{"id":26870,"date":"2021-05-08T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=26870"},"modified":"2023-01-02T17:51:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T01:51:07","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-rendezvous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/08\/roll-of-the-dice-rendezvous\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll of the Dice: Rendezvous"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there was at all a benefit to the long period between\u00a0Born to Run<\/em> and\u00a0Darkness on the Edge of Town<\/em><\/a> when Bruce was legally barred from recording new material, it’s that it gave him a chance to road test some new material before taking it into the studio.<\/p>\n

“Rendezvous,” for instance–Bruce recorded it in the autumn of 1977, but he debuted it in concert more than a year before that. The song benefited from its 45 live performances before Bruce and the band committed it to tape.<\/p>\n

What’s particularly intriguing about “Rendezvous,” though, is that Bruce continued tweaking it even\u00a0after<\/em> recording it.<\/p>\n

From its very first outing, “Rendezvous” sounds like it was written to be performed live.<\/p>\n