Reborn 'to Run' packs
delights for Bruce fans
Classic disk thunders back on 30th ann'y
'Born to Run' anniversary set salutes Bruce Springsteen's breakout album. It includes a DVD of a 1975 London concert.
If you're a rock 'n' roll fan and you've been looking for an excuse to buy a TV set the size of Rhode Island and a speaker system that would register on the Richter scale, here it is: the 30th-anniversary edition of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" album, with a remastered CD of the record, a "Making of" DVD and a second DVD containing a complete 1975 Bruce concert.
The set arrives as Springsteen winds up his current "Devils & Dust" tour with five Jersey shows that start Sunday night. But that's not a conflict, since the 2005 and the 1975 model Springsteens coexist just fine.
The reissued "Born to Run" itself, of course, offers little surprise. Like the Stones' "Beggars Banquet" or Bob Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde," it holds rock-steady as the years roll on.
The "Making of" special is solid, at times fascinating.
But what sends this package stepping out over the line is the music almost no one has heard before: Bruce's Nov. 18, 1975, concert at London's Hammersmith Odeon.
There's always been a part of rock 'n' roll that got better as it got bigger and louder. This is that part, because nothing in rock quite matches a good live Springsteen show.
And this is a good live Springsteen show. A very good one. He comes out of the dark with the first notes of "Thunder Road" and rises to sheer exuberance.
If he slows it down a little for a wonderful version of "Fourth of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)," still one of his most arresting songs, he looks ready to explode right off the stage with "Spirit in the Night" or the Detroit medley.
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