American Madness: Remastered Darkness on the Edge of Town Outtakes

Disc 1, tracks 01–10: Darkness Mixes
Disc 1, track 04: without guitar solo
Disc 1, track 15: promo cut for radio play, live 01 Jul 1978, Berkeley, CA
Disc 2, track 16: instrumental
Disc 2, track 17: instrumental
Disc 3, track 14: instrumental
Disc 3, track 15: instrumental
Disc 4, track 17: instrumental

Disc 1 source:
‘Original Darkness Mixes’, E Street Records ES‐08.
Date: June 1977 – April 1978
Location: The Record Plant, New York City, NY
Original mixes for the album, recorded from original acetates.

Disc 1 notes:
Some tracks have some crackle & hiss, nothing I could do to remove it (they were on the original files)

Disc 2 recording details:
- Tracks 1,9,10,16,18 recorded at Atlantic Studios, NYC August 1977
- Tracks 2,3,5 recorded at Atlantic Studios OR The Record Plant, NYC August 1977.
- Tracks 4,17 recorded at The Record Plant, NYC September 1977.
- Track 14 recorded at Atlantic Studios, NYC June 1977.
- Tracks 6,7,8,11,12,13,15 recorded at The Record Plant, NYC Oct‐Dec 1977.

Disc 2 source details:
- Tracks 1,9,14,16 from ‘Lost Masters II’, LOVE 002
- Tracks 2,3,5,10,17 from ‘Lost Masters III’, LOVE 003
- Tracks 6,7,12,11 from ‘Loose Ends’, Scorpio
- Track 8 from ‘Definitive Darkness Outtakes Collection’, ES‐17/18
- Track 4 from ‘The Promise’, BS300
- Track 15 from ‘Ultra Rare Trax Volume 1’, MR001
- Track 13 from ‘Treasures From The Vault’, Ev2 (DDITV edit)
- Track 18 is a mix of ‘Lost Masters III’ & ‘The Promise’.

Disc 2 track descriptions:
Tracks 1,6,7,10,12,13,14,15,16,17 unreleased outtakes
02 Different lyrics
03 Alternate take w/ different lyrics
04 Different mix
05 Lyrics from ‘Something In The Night’
08 Violin overdub from David Lindley
09 Earlier take
11 Virtually identical to ‘Tracks’ version
18 Slow version with different lyrics (solo piano?)

Disc 3 recording details:
- Tracks 8,13,15,16 recorded at Atlantic Studios, NYC August 1977
- Track 6 recorded at Atlantic Studios OR The Record Plant, NYC August 1977.
- Tracks 1,7,10 recorded at The Record Plant, NYC September 1977.
- Track 3,4,11,14 recorded at Atlantic Studios, NYC June 1977.
- Tracks 2,5,12 recorded at The Record Plant, NYC Oct‐Dec 1977.
- Track 9 recorded probably at The Record Plant, NYC April 1978.

Disc 3 source details:
- Tracks 3,11,13,14,15 from ‘Lost Masters II’, LOVE 002
- Tracks 6,8,10 from ‘Lost Masters III’, LOVE 003
- Tracks 4,9,16 from ‘Loose Ends’, Scorpio
- Tracks 2,5,7,12 from ‘Definitive Darkness Outtakes Collection’, ES‐17/18
- Track 1 from ‘Treasures From The Vault’, Ev2 (DDITV edit)

Disc 3 track descriptions:
Tracks 1,3,4,5,6,10,11,12,14,15,16 unreleased outtakes
02 Different mix without the ’98 recorded horns on Tracks
07 Different mix
08 Alternative lyrics
09 Different mix
13 Alternate version with harp

Disc 4 recording details:
- Tracks 2,4,11,15,17,18 recorded at Atlantic Studios, NYC August 1977
- Tracks 8,10 recorded at The Record Plant, NYC September 1977.
- Track 5,6,7,9,12,14 recorded at Atlantic Studios, NYC June 1977.
- Tracks 1,3,13,16 recorded at The Record Plant, NYC Oct‐Dec 1977.

Disc 4 source details:
- Tracks 2,9,14,17 from ‘Lost Masters II’, LOVE 002
- Tracks 4,11,15,18 from ‘Lost Masters III’, LOVE 003
- Tracks 5,6,13,16 from ‘Loose Ends’, Scorpio
- Tracks 1,3 from ‘Treasures From The Vault’, Ev2 (DDITV edit)
- Tracks 7,10 from ‘The Promise’, BS300
- Track 12 from ‘Definitive Darkness Outtakes Collection’, ES‐17/18
- Track 8 from ‘The Iceman’, BS100

Disc 4 track descriptions:
Tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17 unreleased outtakes
07 Rough vocals, very different take
18 Different lyrics

Notes from info file:
First of all, this was originally going to be a 2cd set of ‘Darkness’ studio outtakes. As I kept editing these songs, there was no way they could’ve fit on only 2cd’s. (Plan was, 1cd ‘Original Darkness Mixes’, other cd of various outtakes) Then next thing I noticed, I had planned a 6cd set with 2cd’s of Live tracks… In the end I decided not to include the live cd’s which made this ‘only’ a 67 track, 4cd collection. I used John’s ‘brucebase’ website (link somewhere below) as a database to see which tracks were ‘worth’ editing, where I could find them and so on.
Making this a 4cd set allowed me to include some of the tracks I would’ve otherwise left out, such as the alternative ‘Dont Look Back’ & ‘Ramrod’ which are both in a bit worse sound quality. I wouldn’t say any of the tracks sound ‘bad’.
My favourite tracks: D3Track01 & D3Track16.
Big thanks to FrankiesJoint & Jumpstone for finding me most of the tracks.
Brucebase ‘On The Tracks’: http://brucebase.org.uk/0.htm