Bruce Springsteen live songs from 'The Promise' will stream on Vevo

Only 60 lucky people got a chance to watch the performance of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band doing gig at at the Carousel House in Asbury Park.

Vevo, the music industry's answer to YouTube, is streaming a five-song sampler from the Carousel House concert. The footage is dramatic -- Springsteen and his band in top form as the sun paints the sky pink behind him. The mini-concert will be up at www.vevo.com until January 1.

Bruce Springsteen Plays Secret Gig In New Jersey

On Tuesday,December 7 on the boardwalk in Asbury Park, New Jersey, a secret show was played by Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band,according to RollingStone.com

Songs from their recent release, The Promise was played by the band and his gang.Since the show was kept secret, there were only a few dozen people that showed up at the Carousel House, which used to hold an actual carousel.

At the secret gig,Jackson Browne's David Lindley played violin which lasted about four hours. Lindley had previously played on some of the Darkness sessions as well.

With Elvis' holiday classic "Blue Christmas" the band wrapped up the show.

Bruce Springsteen: With E Street Band perform a secret concert

Bruce Springsteen performed a secret concert with his E Street Band at the New Jersey on Tuesday 7 December. Bruce currently performed "The Promise" with his band.
The sessions 1978's "Dark On The Edge Of Town" released for this reason the album "The Promise" made up of unreleased material.

This concert was kept secret, at the Carousel House, which used to hold an actual carousel including this concert only a few dozen people. Jackson Browne's David Lindley also performed at the secret concert, when the Lindley had last performed in "Darkness On The Edge Of Town"as well.

For Elvis' holiday classic "Blue Christmas" the band absorbed their concert.

Bruce Springsteen - The Promise

In the three years between the knockout success of Born To Run and Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Bruce Springsteen was unable to go into the studio due to management issues but was still writing songs at an enviable rate. The songs that didn’t make Darkness make up this collection.

Some will be familiar. There’s a version of Racing In The Street with different lyrics, as well as Because The Night and Fire, which were made famous by Patti Smith and the Pointer Sisters respectively. Bruce’s original, looser version of Because illuminates the emotional depth Smith added to her rendition, though it’s easy to hear why she liked the song in the first place.

And while curiosities and lost tracks usually only appeal to the fan who has everything, this album stands as a perfect complement to Springsteen’s mid-70s work.

Bruce Springsteen – The Promise Review

Billed as a lost Springsteen album, these 21 songs were left over from the 40 or so he recorded for 1978's Darkness on the Edge of Town, which is re-released this week in the form of a luxurious, multiple-disc box set.

Heard here for the first time, they reveal the author working through his influences – Roy Orbison, doo-wop, classic rock 'n' roll – and while a thrill for fans, the truth is he was right first time. Not only do the songs not quite fit Darkness's tightly edited tales of struggle, they're not quite up to its high standard either.

Hear another lost Bruce Springsteen album

Bruce Springsteen forthcoming album "The Promise" is on the headline, but a fact that has been revealed is another collection of lost/previously unreleased Bruce Springsteen music to add to your collection

The Jersey rocker’s fifth studio album,The Ties That Bind, was the hit of that time, he scrapped the sessions in favor of the darker 1980 classic, The River and while the material originally intended for The Ties That Bind did ultimately make its way onto The River, some serious reworking had to be carried out beforehand.

The 10 tracks of the album which was featured includes "greater ambiance" and a "warmer" which Springsteen said “seemed inadequate” for where he was in his career. Guitara101 points to “The Price You Pay” as one of the best examples:

“Greater separation between the acoustic guitar (left channel) and electric guitar (right channel) and improved sound on Max Weinberg’s snare and cymbals, not to mention the alternate third verse, make for a new aural experience. Furthermore, the E Street Band flat-out nailed this song on the first take.”

Bruce Springsteen In Action At NYC

On wednesday night at Beacon Theater in New York City Bruce Springsteen performed three at the Stand Up For Heroes benefit.

Backed by Max Weinberg's Big Band and with the E Street Band's Roy Bittan playing piano, Bruce opened with "Open All Night" a song from his 1982 "Nebraska" album. Bruce Springsteen performed in the same way which he did on the 2006 Seeger Sessions Tour.

The next song perform was the "Kitty Back" which has been played at most of the shows on the recent tour by Weinberg's Big Band

For his final song, "If I Should Fall Behind.", her wife Patti Scialfa joined him as well.

Tony Bennett and Jerry Seinfeld also performed at Beacon Theater in NYC and the event was hosted by Jon Stewart

This is the first of three shows in three nights for Bruce. On Thursday and Friday nights, he'll be in Pittsburgh to play with Joe Grushecky as part of the 15th anniversary celebration of Grushecky's album "American Babylon."