Bruce Springsteen - 1980-09-27 - Lititz, PA (SBD/FLAC) "Warming Up The River Tour"

(Soundboard FLAC)

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band

Warming Up The River Tour

September 1980

Clair Brothers, Lititz, Pennsylvania

Unbelievable Music UM004

Source: Soundboard / Video Dub

Total Time: 73:26

Silvers->EAC->FLAC (Logs included)

01. Born To Run (5:39)

02. Prove It All Night (5:47)

03. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (4:57)

04. Out In The Street (4:25)

05. The River (7:39)

06. Darkness On The Edge Of Town (4:24)

07. Wreck On The Highway (4:54)

08. The Ties That Bind (3:36)

09. The Promised Land (6:13)

10. Thunder Road (5:51)

11. Racing In The Street (5:38)

12. Cadillac Ranch (10:31)

13. Fire (3:41)

Tracks are taken from a line-feed video of the rehearsals, but it's unknown if the soundboard audio was being fed to the video

Notes:

* "The River" Tour rehearsals

* Tracks are taken from a line-feed video of the rehearsals, but it's unknown if the soundboard audio was being fed to the video

1980-09-00 - CLAIR BROTHERS AUDIO, LITITZ, PA

Friday rehearsal includes: CADILLAC RANCH / SHERRY DARLING / FIRE / CRUSH ON YOU / I WANNA MARRY YOU / RAMROD / POINT BLANK

Saturday rehearsal includes: BORN TO RUN / TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT / THE TIES THAT BIND / THE PROMISED LAND

Bootleg video footage: BORN TO RUN / PROVE IT ALL NIGHT / TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT / OUT IN THE STREET / THE RIVER (#1) / THE RIVER (#2) / DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN / WRECK ON THE HIGHWAY / THE TIES THAT BIND / THE PROMISED LAND / THUNDER ROAD / RACING IN THE STREET / CADILLAC RANCH (#1) / CADILLAC RANCH (#2) / CADILLAC RANCH (#3) / FIRE (#1) / FIRE (#2) / FIRE (#3)

Rehearsals for the upcoming River Tour over four nights at the end of September. The sessions are extensive, running for up to ten hours a night, starting at 4pm and finishing up as late as past 2am. The exact date of these sessions is uncertain, but students from a college newspaper were present for two nights on a Friday and Saturday, likely to be September 26 and 27. The entire stage was set up in the rehearsal hall, lights and all, just as it will appear on the tour. Roy plays "Once Upon A Time In The West" as a prelude to "The River". The newspaper report also mentions that Bruce, Clarence Clemons and guitar tech Mike Batlan spent time practicing the "Crush On You"

Partial soundboard and single camera semi-professional video footage. Some, or all, of these rehearsal sessions were filmed, and extracts of this video footage circulates on a good quality DVD. Audio taken from the video footage available on CD 'Warming Up For The River Tour' and LP 'Rehearsal Sessions 1980 Volume 1 And 2'. The first three songs on the video run into one another, just as they do a few days later on the first night of the tour. Given the set details supplied by students from the Franklin & Marshall College newspaper The College Reporter, it's possible that the video footage is from the Saturday night rehearsal on September 27.

Video footage shot by Barry Rebo of five songs from the rehearsals, "Ramrod", "Cadillac Ranch", "Fire", "Crush On You", and "Sherry Darling" were officially released on December 4, 2015 on The Ties That Bind: The River Collection box-set. This footage is of far higher quality than the static wide shot of the bootleg and was probably shot at the Friday rehearsal on September 26.