Earthslayer. That Sandy guy. Anybody else who knows somebody in the camp.
How is it that Springsteen can launch tour after tour after tour, record and video every second of every show, and not have the slightest fucking clue what to release, or in most cases, how does he not know that he should release anything at all?
There were great versions of a lot of things on the Joad tour. He released a few crappy things on Euro b-sides. There were a tremendous amount of great things on the Reunion Tour - we got LINYC, which is mostly horrible. No live albums from The Rising or the D&D Tour, which leaves about 50 great versions of things nowhere to be officially heard - Dancing in The Dark, Racing, the D&D Reason To Believe, Dream Baby Dream, all the Nebraska stuff . . . this tour's Open All Night, for starters.
And that's just the past ten years. How does he not know what's good and what's bad? You mean to tell me there's no one in the organization - not Landau, not Steve, not Dave Marsh - who has ever sat down with him and said "you know, Bruce, we could put together a hell of an album from a dozen or so of these 2005 shows". No one has ever pointed out to him just how off he is with his live release decisions?
Don't give me any of that Bruce is the Boss, he makes the rules horseshit - somehwere along the line somebody must've gotten fed up with all the miles of fantastic live tapes rotting on the shelf and said something to him.
I want an answer, dammit.
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