ORLANDO 2008 – AMWAY ARENA, ORLANDO, FLORIDA – 23 ABRIL 2008 – 3CD – A TRIBUTE TO DANNY FEDERICI – OFICIAL SONIDO DEFINITIVO

AMWAY ARENA, ORLANDO, FLORIDA, 23 ABRIL 2008.

A TRIBUTE TO DANNY FEDERICI.

Editado de los archivos de Bruce Springsteen.

Gira Magic.

El sonido definitivo. 3CD oficiales.

¡Atención: Se edita en CD el 15 de abril de 2025. A partir de ahí el plazo de entrega es de 3-4 semanas!

UN HOMENAJE A DANNY FEDERICI
El último lanzamiento de los «Archives Series» en directo de Bruce Springsteen nos llega desde Orlando, 23 de abril de 2008, una emotiva gira por Florida justo después del fallecimiento de Danny Federici. Texto de Erik Flannigan:
Orlando 2008 se une a Tampa 2008 como la segunda mitad de una celebración de dos conciertos en honor a Danny Federici, miembro fundador de la E Street Band, quien falleció seis días antes. Este catártico set de 25 canciones combina temas esenciales de Magic con tres del álbum debut de Bruce («Spirit in the Night», «Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?» y «Lost in the Flood») y cuenta con la participación especial de Roger McGuinn, de The Byrds, quien dirige emotivas lecturas de «¡Turn! ¡Turn! ¡Turn!» y «Mr. Tambourine Man» en el bis. Aún más inusual, el concierto abre con la única interpretación de la versión rock de «Blood Brothers».

A TRIBUTE TO DANNY FEDERICI
The latest release from the Bruce Springsteen Live Archive Series comes to us from Orlando on April 23, 2008, an emotional run in Florida just after the lost of Danny. From archivist Erik Flannigan:
Orlando 2008 joins Tampa 2008 as the second half of a two-show celebration of life for founding E Street Band member Danny Federici who passed away six days prior. This cathartic, 25-song set mixes core tracks from Magic with three from Bruce’s debut album («Spirit in the Night,» «Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?» and «Lost in the Flood») and features a special guest appearance by The Byrds’ Roger McGuinn who leads emotional readings of «Turn! Turn! Turn!» and «Mr. Tambourine Man» in the encore. Rarer still, the show opens with the only performance ever of the rock version of «Blood Brothers.»

2008-04-23 – AMWAY ARENA, ORLANDO, FL
Soundcheck: TURN! TURN! TURN! (TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON) / MR. TAMBOURINE MAN
BLOOD BROTHERS / NIGHT / RADIO NOWHERE / OUT IN THE STREET / SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT / THE RIVER / DOES THIS BUS STOP AT 82ND STREET? / CANDY’S ROOM / PROVE IT ALL NIGHT / SHE’S THE ONE / LIVIN’ IN THE FUTURE / THE PROMISED LAND / FIRE / LOST IN THE FLOOD / DEVIL’S ARCADE / THE RISING / LAST TO DIE / LONG WALK HOME / BADLANDS / TURN! TURN! TURN! (TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON) (with Roger McGuinn) / MR. TAMBOURINE MAN (with Roger McGuinn) / JUNGLELAND / BORN TO RUN / DANCING IN THE DARK / AMERICAN LAND
Show rescheduled from April 19. «Blood Brothers» is the «rock» version, as found on the Blood Brothers EP, in its only tour performance. «Spirit In The Night» is dedicated to Danny. Tour premiere of «Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?» is played, in response to a «Growin’ Up» sign. Roger McGuinn of The Byrds guests for tour one-offs «Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)» and «Mr. Tambourine Man». «Fire» was the winner of a «pick the song» vote from a local radio station. «Jungleland» is played by sign request. Patti Scialfa is not present.
Bruce Springsteen – Lead vocal, electric and acoustic guitars, harmonica; Roy Bittan – Piano, keyboards; Clarence Clemons – Tenor and baritone saxophones, percussion, penny whistle, backing vocal; Nils Lofgren – Electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocal; Garry Tallent – Bass; Stevie Van Zandt – Electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, backing vocal; Max Weinberg: Drums; Charlie Giordano – Organ, keyboards, accordion; Soozie Tyrell – Violin, acoustic guitar, percussion, backing vocal

Additional Musician: Roger McGuinn – Lead vocal and guitar on “Turn! Turn! Turn!” and “Mr. Tambourine Man.”

Recorded by John Cooper

Mixed and Mastered by Jon Altschiller; Additional engineering by Danielle Warman

Mix Advisor: Rob Lebret

Post-Production by Brad Serling and Arya Jha

Art Design by Michelle Holme

Cover Photo by Danny Clinch

Tour Director: George Travis

Management: Jon Landau

HD Files are 24-bit 96-kHz – Audiophile DSD files are DSD-64

I Don’t Know How I Feel Tonight
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Amway Arena, Orlando, Florida, April 23, 2008

By Erik Flannigan

The delta between going and gone is a chasm.

Danny Federici took a leave of absence from the E Street Band in November 2007 to battle melanoma. March 20, 2008, he returned to the stage in Indianapolis to play one last time with his band of brothers, a performance available in the Live Archive series. He died on April 17 of the same year.

With Springsteen on tour, two concerts were rescheduled by a few days to accommodate Federici’s funeral and attendant events. The show in Tampa on the 22nd was released in the Live Archive series in early 2019. Now, Orlando, April 23, 2008 completes a two-show celebration of life for Phantom Dan.

The 25-song set blends perseverance, nostalgia, and catharsis via a very special guest, all while still supporting Magic, the album Springsteen released the previous September. There’s a noticeable sense of purpose in the evening’s attempt to counterbalance undoubted emotional exhaustion. Another coping strategy employed seems to be turning up the guitar amps.

Like the night before in Tampa, the show begins with a five-minute video tribute to Federici played on the arena’s big screens accompanied by “Blood Brothers” from Greatest Hits. But in Orlando, the true set opener is also “Blood Brothers”; this time it is a full-band rock arrangement similar to the one released in 1996 on the Blood Brothers EP.

Rehearsed in soundcheck, the electrified “Blood Brothers” is captivating. With a slight quiver evident in his voice, Springsteen sings the first verse a capella before the band smashes into a take that sounds like a cross between a great River outtake and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ “Refugee.”

Moving into more familiar territory, “Night” retains its sharp edge. The Magic tour was something of a renaissance back to 1977 levels for the song, where it regularly featured, as it does here, paired with “Radio Nowhere,” played with vigor and a helping of Stevie Van Zandt vocal sauce. “Out in the Street” carries forth this strong opening salvo ahead of “Spirit in the Night,” dedicated to Dan and the first of three songs from Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ to honor him.

Professor Roy Bittan places a lovely prelude in front of “The River” in a stately, fitting version. Interestingly, for all its up-front piano beauty, the end of the song eschews any keyboard flourishes. Back to Greetings for a ragged-but-right audible of “Does This Bus Stop 82nd Street?” A return to sharper focus with the always welcome “Candy’s Room” which bristles with big guitar energy that sustains into a cracking “Prove It All Night.” Nils Lofgren takes his guitar solo into intriguing Theremin directions, then trades riffs with Van Zandt down the stretch.

“She’s the One,” like Born To Run counterpart “Night,” was having a moment on the Magic tour. It cooks in Orlando, and it’s right about here in the set when you might start to ask yourself, “are those guitars louder than they usually are?”

Clarence Clemons comes to the fore on the always sprightly “Livin’ in the Future,” its sentiment eerily apt in 2025. “The Promised Land” precedes the night’s setlist outlier, “Fire,” included as the result of a radio promotion. “What puzzles me,” Springsteen says, “[is] everytime I mention this, everybody goes, ‘Huh? Huh? I didn’t vote’,” before doing what all great artists do in a situation like this, blame management. “Fire” is buoyed by a long introduction where Springsteen recounts the history of the song including several known covers, his favorite of which is Babyface’s 1998 version featuring Des’ree.

The third and final visit to Asbury Park comes as “Lost in the Flood,” that rare OG song that isn’t played often but is always played well. In Orlando, the band really grabs hold of it, turning the entire performance up a notch and staying there. Springsteen takes a ripping guitar solo and again the gain knob seems to be moving clockwise.

“Devil’s Arcade” follows, arguably the best Magic song translated to the stage, and the guitars go off again; this gripping rendition might be the best of the night. Two more from Magic follow “The Rising”: the melodramatic “Last To Die” and the anthemic “Long Walk Home.” Fun fact: “Last to Die” namechecks “Truth or Consequences,” a town in New Mexico renamed after the radio and late TV game show of the same name.

“Badlands” gratefully accepts the night’s guitar settings to close the set ahead of a unique encore. “We have a special guest with us tonight,” Springsteen says, “somebody whose music we really grew up on and who’s been a tremendous influence in my music. This is the guy that kind of single-handedly invented Country Rock, invented jangling guitars, Folk Rock and Space Rock too…. So much incredible, beautiful, beautiful music. We´re honored to have on our stage, from the Byrds, Mr. Roger McGuinn.”

McGuinn leads a primed and ready-for-the-feels E Street Band through “Turn! Turn! Turn!” which delivers a measure of release given the occasion. This version was previously released on the Magic Tour Highlights EP back in July 2008, but not McGuinn’s second song, the Bob Dylan-written Byrds’ hit “Mr. Tambourine Man” which is played splendidly. What a treat.

Putting an exclamation point on the night is a request for “Jungleland.” Soozie Tyrell echoes Suki Lahav’s pre-Born to Run era violin intro and the band delivers the goods across the board, with a strong showing by Clemons and Van Zandt on their solos, and purging vocals from Springsteen for the song’s epic conclusion.

It’s hard to believe Danny Federici has been gone for 17 years. While he didn’t perform on Orlando 2008, his presence in this welcome Archive addition is undeniable.