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D E L I V E R M E F R O M N O W H E R E | P E R S P E C T I V E 5 3 What struck me about Nebraska was how a home-recorded cassette tape, a format never meant to last, became the backbone of Springsteen's most acclaimed and haunting recordings. Transplanting that into the visual language of the film meant honoring not just the music, but the fragile, analog process that brought it to vinyl. We dug deep into the story of the lathe, the rare piece of equipment used to cut the record, and the obsessive search for the right person and place to cut the album, the way Bruce not just wanted it, but needed it to be done. His hunt and searching and trial and error, filled with technical hurdles, and the embracing of the stripped down, became a metaphor we carried into the sets: Every surface had to feel worn-in, imperfect, true. The Power Station played a big part in that story too, not for the sound it gave the album, but for the sound it almost couldn't. That contrast, the produced polish of one of the world's most iconic, loved and famous studios versus the eerie quiet of a New Jersey bedroom also helped shape the emotional landscape of the film. The Power Station sessions were initially intended to be full-band arrangements of the songs, but Springsteen ultimately preferred the more intimate, stripped-down sound of the home recordings. Make no mistake, The Power Station itself very much deserves its space in Springsteen and E Street lore and our storytelling, as not just an icon, but a symbol of what familiarity had to be painfully left behind in order to preserve the stark, uncompromising soul of Nebraska. Our goal was to build a world that felt like the record sounds: intimate, unresolved, authentic and deeply textured in the human experience. THE POWER STATION 1979 REFERENCE PHOTO BY JOEL BERNSTEIN THE POWER STATION - SET PHOTO THE POWER STATION - SET PHOTO POWER STATION - PLAN