Full Show Friday: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Paris 1985

We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band!

For October The Masters focuses on Bruce Springsteen

Here comes the Jersey Devil for our October Masters Series as The Boss has been wowing fans for decades now and his live shows are things of legends. All Full Show Friday's this month will be a testament to these and get ready because we have some doozy's lined up. 

Thanks to our resident Springsteen expert Tom Gallagher for curating this month's Friday concerts.

Today we jump back to Paris in 1985 at the height of Bruce's Born In The USA tour. When we reviewed his best studio albums, no other album made as much of a jump in our rankings as that one as Bruce and all the players just sound great. He is muscled up and bandanna'ed out, totally ock cliche, but killing it all over. 

That energy was translated to this tour, one of the biggest in history until that point and the crew nail it in Paris.

Enjoy:


Like the last few weeks this show is from a playlist which you can access here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL51C234F973000CA3

Full Show Friday: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band The River Tour, Tempe AZ 1980

We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band!

For October The Masters focuses on Bruce Springsteen

Here comes the Jersey Devil for our October Masters Series as The Boss has been wowing fans for decades now and his live shows are things of legends. All Full Show Friday's this month will be a testament to these and get ready because we have some doozy's lined up. 

Thanks to our resident Springsteen expert Tom Gallagher for curating this month's Friday concerts.

Like last week we are dipping into The River, but this time it is the original tour from 1980.  Bruce and the gang had a historic fiery night out in the desert as they blazed through Arizona. Enjoy:



Also like last week the video comes in play list form so if there are any issues just click here for the full list:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ3gKh8Ty5pY3c0O865FKQLzxw_mipjU1

Full Show Friday: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band 7/16/16 Rome, Italy

We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band!

For October The Masters focuses on Bruce Springsteen

Here comes the Jersey Devil for our October Masters Series as The Boss has been wowing fans for decades now and his live shows are things of legends. All Full Show Friday's this month will be a testament to these and get ready because we have some doozy's lined up. 

Thanks to our resident Springsteen expert Tom Gallagher for curating this month's Friday concerts.

Today we go to a more modern show from 2016 in Rome proving Springsteen and crew are still delivering the grade A goods. Bruce was revisiting The River, playing it in it's entirety this tour and the massive crowd at the Circus Maximus ate it up. RtBE was lucky enough to catch this tour and review the Brooklyn show. It ended up being one  of the best concerts we saw all year.

Different fan videos with pretty solid sound. Enjoy:


This is a playlist so if you are having full show streaming issues you can access it here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuaTth-hU0i-ssAkvBp0eA2E_r7AZGSc4

Full Show Friday: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band 9/20/78 Capital Theater, Passaic, NJ

We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band!

For October The Masters focuses on Bruce Springsteen

Here comes the Jersey Devil for our October Masters Series as The Boss has been wowing fans for decades now and his live shows are things of legends. All Full Show Friday's this month will be a testament to these and get ready because we have some doozy's lined up. 

Thanks to our resident Springsteen expert Tom Gallagher for curating this month's Friday concerts. Let's start in 1978 on The Darkness tour on his home turf of New Jersey which just might be the best of the bunch. 

We will be talking more about this tour, album and Springsteen in general all month so we will shut up and let the music do the talking, but this is simply put one of the best tours in rock history as Bruce and the E-Street band are super pumped up to be playing.   

Black and white video is grainy at best but the sound is electric and you can see this simply monumental night up close and personal. Set list with timing below. Enjoy:

Badlands 4:36 Spirit in the Night 15:05 Darkness on the Edge of Town 20:08 Independence Day 27:47 The Promised Land 35:05 Prove it all Night 47:29 It's my LIfe (The Animals cover) 53:05 Thunder Road 58:41 Jungleland 1:09:45 Santa Claus is coming to town 1:14:50 Fire 1:17:47 Candy's Room 1:21:02 Because the Night 1:28:10 Intro/Point Blank 1:37:03 Kitty's Back 1:51:00 Incident on 57th Street 2:01:15 Rosalita (Come out Tonight) 2:14:00 Born to Run 2:21:35 Tenth Avenue Freeze-out 2:26:55 Detroit Medley 2:40:17 Twist and Shout

The Masters: The Beatles - Best Solo Records

RtBE loves listening to new music and prides itself on keeping tabs on up and coming artists but in 2019 we are also going to have a monthly spotlight on legendary artists who we really love. We are calling this series The Masters. It will focus on the best albums, live records, transcendent shows and other odd ways we appreciate the artists and their contribution to music, culture and our formation.

For February The Masters focuses on The Beatles.

That the Beatles were greater than the sum of their parts is a testament to how good they really were because their parts are pretty amazing on their own. 

Today we look at the Beatles solo efforts and rank the top five of the bunch. And, yes, solo albums include Wings and The Plastic Ono Band. Don't split hairs or get caught up in semantics, reader. This is just a blog. A humble, damn blog.

There isn't anything that hasn't been written or said about the Beatles, so you'll find nothing new here. Get ready for the lukewarm takes!

We thought narrowing down the list to five albums was going to be relatively easy but when John Lennon's Double Fantasy and Paul McCartney's Band on the Run didn't make the cut, we realized that their collective catalog runs deep - or we got it wrong.

As always, these lists are designed to start conversations, not end them.