ER Archives Volume 3JEMS Date: 17 Dec 1975 Location: Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY Format: – Duration: –
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01- THUNDER ROAD
02- TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT
03- SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT
04- LOST IN THE FLOOD
05- SHE'S THE ONE
06- BORN TO RUN
07- PRETTY FLAMINGO
08- IT'S HARD TO BE A SAINT IN THE CITY
09- BACKSTREETS
10- KITTY'S BACK
11- JUNGLELAND
12- ROSALITA (COME OUT TONIGHT)
13- 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY)
14- SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN
15- DETROIT MEDLEY
16- FOR YOU
Track 12: joined in progress at start of first verse
Track 16: incomplete, tape ends
ER Archives via JEMS
Audience Recording (equipment unknown)
Welcome back to the third in a planned series of releases from the ER Archives, the collection of an active '70s taper and trader who stepped away from collecting, leaving his tapes pretty much dormant until now. We're still culling through the archive, but it is already clear that it contains previously uncirculated shows as well as upgrades to circulating tapes, both audience and soundboard. ER used high-end tape decks and good tape, so his copies of even well-known shows may well be improvements.
Installment three is another of our favorite kind, a brand new show for which we've never had a recording: Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY, December 17, 1975. It took place but one day after the last ER Archives release of Oswego, NY and was recorded by the same taper. The set list is also identical to Oswego, but don't let that deter you. The sound quality of Buffalo is better and I'm not sure I've ever heard an E Street Band show played at this frenetic pace. Even "Jungleland" positively bounds along. Samples provided.
There are a couple of cuts: the intro to "Rosalita" and the last minute or so of "For You." It is also presumed that "Quarter to Three" ended this show as it did the night before in Oswego, but it wasn't captured to tape. Still there are plenty of highlights in what is there, from the strong piano open of "Thunder Road" to a great "Detroit Medley." And best of all it is new, we've never been able to hear the show at all before, so hopefully it might even reach a few folks who were there that night.
Thanks to the ER Archive for opening up the vault doors and sharing this recording with the fans. Feel free to let him know how you feel in the comments. Thanks too to Flynn for his on-going willingness to help with final production.
The ER Archive will return soon.
Wayne Darlington for JEMS and the ER Archives
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