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Instead, Bruce had Max Weinberg add light percussion, or Roy Bittan a synth pad. Springsteen would later write in Songs, 'I went into the studio, brought in the band, rerecorded, remixed, and succeeded in making the whole thing worse.' It should be noted that most of the Nebraska songs were not recorded in 'rock' arrangements, as the fan-coined title ' Electric Nebraska' may suggest. However, it soon became apparent to him that a majority of these songs did not lend themselves well to these full-band arrangements. It was during the E Street Band sessions at Power Station studios in late April of 1982 that Bruce first attempted to record full-band arrangements of the demos. However, two or three months later, with a few of these fifteen songs by then earmarked for coverage by the E Street Band, Springsteen recorded two additional songs ('My Father's House' and 'The Big Payback') at home on the same equipment, thus making a total of seventeen different songs seen on the list below. The tape also included seven alternate takes and five alternate mixes. In any case, Springsteen sent a cassette comprised of fourteen demos to Jon Landau, along with what is almost certainly a live recording, not a studio demo, of a fifteenth song, 'Johnny Bye Bye'.

Batlan has said that the actual recording began on December 17 or 18 and ended around January 3, which seems more realistic. There were fourteen songs recorded and it seems unlikely that Springsteen and Batlan could have recorded and mixed those fourteen songs in (at best) a few days, especially since it involved some thirty-nine takes. Springsteen himself has said it took three days, although he later said it took 'no more than a few weeks' in Songs. Legend dictates that the bulk of the songs were recorded in one all day/night session on January 3, 1982. The sound was mixed through an old Gibson Echoplex and an old Panasonic boom box acted as the mixdown deck. Batlan purchased a Teac Tascam (Series 144) 4-track cassette recorder, two Shure SM57 mics and two microphone stands. Some modification work was done to the room to make it more receptive to achieving a decent sound. Perhaps fed-up with the rudimentary equipment, in early December 1981 Springsteen asked his guitar technician, Mike Batlan, to set up a no-frills 'porta-studio' in a spare room of Bruce's Swimming River Reservoir, NJ home. There is much stopping and starting heard, as Springsteen records bits and pieces, manually stopping the recorder then returns sometime later to add more ideas…and so on and so forth. These are song fragments, both musically and lyrically. None of these songs exhibit a finished songwriting product. Recorded during a break in The River Tour at Springsteen's home in Colts Neck, NJ in late March and early April 1981 and shortly after it concluded, it appears Springsteen only used a common, run-of-the-mill cassette recorder. Work-in-progress demos of the Nebraska material circulate among collectors, but these are not professionally made recordings and were never intended to be.

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By creating professional demos Springsteen felt the band sessions would progress faster than they had for his previous three albums. Bruce's intention was to create a batch of multi-channel, professional-sounding, finished solo demos to demonstrate to The E Street Band at sessions for the follow-up to The River album due to start in New York City in February 1982. The Nebraska sessions were never conceived to result in a commercially released album.

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I guess my influences at the time were the movie and these stories I was reading by Flannery O'Connor - she's just incredible.' I was interested in writing kind of smaller than I had been, writing with just detail - which I kind of began to do on The River. I wrote Nebraska, all those songs, in a couple of months. I was renting a house in this reservoir, and I didn't go out much, and for some reason, I just started to write. 'I was living in a place called Colts Neck, New Jersey - and I remember I saw Badlands, and I read this book about them, Caril, and it just seemed to be a mood that I was in at the time.

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