracks 15-20 Solo studio demos for "Born in the U.S.A.", Hollywood Hills Garage Studio, Los Angeles, CA
* Track 15 January-May 1983
* Tracks 16-17 & 19 August 1982-April 1983
* Tracks 18 & 20 01/04/83
* Tracks 21-22 Bruce sings new lyrics over the music of "Restless Nights" from a tape of band rehearsals, early 1980
* Track 23 Solo acoustic demo for "Nebraska", Holmdel, NJ 1981-82
* Track 21-23 are exclusive to this release and are not included on any other THE LOST MASTERS titles |
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Bruce Springsteen
The Lost Masters & The Lost Masters Essential Collection
This tagged FLAC set Comes Include artwork and checksums and HTML index pages.
All 24 Disc have EAC Logs (set was in circulation into SHN downloaded it at usenet ABMS)
409 tracks so its getting a bit big for an info file to list em one by one.
Used traders little helper for:
SHN>WAV>FLAC
MD5 FFP ST5 sums
Used mp3tag for:
tag the flac files and create m3u & index.html (those html files were finished with seamonkey editor)
Repacked 12-2006
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The Lost Masters: Introduction
In the spring of 1996, word quickly spread of a 19-CD set called "The Lost Masters"
consisting of studio outtakes, home demos, and rehearsal sessions from Bruce Springsteen
and the E Street Band from the years 1977-1983. In addition to the 19 discs,
two "Best of" sets would also be released and would include bonus tracks not found elsewhere in the set.
The discs were to be released individually in groups of five or so and the first five surfaced in early summer.
The CDs can basically be broken down into 5 segments: Darkness outtakes (2 CDs),
River outtakes (2 CDs), home demos (4 CDs), rehearsal sessions (5 CDs),
and Hollywood Hills garage tapes (3 CDs).
Rounding out the set are the complete Nebraska sessions,
Born in the USA outtakes, and "Big Expendables,
" which consists of studio outtakes from The River, home demos,
and rehearsal sessions.
Obviously, personal opinion differs, but the Darkness outtakes,
the Nebraska session, and the Born in the USA full band outtakes seemed
to top most people's lists of the best of the series. These four discs offered,
for the most part, the best sound quality, and, in the case of the Nebraska disc,
the most revealing look at said album.
The Darkness outtakes discs contained the best sound quality of any grouping of the Lost Masters.
Although only 2 songs on these discs were previously uncirculated,
the alternate takes of several songs more than makes up for it.
Prove It All Night with the lyrics from Something in the Night sheds new light on both songs.
Other songs with alternate lyrics include Adam Raised a Cain, Badlands,
and Racing in the Street. However, the gems of these discs might be The Promise and Frankie
in sound quality never before heard.
The River outtakes, while containing outstanding sound quality for the most part,
were marred by multiple takes of the same song. It also seemed like these discs offered
up the fewest previously-uncirculated songs, although, it must be said,
the Definitive River Outtakes Volumes 1 and 2 would have been hard to surpass.
The home demos are difficult to judge. Almost all the material on these discs was previously uncirculated,
and these discs shed a huge amount of light on the way Bruce Springsteen creates his songs.
However, multiple takes on songs and the blandness of most songs make these difficult to listen to repeatedly.
The rehearsal session discs received the most critical reviews. These discs featured Bruce and the Band
rehearsing the same song ad nauseam and in less-than-stellar sound quality,
making it very difficult to listen to some of these discs even once;
eight consecutive run-throughs of Held Up Without a Gun and Two Hearts with very little
noticeable difference, due to the sound quality, can be enough for almost anybody.
The real gems to turn up in these discs were Chevrolet Deluxe, originally "released"
on the River Refinery tapes, although this version is very different than the home demo;
Living on the Edge, a very rocking number in the vein of Buddy Holly;
Wreck on the Highway in a country arrangement; and Stolen Car,
as it goes through the transition from the Son You May Kiss the Bride version to the eventual released version.
Volume 14 could be the most revealing rehearsal disc as it features four previously uncirculated songs.
Although consistenting mostly of rehearsal takes, Volume 4 cannot be grouped entirely with those discs,
as it includes a home demo of Roulette as well as the supposed first take of the song with the band in the studio.
The highlight of this disc, and highlight of the whole set for me,
is Protection, a song Donna Summer recorded with some guitar work from Bruce himself.
Bruce's version of Protection is faster and more forceful than Summer's,
and the sound here is of official release quality.
The Hollywood Hills Garage Tapes were interesting, annoying, and repetitive,
sometimes all on the same disc. Again, the repetitiveness of several songs,
most notably Don't Back Down, which begins Volume 18 with eight different versions,
brings down several of these discs. In addition, while it is interesting to hear Bruce
fool around with a synthesizer and a drum machine,
four consecutive versions of My Hometown can be quite enough;
it has also been pointed out that the same drum beat is used on several songs.
On the other hand, previously uncirculated songs such as The Klansman,
Seven Tears, Unsatisfied Heart, and Richfield Whistle show a transition from the Nebraska
material to the more band-friendly Born in the USA.
Another gem is the complete take of Shut Out the Light with an additional verse
discussing drug abuse by the protagonist.
Volume 1, however, was the gem of this set for many people.
The long-awaited original acoustic version of Born in the USA
can finally be heard, and the true meaning of the song cannot be ignored
in an arrangement somewhat similar to the solo acoustic tour version,
albeit a bit faster. One has to wonder how differently the song would have been received
had this version been released. Downbound Train was another song supposedly recorded for Nebraska,
and, it must be said, was done a favor when Bruce and the E Street Band later recorded
it for Born in the USA. Child Bride is essentially Working on the Highway but slowed down tremendously,
and some say that Child Bride is better than it's album counterpart; a friend said that if the entrepreneurs
behind the Lost Masters were ever tried, they could play Child Bride back to back with Working
on the Highway and they would be acquitted. Another interesting note is the song Losin'
Kind about a couple who commit a crime before crashing their car in the snow,
essentially the same song as Highway 29, released almost 14 years later on The Ghost of Tom Joad album.
Volume 19 is a companion-piece to Volume 1 in some fashion,
as it is a collection of Born in the USA outtakes.
Although only three songs from this CD had never circulated previously,
the sound quality surpasses all previously circulated versions of these songs.
TV Movie quickly became a favorite for many people, and some people speculated on Bruce
doing an album of rockbilly material; TV Movie, Pink Cadillac, Stand On It, County Fair,
and Little Girl could almost be side 2 of such an album.
The source of the tapes that became the Lost Masters has been debated in several circles but without reaching
a definitive answer. While several tape collectors high on the food chain reportedly had these tapes
for a couple of years, those collectors only had copies and their original source was the one who made
the Lost Masters possible. One doesn't have to go too far back in Bruce history
to find two very plausible suspects.
The biggest disappointment of the Lost Masters series was the absence of the legendary
Electric Nebraska tapes, full band arrangements of the songs Bruce "recorded" in January of 1982.
Those tapes exist somewhere, and, if we're good, hopefully they will one day surface.
Hope you enjoy the liner notes and track listings!
Verona Drive, Silver Spring, November 1997
Set Contents ;
The Lost Masters Volume 01 - Alone in Colts Neck - The Complete Nebraska Session
The Lost Masters Volume 02 - One Way Street - Darkness Masters Volume 1
The Lost Masters Volume 03 - Rattling The Chains - Darkness Masters Volume 2
The Lost Masters Volume 04 - Big Expendables - Songs That Got Away
The Lost Masters Volume 05 - Heaven's Dawn - Unreleased River Masters Volume 1
The Lost Masters Volume 06 - Travel in Fear - Unreleased River Masters Volume 2
The Lost Masters Volume 07 - Stockton Boy - Solo Masters Volume 1
The Lost Masters Volume 08 - Under The Gun - Solo Masters Volume 2
The Lost Masters Volume 09 - Love is a Gun - Solo Masters Volume 3
The Lost Masters Volume 10 - Jesse James and The Wages of Sin - Solo Masters Volume 4
The Lost Masters Volume 11 - Walk Don't Run - The Telegraph Hill Rehearsals Volume 1
The Lost Masters Volume 12 - Buddy Holly Revisited - The Telegraph Hill Rehearsals Volume 2
The Lost Masters Volume 13 - Restless Days - The Telegraph Hill Rehearsals Volume 3
The Lost Masters Volume 14 - Out On The Run - The Telegraph Hill Rehearsals Volume 4
The Lost Masters Volume 15 - Slow Fade - The Telegraph Hills Rehearsals Volume 5
The Lost Masters Volume 16 - Hollywood Hills Garage Tapes - Unreleased Masters Volume 1
The Lost Masters Volume 17 - Hollywood Hills Garage Tapes - Unreleased Masters Volume 2
The Lost Masters Volume 18 - Hollywood Hills Garage Tapes - Unreleased Masters Volume 3
The Lost Masters Volume 19 - Born in the U.S.A. - Rare Masters
The Lost Masters Essential Collections Volume 1 (disc One & Two) Compilation + Bonus tracks
The Lost Masters Essential Collections Volume 2 (disc One & Two) Compilation + Bonus tracks
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