Live 07 Aug 1976 version
[Spoken intro:] I knew you could make it! I knew you could make it. And now! We have a treat for you! Thankfully, we've got with us tonight, we got 'em from Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, the Miami Horns! They're looking nice! Let's go do it! Miami Horns, go, one, two, three, four!
One, two, three, four!
Teardrops on the city
Bad Scooter searching for his groove
You can do it, one, two!
Seem like the whole world's walking pretty
You can't find the room to move
Big Man!
Everybody better move over, that's all
I'm running on the bad side
With my back to the wall
(Tenth Avenue freeze-out)
(Tenth Avenue freeze-out)
I was stranded in the jungle
Taking all the heat they were giving
Well, the night is dark and the sidewalk's bright
Lined with the light of the living
From a tenement window a transistor blasts
Turn around the corner things got real quiet real fast
I walked into a
(Tenth Avenue freeze-out)
(Tenth Avenue freeze-out)
Well, I'm all alone, I'm on my own
[Clarence Clemons:] Well, kid, you'd better get the picture!
Well, I'm all alone, I'm on my own
And I can't seem to find my, my way back home
Now wait a minute, this is-
They made that change uptown
And the Big Man joined the band
From the coastline to the city
The little pretties raise their hands
They raised 'em high!
I'm gonna sit back right easy and laugh
When Scooter and the Big Man bust this city in half, Big Man!
(Tenth Avenue freeze-out)
(Tenth Avenue freeze-out)
Talking 'bout the
(Tenth Avenue freeze-out)
Talking 'bout the
(Tenth Avenue freeze-out)
Talking 'bout the, tell me
(Tenth Avenue freeze-out)
Talking 'bout the, tell me
(Tenth Avenue freeze-out)
Talking 'bout the, tell me
(Tenth Avenue freeze-out)
A little bit more!
(Tenth Avenue freeze-out)
Whoa!
Say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say
Oh, yeah, it's all right
Oh, believe it
[Spoken outro:] The Miami Horns!
The above lyrics are for the live 07 Aug 1976 performance of TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT at Monmouth Arts Center in Red Bank, NJ, during what is known as The Lawsuit Tour. The song was played in a traditional full-band arrangement. It featured the Miami Horns quartet line-up #1: Carlo Novi (saxophone), Ed Manion (saxophone), Tony Palligrosi (trumpet), and Rick Gazda (trumpet). This foursome came from Southside Johnny's Miami Horns outfit during a break in Southside's touring schedule.
Some or all of this show was filmed in color, possibly by Barry Rebo. Video footage for the complete TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT was shown by Thom Zimny at the Rock 'n' Rock Hall Of Fame discussion in June 2009. Small sections of the song (parts above in bold) appear in The Promise: The Making Of Darkness On The Edge Of Town documentary.
This was the last of a six-night stand at Monmouth Arts Center.
Despite the marvelous reception received by both Born To Run and the tour which followed, the relationship between Bruce Springsteen and his now former manager and producer Mike Appel was deteriorating. In July 1976 the storm broke; Mike Appel wrote to Springsteen saying that he would not allow Jon Landau (Springsteen's friend and co-producer of Born To Run) to produce the next album, citing a particular paragraph from their original agreement. Springsteen replied on 27 Jul 1976 by firing manager Mike Appel and suing him and his management company Laurel Canyon Ltd. in Federal Court in Manhattan, claiming fraud, breach of trust, and undue influence. Appel counter-sued on 29 Jul 1976 in New York State Supreme Court, asking the court to prohibit Springsteen and Jon Landau from working together in studio. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band were slated to enter the studio that year for the recording of a new album, except that on 15 Sep 1976 the judge in the lawsuits case ruled that Springsteen was enjoined from any further recording with Columbia Records until Appel's suit was resolved. This would drag for about a year. Meanwhile, Springsteen continued gigging, and in the process broke his self-imposed rule of not playing the larger arenas. This was basically because he was not able to put a record out, and it was the only way his fans would be able to hear him at all. The tour became known as "The Lawsuit Tour" (62 know dates, August 1976 to March 1977).
The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story is a Bruce Springsteen box set released in 2010 on Columbia Records. It was originally expected to be released for the Darkness On The Edge Of Town album's 30th anniversary in 2008, but that didn't happen, possibly due to Springsteen's touring schedule. The box set was officially announced on 26 Aug 2010 and released to retail on 16 Nov 2010.
The 8.5"x11" box set contains three CDs, three Blu-Ray discs or three DVDs, and an 80-page spiral-bound notebook containing facsimiles from Springsteen's original notebooks from the recording sessions, which include alternate lyrics, song ideas, recording details, and personal notes, in addition to a new essay by Springsteen on the album and never-before-seen photographs. The box set won the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package.
Disc 1 consists of a digitally remastered version of the Darkness On The Edge Of Town album. Disc 2 and 3 consist of The Promise, a collection of unreleased songs from the Darkness On The Edge Of Town recording sessions.
Disc 4 is The Promise: The Making Of Darkness On The Edge Of Town, a documentary that was produced for the box set. It was directed by Grammy- and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Thom Zimny. The ninety-minute film combines never-before-seen footage of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band shot between 1976 and 1978, including home rehearsals and studio sessions, with new interviews with Springsteen, E Street Band members, manager Jon Landau, former manager Mike Appel, and others closely involved in the making of the record.
The documentary premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 14 Sep 2010 and also aired on HBO on 07 Oct 2010. It was first exclusively available as part of The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story box set, but was then released separately on 03 May 2011, in both DVD and Blu-Ray formats, with some bonus features.
Disc 5 consists of two parts: Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Paramount Theatre, Asbury Park 2009 and Thrill Hill Vault 1976 - 1978. The former is a Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band's live performance of the Darkness On The Edge Of Town album in its entirety, shot in HD on 13 Dec 2009 at Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park, NJ, without an audience.
Thrill Hill Vault 1976-1978 is a collection of archival footage from Springsteen's personal vault It consists of an about-an-hour's worth (it clocks at about 56 minutes) of home rehearsals footage from 1976, studio sessions footage from 1978, and live in concert footage from 1978. It was produced and edited by Emmy- and Grammy-winner Thom Zimny and the audio for the live 1978 footage and some of the 1978 studio footage was mixed by Bob Ludwig. Zimny re-edited the 1978 concert footage making use of previously unseen camera angles. The home rehearsals and studio session footage was originally produced and directed by Barry Rebo, while the live in concert footage was originally directed by Arnold Levine.
Disc 6 is Houston '78 Bootleg: House Cut, a video of the complete 08 Dec 1978 concert at The Summit in Houston, TX. The footage was taken from the in-house video screen at The Summit, which was one of the first arenas in the United States to have this system at the time. This gave the release its title "Houston '78 Bootleg: House Cut". Considering that it was taken from the mono soundboard, the sound is only available in PCM stereo and not in 5.1 surround. The video was produced by Emmy- and Grammy-winner Thom Zimny and the audio was mastered by Bob Ludwig. It clocks at around 176 minutes.
Thanks Jake (ol'catfishinthelake at BTX and Greasy Lake) for the lyrics help. Some of the above info is taken from Brucebase.
List of available versions of TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT on this website:
TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT [Album version]
