![]() The version of "Racing in the Street" on Passaic is in this reviewer's opinion the finest live version out there. This is, of course, the "Darkness" tour and that brilliant album forms the core of these shows. Anyone who has witnessed it will know it is one of the greatest forces of nature in modern music. In short Rock 'n' Roll's high priest preaching in his temple on the concert stage. 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. The Roxy concert is by far the most intimate and the crowd noise is "up front". 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? 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 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. They have all been released before and the sound quality on some disks are better than others with the Agora Ballroom most pristine. This good value box set includes 15 disks covering these five concerts. 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. 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. 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. Yet with his reputation burgeoning his rise was irresistible. 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. It has passed into legend despite the fact that some venues were not sold out and superstardom was a number of years away. 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. ![]()
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