BRING ON THE NIGHT - V1 | 2:29 | ATEOD / UP / LM-12 / MT2 |
BRING ON THE NIGHT - V2 | 3:15 | LM-9 |
BRING ON THE NIGHT - V3 | 4:10 | LM-9 |
BRING ON THE NIGHT - V4 | 0:31 | LM-9 |
BRING ON THE NIGHT - V5 | 1:20 | LM-9 |
BRING ON THE NIGHT - V6 | 1:54 | LM-11 |
BRING ON THE NIGHT - V7 | 2:35 | TRACKS |
Note: According to documentation, there was a song called "Bring On The Night" in 1977, but no audio currently circulates from that period. The title can be found on a May 1977 list of 'New Songs', as well as one other handwritten document. Some sources claim that V1 is a take from a Darkness-era practice or rehearsal session, but 'Lost Masters 12' dates it to a 1979 rehearsal at Telegraph Hill which seems more likely, although the sound quality is noticeably better than the vast majority of audio from these rehearsals. There is no reference to "Bring On The Night" in the Darkness session logs, although they are incomplete. It appears that if "Bring On The Night" was worked on during the Darkness sessions, it was put aside before Springsteen returned to it after the tour concluded in early 1979.
V2–V5 are all acoustic demos from around January–May, 1979 at Springsteen's home in Holmdel, NJ. V6 is a band rehearsal recorded on May 14, 1979, according to the liner notes of 'Lost Masters IX'. V7 was recorded at Power Station studios on June 13, 1979, and though it was included on a very early track sequence for the fifth album, it failed to make the cut, and was not considered for The River in 1980. It was eventually issued on the 1998 Tracks compilation.