Thread: The Official Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Thread.
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Old 11-19-2010, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Kathleen View Post
OK - my take on this 2 CD set from Darkness is that a lot of it has been re-recorded or at least overdubbed. The leaked lost masters just don't sound the same - and I'm not talking about quality. Sure they can clean them up if they have the originals. But there are additional instruments and in some cases very different arrangements. I started with The Promise which is one of those "holy grail" songs. It's very different from the tracks version and also very different from the old lost masters version - my call is some re-recording and/or overdubbing.
That's what I thought. The re-recordings just don't have the same passion as the originals. I have few of the Lost Masters CDs as well and for some reason this sounds too polished to me. And the ones he's sang again just don't work. The 70s backgrounds with 2000s Bruce feels wrong.

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