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Little Steven  - Rockpalast Night 16.-17 October 1982


LITTLE STEVEN AND THE DISCIPLES OF SOUL

Little Steven A rock band with a brass section in the tradition of rhythm and blues, especially the soul music of the '60s. Behind 'Little Steven' is no other than Miami Steve van Zandt, guitarist in Bruce Springsteens E-Street Band of past years and the present. Since Bruce was recording a solo acoustic album, the E-Street Band had some free time. Miami Steve used this time to play and to record some material with his own band. The result is now exclusively to be heard at the Rockpalast-Nacht. Steve van Zandt received the nickname 'Miami' because he hates winter and loves areas where the sun shines. He belongs to the New Jersey music scene; the focal point was the Upstage Club in Asbury Park. In the late '60s, young musicians, such as Bruce Springsteen, Southside Johnny, Garry Tallent, Vini 'Mad Dog' Lopez, Danny Federici, Clarence Clemons (the last four named were later 'E-Streeters'), as well as all the bands that used to play all the 'Top 40 Clubs' up and down the coast, would meet there. The Club was open till five o'clock in the morning and one had the possibility to just get on stage and play whatever one felt like with different band members. Miami Steve was also there.
He played bass in an earlier Springsteen band called Steel Mill; later on, he also took part in starting up the first known 'Bruce Springsteen Band'. They had a line-up of ten musicians, with brass, but only played two concerts because there weren't enough job possibilities for such a big band. In order to survive, everyone except Bruce had side-jobs. For a while, Miami Steve earned money working an air-hammer for a road construction company.
In order to pay off some bills, he went on tour with the Dovells, a band from Philadelphia that had had some hits in the early '60s ('You Can't Sit Down' and 'The Bristol Stomp'). He also got 'on the road' experience with another 'oldie': Dion (Dimucci), New Yorker (from the Bronx) of Italian heritage. At the end of the '50s, Dion and the Belmonts had a pair of superhits ('A Teenager in Love', 'Where or When'), and in the early '70s, Dion was attempting his third comeback.
The mutual roots in soul music of the 60's was easily heard in the cooperative work of Miami Steve van Zandt and Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. The two of them appeared at a Rockpalast Nacht once before. Miami Steve produced the first three albums of this group, wrote many songs for it ('I don't want to go home', i.e.) and played in the band.
He got together again with Bruce Springsteen as he was working on his album 'Born to Run' at the studio. They had problems getting the brass part of the song 'Tenth Avenue Freezeout' and couldn't get it right. Miami Steve was dragged in and clarified how to achieve the Stax-Soul-Sound to the Brecker Brothers (who belonged to the elite studio musicians). Miami Steve van Zandt has been a member of Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band since the 1975 'Born to run' tour. Now, Rockpalast- Nacht is presenting Miami Steve with his own band: Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul.
We're making guitar-oriented rock'n'roll with brass" explained Little Steven about the music of the Disciples of Soul, in Essen. Under the gun. Steven van Zandt, as organizer of the E-Street Band, was exactly the same as Peter had met him one year earlier: Attentive, concentrated, exacting in detail".
From - 10 Jahre Rockpalast.

Musicians:

Little Steven (Miami Steve van Zandt) - g, voc
 Dino Danelli - dr
 Jean Beauvoir - b
 Benjamin King - keyb
 Labamba - trombone
 Crispin Cioe - bariton-saxophon
 Arno Hecht - tenor-Saxophon, flute
 Paul Litteral - trumpet
 Nelson Bogart - trumpet
 Monti Louis Ellison - percussion

Setlist:
01  Lyin' In A Bed Of Fire                    
02  Save Me                                    
03  Forever                                    
04  Inside Of Me                              
05  Take It Inside                            
06  Until The Good Is Gone                  
07  Princess Of Little Italy                   
08  Caravan                                   
09  Under The Gun                             
10  I Play The Fool                            
11  I Don't Want To Go Home                   
12  Angel Eyes                                
13  This Time It's For Real                   
14  Can I Get A Witness                        

Little Steven And The Disciples Of Soul - Live At Loreley 

 
August 17, 1984, Rockpalast, Loreley Festival, Germany (soundboard)

 01. Voice Of America
 02. Justice
 03. Save Me
 04. Fear
 05. Lyin’ In A Bed Of Fire
 06. I Am A Patriot,
 07. Solidarity
 08. Under The Gun
 09. Checkpoint Charlie
 10. Los Desperacidos
 11. Out Of The Darkness
 12. Undefeated
 13. Men Without Women 

Audio : DD 2.0 & DD 5.1

THX to hombie.