Loose Ends

LOOSE ENDS - V1 take 1 4:01 DROC1 / DBTR / RRR / SC / CAST / AM
LOOSE ENDS / LOOSE END - V2a 4:04 RIVER: SINGLE / DROC1 / ATMF / TTTBJ
LOOSE ENDS - V2b 4:01 TRACKS

Note: "Loose Ends" was recorded at Power Station studios on July 18, 1979. Take 1 was described by engineer Neil Dorfsman as "mix #1, original vocal and original sax," then followed by a double four-count by the Boss. This has a rougher but clear, single-tracked lead vocal, with some slight differences in the phrasing and very minor changes to the lyrics. The circulating recording has no overdubs and the nine second double count-in; the vocals by Bruce and Steve Van Zandt include six "looooose ends" refrains, double the amount on V2. Double-tracked vocals can be found on V2, the second and final take. Bob Clearmountain mixed V2a in September 1979 for The Ties That Bind, but a month later Bruce cancelled that release, and it would be nineteen years before the song finally saw the light of day. V2b was remixed in 1998 by Ed Thacker for Tracks. In 2015, the 1979 mix was released as The River: Single Album, which omits the count-in, and is re-titled "Loose End". The guitars are higher in Clearmountain's 1979 mix, in comparison to V1 and the mix on Tracks,which are more keyboard focused. It also has five "loooose ends," and drum rolls after the last three. Lyrics from "Loose Ends" can also be found in "Little White Lies", and "Baby I'm So Cold", an outtake from Born In The U.S.A.

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