It's been two years and eight months since Springsteen finally started sharing a wealth of live concert recordings from his vault collection (the first release on November 14, 2017). Putting aside technical issues of sound production such as audio mixing, as a relative old-timer craving for nostalgia, I feel I'm almost fortunate enough to own several essential live performances at his peak between the late 1970s and early 1980s. These include four of the five FM-radio broadcasts from the legendary 1978 DARKNESS tour, two-MUSE charity appearance in New York City 1979, two of the three lengthy concerts to close down 1980 in Nassau, and the final show each from the summer 1981 and 1984 multi-night homecoming stands in New Jersey. In my memory, these concerts had been bootlegged on vinyl by the 1980s, or CD until early in the 1990s, with the exception of the 1981 N.J. show.
