FROM BACKSTREETS.COM

CLARENCE CLEMONS FIGHTS BACK

We didn't want to believe it when we heard the news yesterday, but Backstreets has confirmed through independent sources that Clarence Clemons has suffered a massive stroke. After two subsequent brain surgeries at a Florida hospital, the good news is that Clarence is currently responsive and in stable condition, though still in a fight for his life. "If anyone can pull off the miracle, it's him," says a close friend. "He's fought back from so much before."

sad news. come on big man you can pull through

This is some encouraging news... I heard about it late yesterday afternoon from a Mark Lindsay tweet. I spent a lot of time last night trying to find out more info and there just wasn't any. Just that it was serious. So thankful that he's responding so well, so soon! Will continue to pray for good pregress...

Clarence Clemons Reportedly Showing Signs of Recovery
Playing with Lady Gaga 'makes me feel a lot better,' Clemons told Rolling Stone a few months ago
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Clarence Clemmons in Miami, April 1, 2011.
Ronald C. Modra/Getty Images
By Andy Greene
June 13, 2011 2:55 PM ET

While we wait for an official statement about Clarence Clemons' condition following his stroke, good news has been trickling in. A "close friend" of the E Street Band saxophonist recently told the Springsteen fanzine Backstreets that his condition is improving. "Yesterday, it did not look good at all," the source said. "Today . . . miracles are happening. His vital signs are improving. He's responsive. His eyes are welling up when we're talking to him. He was paralyzed on his left side, but now he's squeezing with his left hand. This is the best news we've heard since [the stroke] happened — it's nothing short of miraculous. The next five days will still be critical. But he's a fighter."

E Street Band Saxophonist Clarence Clemons Has Suffered A Stroke

That report is consistent with what Fox 5 New York has heard: "His vital signs are improving. He's responsive. He was paralyzed on his left side, but was squeezing with his left hand."

Rolling Stone has reached out to the Springsteen and Clemons camps for comment and will update when we have additional information.

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In February I conducted a telephone interview with Clemons when the news came out that he was playing sax on the new Lady Gaga album Born This Way. He was in such a jovial mood that I used the opportunity to ask Clemons a handful of burning questions. Here's that previously unpublished segment of the interview:

How is your health these days?

Good. You know, something like this [playing with Lady Gaga] makes me feel a lot better. It's so inspiring – plus the possibility of going on tour with her. Wouldn't that be great?

You had back surgery recently, right?

Yeah, spinal surgery. I had both my knees replaced, I had some fusion and some L2s, L5s and a lift on the left side.

Photos: Bruce Springsteen's Surprise Set at Asbury Park

Are there any more surgeries planned?

I don't know what else they can do. What else is left to replace? I got everything just about covered now.

The fans are fascinated by the recording of Nebraska and whether or not the full band tried to record those songs.

Oh, I think when Bruce brings the band in on music when he knows what he wants. It's not a matter of "try it and make it fit." It fits naturally or it does not.

So the band did not try to record those songs as a full band?

No, as a full band, I don't think so.

What did you think about the music on Human Touch and Lucky Town when they came out?

At that point in his life, that is what he wanted to say and what he want do to. If it's a question about [liking them more than] Born To Run or Darkness On The Edge of Town, I don't know. I'm a Bruce fan and whatever he does is fine with me.

I've read that you love "Sad Eyes."

I love it. It's one of his greatest vocal tracks.

The Smoking Gun posted a tour rider from 2002. It said that at 9:45 p.m. a "whole fresh roasted chicken" is to be "boxed and placed in your dressing room." Did you really eat an entire roast chicken in the middle of the show?

No, but I did have dinner after the show.

But obviously not right in the middle of it…

No, no! [Laughs hysterically] Jeez, there wasn't time to get off and eat. That's a funny think to think about. [Laughs even harder]. But I mean the person that wrote that never saw the band playing. There's no way that could have happened.

You almost played for the Cleveland Browns, right?

Almost! I was going in as a free agent, trying out for the team. I went down and tried out for the team, but I was in a car accident that knocked me out of football.

Do you ever think of how different your life might have been had you not been in that car accident?

Well yeah, it would have been a lot different. That's why some things happen in your life. You can't understand why it happened, but it happened for a reason. And if you're wise enough to see it and understand it, it makes your life a lot easier – instead of complaining all the time, yada yada yada. You've got to play the hand you're dealt. I never thought I'd be a quote "rock & roll star." I just loved to play, and then I met Bruce right after this car accident.

One last question: in the mid-Eighties, who could have bench-pressed more – you or Bruce?

Me, definitely. Without a doubt. [Laughs]. I don't know about now though...
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/clarence-clemons-reportedly-showing-signs...

Saxophonist Clemons suffers stroke

Lets hope he makes a speedy and full recovery.......

By WENN.COM 

Bruce Springsteen's longtime saxophonist in the E Street Band has suffered a stroke, according to reports.

Clarence Clemons fell sick at his home in Florida on Sunday, reports Showbiz411.com. No further information about the star's condition is known as WENN went to press.

The news comes just days after Clemons, who performed with Lady Gaga on the recent American Idol season finale, pulled out of plans to play the U.S. National Anthem at the NBA Finals last week due to a hand injury.

Clemons has experienced a number of health problems in the past 12 months - he has had both knees replaced, and undergone spinal fusion surgery.

Speaking to Rolling Stone magazine in February, he said, "The timing was perfect because it didn't interfere with a lot of stuff that was going on in my life. It (the surgery) made me stronger, and for the past year I've been in physical therapy a few days a week working my a** off to get back in shape. I'm walking better now, though I still use a cane and crutches. But now I'm having hip problems again. I don't know why." 

Best thoughts and wishes to the Big Man!

How's this for timing? Seems thier is a Sprungsteen solo album in the works.
From Backstreets:
ANIELLO IN THE MIX
"Forthcoming album"... that has a nice ring to it
Back in March, after word circulated that Springsteen had brought drummer Matt Chamberlain into the studio, we posted our hunch that Springsteen was working with prodcuer Ron Aniello. Ron co-produced Patti Scialfa's Play It As It Lays and her "Children's Song" duet with Springsteen on the Every Mother Counts comp; he also jammed with Bruce at the most recent school benefit at the Stone Pony.

Further evidence has now shown up on the website for the Nettwork Music Group, where Aniello's profile lists him as prodcuer of a "forthcoming album" from Bruce Springsteen. (Nice detective work, Sue McDonald and Blogness on the Edge of Town!) Just how forthcoming... that remains to be seen.
- June 16, 2011

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Jun 16^th, 2011 at 1:56pm:


Nipples!

Great story.

Surpise appearance by Bruce last night at a Clarence tribute show in Asbury park.
http://www.backstreets.com/news.html

Guys DIME has a hot new upgrade boot from Bruce's show here at Fox Theater in Atlanta on the 78 tour.....sounds like something worth grabbing!

Gazza wrote on Aug 12^th, 2011 at 6:46am:


Indeed it is Gazza:

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
The Fox
September 30, 1978
Fox Theatre
Atlanta, Georgia
USA

Contrast Clause. This is different from this

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=344345

That and any other previous versions are FM sourced while this is a pre-FM upgrade



A JEMS Archive Upgrade in association with Slowburn

Source 1: 1st generation Pre-FM cassettes
Cassette Transfer: Nakamichi CR-7A (azimuth adjusted) --> Sound Devices USBPre2 audio interface (24/96) --> Audacity 1.3 capture

Source 2: 1st generation WINZ-FM broadcast recorded on reel to reel at 7-1/2 IPS
Reel Transfer: Otari 5050 mk2 --> Sound Devices USBPre2 audio interface (24/96) --> Audacity 1.3 capture

The two sources were edited together in Adobe Audition 3.0 multitrack at 24/96. Converted to 16/44 for this release. Traders Little Helper used to convert to FLAC. There is no mixing of the sources. What you hear is Source 1 with the exceptions noted below.


Track Listing:

01 Good Rockin' Tonight
02 Badlands
03 Spirit in the Night
04 Darkness on the Edge of Town
05 Independence Day
06 The Promised Land
07 Prove It All Night
08 Racing in the Street
09 Thunder Road
10 Jungleland
11 Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
12 Night Train
13 Fire
14 Candy's Room
15 Because the Night
16 Point Blank
17 Not Fade Away > Gloria > She's the One
18 Backstreets > Sad Eyes
19 Rosalita
20 Born to Run
21 Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
22 Detroit Medley
23 Raise Your Hand

Notes:

Without question, a significant factor in what makes the Darkness tour Bruce's greatest in the minds of many is the series of live FM broadcasts he did from July to December 1978.

These sublime broadcasts reached listeners who had only heard tales of how good Bruce and the band were in concert and now they could hear it for themselves. Those who were already fans considered the Agora or Winterland wonderful gifts and surely hundreds if not thousands recorded them off the radio as they happened and played them again and again like the rest of us because they sounded so good. For an entire generation of fans, the Darkness tour broadcasts were the catalyst to deeper devotion, especially in Europe.

That's because those off-air recordings provided the source tapes for major bootleg releases like Piece De Resistance (9/19/78) and Live in the Promised Land (12/15/78). It has been suggested that as many as 50,000 copies were sold of the three-LP Piece. And there's a plausible, long-standing theory that Springsteen's fanbase in Europe was ignited by these bootlegs. Remember, in 1978 Springsteen didn't tour Europe (it would be another three years before that happened), and he played a mere four shows there in 1975. For fans starved for Springsteen in England, Italy, Sweden or Germany, the Darkness tour bootlegs confirmed the legend and expanded the base.

And while The Roxy, The Agora, Passaic and Winterland have become so iconic as to be treated as proper nouns, there were five radio broadcasts in 1978, not just four. So why isn't The Fox another capitalized term in the Springsteeen Dictionary?

September 30, 1978, a mere 11 days after the Passaic broadcast blasted out of radios throughout the northeast, the E Street Band rolled into the Fox Theater in Atlanta for the first of two shows (rescheduled from July after Bruce came down with a throat infection) that marked the end of the first long leg of the Darkness tour. Night one was broadcast live across the southeast on 20 or so radio stations according to the indispensable Brucebase Wiki.

As legend has it, on the night of September 30, storms rolled across the region and the bad weather is blamed for reception problems with the radio broadcast. Unlike Passaic where masses recorded, it seems but a few folks in the south had their tape decks rolling as Bruce took the stage at the Fox, and tapes of Atlanta have never been as good as the other four '78 broadcasts.

The best bootleg source to date, Same Old Played Out Scenes (Doberman), describes the recording problems in its liner notes: "major reception problems and resulting sound defects for most people recording [are] the principle [sic] reason why this concert has become something of a rarity on unofficial releases over the years as the sound quality was just not as good as the other [broadcasts]." So much so that the Atlanta show never even made it to bootleg vinyl, which is amazing when you consider how widely bootlegged the other four shows were.

Same Old Played Out Scenes itself is a composite of "four different source tapes," per the liners, "with the great bulk of the material taken from a previous CD release called Here's To Ya, which remains, as far as we know, the best sound quality source tape of this concert, though with certain songs that were either edited or suffer major disruption replaced by the best possible alternate recording."

Isn't this the point in the notes where I write "until now"?

Earlier this year, JEMS acquired several tapes from a kind and generous soul who, while not a collector, had a number of interesting recordings land in his lap back in the day. The tapes had not been played in more than three decades. In the box were two cassettes of the Atlanta show. As luck would have it, they weren't merely an upgrade of the broadcast but a pre-FM recording of the show dubbed from 15 IPS reels.

The sound quality of the pre-FM source is truly first rate, lacking the heavy compression of the over-the-air broadcast and boasting much wider stereo separation than any extant FM source. The pre-FM also corrects most of the speed issues with the previous bootlegs. And we do pick up some previously missing audio bits. These includes a few sentences spoken by Bruce before "Santa Claus" and, more significantly, the 40 or so seconds that were missing from the start of "Backstreets" plus some band member intros after that song. That being said, the cassettes were in less-than-ideal condition and required re-shelling and baking for playback. Experienced ears might pick up on very minor fluctuations (e.g. on the tape flips) that couldn't be corrected.

In short, what we do have sounds awesome. However, because it is Atlanta, we're still snake bit. The pre-FM source is missing the entire encore (presumably a lost third cassette, and yes, we've asked if it might be hiding behind dresser or something), needs a long patch (6+ minutes) from halfway through "Prove It All Night" through the start of "Racing in the Street" (we had hoped tape baking would fix this damaged part but it didn't), plus a tiny patch at the very end of "Because the Night."

But even that bad news has a silver lining, as JEMS also found--gathering dust in its own archive--a 7-1/2 IPS reel to reel of the full broadcast from WINZ-FM Miami that we feel is superior to what's found on Same Old Played Out Scenes, having a more natural, less processed and compressed sound. This new reel was used to patch the longer missing bits (e.g. the "Prove It" to "Racing" chunk noted above) in the pre-FM and provide the encore.

The only material flaw in the WINZ source are a few short (one second or less) dropouts in "Raise Your Hand" that, while unfortunate, aren't particularly annoying, they're just there. After experimenting with using SOPOS to patch the dropouts, we decided that the "repaired" version sounded worse than the original as the gaps are so short, the change in sources is jarring. So we've left "Raise Your Hand" from the WINZ tape intact, with dropouts, but also included an extra file of "Raise Your Hand" with no dropouts from Same Old Played Out Scenes. You can choose which you prefer.

The end result is not perfect, but it is 100% complete, for the first time ever, and it is the best-sounding Fox Theater recording by a wide margin, especially the 85% of the show that's now pre-FM, including the show's one-off cover of James Brown's "Night Train." Brown grew up in Georgia which would explain this inspired cover choice. Bruce and the band perform the instrumental complete with a James Brown-style intro and we can only presume what dance moves he gave the crowd during this one.

The fresh, azimuth-adjusted transfer of both sources was done last month and JEMS' longtime colleague Slowburn handled the patching and prepping which was a lot of work so kudos to him too. Samples provided. We hope you enjoy the latest in our on-going upgrade series.

So here is The Fox, finally ready to take it's rightful place in Springsteen bootleg history.

Wayne "Night Train" Darlington

EDIT EDIT EDIT

There are two files that are included twice by mistake. Apparently I misspelled two files before reflacing the first set and they weren't overwritten and somehow my quality control was none existent.

I'm not sure if it's a good idea to tinker with the torrent at this time. If the mods think I should let me know how to.

Otherwise when listening delete/skip

t01 Good Rocking Tonight
t06 he Promised Land

Everything should be fine then. Actually it doesn't matter which of t01 and t06 versions you delete. They are identical except for the name.

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First torrented on Jungleland and DIME August 2011