1984-09-11 Philadelphia PA (Tape Man Joe Master Volume 8).txt
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Date: 1984-09-11
Venue: The Spectrum
Location: Philadelphia PA
Source: Tape Man Joe Master Via G
Title: Tape Man Joe Master Volume 8
Sony WM D6C deck> Sony 929 or 939 Mics> TDK MA 90 min tapes> Master Tapes> Kenwood KX-4070 cassette deck> TDK-DA3826 standalone CD burner> EAC (Secure Mode)> CD Wave
Editor (remove cuts)> Goldwave (fades, patching & file merging)> MAGIX audio cleaning lab> CD Wave Editor (track splits)> Trader's Little Helper (Flac Level 8, Align,
Verify)
Welcome back to the eighth in the series of probably uncirculated audience recordings. So the story goes Tape Man Joe attended many concerts. Joe used a Sony D6 with
either Sony 929 or 939 microphones (memories have faded on which exact mic) and TDK metal tapes. Joe made a few copies and gave them to friends but never actively
traded his recordings. Recently Joe lent a few of his masters to his friend, Jungleland user G (a generous collector himself who has lent tapes from his collection to
help upgrade many shows). G asked me to finish off the transfers and post them.
Volume four in the series took us to the next to last night of the stand. Now we jump back to the opening night. Bruce and the band are locked in a deliver an excellent
start to this run of shows. Joe's recording is the third that I am aware of. All three recordings are pretty good. Recorder one is complete and contains Wolly Bully
(more about that in a moment). Recorder two (a DAT clone of a 1st gen tape that was uploaded back in 2009 by Carlo) is missing Hungry Heart. Joe's tape would be
Recorder number three. Aside from missing a couple of seconds of audience clapping between tape flips, Joe's tape is complete.
So back to Wolly Bully. After talking with G and Bosstrade, I'm 99.99% sure that Wolly Bully is NOT from this show. Why so confident you ask? First off G attended this
show and states that it wasn't played. Second if you listen to the version of the show that supposedly contains Wolly Bully, the transition is well less than natural
sounding. I looked at the spectral and frequency views of both Wolly Bully and Born to Run. Not only do they sound different, but they do not look similar under
analysis. Third I find it hard to believe that two different tapers missed the same song at the same show. Joe did pause his recorder after Jungleland and before Born
songs. Lastly resident Bruce archivist Bosstrade states that he deleted Wolly Bully from his archived version of the show a while back. He doesn't remember exactly why
he did. It's as if this conversation has happened in the past and we can't remember how or why we came to this conclusion (we are getting old after all).
Sounds samples posted below.
Thanks to Tape Man Joe for recording and sharing his tapes and G for transferring the files.
01.BORN IN THE U.S.A.
02.OUT IN THE STREET
03.TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT
04.ATLANTIC CITY
05.JOHNNY 99
06.HIGHWAY PATROLMAN
07.I'M GOIN' DOWN
08.DARLINGTON COUNTY
09.GLORY DAYS
10.THE PROMISED LAND
11.MY HOMETOWN
12.TRAPPED
13.BADLANDS
14.THUNDER ROAD
15.HUNGRY HEART
16.DANCING IN THE DARK
17.CADILLAC RANCH
18.SHERRY DARLING
19.DOWNBOUND TRAIN
20.I'M ON FIRE
21.COVER ME
22.PINK CADILLAC
23.BOBBY JEAN
24.RACING IN THE STREET
25.ROSALITA (COME OUT TONIGHT)
26.JUNGLELAND
27.BORN TO RUN
28.DETROIT MEDLEY - TRAVELIN' BAND
29.TWIST AND SHOUT - DO YOU LOVE ME
Known faults:
None
From Brucbase:
Audience tape (Unbooted). Released on CDR 'A Little Bit Of Heaven Here On Earth'. A 1984 special episode of The Old Grey Whistle Test includes pro-shot footage of
"Born In The U.S.A.", "Cover Me", and "Detroit Medley" from one of the Philadelphia shows, probably this one. "Detroit Medley" was partially shot with a roving camera,
and uses audio from the 1979 No Nukes performance before switching to audio recorded from a microphone.
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