{"id":11224,"date":"2019-07-16T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=11224"},"modified":"2024-01-02T07:10:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T15:10:56","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-save-my-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/16\/roll-of-the-dice-save-my-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll of the Dice: Save My Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since Bruce released\u00a0Tracks<\/em> more than twenty years ago, we’ve become used to Bruce rescuing, tweaking, finishing, and releasing outtakes from the vault.<\/p>\n

Sometimes the changes are subtle, like when he added a horn overlay on to “Ain’t Good Enough for You<\/a>” or surgically edited the bootleg of “Mr. Outside<\/a>.” Sometimes they’re jarring, like the modern vocals grafted onto the end of “The Brokenhearted<\/a>.”\u00a0For\u00a018 Tracks,\u00a0<\/em>Bruce completely re-recorded “The Promise” rather than release the original recording. (We’d have to wait another decade or so to hear the original.)<\/p>\n

But “Save My Love” is in a class by itself: an entirely new 2010 recording of a 1976 song that never even made it into the studio. (And calling it a “song” is pretty generous.)<\/p>\n

One hot day in the summer of ’76, almost a full year before the first recording sessions for what would become Darkness on the Edge of Town<\/em><\/a>, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band rehearsed new material at his house.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Barry Rebo always seemed to have a video camera with him at the right time and place; thanks to Barry, we have an astoundingly clear video of that rehearsal session, which included a musically finished but lyrically rough song that existed nowhere in Bruce’s recording sessions until decades later. Take a look at the can’t-believe-they-were-ever-that-young E Street Band:<\/p>\n