Earthquake Relief Benefit, Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA, 12-6-1989 - The Grateful Dead

Here, finally, is the last of the 20 albums I'm posting from the Earthquake Relief Benefits. Up until now, all the albums I posted were of concerts that took place at three different San Francisco Bay Area venues on November 26, 1989. However, the Grateful Dead wanted to be a part of this benefit project, but they were already booked to perform elsewhere on that date. So they had this concert about two weeks later instead.

I double checked, and there were no opening acts. The Dead did a typical full concert for them, with an intermission.

I've been mentioned in my write-ups how many of the musical acts in these benefit concerts had peaks of popularity in the late 1960s and/or early 1970s, then broke up or went through hard times for much of the 1980s, only to have a revival at the end of the 80s. The Dead fit that mold as well. They never stopped touring or stopped being popular, due to all that touring. However, they went a long time in the 1980s without recording a studio album, from 1980 to 1987. Then, when they did release an album in 1987, "In the Dark," it turned out to be an unexpected hit for them. It reached the Top Ten in the U.S. album chart, the only album of theirs that ever did that. And one song, "Touch of Grey," also made the Top Ten in the singles chart, also the only time they ever did that. Then, in late 1989, they released another album, "Built to Last," which also did fairly well.

However, the Dead beat to their own drum, and didn't do typical album promotion. Only three of the songs they performed here were from their recently released album ("Just a Little Light," "Victim or the Crime," and "Standing on the Moon"). 

One nice thing about this concert is that saxophonist Clarence Clemons, who usually played for Bruce Springsteen, joined the band for six songs towards the end of the second set. 

This album is two hours and 28 minutes long.

01 talk (Grateful Dead)
02 Shakedown Street (Grateful Dead)
03 Walking Blues (Grateful Dead)
04 Friend of the Devil (Grateful Dead)
05 Queen Jane Approximately (Grateful Dead)
06 Jack-A-Roe (Grateful Dead)
07 Just a Little Light (Grateful Dead)
08 Victim or the Crime (Grateful Dead)
09 Don't Ease Me In (Grateful Dead)
10 Scarlet Begonias (Grateful Dead)
11 Sugar Magnolia (Grateful Dead)
12 Ship of Fools (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
13 Terrapin Station (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
14 Drums [Instrumental] (Grateful Dead)
15 Space [Instrumental] (Grateful Dead)
16 The Wheel (Grateful Dead)
17 All Along the Watchtower (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
18 Standing on the Moon (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
19 Sunshine Daydream (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
20 talk (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
21 Black Muddy River (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/a4R2vRoc

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/8yjb0FspNjhOuxN/file

The cover image is from this exact concert, but with caveats. It's actually two separate images, one of Bob Weir and the other of Jerry Garcia. By putting them together in Photoshop like I did, I hope it looks like they're looking at each other. Also, the originals of both were in black and white, but I colorized them.

Various Artists (Including Bruce Springteen & Jon Bon Jovi) - Sgt. Patrick King Memorial Fund Benefit, Count Basie Theater, Red Bank, NJ, 1-31-1998, Part 2

Here's the second part of a three-hour long benefit concert starring Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, as well as Southside Johnny, Little Steven, Clarence Clemons, Richie Sambora, and more. For more details about this concert and what it was for, check out the write-up for "Part 1."

This is a unique concert that's kind of a merger of Springsteen's E Street Band and Bon Jovi. Clearly, they were all having fun playing each other's songs. Note, for instance, Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi dueting on the big Bon Jovi hit "Wanted Dead or Alive."

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent, because we have a soundboard source for this one. 

This album is an hour and 27 minutes long. 

25 I've Been Working Too Hard - Little Queenie (Southside Johnny & Jon Bon Jovi)
26 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
27 I Don't Want to Go Home (Everyone)
28 talk (Jon Bon Jovi)
29 It's Been a Long Time (Bruce Springsteen, Southside Johnny & Little Steven)
30 talk (Jon Bon Jovi)
31 Wanted Dead or Alive (Jon Bon Jovi & Bruce Springsteen)
32 Backstreets (Bruce Springsteen)
33 Forever (Little Steven)
34 Livin' on a Prayer (Jon Bon Jovi)
35 Badlands (Bruce Springsteen)
36 I Played the Fool (Southside Johnny & Jon Bon Jovi)
37 Keep the Faith (Bon Jovi)
38 Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen)
39 talk (Jon Bon Jovi)
40 Rockin' All Over the World (Everyone)
41 Treat Her Right (Everyone)
42 talk (Everyone)
43 Thunder Road (Everyone)
44 talk (Bruce Springsteen & Jon Bon Jovi)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/dsobQX48

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https://bestfile.io/en/C01Ye3N2LvrYw3Q/file

The cover image was taken backstage at this exact concert. From right to left: Bruce Springsteen, Little Steven, Danny DeVito, Southside Johnny, and Jon Bon Jovi.

Various Artists (Including Bruce Springteen & Jon Bon Jovi) - Sgt. Patrick King Memorial Fund Benefit, Count Basie Theater, Red Bank, NJ, 1-31-1998, Part 1

Here's a really interesting concert that's a pinnacle of New Jersey rock and roll. It mainly stars Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi (of Bon Jovi), but also Southside Johnny, Little Steven, Richie Sambora, Patti Scialfa, and Clarence Clemons, as well as other members of Bon Jovi and Springsteen's E Street Band. They shared the stage in various combinations for the entire duration of this long concert. In fact, since it's three hours long, I broke it up into two parts. Here's the first half.

This was a benefit to raise money for the family of police officer Sgt. Patrick King. In November 1997, he was shot to death by a fugitive while he was on duty. He was the most decorated police officer in the history of his town, Long Beach, New Jersey. Apparently, Jon Bon Jovi was the instigator in making this concert happen. I don't know how much money the concert raised for King's family, but even before the concert began, the performers donated over $100,000.

A local newspaper review for the concert said "The energy on stage was matched - if not exceeded - by the audience, which was an interesting mix of police officers, Bon Jovi Fan Club members, and at least one celebrity, Geraldo Rivera. The audience alternated between a 'Bruuuuuce' chant and squeals for Bon Jovi." 

Since this concert features Springsteen, that means it's included in a great on-line database called Brucebase. The webpage for this concert contains all kinds of interesting information, including a bunch of photos and the newspaper review I just quoted. Here's the link:

http://brucebase.wikidot.com/gig:1998-01-31-count-basie-theatre-red-bank-nj

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 27 minutes long.

01 talk (Danny DeVito)
02 This Time It's for Real (Everyone)
03 Two Hearts (Bruce Springsteen & Steven Van Zandt)
04 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
05 Bad Medicine (Jon Bon Jovi & Southside Johnny)
06 Until the Good Is Gone (Steven Van Zandt & Bruce Springsteen)
07 Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (Bruce Springsteen & Jon Bon Jovi)
08 talk (Southside Johnny)
09 Broke Down Piece of Man (Southside Johnny & Jon Bon Jovi)
10 talk (Jon Bon Jovi)
11 Hard Times Come Easy (Richie Sambora)
12 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
13 Loves Glory (Patti Scialfa)
14 There Goes My Baby (Southside Johnny)
15 This Time Baby's Gone for Good (Bruce Springsteen, Southside Johnny & Steven Van Zandt)
16 talk (Jon Bon Jovi)
17 You Give Love a Bad Name (Jon Bon Jovi & Bruce Springsteen)
18 The Promised Land (Bruce Springsteen)
19 All I Needed Was You (Southside Johnny & Steven Van Zandt)
20 Someday I'll Be Saturday Night (Jon Bon Jovi & Southside Johnny)
21 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
22 Bobby Jean (Bruce Springsteen)
23 Blood on Blood (Jon Bon Jovi)
24 The Fever (Bruce Springsteen & Southside Johnny)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/47gJpqge

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/ypNerQvQDpqq0jV/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. It shows Bruce Springsteen (in front) and Jon Bon Jovi. 

Various Artists - The Legendary Ladies of Rock and Roll, Latin Quarter, New York City, 2-19-1987

In the late 1980s, the cable TV network Cinemax arranged a series of about five concerts that brought together many musical legends. Each one was organized around a theme. The theme for this one is obvious in the title: "The Legendary Ladies of Rock and Roll." And that wasn't just hype. For only one concert, a truly impressive collection of famous female singers came together for just this one time: Lesley Gore, Freda Payne, Shirley Alston Reeves, Mary Wells, Ronnie Spector, Brenda Lee, and Martha Reeves. They were joined by Grace Slick and Belinda Carlisle, who didn't do much singing themselves (at least in the edit of the concert we have, that got broadcast on Cinemax), but served as co-hosts.

The only name I didn't recognize at first is Shirley Alston Reeves. That's because she was the lead singer for the Shirelles in the early 1960s, under the name Shirley Owens. By the time of this concert, she'd married for a second time, and changed her name. Also, if you don't know Ronnie Spector, she was the lead singer for the Ronettes, also in the 1960s.

Weirdly for a concert celebrating famous female singers, this begins with two songs sung by men. That's because they were opportunities to give the backing band a chance to warm up with their own spotlight. The band was led by Jimmy Vivino, and prominently featured Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band on saxophone. They played on all the songs even though though they only both get credited on the first one. I'm not sure how Chubby Checker (famous for "The Twist" and other early 1960s hits) got involved, but he sang the second track here, a medley of three rock classics.

Apparently, those first two songs didn't make the TV special, but somehow were saved at the same quality for the audio bootleg. Thus, the show really began with the third track, where the two hosts, Grace Slick (of Jefferson Airplane/ Jefferson Starship) and Belinda Carlisle (of the Go-Go's) began introducing the other acts. Then, typically, each singer sang two songs. However, Freda Payne only got to sing one, her biggest hit "Band of Gold," and she did it with Carlisle, who released a cover of it in 1986. For "Soldier Boy" in the middle of the concert, all the other singers came on stage to help with the backing vocals. Then they came out again for the last couple of songs. 

This concert is unreleased in any audio format, as far as I know. However, it was released on video. One can find a copy of that on YouTube as I write this in August 2026, but with only middling quality. Luckily, I found a different source, so the sound quality is excellent. 

01 Shotgun (Jimmy Vivino with Clarence Clemons)
02 Good Golly, Miss Molly - Hound Dog - I Saw Her Standing There (Chubby Checker with Clarence Clemons)
03 talk (Grace Slick & Belinda Carlisle)
04 [Love Is like A] Heat Wave (Martha Reeves)
05 I'm Ready for Love (Martha Reeves)
06 talk (Belinda Carlisle & Lesley Gore)
07 It's My Party (Lesley Gore)
08 You Don't Own Me (Lesley Gore)
09 talk (Grace Slick)
10 My Guy (Mary Wells)
11 talk (Mary Wells)
12 You Beat Me to the Punch (Mary Wells)
13 talk (Belinda Carlisle & Shirley Alston Reeves)
14 Will You Love Me Tomorrow (Shirley Alston Reeves)
15 Tonight's the Night (Shirley Alston Reeves)
16 Soldier Boy (Shirley Alston Reeves with Everyone)
17 talk (Belinda Carlisle)
18 Band of Gold (Freda Payne & Belinda Carlisle)
19 talk (Grace Slick)
20 I'm Sorry (Brenda Lee)
21 talk (Brenda Lee)
22 That's All You Gotta Do (Brenda Lee)
23 talk (Belinda Carlisle)
24 I Can Hear Music (Ronnie Spector)
25 talk (Ronnie Spector with Belinda Carlisle & Grace Slick)
26 Be My Baby (Ronnie Spector with Belinda Carlisle & Grace Slick)
27 talk (Grace Slick)
28 Da Doo Ron Ron (Ronnie Spector with Everyone)
29 Dancing in the Street (Martha Reeves with Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/VwHeN1Rb

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/lcAOdJky9fTo1Be/file

The cover is a photo showing all the stars of this concert, presumably taken just before or after the show. Here are their names from left to right, by row. Top row: Lesley Gore, Freda Payne, Shirley Alston, Mary Wells, and Ronnie Spector. Middle row: Grace Slick and Belinda Carlisle. Bottom row: Brenda Lee and Martha Reeves.

I'm pleased how I managed to make cover, as I learned a new technique along the way. I found a color version of this, but it was very low-res. I also found a black and white one with much better resolution. I was able to use Photoshop to get the color while keeping the resolution of the black and white version.  

Various Artists - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Waldorf Astoria, New York City, 1-20-1988

Yesterday (January 28, 2026), Bruce Springsteen dropped a new song about the current problems with ICE in Minneapolis, called "Streets of Minneapolis." It's good to see a protest song that addresses current issues, since there haven't been many of those in recent years. (He wrote, recorded, and released it in four days!) Here's a link, if you haven't heard it already:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKSoxG1K7w 

Anyway, I wanted to post something from Springsteen after hearing that inspiring song. However, some recent computer problems I've been having have flared up again, which means I currently can't use Photoshop, which in turn means I can't make new album covers until that's fixed. So I looked around to see if I had some Springsteen-related album ready to go, cover and all. Luckily, I did. (I have soooo many albums I could post tomorrow, if only I had the time to finish them off. Sigh!) This one doesn't have a ton of Springsteen content, but it's a really interesting (thought short) concert. So, in a way, my current computer issues have an upside in that they're getting me to finally post this.

Now, finally, to the music. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame started in the early 1980s. In 1986, they had their first induction ceremony, complete with a short concert featuring some of the inductees and other famous musicians. This has become a yearly tradition. Some concerts have been a lot more memorable than others. In my opinion, the ones from 1988 and 1989 were the most interesting, with the biggest star power. I haven't collected the others (though I very may well do so with some of them in the future), but I've made albums of those two. This is the 1988 one.

1988 was a really big year for the Hall of Fame, because their rule is that artists are only eligible for induction 25 years after their first record (be it a single or album). And when they were making their decisions in 1987 for this ceremony, that meant they were looking at the artists who put out their first records in 1962. It just so happens that was the first year of recordings for the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Beach Boys! Those are three of the biggest and most influential musical acts of all time. The Drifters and the Supremes were inducted that year as well, plus some non-performers, like Berry Gordy.

The induction ceremony had a lot of intrigue and drama in it. The Beatles are arguably the biggest (and best, IMHO!) musical act ever, so they were the main focus here, even overshadowing Dylan and the other very big names. Since John Lennon was assassinated in 1980, he was represented by his wife Yoko Ono, and his sons Julian Lennon and Sean Lennon, and each of them gave short speeches. Ex-Beatles George Harrison and Ringo Starr were there, and also gave speeches. 

However, the big no-show was Paul McCartney. He was in the middle of a lawsuit still connected to the break-up of the band back in 1970, so he felt he couldn't attend due to that. He put out a statement: "I was keen to go to and pick up my award, but after 20 years the Beatles still have some business differences which I had hoped would have been settled by now. Unfortunately, they haven't been [settled], so I would feel like a complete hypocrite waving and smiling with [Harrison and Starr] at a fake reunion." 

It turns out the lawsuit, which involved the division of profits from record sales, was settled a year later. So that was unfortunate timing as far as this concert goes. But at least that opened the door to the "Anthology" collaboration between the ex-Beatles a few years later.

Normally, when I post albums like this, I skip long speeches and focus on the music. But I'm making an exception here. I didn't include all the induction speeches, but I thought the ones relating to the induction of the Beatles and Dylan were important enough to include. They're all together at the beginning of this album, and they are about 19 minutes long in total. If you don't want to hear them, or just hear them once or twice, there's still about 40 minutes of music after that.

A big element of the drama involved Mike Love, a member of the Beach Boys. Love is one of the most notorious assholes in rock and roll, something I've discussed in other posts. But he really outdid himself this time. He appeared to be drunk, and used his induction speech to insult various famous musicians in the audience. This led to a funny quip from Dylan during his acceptance speech: when he listed people he wanted to thank, he thanked Love for not mentioning him in his speech!

Anyway, there are lots of interesting stories about what happened during this event. But instead of trying to summarize them all here, I'll just point out to an article from Rolling Stone Magazine that does a good job:

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 

I've also posted a text file in the download zip that has the text to that article.

Regarding the music here, everything was professionally recorded, so the sound quality is excellent. However, I found the lead vocals were rather low in most of the songs, so I boosted that up with the help of the MVSEP program. Also, there was a problem in the performance of "Stop in the Name of Love." Mary Wilson of the Supremes was asked to sing the song (since Diana Ross was another prominent no show). But it was clear for this songs, as well as all the other songs, that there hadn't been any practice beforehand, so everyone was just winging it. For the first chorus at the start of the song, Wilson sang the song in one key, while the band (or at least most of it) played in another key. That sounds pretty painful to my ears. So I erased that, and patched in a chorus from later in the song. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title.

Oh, also, during all the talking between songs, where band leader Paul Shaffer was trying to direct things, one or more people on stage kept playing guitar so loudly that it nearly drowned out what anyone was saying. So for most of those tracks, I used MVSEP to lower the volume of the guitar enough to make the talking more audible.  

The songs "I Saw Her Standing There" and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" were officially released on the compilation album "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Volume 1: 1986-1991." Everything else here remains unreleased.

By the way, when it comes to the song list below, I only listed the name of the main lead singers. For all the songs, there was one of the most amazing gatherings of musical talent ever seen on one stage together. But it's next to impossible to figure out who was on stage doing what, other than the lead vocals. So that's why I kept the credits in the titles relatively simple. 

However, just as one example, it was Jeff Beck who started playing the "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" riff that led to that song being played, right when it seemed everyone was leaving the stage. Some of the others who were on stage at least part of the time but don't get mentioned in the song titles include: Neil Young, Paul Simon, Johnny Moore, Joe Blunt, Clyde Brown, Tom Fogerty, Les Paul, Arlo Guthrie, Yoko Ono, Ringo Starr, Little Richard, Peter Wolf,  Dave Edmunds, Jeff Lynne, Julian Lennon, Sean Lennon, Little Steven, and Clarence Clemons.  

This album is an hour and six minutes long. 

01 talk (Mick Jagger)
02 talk (Ringo Starr)
03 talk (George Harrison)
04 talk (Yoko Ono)
05 talk (Julian Lennon)
06 talk (Sean Lennon)
07 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
08 talk (Bob Dylan)
09 Twist and Shout (Johnny Moore)
10 All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan with George Harrison)
11 talk (Paul Shaffer)
12 I Saw Her Standing There (Billy Joel & Bruce Springsteen)
13 talk (Paul Shaffer)
14 Stand by Me (Ben E. King & Julian Lennon)
15 talk (Paul Shaffer)
16 Stop in the Name of Love [Edit] (Mary Wilson)
17 talk (Paul Shaffer)
18 Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Hound Dog - Honey Hush (Elton John)
19 talk (Paul Shaffer)
20 Barbara Ann (Beach Boys)
21 talk (Paul Shaffer & John Fogerty)
22 Born on the Bayou (John Fogerty with Bruce Springsteen)
23 talk (Paul Shaffer & John Fogerty)
24 Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan with Bruce Springsteen)
25 talk (Paul Shaffer)
26 [I Can't Get No] Satisfaction (Mick Jagger with Bruce Springsteen)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/SpmdHRju

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/yv9ChPKPJqpFcYT/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. From right to left: Bob Dylan, George Harrison, and Mick Jagger.

In Concert Against AIDS, Oakland Coliseum Stadium, Oakland, CA, 5-27-1989, Part 4: The Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons

Here's the fourth and last out of four albums I made from the "In Concert Against AIDS" concert in 1989. This one consists of a set by the Grateful Dead. Furthermore, they were joined by saxophonist Clarence Clemons for more than half of the songs they played.

In the late 1980s, the Grateful Dead had a surge of popularity. This was due to their 1987 hit album "In the Dark," and especially one song from it, "Touch of Grey," which was their only song to ever reach the Top Ten of the U.S. singles chart. As a result, they were the headliner for this benefit concert. 

They proceeded to play a typical concert, with a typically long length. This album is nearly two and a half hours long, and that's after I cut out many lengthy pauses between songs. But they did make a nod to the fact that many in the crowd weren't the usual devout Deadheads by performing their two best known songs, "Touch of Grey" and "Truckin'." 

By most accounts, their performance wasn't extraordinary or unusual compared to their many other concerts that year. But what did set it apart was the presence of Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band joining with his saxophone on a majority of the songs. I mentioned Clemons in Part 2 of this concert, because he also played saxophone on a couple of John Fogerty's songs.

I looked it up, and it turns out Clemons joined in a Jerry Garcia Band concert earlier in 1989. But this was the first time he played with Garcia in an actual Grateful Dead concert. His soulful style added an interesting element. It was so successful that he went on to play at about a dozen more Dead concerts later that year. He sometimes played with the Dead and/or splinter bands after that, but not as frequently.

This album is two hours and 23 minutes long. 

53 Touch of Grey (Grateful Dead)
54 Greatest Story Ever Told (Grateful Dead)
55 Althea (Grateful Dead)
56 Walking Blues (Grateful Dead)
57 Iko Iko (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
58 Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
59 Bird Song (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
60 Promised Land (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
61 Hell in a Bucket (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
62 Fire on the Mountain (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
63 Blow Away (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
64 Truckin' (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
65 Drums [Instrumental] (Grateful Dead)
66 Space [Instrumental] (Grateful Dead)
67 I Will Take You Home (Grateful Dead)
68 The Other One (Grateful Dead)
69 Wharf Rat (Grateful Dead)
70 Turn On Your Lovelight (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
71 Brokedown Palace (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Mg13oudf

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/xe9CMacMKAPTz4f/file

The cover photo shows the band's lead guitarist Jerry Garcia at this exact concert. 

In Concert Against AIDS, Oakland Coliseum Stadium, Oakland, CA, 5-27-1989, Part 2: John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead

Here's the second out of four albums I made from the "In Concert Against AIDS" concert in 1989. This one consists of a set by John Fogerty, backed by the Grateful Dead. Well, kind of the Grateful Dead, as I'll explain in a minute.

At the time, Fogerty hadn't been on tour since 1985, and he didn't have a backing band, so he got some very talented musicians to support him just for this concert. Specifically, he was supported Jerry Garcia on lead guitar, Bob Weir on rhythm guitar, Randy Jackson on bass, and Steve Jordan on drums. Jackson and Jordan were very well respected session musicians at the time. Jackson would later go on to greater fame as one of the judges on the "American Idol" TV show. And if you know anything about the Grateful Dead, you'd know the two best known members were Garcia and Weir. They were the lead vocalists and songwriters for the vast majority of the band's original songs. So whether one can consider this the Grateful Dead is debatable, since the other band members were missing. But in my opinion, at least, I'd consider anything with Garcia and Weir in it to be the essence of the Grateful Dead, even if it was just the two of them in a duo.

On top of that, Clarence Clemons added his saxophone playing for the last two songs. He was a long time member of Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band, but he also had a hit of his own in the 1980s. 

Fogerty is best known as the leader of Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) in the 1960s and early 1970s. He effectively retired from the music business from 1976 to 1985. But then he came back with a big hit album in 1985 ("Centerfield") and another album in 1986. When he went on tour in 1985 and 1986 to support those albums, he avoided playing all of his many CCR hits, due to a dispute with his record company. But in 1987, he was persuaded to resume playing his CCR songs, and did so at a one-off benefit concert that year. I think this was the second big concert where he played those songs, and it was a big deal at the time. Furthermore, the fact that Garcia and Weir were going to back him on was announced in advance, adding to the anticipation.

Here's what a Los Angeles Times article from the day after the concert had to say: "Fogerty's set... [was] a wonderful occasion in and of itself. It wasn't just that Fogerty devoted most of the show to old Creedence Clearwater Revival hits that he rarely plays because of bitterness toward his old record company. It was the sheer, smiling delight and vocal aplomb he brought to the performance. Grateful Dead guitarists Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir lent unremarkable support, but Fogerty, drummer Steve Jordan, and bassist Randy Jackson supplied all the sizzle one could ask. Saxophonist Clarence Clemons, the day's only surprise guest, turned up to haunt through an encore rock-out to 'Suzie Q' and 'Long Tall Sally.'" 

As the article noted, Garcia and Weir were pretty restrained in their playing. Fogerty's songs were short and simple, so they respected that. That meant Garcia didn't go off on lengthy solos like he did with the Dead, but stuck to what the songs needed, based on the original versions. They also added backing vocals on some songs, with Weir singing more than Garcia. It looked like Garcia was having a ball, smiling through most of the set. Probably, he enjoyed simply being a backing musician through a bunch of classic songs that he loved, instead of having to be the main star, which was almost always the case for him. 

This album is 41 minutes long. 

24 Born on the Bayou (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
25 talk (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
26 Green River (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
27 Down on the Corner (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
28 talk (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
29 Rock and Roll Girls (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
30 talk (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
31 Centerfield (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
32 Proud Mary (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
33 Midnight Special (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
34 Bad Moon Rising (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
35 Fortunate Son (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
36 talk (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
37 Suzie Q (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead & Clarence Clemons)
38 talk (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead & Clarence Clemons)
39 Long Tall Sally (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead & Clarence Clemons) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/eLjiHABc

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/MZAspsTu9FmVaWK/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. Fogerty is wearing the baseball cap, while Garcia can be seen further back.

Bruce Springsteen - Cover Songs, Volume 17: 2009-2011

The daily Bruce Springsteen cover song series continues. We're all the way up to volume 17, dealing with the years 2009 to 2011.

Springsteen seems to have done an increasing number of duets with other famous musicians over the years. There are an unusually large number of those this time around. That's why I chose to make the cover of him with Billy Joel. They do the first two songs together.

Springsteen didn't tour in 2010 or 2011, yet the last six songs are from those years. That's because they were from surprise appearances at small clubs or special concerts. For instance, the last two songs are from a concert celebrating Sting's sixtieth birthday.

Only three of the 12 songs have been officially released. Unfortunately, some of the rest sound a bit rough, and clearly come from audience bootlegs instead of soundboards. The last two songs are examples of that. But I wouldn't include any song if it didn't meet my sound quality standards.

01 Only the Good Die Young (Billy Joel & Bruce Springsteen)
02 New York State of Mind (Billy Joel & Bruce Springsteen)
03 Ramblin' Gamblin' Man (Bruce Springsteen)
04 Ring of Fire (Bruce Springsteen)
05 [I Don't Want To] Hang Up My Rock and Roll Shoes (Bruce Springsteen)
06 Green Onions (Bruce Springsteen)
07 Beast of Burden (Bruce Springsteen & Alejandro Escovedo)
08 Peg O' My Heart (Dropkick Murphys & Bruce Springsteen)
09 What's Your Name (Bruce Springsteen with Nicky Addeo)
10 C. C. Rider (Bruce Springsteen with Nicky Addeo)
11 Fields of Gold (Bruce Springsteen)
12 Can't Stand Losing You (Bruce Springsteen & Sting)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16373101/BRUCSPR2009-2011CovrSngsVol17_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo of Springsteen and Billy Joel was taken during a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert in 2009.

Bruce Springsteen - Cover Songs, Volume 16: 2009

Here's yet another Bruce Springsteen covers album. As I mentioned in the last post in this series, 2009 was a big year for Springsteen doing covers of songs he'd never played before. That's so much the case that all the songs here are from that single year.

But also as I mentioned in the last post, most of those covers were only played a single time, usually due to a fan request. That can be a problem in terms of sound quality, since the odds of an official release or a really excellent bootleg from a single concert are low. As with this series as a whole, I've maintained pretty high sound quality standards. That meant not including some songs if the sound wasn't up to snuff.

Only four of the 15 songs were officially released. So this album sounds a bit rougher than most others in this series.

By the way, the story behind the performance of "All Shook Up" here is pretty funny. Springsteen started to play the song, as usual, except it turned out an Elvis Presley imitator named the Philly Elvis was in the front of the audience. Somehow, he found himself on stage, and Springsteen was nice enough to let him sing part of the song. The whole thing happened spontaneously, which is why Springsteen comments at the end that he didn't know how the heck that had just happened. You can find a video of it on YouTube. It's entertaining to watch the looks of amazement and amusement on the band members on stage.

01 Hard Times [Come Again No More] (Bruce Springsteen)
02 Hang On Sloopy (Bruce Springsteen)
03 Da Do Ron Ron (Bruce Springsteen)
04 Rockin' Robin (Bruce Springsteen)
05 The Wanderer (Bruce Springsteen)
06 I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down (Bruce Springsteen & Elvis Costello)
07 The Last Time (Bruce Springsteen)
08 A Little Bit O' Soul (Bruce Springsteen)
09 All Shook Up (Bruce Springsteen with the Philly Elvis)
10 Save the Last Dance for Me (Bruce Springsteen)
11 [Your Love Keeps Lifting Me] Higher and Higher (Bruce Springsteen)
12 Roll Over Beethoven (Bruce Springsteen)
13 Fortunate Son (John Fogerty & Bruce Springsteen)
14 Oh, Pretty Woman (Bruce Springsteen & John Fogerty)
15 Soul Man (Bruce Springsteen & Sam Moore)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16373096/BRUCSPR2009CovrSngsVol16_atse.zip.html

One again, for the album cover, I wanted to go with something a little bit different. I found a great photo of Springsteen "crowd surfing" in Baltimore in 2009.

Bruce Springsteen - Cover Songs, Volume 15: 2007-2009

Your daily Christmas season "advent calendar" of Bruce Springsteen albums continues. :) After this album I have seven more albums to go in the series, so I'll finish this some time between Christmas Day and New Year's.

This volume technically covers 2007 to 2009. But in fact only the first two songs are from 2007 and 2008. All the rest is from 2009. When Springsteen went on tour that year, for whatever reason, he played tons of covers that he'd never done before. Each concert, he would ask the audience for large cards with the names of songs they wanted him to play written on him. He encouraged the audience to "stump the band" by requesting covers and not just songs he'd written. So 2009 will take up the vast majority of this album, all of the next album, and half of the album after that.

The one downside to his 2009 approach is that he often played this covers just one time, without practice, based on some random request. So that meant there usually wasn't an official release (despite his recent trend of officially releasing dozens upon dozens of concerts), and occasionally there wasn't even a bootlegged recording. But usually what happened was that someone did bootleg it, but only with a fair sounding audience recording.

That means two things. One, there were many interesting covers he did in 2009 that I didn't include here because I felt the sound quality wasn't good enough. I'm included a bunch of those on an addendum album I'll post later of covers with rougher sound quality, but many songs didn't even rise to that level. The other thing is that, of the songs that I did include here, the sound quality is variable. Only two songs here are officially released (the last two). Most of the rest come from audience bootlegs. Luckily, most of them were very well recorded and sound nearly as good as soundboard recordings, or I wouldn't have included them here.

I edited the song "My Generation." The reason for that is because somebody in the band really messed up. The way the song goes, the band has to change keys several times over the course of the song. But halfway through the song, someone in the band went to the wrong key or didn't change keys. They continued playing that way through a verse, chorus, and a bass solo. So I edited all that out. However, after that cut, the song is still three minutes long, and sounds like a complete song. (I would have used a different version of the song, but Springsteen has only played the song live a handful of times, and the recordings of the other versions either sound really bad or don't exist.)

01 Town Called Heartbreak (Bruce Springsteen & Patti Scialfa)
02 I'll Fly Away (Bruce Springsteen)
03 I Ain't Got No Home (Bruce Springsteen)
04 Proud Mary (Bruce Springsteen)
05 Wild Thing (Bruce Springsteen)
06 96 Tears (Bruce Springsteen)
07 Seventh Son (Bruce Springsteen)
08 Expressway to Your Heart (Bruce Springsteen)
09 You Really Got Me (Bruce Springsteen)
10 My Generation [Edit] (Bruce Springsteen)
11 Like a Rolling Stone (Bruce Springsteen)
12 Mony Mony (Bruce Springsteen)
13 The Dark End of the Street (Bruce Springsteen)
14 Good Lovin' (Bruce Springsteen)
15 London Calling (Bruce Springsteen)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16687644/BRUCSPRNGSTN2007-2009_CovrSngsVol15_atse.zip.html

For the last album cover, I went with a photo of Springsteen playing a piano, to help show that he does more than just play guitar. Continuing with that idea, this time I picked a photo of his blowing on a harmonica. This photo was taken in New York City in 2007.

Bruce Springsteen - Cover Songs, Volume 14: 2006

For this next album in the Bruce Springsteen cover songs series, Springsteen went back to his folkie style. As I explained in the post for the previous album in the series, in 2006, he released the album "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions," which was filled with cover songs previously done by folk singer Pete Seeger. So naturally this 2006 collection is dominated by songs from, and related to, that album.

I already posted four songs at the end of the previous album that are related to that album. For this album, all the songs are related in style. However, not all the songs here are songs from that album. He released a live album in 2007, "Live in Dublin," that was from the tour to promote the album. So naturally, it contained a lot of songs from that album, plus some in a similar vein. But there were yet more songs in that style that didn't make the studio album or the live album.

As if that isn't confusing enough, there are a couple of songs from this time period that I simply didn't like at all, so I didn't include. One example I can remember is the children's song "Froggy Went A-Courtin'." It's not a song I'm wild about in the first place, and it just didn't sound that good when Springsteen did it.

In terms of sound quality, eight of the 12 songs this time are officially released. If you look at the unreleased four ("Rag Mama Rag," "Samson and Delilah," "Turn, Turn, Turn" and "Shenandoah"), those are all songs that didn't make it onto either "We Shall Overcome" or "Live in Dublin." (That's also true for "Long Black Veil" from the previous album in this series.) But even the unreleased songs are very well recorded, so this album sounds better than most in this series.

By the way, this album finishes all his 2006 cover songs. The next one in the series will start with 2007, with Springsteen back in fully rocking mode.

01 Bring 'Em Home (Bruce Springsteen)
02 Rag Mama Rag (Bruce Springsteen)
03 Samson and Delilah (Bruce Springsteen)
04 Love of the Common People (Bruce Springsteen & Curtis King Jr.)
05 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Bruce Springsteen & Marc Anthony Thompson)
06 Jacob's Ladder (Bruce Springsteen)
07 Old Dan Tucker (Bruce Springsteen)
08 When the Saints Go Marching In (Bruce Springsteen & Marc Anthony Thompson)
09 Erie Canal (Bruce Springsteen)
10 Mrs. McGrath (Bruce Springsteen)
11 My Oklahoma Home (Bruce Springsteen)
12 Shenandoah (Bruce Springsteen)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16404262/BRUCSPR2006CovrSngsVol14_atse.zip.html

The cover art shows Springsteen in Ashbury Park, New Jersey, in 2006.

Bruce Springsteen - Cover Songs, Volume 13: 2004-2006

In 2004, Bruce Springsteen took part in the "Vote for Change" concert tour, in which a bunch of famous musicians performed in an effort to promote the election of John Kerry for in the 2004 presidential election. As a part of this tour, Springsteen took part in duets with some big names. The first three songs are examples of that, as well as the last two songs on the previous album in this series (where he played with John Fogerty on one song and Neil Young on another).

There are more songs from 2004, and a few from 2005, where Springsteen generally did his usual covers of classic rock and soul hits.

But then, in 2006, he shifted gears dramatically, and went back into a "folkie" mode. He released a studio album called "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions," which was composed entirely of folk songs previously performed by Pete Seeger. Since those are cover songs, they naturally will get on this series. The last four songs here are from that project. But these are all live versions, so these are different versions than the one on that studio album.

In terms of sound quality, this album is a mixed bag. Only four of the 13 songs have been officially released. The rest generally sound excellent, from soundboard bootlegs. But there are a couple of exceptions of somewhat rougher sound, such as "Running on Empty" and "It Takes Two."

01 Man on the Moon (R.E.M. & Bruce Springsteen)
02 Running on Empty (Jackson Browne & Bruce Springsteen)
03 Better Man (Eddie Vedder & Bruce Springsteen)
04 It Takes Two (Bruce Springsteen & Patti Scialfa)
05 Run Rudolph Run (Bruce Springsteen)
06 The Patriot Game (Bruce Springsteen)
07 Dirty Water [Acoustic Version] (Bruce Springsteen)
08 Rumble (Bruce Springsteen)
09 Millworker (Bruce Springsteen)
10 Eyes on the Prize (Bruce Springsteen & Marc Anthony Thompson)
11 John Henry (Bruce Springsteen)
12 Buffalo Gals (Bruce Springsteen)
13 Long Black Veil (Bruce Springsteen)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16404261/BRUCSPR2004-2006CovrSngsVol13_atse.zip.html

For pretty much all the cover art photos in this series so far, I've shown Springsteen playing a guitar. So, for variety's sake, this time I've gone with him playing a piano in Dusseldorf, Germany, in 2005.

Bruce Springsteen - Cover Songs, Volume 12: 2001-2004

Here's the next in my Bruce Springsteen cover songs series. I was too busy to post one yesterday, but I'm still usually posting one a day.

This one covers the years 2001 to 2004. During these years, Springsteen was back playing full blown rock and roll. (He'd go back into another folky phrase for a couple of years after this.) So this album is filled with the classic rock and soul songs he loves, mostly from the 1960s.

In terms of sound quality, this is another album where nearly all the songs are officially unreleased. All but two songs, in fact. That means the sound quality is variable, but generally pretty high.

The songs "Hold On, I'm Coming" and "I Thank You" have been heavily edited down. Both of them are duets between Springsteen and Sam Moore of "Sam and Dave" fame. They're fine performances, except in their original versions they went on way too long for my tastes. Both were about double the length they are here. I have no problem with long songs if there's a point to the length, but in both cases, Springsteen and Moore just kept singing the same choruses over and over and over and over again. So I cut the songs down to something close to their original studio versions.

Note also that I've included the song "All Along the Watchtower" even though I had a different version of that song on a recent volume of this series. That's because that previous version was all sung by Springsteen and played with a relatively obscure New Jersey band, while this version is a duet between him and Neil Young, with both of them trading vocals and lead guitar solos.

01 Jingle Bell Rock (Bruce Springsteen)
02 You Sexy Thing (Bruce Hornsby & Bruce Springsteen)
03 Kansas City - Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey [Edit] (Bruce Springsteen)
04 The Twist - The Peppermint Twist (Bruce Springsteen & Gary 'U. S.' Bonds)
05 Tell Me Why (Bruce Springsteen)
06 Seven Nights to Rock (Bruce Springsteen)
07 Diddy Wah Diddy (Bruce Springsteen)
08 My Ride's Here (Bruce Springsteen)
09 Get Out of Denver (Bruce Springsteen)
10 Hold On, I'm Coming [Edit] (Bruce Springsteen & Sam Moore)
11 I Thank You [Edit] (Bruce Springsteen & Sam Moore)
12 [What's So Funny 'Bout] Peace, Love and Understanding (Bruce Springsteen with Conor Oberst & John Fogerty)
13 All Along the Watchtower (Neil Young & Bruce Springsteen)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15328146/BrucSpr_2001-2004_CovrSngsVol12_atse.zip.html

For the cover art, to keep things interesting, I chose a rather unusual photo of Springsteen standing on a piano in front of band member Clarence Clemons. It was taken in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in 2003.

Bruce Springsteen - Cover Songs, Volume 11: 1998-2001

In the last volume in this Bruce Springsteen cover songs series, Springsteen was frequently in acoustic mode. For this album, he went back to rocking out. This coincided with the first significant touring he did with the E Street Band since about 1985.

Note that I already posted a version of the song "In the Midnight Hour" earlier in this series. But that version was just Springsteen, whereas this version is a duet between him and Wilson Pickett. Speaking of duets, you may have noted some of those on previous volumes of this series. This one has more than any before, with eight out of the 13 songs being duets. Some are with band members, such as his wife Patty Scialfa. But more and more, other artists wanted to collaborate with him. So you'll see many more duets before this series is finished.

George Harrison died in 2001. That's why you see Springsteen paying tribute to him with covers of two of his songs, "Something" and "My Sweet Lord."

In terms of sound quality, surprisingly, just like the last album in this series, every single song is officially unreleased. That means that some of the songs sound a bit rough. Most of them come from soundboard recordings, but a few come from audience recordings. You can usually tell by the loud cheering over the music. "Jambalaya" is a particularly bad case of this, and I almost left it off, but it had an overall clarity that made me decide to include it. The two Harrison songs and a couple others have similarly rough sourcing.

01 Wanted Dead or Alive (Jon Bon Jovi & Bruce Springsteen)
02 Oh What a Beautiful Mornin' (Bruce Springsteen)
03 In the Midnight Hour (Wilson Pickett & Bruce Springsteen)
04 Until the Good Is Gone (Bruce Springsteen & Steven Van Zandt)
05 Christmas [Baby Please Come Home] (Bruce Springsteen with Patti Scialfa)
06 Blue Christmas (Bruce Springsteen)
07 Jambalaya [On the Bayou] (Bruce Springsteen & Patti Scialfa)
08 Mystery Train (Bruce Springsteen)
09 It's All Over Now (Bruce Springsteen & Nils Lofgren)
10 All Just to Get to You (Joe Ely & Bruce Springsteen)
11 Something (Bruce Springsteen)
12 My Sweet Lord (Bruce Springsteen)
13 The End of the Innocence (Bruce Hornsby & Bruce Springsteen)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16687638/BRUCSPRNGSTN1998-2001_CovrSngsVol11_atse.zip.html

For the cover art, there are so many albums in this series that I didn't want to repeat some standard thing, such as Springsteen standing there with a guitar. So I went with this rather strange photo of Springsteen jumping off a piano. Judging from the height of Steven Van Zandt standing by, I'd guess he was about five feet off the ground when he jumped.

Bruce Springsteen - Cover Songs, Volume 10: 1995-1997

Here's volume 10 in the Bruce Springsteen cover songs series. This one deals with the years 1995 to 1997.

As the last volume hinted, the music changed somewhat because Springsteen when in a "folky" direction around 1996, with the all-acoustic "The Ghost of Tom Joad" album and subsequent all acoustic-tour. The first few songs from 1995 are still rocking. But most of the songs from 1996 and 1997 are folk songs.

Note that the song "Tom Joad" (a.k.a. "The Ballad of Tom Joad") is a different song than the Springsteen original "The Ghost of Tom Joad." The name "Tom Joad" comes from a character in the John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath."

Regarding sound quality, it turns out that every single song on this album is officially unreleased. As I've mentioned previously, Springsteen has officially released on-line recordings of many dozens of his concerts in recent years, but not many of them deal with the 1995 to 1997 era. However, luckily, the sound quality is good on these.

Speaking of bands, one thing I really like about Springsteen is that he loves music so much that even when he's not on tour, he often drops into local clubs in New Jersey and joins in with bands that play his type of music. In the case of "All Along the Watchtower" here, he joined Solar Circus, a local New Jersey band that few had heard of. The version of the song isn't that great, since he was just winging it with a band he didn't know from Adam, but I've included it because he sang lead vocals.

Oh, one thing I forgot to mention for the past couple of albums is that from about 1988 until 1999, Springsteen pretty much played all his concerts without the E Street Band. (However, he often played with this or that member of the band during those years.) I haven't been that clear about labeling his backing bands during this series. But assume it's not the E Street Band for the years mentioned above.

01 Highway 61 Revisited (Bruce Springsteen with Wolfgang Niedecken & His Leopardefellband)
02 All Along the Watchtower (Bruce Springsteen & Solar Circus)
03 Shake, Rattle and Roll (Bruce Springsteen)
04 Forever Young (Bob Dylan & Bruce Springsteen)
05 Angel Eyes (Bruce Springsteen)
06 Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad [Blowin' Down This Road] (Bruce Springsteen & Joe Ely)
07 Oklahoma Hills (Arlo Gurthrie, Bruce Springsteen & Joe Ely)
08 Tom Joad [The Ballad of Tom Joad] (Bruce Springsteen)
09 Riding in My Car (Bruce Springsteen)
10 I Don't Want to Go Home (Bruce Springsteen & Steven Van Zandt)
11 One Headlight (Wallflowers & Bruce Springsteen)
12 The Times They Are A-Changin' (Bruce Springsteen)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16687641/BRUCSPRNGSTN1995-1997_CovrSngsVol10_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo is of Springsteen on "The Late Show with Jay Leno" in 1995.

Bruce Springsteen - Cover Songs, Volume 9: 1992-1995

Your daily dose of Bruce Springsteen cover song albums continues. I don't have anything from 1991, because Springsteen didn't tour that year and only made a few guest appearances at small clubs. So it's on to 1992 through 1995.

Only four of 12 songs are officially released this time around. But the unreleased tunes have pretty good sound quality all the way through.

Note that "Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won't Do)" is a famous soul song written by Wilson Pickett and others in 1966. The song Springsteen sings here bears only a faint resemblance to that, mainly the title. There's an older gospel song with that same title. I listened to that, and I don't think it's that song either. How many songs with that rather strange title are there?! If anyone can clarify what this is a cover of exactly, I'd appreciate it.

So far on these covers albums, Springsteen stuck to doing well known classic rock and soul hits. But on this album he veered into country and folk some, especially with the obscure 1959 Louvin Brothers song "Satan's Jeweled Crown," as well as the traditional "Lonesome Valley." He would dive full on into folky music for his 1996 album "The Ghost of Tom Joad."

On a different note, I made a drastic edit to the version of the Bob Dylan song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" here. This was performed by Springsteen and Wolfgang Niedecken & His Leopardefellband. (I have no idea what that rather obscure German group got so lucky.) It went on for several more minutes, which I thought was too long. There were some sound glitches too. So I cut out the segment of the song with the sound problem, and cut out a verse sung in German by Niedecken for good measure. The song still ends up being six minutes long after those edits.

By the way, there's an interesting story behind the cover of "Come Together." In 1994, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was having a big concert in New York City, which I think was shown on TV. Elton John and Rod Stewart were supposed to perform a duet of the song in tribute to John Lennon, who was going to be posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame as a solo artist. But there was an earthquake in Los Angeles that day where Stewart lives, and he was unable to fly to New York. The organizers searched at the last minute for some other big name to sing the song, and begged Springsteen to do it. But he turned them down multiple times. Finally, with time running out, he and Axl Rose agreed to do a duet of it. But due to the lack of time, they didn't have a chance to practice it, and only managed to look at a lyric sheet and divy up who would sing what. It may not be the best performance in the world, but I've gotta give them kudos for having the guts to wing it like that.

01 Ninety-Nine and a Half [Won't Do] (Bruce Springsteen)
02 Warm and Tender Love (Bruce Springsteen)
03 Many Rivers to Cross (Bruce Springsteen)
04 Across the Borderline (Bruce Springsteen)
05 Viva Las Vegas (Bruce Springsteen)
06 It's All Right (Bruce Springsteen)
07 Satan's Jewel Crown (Bruce Springsteen)
08 Lonesome Valley (Bruce Springsteen, Joe Ely & Soozie Tyrell)
09 Come Together (Bruce Springsteen & Axl Rose)
10 [Get Your Kicks On] Route 66 (Bruce Springsteen with John Eddie)
11 Down the Road Apiece (Bruce Springsteen with Wolfgang Niedecken & His Leopardefellband)
12 Knockin' on Heaven's Door [Edit] (Bruce Springsteen with Wolfgang Niedecken & His Leopardefellband)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16373094/BRUCSPR1992-1995CovrSngsVol9_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo shows Springsteen playing in Paris in 1992.

Bruce Springsteen - Cover Songs, Volume 8: 1988-1990

Here's the next Bruce Springsteen live covers album. Technically, this one covers 1988 to 1990, but in fact all the songs are from 1988, except for the last one, which is from 1990. (He didn't tour in 1989 or 1990, but did two benefit concerts in 1990.)

For the last album in this series, a few of the songs had rather rough sound quality, because they came from audience bootlegs recorded at small clubs. This time around I'm happy to say, pretty much every song sound fantastic. In fact, it may have the best overall sound quality in the series so far. It helps that eight out of the 12 songs have been officially released, which is a high ratio. But even the ones from bootlegs sound great.

By the way, you might think the first song, "For Your Love," is a cover of the famous Yardbirds hit from 1965. That's exactly the sort of song Springsteen would cover, and he played it when his musical career was just starting out in the mid-1960s. But in fact it's a more obscure song by Ed Townshend from 1958. The other songs are all the usual suspects.

Springsteen has played all of "Born to Be Wild" in concert a few times. But the bootlegs I heard were of poor quality. So instead I've used a version that was played as part of a medley. I've extracted it from the medley and given it a finish with audience noise in the end. But it's rather short, at only two minutes long. I figured meeting basic sound quality standards was more important than getting a version that lasted a minute or two longer.

I've specified that "Bad Moon Rising" is the "acoustic version," because I'm including a full-band rocking version in a later volume in this series. It's exactly the same for "Highway 61 Revisited." I include acoustic and electric versions like that for just two more songs in the entire series. (There are other acoustic performances in this album series, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" on this album, but I don't feel the need to point that out unless there's more than one version of the same song across the series.)

By the way, it was pointed out to me today that I'd overlooked the cover song "Trapped," which had some official releases in the early to mid-1980s. So I've just added that to volume 6 of this series (1981-1984). If you've downloaded that, you might want to do it again, to grab that song too.

01 For Your Love (Bruce Springsteen)
02 Lonely Teardrops (Bruce Springsteen)
03 Born to Be Wild [Edit] (Bruce Springsteen)
04 Vigilante Man (Bruce Springsteen)
05 Blowin' in the Wind (Bruce Springsteen)
06 Bad Moon Rising [Acoustic Version] (Bruce Springsteen)
07 Who Do You Love (Bruce Springsteen)
08 Boom Boom (Bruce Springsteen)
09 Quarter to Three (Bruce Springsteen)
10 Chimes of Freedom (Bruce Springsteen)
11 Every Breath You Take (Sting & Bruce Springsteen)
12 Highway 61 Revisited [Acoustic Version] (Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne & Bonnie Raitt)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16373083/BRUCSPR1988-1990CovrSngsVol8_atse.zip.html

I don't know the date or location of the cover art photo. It's clearly from the 1980s, probably the mid-1980s. But it's such a great pose that I decided to use it here even if it doesn't exactly fit. Also, I didn't find any really good photos specifically dated to the late 1980s.

Bruce Springsteen - Cover Songs, Volume 7: 1984-1988

Once again, more of Bruuuuuuuce! This latest volume in the Bruce Springsteen cover songs album series deals with the years 1984 to 1988, arguably the peak of his popularity, when he was riding high on "Born in the USA," one of the most successful albums of all time.

By now, if you've been following this series, you've probably noticed that Springsteen really loves classic rock hits from the 1950s to the 1970s, with a special focus on the 1960s. That makes perfect sense, because it's the music he grew up with. So here's more of the same.

In terms of sound quality, seven of the 13 songs are officially released. I must admit some of the unreleased ones sound slightly rougher, for instance the version of "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide." He's played that ZZ Top song a bunch of times, but always only in small New Jersey clubs when he's not on tour. We're lucky to get any recording of him doing that at all.

The song "Do You Love Me" is from the start of a medley. But I edited the end, and added some crowd noise, to make it a stand-alone song.

"I'm a Coward" is the song "Gino Is a Coward," a 1960s soul hit by Gino Washington. Springsteen changed some of the lyrics, and the title, but it's basically the same song.

01 Drift Away (Bruce Springsteen & Steven Van Zandt)
02 I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide (Bruce Springsteen with La Bamba & the Hubcaps)
03 Wooly Bully (Bruce Springsteen)
04 Rockin' All Over the World (Bruce Springsteen)
05 Do You Love Me [Edit] (Bruce Springsteen)
06 War (Bruce Springsteen)
07 Stand by Me (U2 & Bruce Springsteen)
08 Remember When the Music (Bruce Springsteen)
09 Love Me Tender (Bruce Springsteen)
10 Have Love, Will Travel (Bruce Springsteen)
11 I'm a Coward [Gino Is a Coward] (Bruce Springsteen)
12 Sweet Soul Music (Bruce Springsteen)
13 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Bruce Springsteen)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16373081/BRUCSPR1984-1988CovrSngsVol7_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo dates from 1985.

Bruce Springsteen - Cover Songs, Volume 6: 1981-1984

Here's the next Bruce Springsteen covers song album.

Springsteen toured in 1981 and again in 1984, so most of the songs here are from those two years. (The two songs from 1982 and 1983 are from guest appearances he did in small clubs.)

Note that the song "Shake" is an edit. It was part of the "Detroit Medley" that he often performs. I edited just that one song out of the longer medley, then added some audience noise at the end. But it's long enough to stand on its own as a song, and not just a snippet.

As usual, unless specified otherwise, all songs were performed with the E Street Band. The two songs from 1982 and 1983 mentioned above actually were done with different bands.

This time around, seven out of the 15 songs have been officially released. But it doesn't make much difference, since all the songs sound great. The two club performances probably sound a little rougher than the rest. Oh, plus, the first two songs, "Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)" and "Run through the Jungle," sound a bit rough, and obviously come from audience bootlegs. Plus, Springsteen inexplicably said "Run through THIS Jungle," every single time.

01 Double Shot [Of My Baby's Love] (Bruce Springsteen)
02 Run through the Jungle (Bruce Springsteen)
03 Can't Help Falling in Love (Bruce Springsteen)
04 Follow That Dream (Bruce Springsteen)
05 I Fought the Law (Bruce Springsteen)
06 Jole Blon (Bruce Springsteen)
07 Shake [Edit] (Bruce Springsteen)
08 Sea Cruise (Bruce Springsteen)
09 The Ballad of Easy Rider (Bruce Springsteen)
10 Deportee [Plane Wreck at Los Gatos] (Bruce Springsteen)
11 Come On Over to My House (Bruce Springsteen with Cats on a Smooth Surface)
12 Ain't That Lovin' You Baby (Bruce Springsteen with John Eddie)
13 Street Fighting Man (Bruce Springsteen)
14 Travelin' Band (Bruce Springsteen)
15 Jersey Girl (Bruce Springsteen)
16 Trapped (Bruce Springsteen)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16373078/BRUCSPR1981-1984CovrSngsVol6_atse.zip.html

For the cover art, I picked a photo showing Springsteen jumping high in the air. I had to crop it carefully to show how high he's jumping without making his body too small. Hopefully you can see what's going on. The photo was taken at a concert in Oakland in 1981.

Bruce Springsteen - Cover Songs, Volume 5: 1978-1980

Another day, another Bruce Springsteen covers album. This one covers 1978 to 1980.

I only have a couple of comments this time around. Ten out of the 14 songs are officially released, thanks to the many dozens of albums Springsteen has officially released in recent years. (All of them are digital only, by the way.) But the other four come from soundboards and sound great as well.

Note that the medley "Devil with a Blue Dress On - See See Rider - Good Golly Miss Molly - Jenny Take a Ride" is normally called the "Detroit Medley" by Springsteen fans. Springsteen has played that medley in concert hundreds of times, sometimes with songs added in or removed.

01 Good Rockin' Tonight (Bruce Springsteen)
02 It's My Life (Bruce Springsteen)
03 High School Confidential (Bruce Springsteen)
04 Sweet Little Sixteen (Bruce Springsteen)
05 Night Train (Bruce Springsteen)
06 You Can't Sit Down (Bruce Springsteen)
07 Devil with a Blue Dress On - See See Rider - Good Golly Miss Molly - Jenny Take a Ride (Bruce Springsteen)
08 Stay (Bruce Springsteen with Jackson Browne, Rosemary Butler & Tom Petty)
09 No Money Down (Bruce Springsteen)
10 This Land Is Your Land (Bruce Springsteen)
11 In the Midnight Hour (Bruce Springsteen)
12 Who'll Stop the Rain (Bruce Springsteen)
13 Merry Christmas, Baby (Bruce Springsteen)
14 Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (Bruce Springsteen)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16373082/BRUCSPR1978-1980CovrSngsVol5_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo comes from a concert at the Winterland in San Francisco in December 1978.