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A MESSAGE FROM NUGS.NET
While we hate to be the bearer of bad news, it's good to know what's going on — in this case, that we'll have to wait until later in December for a new release in the live archive series. This just in today from Nugs:

The holidays are here and per archive series tradition, we're hard at work on a special release for Christmas. Due to that ongoing work there will not be a First Friday release tomorrow, but rest assured it will be worth the wait.

- December 5, 2019

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Is there an "end-date" to Springsteen's Archival Release program?

I have wondered if perhaps he was saving a few "special" shows (like Winterland '78 and Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation '81) so he could end the program with a bang.

If true, when we see one or more of these wildly popular remaining shows be released, we'd know it could be over.

 

 

I don't foresee an end date, maybe an interlude if God forbid, something happened to Bruce.  I think JL and his heirs would keep it going.  The archives would be more popular then ever.  It would be his legacy.  After all Bruce is known best for his live shows. 

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Came and took my little girl away!
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Oats

I agree with each of the points you make, Oats.

I often wonder how many shows from 1973 - 2000 were recorded in high-enough quality for Bruce to approve their releases. It wouldn't surprise me to learn most of Bruce's show's from 2002-present have been professionally recorded, but what if we are nearing the end of the pristine recordings from 1973-2000? We know there must be at least a handful more, correct? But are there 25-30 more?

I, for one, would suggest the Archive Series would lose much of its lustre once the 1973-2000 library is exhausted.

 

 

Possibly?  It wasn't that long ago one of the guys here on the SPL put up a post regarding the science behind why we love shows so much from our teens and early adult hood.  Yep, there is  sound reason for it.  No pun intended.  

I first saw Bruce and the band in January 1974 and haven't stopped. I went to two of the 78 Capitol Theater shows.  You can never bring back the youthful exuberance or the thrill of seeing a great band early in their career.

But when I analyze the shows after 2000.  Some of them are both Bruce's and the band's best work.  In addition you're getting a more rounded, better setlist.  Bruce has so many more albums to draw from.  The band is the tightest they have ever been.  I would argue that the 2016 tour may have been Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's finest  tour in almost every way, especially the last 10 stadium shows.  Granted two original members are missing and missed.  But Charlie and Jake have been terrific. When I listen to or look at the last 10 shows of that tour.  They played the longest shows of his career and drew the largest crowds of his career.  Look and see how many different albums are represented.  A couple of great covers thrown in at every show. I sort of wish they weren't released and got the full archive treatment.  Fabulous, fabulous shows.  I don't think we'll ever see shows like those again.

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The SPL Rocks!

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Pulled up to my house today
Came and took my little girl away!
Giants Stadium 8/28/03



Oats

Since we hijacked Desa's thread, I'll try to get back on point. 

After much research and deliberation by Bruce's team... I heard they narrowed it down to these three... sort of:

2007-12-19 O2, London

2004-12-19 Harry's Roadhouse

2003-12-05, 07, 08  either one or a comp of all three.  Ho, Ho, Ho

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Pulled up to my house today
Came and took my little girl away!
Giants Stadium 8/28/03



Oats

I hope you're wrong. but it's probably going to be one of the 2003 shows.

Back to the hijacking  . . .

I don’t think the E Street Band is as great without Clarence and Danny. Jake and Charlie are excellent musicians, but they don’t play with the same soulful intensity as Clarence and Danny. Jake and Charlie play the right notes, but it’s not just what one plays, it’s how one plays.

I agree that the last shows of 2016 are the best string of shows of the post-Clarence/Danny era. But the Darkness and River tour were the E Street Band at its best. There’s an energy, intensity, exuberance, and soulfulness to those shows that they never quite equaled. This is something that especially becomes apparent listening to the archive series. Listen to the Roxy, Agora, Passaic (envious your were there Oats), Tempe, Nassau, and Wembley and compare those shows with anything later.  In the archive series, it’s only Stockholm 1988 and the three Reunion tour shows that are comparable. (To me, all the BITUSA shows are lessened due to setlist issues.) Of the post-Danny shows, the 2008 St. Louis is the one for the ages.

As for the archive series sources, what about all those soundboards they received from the soundman? We got the two 1977 shows, but there are probably a lot more. I’d prefer a soundboard from Boston 1977 to anything from 2012 or 2013.


 

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Oats posted:

Since we hijacked Desa's thread, I'll try to get back on point. 

After much research and deliberation by Bruce's team... I heard they narrowed it down to these three... sort of:

2007-12-19 O2, London

2004-12-19 Harry's Roadhouse

2003-12-05, 07, 08  either one or a comp of all three.  Ho, Ho, Ho

O2 O2 O23 O2 O2

i was there so

 

o2 o2 o2 o2 o2 o2 2o

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Personally, I don't believe the figure they put out a while back. I think there are still plenty of soundboards from the 70s to 80s still waiting to be released. Radio broadcasts, shows recorded for posterity, and all the shows that were used on the Live 75-85 boxset. My two cents.

 

Best case, we get one or both nights of Winterland. Worst case, we get one of the holiday shows from Asbury Park. Nothing wrong with them but there is two soundboards from them and plenty of audience tapes.

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