The Bruce Springsteen Born to Run Glockenspiel Addendum (2006)

1. Description

The Bruce Springsteen Born to Run Glockenspiel Addendum is a composition for solo glockenspiel. For those not in the know, Bruce's Born to Run record is littered with glockenspiel. For example, the famous melody from the song Born to Run is actually a guitar DOUBLED by a glockenspiel. The Born to Run record itself contains 3 songs that feature the glockenspiel, ... For this project, I decided to create an addendum to the original and compose, play, and record glockenspiel parts for the songs on Born to Run that do not already feature the instrument (Tenth Avenue Freeze Out, Backstreets, She's the One, Meeting Across the River and Jungleland). This composition has existed in several formats. A 12 inch vinyl record & mp3's (meant to be played along to Bruce's record), a "mix" CD (my additional glockenspiel mixed back into the original), and every now and then I will perform it live along to a recording of Springsteen.

Here is a small example of the concept:

Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (original)

Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (glockenspiel addendum) *

Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (both original and glockenspiel addendum mixed)

- this interesting descending line, I actually found on rare live footage of the E Street band who used to play this song sometimes with a Glockenspiel.....

2. Mp3's

Thunder Road (silence)

Tenth Avenue Freeze Out

Night (silence)

Backstreets

Born to Run (silence)

She's the One

Meeting Across the River

Jungleland

3. "Mix" Version

4. Live Video

This is a video of the definitive performance of the Glock Addendum which happened the summer of 08 at "Light Industry". This was the first time the composition was ever played in its entirety.