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31-Jan-1973 New York,NY Max's Kansas City,USA

01 The ballad of the architect angel
02 Song to the orphans

Notes:
The SECOND show of the night opens with Max's Kansas City owner Mickey Ruskin saying "once again can you please welcome Bruce Springsteen....". Bruce opens the second show with Architect Angel and then does Song Of The Orphans after which he says "I'm gonna bring out the band". The band performance part of the SECOND show has yet to circulate. From Brucebase: By prior arrangement with Mike Appel and Columbia Records, DIR Broadcasting Corp was on hand to gather performance recordings of Bruce for use on its upcoming new syndicated radio program called “King Biscuit Flower Hour”. The DIR Engineers had been in Buffalo two days earlier recording The Mahavishnu Orchestra and the week before that in Dallas recording a Blood Sweat & Tears concert. The King Biscuit Flower Hour used a 2-4 week delayed broadcast formula and the show made its debut on Feb 18th and Feb 19th (date depended on the locale). As it turned out the program that aired featured mostly Blood Sweat & Tears (major stars at this time). Only one Mahavishnu Orchestra track was broadcast and only one Springsteen song (“Bishop Dance”). This is the recording of “Bishop Dance” that ended up on the official TRACKS boxed set, although the liner notes for TRACKS mistakenly list the broadcast date as the recording date. "Bishop Dance" was re-broadcast by King Biscuit several times in subsequent years but none of the other Springsteen material recorded by them on this night was ever aired, seemingly due to rights issues. Recordings from this show are often misidentified as coming from solo Springsteen shows at Max's Kansas City in mid 1972. The above-mentioned setlists are culled from circulating soundboard recordings of both shows from this night. The early show is believed to be complete but the band segment of the second show is missing. The recently surfaced recording of “Rosalita” (available on the boot CD “DEEP DOWN IN THE VAULTS”) is from this Max’s Kansas City residency and may possibly be from the second show, although Brucebase has listed this track under the following night’s show. King Biscuit Flower Hour still retains a Master Tape of the entire 31/01/73 show in its archives. There are conflicting reports as to whether the company also has any of the band segment of the second show. On their Master Tape reel "Saga Of The Architect Angel" is mistakenly titled "John Wayne". The company has repeatedly sought (and been declined) permission to commercially release what they have as part of its ongoing archive CD reissue series. Fortunately we do have the material via the unofficial route. The entire performance from the early show can be found in excellent quality on the CD boot "LIVE AT MAX'S KANSAS CITY" (Swingin' Pig). This CD also has the two tracks from the second show but, inexplicably, the recording of "Song To Orphans" is only half complete on this boot. Mike Appel utilized these recordings of “Bishop Dance” and “Thundercrack” for copyright/publishing purposes. In doing so the long, 11:30 recording of "Thundercrack" was professionally edited to a slicker, more focused 6:50 running time. The song is cut in a couple of places, with the major edit completely eliminating the middle "comedy break" routine. It is this edited version that was distributed (on tape or acetate) to select industry people during the period. This edited version of "Thundercrack" was one of the earliest booted Springsteen recordings and can be found on the mid-70's LP boot "FIRE ON THE FINGERTIPS". Enhanced sound specimens of this long-circulating edited version of "Thundercrack" can be found in more recent times on CD boots "FORGOTTEN SONGS", "UNSURPASSED SPRINGSTEEN VOL 2" and, most recently, "DEEP DOWN IN THE VAULTS" (which falsely credits the performance as 5/1/74 at Joe's Place). One final point of interest - a 1972 studio demo of "Vibes Man" with audience applause crudely dubbed onto it by a 1970’s bootlegger often circulates identified as from this show. There is no genuine live performance of "Vibes Man" known.

Songs from this show can be found on:
ALL THOSE YEARS (Templar Records)
GENUINE TRACKS (THE) (Scorpion (Scorpio?))
LIVE AND UNRELEASED 1971/1979 (Seagull records)
LIVE AT MAX'S KANSAS CITY (Swinging Pig Records)
SATISFACTION 4 (New Digital Media)
ULTRA RARE TRACKS VOL.3 (Genuine Pig)
ULTRA RARE TRACKS VOL.4 (Genuine Pig)
UNSURPASSED SPRINGSTEEN VOL. 1 (Yellow dog)
UNSURPASSED SPRINGSTEEN VOL. 2 (Yellow dog)
ALL THOSE YEARS (Heart and Soul)
A SAINT IN THE CITY (Alternative Edge Productions)



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