Seeger Sessions Band Live In Asbury Park
We woke up this morning and snagged two tickets to the Springsteen Seeger Sessions show at the Greek in LA on June 6th. It's been said that the tickets for these concerts have been selling out so fast that they actually reverse the flow of time even without the aid of a flux capacitor, so I feel pretty lucky. I thought that the bootleg of the Jazz Fest show that the band plays tomorrow was going to be one hell of a sought after bootleg, and I still think it would be, but I didn't anticipate bootlegs from the Asbury Park "Rehearsal" shows turning up before it happend. Well they have, and in the spirit of having bought by far the most expensive concert ticket I ever have in my life, (expensive than even some airplane tickets now that I think about it), I want to share the MP3s from the concert the band played on April 26th.
The band sounds great, the arrangements are long and heavy on solo's, and it just reinforces the fact that this is going to be a tremendouse concert to attend. It looks like he's tossing some traditional songs that weren't on the album into the mix, as well as playing a few Bruce originals. Two of Nebraska's more upbeat songs, Johnny 99 and Open All Night are on both sets, as well as Cadillac Ranch, which is an awesome song. The songs sound radically different than you've ever heard them before, and it takes some getting used to, but in the long run I can definitely support the old timey style arrangements. Bonus points also go to the needlessy vulgar set closer, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeeze. Hearing Bruce swear like that is kind of like that movie where Julie Andrews went topless: out of character, but awesome.
Check it out for yourself:
1. Long Black Veil
2. O Mary Don't You Weep
3. John Henry
4. Johnny 99
5. Eyes On The Prize
6. Adam Raised A Cain
7. Old Dan Tucker
8. Cadillac Ranch
9. My Oklahoma Home
10. Mrs. McGrath
11. How Can A Man Stand Such Times
12. Jacob's Ladder
13. We Shall Overcome
14. Open All Night
15. Pay Me My Money Down
16. If I Should Fall Behind
17. Buffalo Gals
18. You Can Look (But You'd Better Not Touch)
19. Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeeze
Comments
The links don't work! Where are the MP3s? Auuugh! *bangs head against wall*
Posted by: Adrian | April 29, 2006 10:34 PM
Woops. Forgot to change the directory name after it uploaded. It's fixed now!
Posted by: Conor | April 30, 2006 10:46 AM
Thanks Conor - - just spent last night on Dime downloading this show. Should've come to your site first! Arghh.
SOunding great, now I sit and wait until Phoenix goes on sale.
Posted by: Pete | April 30, 2006 01:09 PM
Thanks for fixing the links! These sound great!
Posted by: Adrian | May 1, 2006 04:59 PM
Man, you're making me the happiest man in the world today..at least..I went to the Paris gig and I cried for the first time as it was THE first time with Bruce live...! I can't wait for the official release of this concert if ever. But please to all, do not resale, do not buy bootlegs. They're here to please fans. That's all.
Bye and thanks again, Patrick, France
Posted by: Patrick | May 16, 2006 03:37 AM
Sounds great, thanks for posting, I just caught the NJ show and wanted to hear "Trapeze" since he didn't play it =D
Posted by: Impulse | June 26, 2006 01:04 PM