Product Description
"The Promise: The Making of Darkness On The Edge of Town" was directed by Grammy- and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Thom Zimny. The film received a rapturous critical response around the world, including as an official selection, Toronto International Film Festival, The BFI London Film Festival, and The International Rome Film Festival. The Los Angeles Times gave 'The Promise' five stars, while Variety called it "thrilling...a vivid portrait."

The award-winning film will be accompanied by the bonus features "Songs From the Promise," a five-song concert event filmed in Asbury Park, NJ, and "A Conversation With His Fans," an intimate question-and-answer session.

The ninety-minute documentary combines never-before-seen footage of Springsteen and the E Street Band shot between 1976 and 1978 including home rehearsals and studio sessions with new interviews with Springsteen, E Street Band members, manager Jon Landau, former-manager Mike Appel, and others closely involved in the making of the record.

"Songs From The Promise" was filmed before an audience of approximately sixty fans in December, 2010, in Asbury Park, NJ's historic carousel house. For this one-time concert event, Springsteen and members of the E Street Band lineup were joined by keyboardist Charles Giordano, a full horn section and special guest David Lindley, who played violin during the original recording sessions. Directed and edited by Zimny and mixed by Emmy-winner Bob Clearmountain, the concert features the only live E Street Band performances of four tracks from 'The Promise' plus "Blue Christmas."

Hosted by music critic and Springsteen biographer Dave Marsh, "A Conversation With His Fans" is an intimate, 22-minute question-and-answer session featuring Springsteen at his most candid.

1. The Promise: The Making Of Darkness On The Edge Of Town
2. Songs From The Promise

• Racing In The Street ('78)
• Gotta Get That Feeling
• Ain't Good Enough For You
• The Promise
• Blue Christmas

3. A Conversation With His Fans

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From Backstreets.com...Personally, I bought the BIG box set so this is just milking the public which I for one am completely pissed off about. This is a bad case of double dipping.

THE CAROUSEL COMES HOME, AND MORE, ON NEW DVD DUE MAY 3

In May, Columbia will issue a new single-disc release for Thom Zimny's documentary film The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town, on both DVD and Blu-Ray. The film premiered on HBO and received a rapturous critical response around the world, including as an official selection, Toronto International Film Festival, The BFI London Film Festival, and The International Rome Film Festival. Previously, the acclaimed doc has only been available as part of the six-disc Darkness box released in November.

For those fans who already picked up the box set as a matter of course, the new release packs a pair of bonus features previously commercially unavailable: "Songs From the Promise," the five-song performance film from the Asbury Park carousel house; and "A Conversation With His Fans," from the Dave Marsh-hosted fan Q&A at Sirius/XM studios.

"Songs From the Promise" was filmed before an audience of approximately 60 fans in December 2010 and was webcast only through the end of that month. For this one-time concert event, Springsteen and members of the Darkness-era E Street Band lineup (Clarence Clemons, Stevie Van Zandt, Max Weinberg, Roy Bittan, and Garry Tallent) were joined by keyboardist Charles Giordano, a full horn section (Ed Manion, Barry Danielian, Curt Ramm, Clark Gayton and Stan Harrison) and special guest David Lindley, who played violin during the original recording sessions. Directed and edited by Zimny and mixed by Emmy-winner Bob Clearmountain, the concert features E Street Band performances of four tracks from The Promise plus "Blue Christmas":

1. "Racing in the Street ('78)
2. "Gotta Get That Feeling"
3. "Ain't Good Enough For You"
4. "The Promise"
5, "Blue Christmas"

Judging by today's press release, no additional footage from the carousel will be included other than what was previously webcast as "Songs From the Promise." Just in case any powers-that-be want to get clever and throw in some easter eggs -- y'know, pull another "The Way" on us -- we'll keep fingers crossed for "One Way Street" or "The Brokenhearted."

"A Conversation With His Fans" aired on VH1 Classic and Palladia earlier this year, a 22-minute program offering footage of the question-and-answer session with a small group of fans in the studios of Sirius XM's E Street Radio channel. Springsteen discusses the writing and recording of Darkness on the Edge of Town and the decision to release the extensive collection of songs that didn't make the record. Questions are intercut with highlights from The Promise box set, including the Paramount Theater performance and rare archival footage from 1978.

The DVD and Blu-Ray will be released on May 3; we'll have pre-order information shortly.
- March 9, 2011

In which Marsh asks the Boss, "So, what's it like to be such a genius?" before being dispatched to pick up Bruce's drycleaning.

Double-dipping, yes, but since I haven't (yet) purchased the box set and I really enjoyed the webcast I'll probably be in for this at some point, too.

Then it's worth it. The fans that picked up the box set are the ones being screwed.

Thank you, sir, may I please have another?

The Marsh interview has been airing on VH1 Classic. The Asbury Park gig was a part of a webcast. I believe you can still track it down on the internet.

Bump: added pre-order details to the first post.

I borrowed this from the public library, to see the extras not included in the deluxe box.

"A Conversation with His Fans" was OK, but it was padded out unnecessarily with excerpts from the Carousel House gig. It started out fine, but it seemed that Bruce only answered about eight questions in all, and as the session progressed the musical interludes got much longer (including one entire uninterrupted song). Rather lazy production, and it spoiled the other feature, which I had not watched yet.

"Songs from 'The Promise' " was enjoyable, but apparently not the entire performance. I was reminded of why I dislike watching Max Weinberg's antics on his late-night talk show gig, with his making O-faces and the overly show-off style of drumming. Alas, it was bittersweet watching Clarence's fine soloes, but he looked extremely frail and hardly moved at all, remaining seated in the same position for the duration.