Bruce Springsteen 1995-11-26 LA (JEMS DAT Master).txt
Bruce Springsteen
The Wiltern
Los Angeles, CA
November 26, 1995
JEMS Master
recording gear: MarcSound mics and pre-amp > Denon DTR-80P DAT recorder
2015 transfer: master DAT > Fostex D5 > Sound Devices USBPre 2 > Audacity 2.0 (16/48) capture > iZotope RX4 > iZotope Ozone 5 > iZotope RX MBIT+ resample 16/44.1 > Peak Pro XT (edit / index) > xACT 2.21 > FLAC
01 The Ghost of Tom Joad
02 Adam Raised a Cain
03 Straight Time
04 Highway 29
05 Darkness On The Edge of Town
06 Murder Incorporated
07 Nebraska
08 If I Should Fall Behind
09 Born In The U.S.A.
10 Dry Lightning
11 Spare Parts
12 Youngstown
13 Sinaloa Cowboys
14 The Line
15 Balboa Park
16 Across The Border
17 Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?
18 This Hard Land
20 Galveston Bay
21 My Best Was Never Good Enough
In 1995, laptops were rare, exotic and expensive. I believe the replacement cost was between $2000-3000. SM, our boss back in Seattle took the bad news well, but I do recall feeling like an idiot for having rolled the dice with the parking.
After writing and sharing these notes with JS (who, by the way, was a major influence on my development as a writer), I was thrilled to receive his remembrances:
The show was very intense, dimly lit, on fire during that brilliant arrangement of "Darkness," pretty light on the classics, and absolutely amazing. I was on the east coast and missed the Christic shows, so had not seen Bruce acoustic since the first Bridge show (which I attended with our late, great friend JR), and at that time in my life there was no show I would rather have seen. After the show, we got back to the rental car, the window was broken, and that fucking laptop was gone. I felt horrible and I think you felt worse. But SM smoothed it all over.
The next night, you got me a ticket to show #2, but before that SM arranged (through DK) for us to go to Bruce's taping of the Tonight Show, at the time an extraordinarily rare TV appearance. We didn't have seats, and for a brief while it looked like we might have to watch on TV in the Green Room. But Mavis Leno (Jay's wife) didn't come that night, so we got her house seats, front row, opposite side of the theater from where Bruce played, sitting next to the then-red hot "Showgirls" star Elizabeth Berkeley (who smelled wonderfully like vanilla), who had pulled strings to get tickets for her and her brother, who is an enormous fan. Later, the second night at the Wiltern was a bit anticlimactic as it was almost exactly identical to the first, but still great.
Brilliant stuff.
Thanks to JS for getting us to LA for the show in the first place and for his fantastic notes, SM for not crucifying me when the laptop got stolen, the engineers at iZotope for their brilliant software and to mjk5510 for helping to get this show up and out on its 20th anniversary.
BK for JEMS
IVAN EDIT:
1) Tracks renamed/renumbered for CD Burning-no fade ins added
2) Tracks tagged
3) New .md5 & .ffp files created
4) Spectral/frequency graphs included
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