Live/1975-85 est un recueil de titres de Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band enregistrés en concert de 1975 à 1985, paru en 1986. Il fut édité à la fois en coffret contenant cinq 33 tours et en coffret contenant trois CD - format 32 x 32 cm ; plus tard, le coffret prit le format classique des CD : 14 x 12 cm.
Bruce Springsteen avait choisi de sortir ce coffret pour lutter contre les nombreux bootlegs de ses concerts, souvent de mauvaise qualité.
Présentation
Bruce Springsteen en 1981
L'album en public (Live) de Bruce Springsteen était très attendu avec plus de 1,5 million d'exemplaires en commande, un record pour l'époque[2]. L'album a débuté à la première place au classement du Billboard, ce qui était assez rare car le dernier album qui avait débuté en tête du classement avait été Songs in the Key of Life de Stevie Wonder en 1976.
Huit titres sur quarante proviennent de l'album Born in the U.S.A., le dernier album studio produit avant l'album Live/1975-85.
Plusieurs titres ne figuraient pas dans les albums enregistrés en studio, parmi eux trois ont été diffusés en single : War, Fire et Seeds[4].
Thunder Road est le seul titre enregistré en 1975, c'est aussi le seul morceau où Springsteen chante en s'accompagnant au piano[5].
Paradise by the "C" est un instrumental, Springsteen l'a enregistré en octobre 1974 sous le titre A Love so Fine[6].
Pendant l'interprétation de Growin up, Springsteen raconte que pour son père la guitare de Bruce n'était pas une Fender guitar ou une Gibson guitar mais une goddamned guitar qui faisait trop de bruit[7].
En introduction de The River, Springsteen raconte que son père lui disait que l'armée ferait de lui un homme, mais fut très satisfait d'apprendre qu'il avait échoué à l'examen médical d'entrée à l'armée et échappait ainsi à la guerre du Viêt Nam[9]. The River est un des huit titres enregistrés le , 1985 au Los Angeles Coliseum.
↑Introduction à The River: How are you doing out there tonight ? That's good, that's good. This is, when I was growing up, me and my dad used to go at it all the time, over almost anything. But I ... I used to have really long hair, way down past my shoulders. I was 17 or 18. Oh man ! he used to hate it. We got to where we'd fight so much that I spent a lot of time out of the house. And in the summer time it wasn't so bad 'cause it was warm and your friends were out. But in the winter... I remember standing down town, it would get so cold, and when the wind was blowing I had this phone booth where I used to stand in. And I used to call my girl, like for hours at a time, just talking to her all night long. And finally I'd get my nerve up to go home. And I stand there in the driveway and he'll be waiting for me in the kitchen and I tuck my hair down into my collar and I'd walk in, and he'd call me back to sit down with him. And the first thing he'd always ask me was "what did I think I was doing with myself ?". And the worst part of that was that I could never explain it to him. I remember I got in a motorcycle accident once and I was laid up in bed and he had a barber come in and cut my hair and, man, I can remember telling him that I hated him and that I would never ever forget it. And he used to tell me: “Man, I can’t wait till the army gets you. When the army gets you they’re gonna make a man out of you. They’re gonna cut all that hair off and they’ll make a man out of you.” And this was, I guess, ’68 when there was a lot of guys from the neighbourhood going to Vietnam. I remember the drummer in my first band coming over to my house with his marine uniform on, saying that he was going and that he didn’t know where it was. And a lot of guys went, and a lot of guys didn’t come back. And the lot that came back weren’t the same anymore. I remember the day I got my draft notice. I hid it from my folks and three days before my physical me and my friends went out and we stayed up all night and we got on the bus to go that morning and, man, we were all so scared… And I went, and I failed. I came home [audience cheers], it’s nothing to applaud about… I remember coming home after I’d been gone for three days and walking in the kitchen and my mother and father were sitting there and my dad said: “Where you been?” and I said, uh, “I went to take my physical.” He said “What happened?” I said “They didn’t take me.” And he said: “That’s good.”
↑Because the Night a été écrite par Bruce Springsteen et interprétée pour la première fois par Patti Smith en 1978. Elle a été ensuite souvent reprise, en différents styles.
