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THE OFFICIAL BRUCE
SPRINGSTEEN CONCERT COLLECTION - By
Antoine
tonytoneto@hotmail.com
This section is
dedicated to customer's feedback about the
goods/service offered on this site. Don't hesitate
to email me
if you want to be posted!
This section is new. I will add more feedback as soon
as they come in.
July 20th, 2010
''Antoine,
Thanks for great service. The 1 week unlimited
mp3 access was brilliant. You have the ulitmate collection of
Springsteen shows and It must have taken years to obtain. I was
able to download quite a few shows and the download speeds were
remarkable. Your site is organized and filled with
information. Thanks again from a giant Bruce fan! It is nice
to have copies of shows that I attended over the years. I will
recommend your products and service to many people!
J Buechel''
July 15th, 2010
In my CD player as I type is the first night of
Springsteen's legendary two-night stand at San Francisco's
Winterland on 15 December 1978.
Some of you will know this is the culmination of a decade's long
search for this bootleg. I did see an incomplete version of it in
Greenwich Village in the 90s, but decided - foolishly, it turns out,
as I could never find it again - not to buy it then.
Endless internet searches eventually, just a week or so ago, turned
up an Italian bootleg available via Quebec, for which I was asked to
send a £20 note in the mail. This I did, being quite prepared to
lose the investment in what was after all something of a holy quest.
The 3 CD set avoided UK customs (sshhhh) to come through my postbox
into our entrance hall just over half an hour ago.
I was thus able to hear again Bill Graham's introduction, last heard
with all seven or eight of us who had only managed to get tickets to
the second night huddled around a radio in a Stanford dorm room.
(This is a lie: Green did access a multiple generation tape version
in the mid-80s, but it was, in fairness to him, all but inaudible –
Ed.)
The next night we were treated to, quite simply, the greatest
concert of my life: Springsteen, fresh out of an enforced
contract-bound layoff, on his first performances supporting his
greatest album, Darkness on the Edge of Town.
I was not only accompanied by smelly Californian dorm rats - to a
person Stanford law students, I may add, now earning their millions
somewhere - but a young Ohioan lass I had met some years before on
AFS in South Africa. Her name was, implausible as this must sound,
Candy. She had travelled from Ohio by train to California for a
reunion, arriving the night before the concert to announce - when I
waved two Springsteen tickets before her expecting immediate
physical gratification on the station - that she had grown out of
rock and roll (we were around 25 then).
This was only the slightest dampener (other expectations having come
to fruition by then), as I drove her off regardless the next night
to the Winterland.
Four and half hours after Bill’s introduction of Bruce & Co. on
night two, we joined the happiest and most exhausted concert crowd I
have ever seen stumbling out of the Winterland hanging on to each
other and anyone else who would help us stay upright. All four and a
half of those hours – which included an hour and a half encores –
had been packed with solid peak of career E Street, heavily weighted
towards Darkness. Bruce, I may say looked fresh as when he started
whilst we could barely stand, and rumour had it he would turn up at
some club and jam with a local band until dawn. We did check out a
few of the clubs to see if this was true, and didn’t get the
evidence: but the night was mine by then anyway, because, by about
song five of the concert (Candy’s Room only came in the second
half), the particular Candy (figuratively) on my arm, was declaring
her reconversion to rock and roll, and fairly incidentally, me.
Perhaps not going as far as a later Stanford girlfriend – Ohio
proving too far away – I hadn’t known at the time who would openly
tell anyone who would listen when we went out that this Springsteen
concert had literally saved her life. She worked in Stanford’s
famous medical faculty, so I assume she knew what she was talking
about – although perhaps all of us remember a time when rock had
something of that genuine emotion.
I shall not attempt anything like a review of the bootleg (there are
reviews aplenty on Springsteen bootleg sites, all saying it is one
of the best, amidst their assertions that they would never stoop to
selling such a thing, until you follow one tortuous link to Quebec).
What I will say is that I still remember my fury when the first
legal live Bruce – Live 1975-1985 – left out precisely what is so
powerful about straight-through Bruce concerts: extended versions of
many of the songs interspersed with narratives and knife-edge band
improvisation, and, especially, his ability to control the emotional
intensity of the experience: starting at a peak most bands climax
at, and then pulling back, going up again, dodging sideways,
whatever, but keeping the audience in the palm of his hand for every
second of the gig before throwing you up into the air of the night,
leaving you to come down wherever you happened to land with a sense
that you had been somewhere very, very special.
Something, by the way, he largely failed to do when I saw him at
Earl’s Court in 1999, wonderful but weighed down by his own history,
heavy and stolid by comparison with the kid who in 1978 leapt off a
3 or 4 metre speaker stack whilst playing a lead break and then
skidded across the floor, never missing a note, to intersect head on
with Miami Steve, running full force from the other side of the
stage playing his perfectly matching lead break. And then – this is
the point about a Springsteen gig – look over his shoulder at the
crowd and give a cheesy grin that said it all: yes, this is rock and
roll cheese, but shit it’s fun beyond anything else. And then throw
himself onto the waving hands of the crowd, microphone in hand and
never missing a word, with terrified roadies trying to pull him back
by the microphone cord. And then back on stage to bring it down so
dark and low – on this occasion, with Point Blank or Drive All
Night, as yet unreleased on record – that you’d be moved to tears.
And then take you all the way back up again, singing along with
every chorus and yelling that Bruuuuuuuuce that sounds so much like,
except it could never be, a Booooooo, until you had absolutely no
voice left.
Well, here’s to Candy (I wonder if she’s on Facebook? – then again,
I loathe Facebook), Bruce, and Antoine L. in Montreal: not
necessarily in that order, but thanks for one of those nights that
don’t come along too often.
Michael G. (UK)
January 25th, 2010
"I just want to thank you Tony for the great
service that you give. All the CD's are superb and the two
Birmingham shows just brought back a whole load of memories to me.
Thanks again Tony you're a nugget!"
John (UK)
July 10th, 2009
"I have been buying product from Antoine for several
years now, I guess that makes me a returning customer. There's a
reason for that, Tony has provided a service that is priceless.
July 8th was the 31st anniversary of my very first Bruce Springsteen
concert, and have attended many more shows after that. Tony has made
it possible for me to create an audio and visual history of
Springsteen concerts from the various tours I have attended
His products are high quality, his service unsurpassed.
As you browse through his excellent web site, and you have any
doubt, DON'T. I can tell you it has been one of the best buying
experiences I have ever encountered.
Tony, you are the BEST!!!!!"
Ed O. from Phoenix.
June 19th, 2009
"Just wanted to drop you a note to let you know that
I received my order yesterday. I have now ordered 6 Springsteen
shows from you and have been really happy with all of them! Your
sound quality rating system is spot on every time & your
shipping/Email responses are lightning fast!!
Thank you for a great transaction!"
Ryan D.
May 18th, 2009
"It was the first time I ordered DVDs from Antoine. I
want to thank him for his quick and excellent service. The sound and
the pictures of the Springsteen DVDs are in a great quality so that
I am sure to order more of them in the future and to recommend to my
friends to do the same. And don't forget: "the music has to be
righteous""
Johannes H. from Germany
April 27th, 2009
"I just ordered my 1st set of disks from Antoine & used the download format.
I received the link quickly, the download was quick and easy & I transferred them to my ITunes library.
The tutorial that gets sent is easy to follow & makes this the easiest way to get the disks.
I would recommend to anyone to order disks from Antoine and will be adding more to my collection in the near future.
Thanks,
Jamie"
March
13th,
2009
"I would like to thanks Antoine for the job
done! It's marvellous! Since 25 years, I was
searching; buying bad products and lost money! Now with
Antoine's items it's total bliss ! I live
in France, and now I can listen to all the shows where
I was and that's great.
Many many thanks again and don't forget that we
were born to run ! Let the good times roll ! Keep the
faith !"
Eric S. from
France
October
24th, 2008
"Thanks very much Tony for your fantastic work. I
have received my DVD's and I'm so happy to get a chance
to see again the great, fantastic, amazing San Siro's
show. An unforgettable night that I will remember for
so long. I have received the shipment on time and in
perfect condition. I have also appreciate your serious
way to run the business and all your quick answers.
Trust me I will forward your details to my friends as I
know that you will answer to them with the same
efficiency that you have answered to me. Once more many
thanks and just remember that we are all "born to run".
"
François from
Italy
October
7th, 2008
''An excellent service
from Antoine for all Springsteen fans. I have just
received my third set of discs and will be back for
some more. The sound quality is fantastic and you are
kept up to date via email each step of the
way.''
Kevin (in the UK)
August
11th, 2008
''While I still have
some time to go on my 30 day download premium
membership, I have to say that I am extremely happy
with the quality of the music and the way in which the
music is organized. Given the timeframe, I've limited
my downloads (for the most part) to those concerts
labeled awesome audience, awesome soundboard and
excellent soundboard. Wow! Some unbelievable shows in
there! Definitely looking forward to loading some of
the outtakes/rehearsal compilations too. Thanks for
being an easy, one stop source for Bruce fans-I'm
telling everyone about this site!
Thanks again,
Jeff (Jackson, New Jersey)''
July 24th,
2008
"Hi
Tony,
Just a quick note to say thank you for Bruce's Cardiff
concert CD's. If this is an indication of how you do
business then I will be returning to your site pretty
soon. Keep up the good work,
Regards, John (England)."
July 22nd,
2008
''I have been buying
Bruce shows from Antoine for 5 years now. Every
transaction went extremely smooth. I am also impressed
with the sound quality system that is provided. His
site brings back so many great memories of better days,
furthermore, it is great to go to a show now and have
the luxury of buying it within a week. I love where his
site is going with the memberships and the mp3s. I love
when people come up to me and ask where and how I was
able to receive these shows. I always make sure I tell
them and they are able buy them without worry. Keep
them coming.''
Posted by
Joseph
July
14th,
2008
''I have placed
several orders with Antoine and have been very happy
with all of them. Thanks for having a site like this
for the diehards. It's nice to relive some very special
times with some very special friends.''
Posted by
David
July
3rd,
2008
''Antoine is a shining
example of how to conduct business - the site is easy
to navigate, the service is impeccable - timely
response, informs you of price, receipt of payment and
shipping. The Springsteen CD and DVD products I have
received over the past couple years have been exactly
as described, with superb sound and picture quality an
outstanding cover artwork. You can practically relive
the concert experience with Antoine's products! Kudos
to you, Antoine! Best regards, Patty''
Posted by
Patty
July
3rd, 2008
"I
have placed several order with Antoine, and I must say
that I have been extremely pleased. He keeps you
informed every step of the way, and the quality of the
recordings is first rate! Every time I see Bruce, I
keep checking the website to see if the shows are
available yet and I am always amazed at how quickly
they appear! As long as Bruce keeps touring, I will
continue to get my concerts from Antoine, and I
encourage everyone else to
do the same."
Posted by Valerie
February
18th, 2008
G R E A T !!!!! Like
always, this is absolutely M A G I C!!!!!
Quick serve like always, brilliant with mp3.
Thanks a lot.
Have a good time, until next order.
Posted by Beat
February
12th, 2008
"I have purchased
several discs and have never been disappointed...the
quality is as good as the it was when I was there
live...what a great way to keep remembering the great
shows keep up the good work...."
Posted by mike
"I can not say enough good things about Antoine's
service! I have not bought several shows from Antoine
and have not been disappointed yet! Antoine let's you
know what is happening every step of the way, and he
delivers the shows very quickly! His service is just
incredible!! Antoine, keep up the good
work!!"
Posted by Gary
L.
December
19th, 2007
''Antoine is a shining example of how to conduct
business - the site is easy to navigate, the service is
impeccable - timely response, informs you of price,
receipt of payment and shipping. The Springsteen CD and
DVD products I have received over the past couple years
have been exactly as described, with superb sound and
picture quality an outstanding cover artwork. You can
practically relive the concert experience with
Antoine's products! Kudos to you,
Antoine!
Best
regards, Patty''
November 16th, 2007
"I have received over 20 items from Antoine and have
not once been disappointed. Antoine always answers
questions and is very reliable with sending the
products on time. Did I mention the amazing prices of
the CD's and DVD's? Long live this website. Thank
you!!"
Posted by Will- New
York
November 13th, 2007
" The shows are unreal! This is THE place for the best
of the boss live. I will be a customer for life! Live
shows from Bruce don't get any better then
springsteenliveinconcert.com. "
Posted by Don from New Jersey USA
October 31st,
2007
"I just received my cd and the quality was very good, I
have ordered a few cd's from Antoine and have not been
disapointed. I highly recommend buying Springsteen cd's
from Antoine. Keep up the great work!!!!''
Posted by Steve
October
23rd, 2007
"My girlfriend Krystal has ordered many CD's And DVD's
from antoine and i must say that i love each and every
1. It's the only thing i ask for at Christmas time!!
Needless to say it makes her upset but i can't help it
i love Bruce Springsteen so much and this website!!
Thanks so much Antoine. Keep up the good
work..."
Posted by John
T
October
4th, 2007
"I have purchased 200+ cd's and DVD's from Antoine and
have only praise for the service and the quality of the
product he provides. Long may you continue."
Posted by Steve
September 27th,
2007
"I have ordered at least 10 to 15 cds from Antoine and
have never been disappointed. You are a great source
for both the serious fan and the curious collector.
Keep up the good work!"
Posted by Tony
September 26th,
2007
"I have ordered 4 or 5 shows from Antoine and have been
happy with each and every one of them. I check the site
all the time. Great service and a great website."
Posted by Tim
September 25th,
2007
"I just received the CD today. I must say I am very
impressed by the quality. My wife and I went to that
show 22 years ago and it was nice to relive that
experience! Keep up the good work Antoine.''
Posted by Carl
"I'm happy you finally put that section up. I ordered a
few times from you and I was never disappointed. Great
service Antoine! Long live to your website."
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