The Complete 1978 Radio Broadcasts

24 page full colour booklet with rare photos and detailed liner notes.

The entire original KMET, WMMS, WNEW, KSAN and over twenty more, FM radio broadcasts from explosive 1978 live performances.

The Roxy Theater, West Hollywood, CA 7th July 1978 – Discs 1–3.
The Agora Ballroom, Cleveland OH 9th August 1978 – Discs 4–6.
The Capitol Theater, Passiac NJ 19th September 1978 Discs 7–9.
The Fox Theater, Atlanta GA 30th September 1978 Discs 10–12
Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, CA 15th December 1978 Discs 13–15.

Review Amazon:
The Boss’s 1978 “Darkness Tour” of the US was a marathon starting in Buffalo in May that year and ending in Richfield on January 1st, 1979. It has passed into legend despite the fact that some venues were not sold out and superstardom was a number of years away. Indeed, it was that graduation from the theater to the stadium that Springsteen initially resisted fearing that his intimate relationship with the audience would be lost. Yet with his reputation burgeoning his rise was irresistible. Greatly assisting this was the fact that several complete shows were broadcast live including one from the Roxy in Hollywood in July 1978, from the Agora Ballroom Cleveland in August and then in September we hit the mother load. Back on his home turf on September 19th, 1978 WNEW‐FM broadcast his entire show with the E Street Band at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey. On the 30 September, the band hit the steamy South and play a great show at the Fox Theater Atlanta and then Santa Claus comes to town in the form of Bruce Springsteen and the E Band at the seminal Winterland concert on December 15th in San Fransisco deemed by some to be their greatest live outing.
This good value box set includes 15 disks covering these five concerts. They have all been released before and the sound quality on some disks are better than others with the Agora Ballroom most pristine. The advantage is having all these concerts gathered in one place and the Passaic concert is complete and sounding better than the horrible Klondike release of recent years. It comes in a robust box with straightforward card sleeves on each CD and a covering booklet including reviews drawn from the time by Springsteen experts like Dave Marsh. The sound is taken from the original FM broadcasts and is fine, although others will need to verify whether the claim to digital remastering on the box is correct?
The Roxy concert is by far the most intimate and the crowd noise is “up front”. By the time the band reaches Winterland six months later the E Street Band is a finely tuned purring engine and Bruce Springsteen has become the Boss. In short Rock ’n’ Roll’s high priest preaching in his temple on the concert stage. Anyone who has witnessed it will know it is one of the greatest forces of nature in modern music. This is, of course, the “Darkness” tour and that brilliant album forms the core of these shows. The version of “Racing in the Street” on Passaic is in this reviewer’s opinion the finest live version out there. In each concert, the extended “Prove it all night” stands out especially in Cleveland makes the version on the formal album sound second rate and songs like “Streets of Fire” have a more powerful lustre in front of an audience. All the “Born to Run” songs especially “Thunder Road” and “Jungle‐land” are by now honed to live perfection. “Rosalita” and the “Detroit Medley” at Winterland are so powerful they knock you off balance and it’s great to see “Because the Night” appearing and sounding awesome. It is interesting to note that Springsteen performs “Santa Claus is coming to town” as early as September in these gigs and treats it as an early Christmas present. If you have any sense you will also ensure that a friend or relative slips this is excellent boxset into your Xmas stocking.

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