TPS meets JEMS M+.txt
The Prodigal Son meets JEMS at the Main Point (Masters+ Edition)
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
February 5, 1975
The Main Point
Bryn Mawr, PA
Disc 1: The Prodigal Son
Source: Pre FM Reel
Transfer: Remaster--> Flac
Disc 2 & 3: JEMS M+
Source: (FM) Broadcast Reel
Recording: FM --> Tandberg 3300 tape deck (3-3/4 IPS)
Transfer: Otari 5050mk2 --> Sound Devices USBPre2 audio interface (24/96) --> Audacity 1.3 --> Converted from 24/96 to 16/44.1 using Isotope RX --> Speed corrected and lightly EQed in
Adobe Audition --> Split using batch function --> Traders Little Helper --> Flac
The Prodigal Son at the Main Point
Disc One: (1:15:24)
101. Incident On 57th Street (10:34)
102. Mountain Of Love (3:21)
103. Born To Run (4:47)
104. Intro E Street Shuffle (5:17)
105. E Street Shuffle (7:40)
106. Wings For Wheels (Thunder Road) (6:27)
107. I Want You (7:00)
108. Spirit In The Night (6:19)
109. She's The One (6:30)
110. Growin' Up (3:25)
111. It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City (4:08)
112. Jungleland (9:50)
JEMS M+
Disc Two: (1:02:42 )
201. Kitty's Back (12:13)
202. DJ Chatter (0:53)
203. New York City Serenade (18:12)
204. Shout Outs (2:01)
205. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) (12:18)
206. Intro to 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) (2:15)
207. 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) (6:46)
208. A Love So Fine (8:02)
JEMS M+
Disc Three (23:20 )
301. Intro to For You (1:25)
302. For You (Solo Piano) (8:06)
303. Back in the USA (8:04)
304. Closing DJ Comments (0:28)
Total Show (2:36:10)
BONUS TRACKS (CBS Studio Demo 1986-06-21)
305. 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) (6:42)
306. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) (10:57)
307. A Love So Fine (7:45)
Bonus Tracks (25:23)
The Production Team
Pre Production: Wayne 'Boom' Darlington
Mixed by: Flynn
Artwork Design: Schoolhouse Rd.
Producer: Oats
Notes: From Brucebase:
The complete show was broadcast and the above-noted 18-song setlist represents the entire concert. Not only is it one of the longest (160 minutes) single-show gigs up to this point but it's one of the most compelling performances of Springsteen's entire career. There are spellbinding renditions of "Incident On 57th Street", "New York City Serenade" and "For You" (in the solo piano arrangement), the earliest known performances of "Mountain Of Love" and "Thunder Road" (with work-in-progress "Wings For Wheels" title/lyrics) plus a wild, majestic
Notes: How this project came about.
To my ears, The Prodigal Son at the Main Point was always the best version of this show. In 2011, JEMS released the second part of the show. After listening to the JEMS release, I was excited. I took Wayne's advice. (See the excerpt from his original notes below) I grabbed JEMS Disc 2 and added it to Disc 1 of The Prodigal Son's. I sat back, put on my headphones and listened to the best version I ever heard (until now). I placed the two disc combination in my hard drive and player, then forgot about it. Don't get me wrong, I listened to it... a lot! I just
never went back to my hard drive and organized the files. I finally went back and decided I had to do something about the mismatched files. I wanted to produce one complete bootleg comprised of both discs and retitled accordingly.
I reached out to the JEMS crew and received their blessing. JEMS suggested we go back to the original source, the master tape, and start fresh. They thought it could be improved upon and mastered a bit better than the original which was mastered in 2011. So what started out as a quick fix to rename and join two discs became a much bigger project and collaborative effort by all involved.
JEMS added a bit of bass and passed along the complete master. I listened to it and got excited all over again. In turn I passed it on to a friend of mine, a Master Editor known throughout the Springsteen Community. There, it was fleshed out, smoothed over and the finishing touches were added. Thank you Flynn.
Another good friend and Master Artist created the fabulous artwork. His help was invaluable.
Lastly, I want to thank the JEMS team. Without their music and support this project would not have been possible.
I hope you get as much enjoyment listening to the new Masters+ Edition as we did producing it.
Oats
Notes: From JEMS
Early in 2011, a box of reel-to-reel tapes was obtained from a home-taping enthusiast who lived in Philadelphia in the '70s. Using his Tandberg 3300 tape deck, the fan recorded several live radio broadcasts over the years, preserving the shows on reel at 3-3/4 IPS. The tapes had not been played since the late '70s and one of them, as luck would have it, was of WMMR's Main Point broadcast, captured as it happened that night. A fresh, azimuth-adjusted transfer was made and the recording was then speed-corrected, de-clicked, phase-corrected and ever-so-lightly
mastered to make it sound as good as possible.
Now before anyone gets too excited, this master recording of the broadcast still has the limiter issues of the prior source (only a pre-FM would fix that) and there's still a wee bit of distortion at the climax of "NYC Serenade." But guess what, it sounds better. Materially better. Not pre-FM better, but in moments you might confuse it with the first set. Says one knowledgeable and trusted collector: "There is absolutely no comparison between the master FM reel and the Prodigal Son version. This new one sounds so much smoother, warmer and fuller. And the PS version has some sections in mono, as well." It is wide stereo here.
And while it contains no additional music, the new recording does add some deejay chatter, station IDs and closing credits that were edited out of the original source.
RIP Jared.
Notes: The Bonus Tracks
4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
A Love So Fine
For now you can appease your appetite with these three bonus tracks recorded from the Main Point in Bryn Mawr, PA on 1973-02-05.
Oats
IVAN EDIT:
1) Tracks tagged
2) New .md5 & .ffp files created
3) Spectral/frequency graphs included
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