Bruce Springsteen
1985-08-09
Soldier Field
Chicago, IL.
Audience Recording
CD 1:
01. Born In The U.S.A.
02. Badlands
03. Out In The Street
04. "Watch The Guy Next To You"
05. Johnny 99
06. Seeds
07. Atlantic City
08. Intro / "Some Place To Go"
09. The River
10. Working On The Highway
11. Trapped
12. Darlington County
13. Glory Days
14. The Promised Land
CD 2:
01. Intro: "Chicago Food Depository"
02. My Hometown
03. Thunder Road
04. Cover Me
05. Dancing In The Dark
06. Hungry Heart
07. Cadillac Ranch
08. Downbound Train
09. I'm On Fire
10. Story: "The Garden Of Eden"
11. Pink Cadillac
12. Bobby Jean
CD 3:
01. Intro: "The Greatest Song"
02. This Land Is Your Land
03. Born To Run
04. Band Introduction
05. Ramrod
06. Twist & Shout (w/ Do You Love Me)
07. Sherry Darling
Bonus Tracks
1984-11-19
Kemper Arena
Kansas City, MO.
08. Reason To Believe
09. Intro
10. No Surrender
11. Prove It All Night
12. Jungleland
13. Racing In The Street
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source:
PCM-F1 MASTER RB
Recorder: Sony PCM-F1/Beta
Tape: Sony Beta
Mics: AKG 460 B ck1
Played back on same exact gear (not original gear) through>
Pre-amp: Naim 52 w/chord co. cable
CDR Recorder (Stand Alone): Marantz CDR-600 (Philips CDR-101)
CDR: Taiyo Yuden Gold 74-ZY
PC Drive: UltraPlex40max SCSI
EAC>FLAC>To You Guys, enjoy, RB
This one was re-edited two times (wasn't satisfied with the results), hope I got it finally right.
Huge thanks to mr. analog for taping the show and sharing the master. Thanks!
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"This recording is absolutely sick and borderline ridiculous in terms quality for an audience.
If you want to hear power captured via digital audie, this is the tape for you.
Not sure we could do as well today for some reason and why is that?
One trainspotter moment I have called out before from the show is beautifully captured on this tape in the
first minute or so of "Born in the U.S.A." As some of you might know, for this tour Max Weinberg switched
from miking his drums to using drum triggers to fatten the sound. The drum trigger hits a sampler which plays
commanding "whoomp" sound. When Bruce starts BITUSA in Chicago, Max comes in with those single snare beats,
only someone forgot to turn on the drum sampler/triggers.
So for the first few bars its like "tick," "tick," "tick" as we only here the miked drum,
then someone throws the switch and it's "kaboom," "kaboom," "kaboom." The difference is incredible and you'll hear it here."
-'Butterking'
"This was also my first Springsteen show (although my Dad's secretary wanted to take me to see him on The River tour--
folks said NO--I was only 10). I was playing high school football and had to run the mile for time.
I was running every day and I HATE running. The Sunday before the show, I was laying in bed listening to WCKG
(they USED to play music back then) trying to avoid getting out of bed to go running.
They announced that they were going to be giving away tickets to the show, so I figured that was an excuse to stay
in bed a little longer. I never actually thought that I would win. When the time came, I called and actually won.
I called my sister, who was working at a drugstore and asked her if she wanted to go. She didn't believe me.
When I finally convinced her that I was serious, she dropped the phone and screamed.
This actually got me out of a HUGE jam with my sister, as she had graduated high school that summer and I never
got her a gift, and her birthday was between the Sunday I won the tickets and the day of the show.
We went to the show with a friend of hers, his boyfriend, and a friend of hers (who I happened to be playing football with).
We got there at 10am (general admission seating) and ran into some friends that had been there since 7am.
We hopped in line with them and waited. When they finally let people in,
we ran (which sucked for me as I had a micro-cassette recorder in my shoe).
I taped the show from about 10 rows of bodies back, but all you can hear is Herman (the guy I played football with)
screaming "BORN IN THE USA" for 3 hours with Springsteen in the background. So this is a huge upgrade for me.
It was hotter than hell that day and there was 1" thick black rubber matting covering the playing field.
We kept going and soaking under the showers that the players use on the sidelines.
Someone near us had a bag of chocolate chips that get spilled and melted on the matting.
By the time we got home, we looked like we had spent 3 months in the same clothes in Beirut.
By the way, the show was SMOKING!!" - 'toadhead'
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