BTR Album - Where was Danny?

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In terms of what has been officially released so far from the BTR Sessions........Federici is found on the tracks "Born To Run" (from the 1974 sessions at 914 Sound Studios) and "Linda Let Me Be The One" (from the 1975 sessions at the Record Plant). "Linda" was dropped late in the selection process for the original album in favor of "Meeting Across The River" - but "Linda" was made available in the 1998 TRACKS box set.

Impossible to tell for sure without the studio session logs, but I think Danny is heard on some of the alternate mixes from these sessions on bootlegs, as well as the still-unreleased "Walking In The Street", which Springsteen has said publicly he wanted to include in the TRACKS box but they couldn't locate the finished take in the archives (hopefully its just been mis-filed and not erased).

It seems that they didn't record much, if any, of BTR in "full band ensemble mode" like the they did for WIESS, Darkness, River and BITUSA. They used the Phil Spector technique - I speculate that Roy may have been able to handle this studio recording technique better than Danny at the time (many great live ensemble players struggle with the Spector studio technique).

Plus, the album itself (as issued) is piano-dominant, as opposed to say THE RIVER, which has a lot of organ. That's a decision by the Production team.

Interesting. Thanks Earthslayer.
Anyone else know anything about this??

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Yes, BTR is piano heavy, but there are is a lot of organ playing on those tracks. Intro of Backstreets, She's the one comes especially to mind. I think this is discussed in the Wings for wheels-documentary.

If I'm not mistaking I think he isn't on Greetings too. Maybe he had a few legal problems back then. Also I remember a Backstreets interview where he said that he got out of the band many times because of his temper, but he always found the door open whenever he decided to get back...
Interesting how mutch we know about Bruce music and how little sometimes about his or E Streeters' private lives.