Exit Through The Backdoor

 
Date: 1972-02-xx 
Location: Backdoor Club, Richmond, VA

Label: Yellow Cat Records
Catalog #: YC-041/042

Taper: ?
Source: Audience Tape
Transferred By: ?
Transfer & Generation info: 


Disc 1: (45:32)

01 I Just Can't Change (7:02)
02 All I Wanna Do Is Dance (8:17)
03 Down To Mexico (5:38)
04 You Sure Can Dance (12:08)
05 Magic Kind Of Loving (5:12)
06 Love's A Crazy Thing (7:13) 

Disc 2: (45:33)

01 The Band's Just Boppin' The Blues (13:17)
02 Down To Mexico (4:57)
03 Darkness Darkness (12:58)
04 Bright Lights Big City (12:19) 


Info:


Brucebase:

Notes From 1972-02-xx Back Door show:

ONE show, with THE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN BAND the sole act on the bill. This was opening night of 9-show 
residency that encompassed three of the four weekends in February. The above-mentioned 19-songs are 
culled from circulating audience audio from the 9-show residency that would seem to encompass parts of
 four of these nine shows – consequently there are multiple performances of some songs (a total of 25 
recordings encompassing 229 minutes). Most of these 25 recordings have been in circulation since the mid
 1980’s and more than half have been issued on various mainstream bootleg titles. The remainder of the audio 
is only circulating via private CDR sources. The overall sound quality is good.

The so-called “Backdoor Club Tapes” represent some of the most perplexing live audio to sort out, primarily
 due to the fact that nearly all the between-song audio appears to have been cut by the original taper prior to 
the audio entering into collector circulation. Because of the lack of audio continuity it is extremely difficult to
 tell which recordings emanate from which shows - and virtually impossible to decipher the correct running
 order. Although the shows of Feb 4th and 26th are often cited on trade lists, these two dates appear to based
 on the fact that for many years these were the only two dates known to have been played at the club. It is now 
known the residency was much longer, so this material could be from any of the shows. However it is more 
likely that most of it comes from the final weekend’s performances.

Southside Johnny was a guest on the first weekend. However Southside’s harp playing is only heard on 
one track, “Bright Lights Big City”. Bruce handles the harmonica on “Just Cant Change”, one of his better 
songwriting efforts of 1971. Two other standout songs are “Like A Stranger” and “Make Up Your Mind”. 
The most interesting track is the full band version of “Cowboys Of The Sea” – a song that clearly foreshadows
 the change of lyric style that Bruce was adopting at the time