The E Street Radio rarity I am dying to hear again is a Tenth Avenue Freeze Out alternate take that I've never heard anywhere else since. It is not on any boots.
It was a very raw in studio version, with a funkier guitar break in the middle section. The horns were a bit different, not quite perfected, and Bruce talked - rapped the "When the change was made uptown" part, with a few different lyrics.
I was so stunned to hear this version - outtake, that I pulled off the highway onto the gravel roadside to listen to the rest of the track.
I know 100% that I did not imagine it.
Has anyone else ever heard this version?