Artist: Asbury Park
Title: A Tribute To Bruce Springsteen
   
Label: -
Catalog #: -
Total Time: 120:41
Date: July 7, 2006
Location: Kirketorget, Kongsberg, Norway (Kongsberg Jazzfestival)
   
Format: ALAC
Source: Recorded with Core Sounds LC binaural mics into an iRiver H320 (with Rockbox patch for WAV recording). Tracks split with CDWave and compressed with FLAC level 6. Recorded from the right corner of the soundboard.
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Disc 1: (63:56)

  1. Intro (1:39)
  2. Adam Raised A Cain (4:45)
  3. Backstreets (7:01)
  4. Mansion On The Hill (5:17)
  5. Blinded By The Light (5:28)
  6. Badlands (4:30)
  7. Thunder Road (5:13)
  8. She's The One (6:05)
  9. Glory Days (4:40)
  10. Tougher Than The Rest (8:14)
  11. Darkness On The Edge Of Town (4:53)
  12. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (6:06)
 

Disc 2: (56:45)

  1. Bobby Jean (5:22)
  2. The River (12:12)
  3. Born To Run (7:49)
  4. Jungleland (9:55)
  5. No Surrender (9:16)
  6. Blinded By The Light (5:39)
  7. She's The One (6:30)
   
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  Torrent notes:
This is a quite fun show. "Asbury Park - A tribute to Bruce Springsteen" is a band project put together by nine great musicians, all of them of Norway's biggest Springsteen fans. Even though people like Odd Nordstoga and Christer Knutsen (the two vocalists) are "local" in the term that they're unknown outside of Norway, all of the band members are well-knows in their genres. Half of them are connected to Jaga Jazzist, the others have different backgrounds.

Some facts on the show and recording:

Asbury Park - A tribute to Bruce Springsteen
Live at Kirketorvet at Kongsberg Jazzfestival, 2006-07-07

Recorded by Bull with Core Sounds LC binaural mics into an iRiver H320 (with Rockbox patch for WAV recording).
Tracks split with CDWave and compressed with FLAC level 6. Recorded from the right corner of the soundboard.

Sound quality:
I forgot to adjust the volume down since my last recording, so you can notice some dropouts in the sound two or three places in the show, but all in all the sound is good.

Band:
Odd Nordstoga (solo artist, folk/pop)
Christer Knutsen (solo artist)
Martin Horntvedt (Jaga Jazzist)
Line Horntvedt (Jaga Jazzist)
Lars Horntvedt (Jaga Jazzist)
Andreas Mjøs (Jaga Jazzist)
David Wallumrød (Southpaw)
Rolf Yngve Uggen (Gluecifer)
Øystein Skjælaaen (Real Ones)

The band had only rehearsed 16 songs, so they had to do two songs over again for the second encores.

Track listing:

01 Intro
02 Adam raised a Cain
03 Backstreets
04 Mansion on the hill
05 Blinded by the light
06 Badlands
07 Thunder road
08 She's the one
09 Glory days
10 Tougher than the rest
11 Darkness on the edge of town
12 Tenth avenue freeze-out
13 Bobby Jean
14 The river
15 Born to run
16 Jungleland
17 No surrender
18 Blinded by the light
19 She's the one

Total time: ca. 2 hours

Splits between CD1 and CD2 can be put wherever you like, I have not added any fades. With 80min CDs, you can get track 01-13 on CD1 and 14-19 on CD2. Or you can choose to split halfway in the show, then you split between tracks 11 and 12 or between 12 and 13.

Christer Knutsen's intro for "The river" is fantastic - but unfortunately (for those foreigners) in norwegian. In total the show is a great version of Bruce & the E streeters anno the late '70s, with a few '80s songs as well. A nice listen for Bruce fans and/or fans of these artists who play.

A few links:

http://www.kongsberg-jazzfestival.no/default.asp?uid=172&CID=172 (in english)
http://www.ta.no/pulsen/article2188709.ece (show review, norwegian)
http://www.kulturservice.no/view.php?page=519 (show review, norwegian)
http://oslopuls.no/musikk/article1380928.ece (interview, norwegian)
http://www.darkside.no/gallery/asbury_park_a_tribute_to_bruce_springsteen/ (pictures)

About the band members:
http://www.christerknutsen.com/
http://www.nordstoga.no/
http://www.jagajazzist.com/
http://www.southpaw.no/
http://www.gluecifer.com/
http://www.realones.no/
 

 
 

My copy comes from a FLAC source -> CD-R -> ALAC.

Last updated April 22, 2007 21:16 by steel@nvg.org

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