Real cool documentary: Thom Zimny's The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town (2010), shown recently on HBO. Having lived through many heavy discussions about Bruce Springsteen (and the E Street Band), including anything you could imagine about Born to Run and the release of Darkness on the Edge of Town, I totally dug this, the footage, insights, intensity, all of it. Really good.
If you like any of the Boss, what tracks, what albums? For me, that'll have to be another post. But I will say this: several tracks (including the title song) from Darkness on the Edge of Town have stuck with me since 1978, especially after criss-crossing North America.
The Promise will be released on November 16, 2010: twenty-one extra tracks from the Darkness sessions, including songs that became hits for other artists right off the bat in 1978: "Fire" (The Pointer Sisters, after Robert Gordon) and "Because the Night" (The Patti Smith Group). You can also go for this one: The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story (3 CD/3 DVD box set) that'll be released the same day as The Promise, along the lines of all the excitement revolving around the various incarnations, new and old, of The Rolling Stones' "Exile on Main St."
Today's Rune: Journey.
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I never grew up with the Boss. Never heard him that much in the area I lived in so I never got into him. I like some of his stuff but don't own any Springsteen albums.
Been meaning to catch that one.
If Bruce wasn't from Jersey...
Some of Springsteens notes about songs on "Darkness" were available free on Kindle and I downloaded them. They're fascinating, as you might well imagine.
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