Boss Cuts From the Basement

A number of our Founding Townspeople migrated to this Rock Town Hall blog from our humble, spirited origins as a Yahoo Groups list. Although it's no longer well trafficked, the old list is still active. I refer to it as "The Basement," out of respect for our Rupert Pupkin-like origins, while a disgruntled handful of RTH founders call the old list the "Chess" edition to our current "Mercury" edition and still refuse to join us in the brilliant light of day. Regardless of all that nonsense, a few Townspeople still feel comfortable drifting from one spot to the other, dropping notes of upcoming releases and wiseacre responses, when appropriate. I check in there now and then to see what raw power still ferments. The other day I found the following nascent thread, which I think needs to see the light of day. First the initial post:

1. Re: Springsteen to perform more albums in entirety
"[name removed]" wrote:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091104/music_nm/us_springsteen_1

NEW YORK (Billboard) – Bruce Springsteen is dusting off his catalog once again, as he and the E Street Band have announced two more full-album performances this coming weekend at Madison Square Garden in New York.

On Saturday (November 7), the group will play the Boss' 1973 album "The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle" in its entirety for the first time; on Sunday (November 8) they'll tackle the 1980 double record "The River" from beginning to end for the first time.

And the follow-up, posted shortly thereafter: