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Day Two Hundred Eighty Five

Let's see, where to begin... I watched the Springsteen documentary, but I did it this morning after I woke up, as opposed to last night before falling asleep. Fantastic doc! It's always fascinating to me to see the machinations behind the creation of music, and this one did a great job of outlining the process and the struggle involved with making Darkness on the Edge of Town. The documentary that went along with the 30th Anniversary edition of Born To Run was just as good. What was really cool about seeing the Darkness one and having already seen the Born one is that the records followed each other chronologically, so there was a bit of overlap at the start of this latest one.

The other cool thing that came out of watching that this morning was that, in answering some of the questions posed during the documentary, Springsteen had an acoustic in his lap, and would strum through the chords and explain some of the meanings behind things. This, of course, got me involved in learning Darkness on acoustic.

Doing that led me to listening to The Promise. It was interesting to hear some of the other songs that could have made that record. I will need more time to absorb it all, but I'm definitely enjoying it so far.

As for the Brandi Carlile... well, it's amazing! Her voice is more to the forefront on the live record, and while all of the arrangements sound mostly like the recorded versions, there are just enough changes to make it an incredibly compelling listen. Plus, they do the 3 part harmony thing during "Turpentine" that they tried at the show I went to last fall, and it worked to perfection. By that, I mean it gives me chills every time I hear it.

I sat for a little bit with the hard rock stuff too, but not as long as I had hoped to. In theory I'll be able to talk more about that tomorrow, seeing as I've got another day off.

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