I still can't believe what you get with this box set. According to what I've seen and heard so far it will include:
- the remastered
Darkness album
- a huge number of previously unreleased songs
- a 90 min documentary
- a live performance of the entire album
- archive footage of various 1970s shows
- the complete Houston '78 concert
- notebook
and probably some merch
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Originally Posted by Julie in the rv mirror
My goodness, I had no idea it was so difficult! It makes me realize how much we take for granted.
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It was difficult but it somehow made you appreciate music much more. (And you could brag when you had gotten another rare record, LOL.) There was a radio station that played full albums that you could not purchase in East Germany. As far as I remember that program ran several days a week in the evenings. They'd play side A from album X and side A from album Y. A week later they'd play the B sides. That way you could record entire albums from radio to tape. Unfortunately cassette recorders and tapes were f*cking expensive - they were among the most popular things you used to request from your western relatives.
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Originally Posted by AndrewG
I do remember watching that show on bootleg DVD and it was quite special going by the footage. Perhaps it should be another one that should be released eventually because of its significance.
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Was that the whole show? I've only seen incomplete versions so far. As far I remember, East German TV put their commentaries on the songs, so you got incomplete performances of
Badlands and other songs. I've seen complete versions of some of the affected songs on YouTube, too, so I assume there must be a recording of the whole show without the commentary. (???)
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Originally Posted by Julie in the rv mirror
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I heard Bruce caused East Germany's biggest traffic jam ever. Unfortunately I was too young go to that concert but I was lucky enough to find a music magazine that included a poster with pics from that show.
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Originally Posted by The Flying Mouse
 The Berlin Wall fell due to the reaction to a leaked advance promo copy of [...] |
He did that on TV over here recently - as a duet! And don't ask in what kind of show...
