Title: American Madness: Remastered Darkness On The Edge Of Town Outtakes Label: Ev2 Format: 4CD Source: Studio Date: June 1977 - April 1978 Location: Atlantic Studios / The Record Plant, NYC, NY Disc 1: 01 Don't Look Back 02 Prove It All Night 03 Candy's Room 04 The Promised Land - w/o guitar solo 05 Badlands 06 Something In The Night 07 Factory 08 Racing In The Street 09 Prove It All Night #2 10 Darkness On The Edge Of Town 11 Spanish Eyes 12 Sherry Darling 13 Streets Of Fire 14 Candy's Room #2 15 Prove It All Night* * Promo cut for radio play, recorded at Community Auditorium, Berkeley, CA July 1, 1978. - See info in the end of this file Disc 2: 01 The Promise 02 Badlands 03 Adam Raised A Cain 04 Something In The Night 05 Prove It All Night 06 Down By The River (Say Sons) 07 Taxi Cab (Taxi Driver, City At Night) 08 Factory 09 Streets Of Fire #1 10 Because the Night #1 11 The Iceman 12 Preacher's Daughter 13 Crazy Rocker 14 Drive All Night #1 15 The Way #2 16 The Fast Song (instrumental) 17 Someday, Tonight (instrumental) 18 Racing In The Street Disc 3: 01 The Promise 02 Hearts Of Stone 03 One Way Street 04 Candy's Boy #1 05 Endless Night (English Sons) 06 Spanish Eyes 07 Streets Of Fire #2 08 Factory 09 Loose Ends 10 Independence Day 11 Drive All Night #2 12 The Way #1 13 Racing In The Street 14 Don't Look Back (instrumental) 15 Badlands (instrumental) 16 Castaway (The Ballad) Disc 4: 01 What's The Matter Little Darling 02 Get That Feeling #2 03 Get That Feeling #1 04 Candy's Boy #2 05 Rendezvous 06 I Wanna Be With You 07 Don't Look Back 08 Ramrod 09 Frankie 10 Because The Night #2 11 Sherry Darling 12 Outside Lookin' In 13 I'm Goin' Back 14 Fire 15 The Fast Song 16 Break Out 17 Talk To Me (instrumental) 18 Racing In The Street ======================================= Disc One (1) details: Source: 'Original Darkness Mixes', E Street Records ES-08. Date: June 1977 - April 1978 Location: The Record Plant, New York City, NY Original mixes for the album, recorded from original acetates. - Some tracks have some crackle & hiss, nothing I could do to remove it (they were on the original files) -- Disc Two (2) details: Recording details: - Tracks 1,9,10,16,18 recorded at Atlantic Studios, NYC August 1977 - Tracks 2,3,5 recorded at Atlantic Studios OR The Record Plant, NYC August 1977. - Tracks 4,17 recorded at The Record Plant, NYC September 1977. - Track 14 recorded at Atlantic Studios, NYC June 1977. - Tracks 6,7,8,11,12,13,15 recorded at The Record Plant, NYC Oct-Dec 1977. Source details: - Tracks 1,9,14,16 from 'Lost Masters II', LOVE 002 - Tracks 2,3,5,10,17 from 'Lost Masters III', LOVE 003 - Tracks 6,7,12,11 from 'Loose Ends', Scorpio - Track 8 from 'Definitive Darkness Outtakes Collection', ES-17/18 - Track 4 from 'The Promise', BS300 - Track 15 from 'Ultra Rare Trax Volume 1', MR001 - Track 13 from 'Treasures From The Vault', Ev2 (DDITV edit) - Track 18 is a mix of 'Lost Masters III' & 'The Promise'. Track descriptions: Tracks 1,6,7,10,12,13,14,15,16,17 unreleased outtakes 02 Different lyrics 03 Alternate take w/ different lyrics 04 Different mix 05 Lyrics from 'Something In The Night' 08 Violin overdub from David Lindley 09 Earlier take 11 Virtually identical to 'Tracks' version 18 Slow version with different lyrics (solo piano?) -- Disc Three (3) details: Recording details: - Tracks 8,13,15,16 recorded at Atlantic Studios, NYC August 1977 - Track 6 recorded at Atlantic Studios OR The Record Plant, NYC August 1977. - Tracks 1,7,10 recorded at The Record Plant, NYC September 1977. - Track 3,4,11,14 recorded at Atlantic Studios, NYC June 1977. - Tracks 2,5,12 recorded at The Record Plant, NYC Oct-Dec 1977. - Track 9 recorded probably at The Record Plant, NYC April 1978. Source details: - Tracks 3,11,13,14,15 from 'Lost Masters II', LOVE 002 - Tracks 6,8,10 from 'Lost Masters III', LOVE 003 - Tracks 4,9,16 from 'Loose Ends', Scorpio - Tracks 2,5,7,12 from 'Definitive Darkness Outtakes Collection', ES-17/18 - Track 1 from 'Treasures From The Vault', Ev2 (DDITV edit) Track descriptions: Tracks 1,3,4,5,6,10,11,12,14,15,16 unreleased outtakes 02 Different mix without the '98 recorded horns on Tracks 07 Different mix 08 Alternative lyrics 09 Different mix 13 Alternate version with harp -- Disc Four (4) details: Recording details: - Tracks 2,4,11,15,17,18 recorded at Atlantic Studios, NYC August 1977 - Tracks 8,10 recorded at The Record Plant, NYC September 1977. - Track 5,6,7,9,12,14 recorded at Atlantic Studios, NYC June 1977. - Tracks 1,3,13,16 recorded at The Record Plant, NYC Oct-Dec 1977. Source details: - Tracks 2,9,14,17 from 'Lost Masters II', LOVE 002 - Tracks 4,11,15,18 from 'Lost Masters III', LOVE 003 - Tracks 5,6,13,16 from 'Loose Ends', Scorpio - Tracks 1,3 from 'Treasures From The Vault', Ev2 (DDITV edit) - Tracks 7,10 from 'The Promise', BS300 - Track 12 from 'Definitive Darkness Outtakes Collection', ES-17/18 - Track 8 from 'The Iceman', BS100 Track descriptions: Tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17 unreleased outtakes 07 Rough vocals, very different take 18 Different lyrics ====================================== First of all, this was originally going to be a 2cd set of 'Darkness' studio outtakes. As I kept editing these songs, there was no way they could've fit on only 2cd's. (Plan was, 1cd 'Original Darkness Mixes', other cd of various outtakes) Then next thing I noticed, I had planned a 6cd set with 2cd's of Live tracks... In the end I decided not to include the live cd's which made this 'only' a 67 track, 4cd collection. I used John's 'brucebase' website (link somewhere below) as a database to see which tracks were 'worth' editing, where I could find them and so on. Making this a 4cd set allowed me to include some of the tracks I would've otherwise left out, such as the alternative 'Dont Look Back' & 'Ramrod' which are both in a bit worse sound quality. I wouldn't say any of the tracks sound 'bad'. When burning this compilation, make sure you burn it DAO - without the 2 seconds gaps between each track. My favourite tracks: D3Track01 & D3Track16. Big thanks to FrankiesJoint & Jumpstone for finding me most of the tracks. Brucebase 'On The Tracks': http://brucebase.org.uk/0.htm