LEEDS 2013 – FIRST DIRECT ARENA, LEEDS, INGLATERRA, 24 JULIO 2013 – 3CD – OFICIAL SONIDO DEFINITIVO

FIRST DIRECT ARENA, LEEDS, INGLATERRA. 24 JULIO 2013.

Editado de los archivos de Bruce Springsteen.

Uno de los mejores conciertos de 2013.

El sonido definitivo. 3CD oficiales.

Grabado por John Cooper. Mezclado por Jon Altschiller.

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La gira Wrecking Ball abandona los grandes espacios para bautizar el pequeño First Direct Arena recién inaugurado. Springsteen y la E Street Band ofrecen un espectáculo excepcional y lleno de sorpresas frente a una audiencia de Leeds en éxtasis. La presentación de «Roulette» es la primera de varias adiciones especiales, incluyendo «Something in the Night», «Thundercrack», «This Depression» y «American Skin (41 Shots)», más el debut en el tour de «Local Hero, «Gotta Get That Feeling», «Secret Garden» y «Bad Moon Rising» de Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Taking their Wrecking Ball tour indoors to christen the newly opened First Direct Arena, Springsteen and the E Street Band deliver an exceptional, surprise-laden show in front of an ecstatic Leeds audience. The show-opening “Roulette” is but the first of several special additions, including “Something in the Night,” “Thundercrack” “This Depression” and “American Skin (41 Shots),” plus the tour debuts of “Local Hero,” “Gotta Get That Feeling,” “Secret Garden” and CCR’s “Bad Moon Rising.”

According to press reports, Springsteen specifically requested a date at this brand new amphitheatre-style arena, and will be the first act to perform there. «Roulette» opens the 29-song, three hour show, one of eleven songs before «Wrecking Ball». Three tour premieres in a row: «Local Hero» (last played nearly a decade earlier in Detroit), «Gotta Get That Feeling» and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s «Bad Moon Rising», last played with the Band during 2004’s Vote For Change tour with John Fogerty. Encores begin with a rare «Secret Garden» dedicated to the fans that have been travelling around Europe, not played since June 22, 2000 in New York City. «Secret Garden» is also the 218th song to be performed on the Wrecking Ball Tour (view our list of every song played this tour). Set once again closes with two acoustic tracks, including «If I Should Fall Behind». First ever performances in Europe of «Gotta Get That Feeling» and «Secret Garden» and first ever performances in England of «American Skin (41 Shots)», «Bad Moon Rising», «Thundercrack», «This Depression», and «Shout». Patti Scialfa is not present.

ROULETTE / MY LOVE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN / NO SURRENDER / SOMETHING IN THE NIGHT / AMERICAN SKIN (41 SHOTS) / THE PROMISED LAND / HUNGRY HEART / LOCAL HERO / GOTTA GET THAT FEELING / BAD MOON RISING / THUNDERCRACK / WRECKING BALL / DEATH TO MY HOMETOWN / THIS DEPRESSION / BECAUSE THE NIGHT / DARLINGTON COUNTY / SHACKLED AND DRAWN / WAITIN’ ON A SUNNY DAY / THE RISING / LAND OF HOPE AND DREAMS – PEOPLE GET READY / SECRET GARDEN / ATLANTIC CITY / BADLANDS / BORN TO RUN / DANCING IN THE DARK / TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT / SHOUT / IF I SHOULD FALL BEHIND / THUNDER ROAD

Bruce Springsteen – Lead vocal, guitar, harmonica;Roy Bittan – Piano, keyboards, accordion;Nils Lofgren – Guitar, pedal and lap steel;Patti Scialfa – Guitar, percussion, backing vocal;Garry Tallent – Bass;Stevie Van Zandt – Electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, backing vocal;Max Weinberg – Drums;Jake Clemons – Tenor saxophone, percussion, backing vocal;Charlie Giordano – Organ, keyboards, accordion;Soozie Tyrell – Violin, acoustic guitar, percussion, backing vocal;Everett Bradley – Percussion, backing vocal;Curtis King – Backing vocal, percussion;Cindy Mizelle – Backing vocal;Michelle Moore – Backing vocal;Barry Danielian – Trumpet;Clark Gayton – Trombone;Eddie Manion – Baritone and tenor saxophone;Curt Ramm – Trumpet
Recorded by John Cooper
Mixed by Jon Altschiller; additional engineering by Danielle Warman
Mastered to DSD and PCM by Adam Ayan at Gateway Mastering, Portland, ME
Post Production by Brad Serling and Micah Gordon
Art Design by Michelle Holme; Cover Photo by Jo Lopez
Tour Director: George Travis
Jon Landau Management: Jon Landau, Barbara Carr, Jan Stabile, Alison Oscar, Laura Kraus
HD files are 24 bit/48kHz; Audiophile DSD files are DSD64

MAXIMUM R&B
By Erik Flannigan

Looking back today, as Springsteen winds down over a year of solo shows in a 975-person theater, the 2012-13 Wrecking Ball tour stands in stark relief. Far from going it alone, Bruce augmented the first E Street Band tour of the post-Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici era with a horn section, back-up singers, and a percussionist for his biggest on-stage line-up since Dr. Zoom and the Sonic Boom. It was a band built for stadiums, and many did it play, including two runs through Europe in consecutive years.

But upon his return to the United Kingdom in the summer of 2013, it is said Springsteen himself requested that he and the band christen the newly constructed First Direct Arena (also known as Leeds Arena). The 13,000-seater is configured so all seats face the stage, and it boasts superior acoustics because it wasn’t designed for basketball or hockey like most arenas. “This is a great room,” Springsteen tells the Leeds faithful. “You play anything in here, it’s gonna sound good.”

Moving his biggest band indoors from stadiums and in doing so becoming the first artist to play the state-of-the-art “super amphitheatre” would prove to be a tasty recipe for a memorable performance. Leeds 2013 is not only chock full of treats, but it captures Bruce and the band at their road-tested yet relaxed best.

Bruce fires the special-setlist flare right from the start, opening the show with a rare and potent “Roulette.” It’s the first shot in a staggering top of the show that continues with “My Love Will Not Let You Down” into “No Surrender.” With the final note of “No Surrender” still sustaining, the set slides down gorgeously into “Something in the Night,” a performance that reinforces the song’s beauty and majesty. The same can be said for “American Skin (41 Shots),” a tale as relevant, a crescendo as cathartic today as ever. Perhaps it is going too far to call both songs underappreciated, but the pairing here reinforces their stature in Bruce’s songwriting canon.

The mood lightens through “The Promised Land” and “Hungry Heart,” leading to a trio of tour premieres, the kind of sequence many fans dream of, where it feels like anything can (and will) happen. It commences with the delightful “Local Hero” from Lucky Town, a song rarely performed with the E Street Band and arranged here (in its only Wrecking Ball tour appearance) as a best of both worlds, matching E Street muscle with backing vocals a la the 1992-93 tour courtesy of the E Street Choir.

Turns out fans aren’t the only ones who appreciate rare tracks. “Steve always complains that we don’t play anything off this record,” Bruce admits, introducing “Gotta Get That Feeling.” “This is an outtake from Darkness on the Edge of Town…for Steve Van Zandt.” As Springsteen counts the song in, he is interrupted by a spontaneous chant of “Steven! Steven!” as the crowd voices their support for the man and his request. A Stone Pony benefit set and the 2010 promo shoot at the Carousel in Asbury Park notwithstanding, this is the only tour performance of “Gotta Get That Feeling” to date, and the expanded band does it justice, with horns soaring and Steve’s harmony vocals pure soulfire.