Bruce Springsteen 1973-05-31 WGOE Alpha Studios, Richmond VA [Uber 22]

May 31, 1973 
WGOE Radio, Alpha Studios, Richmond, VA.
The Uber Series Volume '22'
(Pre-Air Production Reel-To-Reel Tape):

source: tattoodad's uber project @ http://www.spl-messages.net


Setlist:
01 Intro
02 Satin Doll
03 Band Introduction
04 Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?
05 "Something Obscene"
06 The Circus Song
07 "Tonight We Have Vini"
08 Growin' Up
09 Banter
10 New York City Song
11 "Gonna Do One More"
12 You Mean So Much To Me"
13 Outro 


Sourced from the pre-air production reel-to-reel tape. 
This is a huge upgrade over the existing AM-sourced recording.

This performance (which features all the band in cameos except for Vini Lopez) is 
highlighted by what many consider the definitive available version of “You Mean So 
Much To Me”. During the show a fan calls into the radio station and requests Bruce’s 
old Steel Mill chestnut “Resurrection” – but Bruce doesn’t play it. Interestingly 
as Bruce takes his seat to perform a song solo at the piano one of the entourage 
can be heard saying “Janey?” – apparently thinking Bruce was going to perform the 
recently composed “Janey Needs A Shooter” to which Bruce replies “no” and instead 
delivers a fine version of his then-new “New York Song”.


Brucebase:

Bruce's second known radio show, but this one is unusual because it took place at 
Richmond's Alpha Sound Studios (or Alpha Audio), not at the station itself. 
It was broadcast live by WGOE-AM 1590 via a remote link. In addition to the DJ the 
small audience heard in the studio included Mike Appel, Jim Cretecos, Albee Tellone 
and David Sancious (who had yet to join the band but who was employed at the studio 
at the time). Albee Tellone has recently commented that he does not believe he was 
in the audience, but setting up the equipment for the evening show at Richmond Coliseum. 
The listed six-song setlist is the complete performance. This performance (which 
features all the band in cameos except for Vini Lopez) is highlighted by what many 
consider the definitive available version of "You Mean So Much To Me". 
During the show a fan calls into the radio station and requests Bruce’s old Steel Mill 
chestnut "Resurrection" but Bruce doesn’t play it. Interestingly as Bruce takes his seat 
to perform a song solo at the piano one of the entourage can be heard saying "Janey?", 
apparently thinking Bruce was going to perform the recently composed "Janey Needs A 
Shooter" to which Bruce replies "no" and instead delivers a fine version of his then-new 
"New York Song".

After the show Mike Appel took possession of the master tape, so none of the performance 
was ever re-broadcast by the station. Fortunately a fan taped the entire show from 
their radio, although the sound quality was weak. Although this audience audio had been 
in circulation since the mid-1970s it had never appeared on any mainstream bootleg, 
exception for the track "You Mean So Much To Me", which first surfaced on the 1976 vinyl 
LP boot 'Resurrected' in poor quality. This later appeared in better quality on the CD 
'Radio Waves' (Great Dane). The entire fan-recorded version is now available on a custom 
CDR boot entitled 'Strictly Prohibited'. A low generation copy of the entire original 
master tape (noted above) first surfaced (in very limited hands) in the early 1990s. 
Then the recording of the track "You Mean So Much To Me" from this source emerged on the 
1998 boot 'Deep Down In The Vaults' (E Street Records) and in 1999 on 'Missing Tracks, 
Vol. One' (Thrill Hill). The complete master tape in perfect sound quality finally 
emerged into the wider collector community in early 2007, and is available on CD 
'On The Road Night' (Crystal Cat), tracks 8-13.
 

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