Bruce Springsteen 1996-01-10 Detroit (Uncirculated DAT Master Clone).txt
Bruce Springsteen
Fox Theatre
Detroit, MI
January 10, 1996
Transfer: Uncirculated DAT Master Clone > DAT channel repair > .wav file transfer > iZotope RX / ozone 5 (leveled & mastered) > Peak Pro 6 (post production) > xACT 2.39 > 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 Johnny 99
07 Dead Man Walking
08 Nebraska
09 Sell It And They Will Come
10 Brothers Under The Bridge
11 Born In The U.S.A.
12 Dry Lightning
13 Spare Parts
14 The Promised Land
15 Youngstown
16 Sinaloa Cowboys
17 The Line
18 Balboa Park
19 Across The Border
20 Does This Bust Stop At 82nd Street?
21 This Hard Land
22 Streets Of Philadelphia
23 Galveston Bay
24 No Surrender
25 My Best Was Never Good Enough
Known Faults:
-None
I don't use the term "uncirculated recording" lightly, to me uncirculated means it has never been traded and has not been heard beyond the taper and possibly a few close friends. The show we have here meets that criteria and was a long time coming. It was not originally meant to be uncirculated, however, circumstances of the recording itself has kept it shelved for the past 23 years.
The recording was originally captured by KK. KK was the moderator of the groundbreaking text only "Luckytown Digest", the original Bruce Springsteen internet fan forum that was influential in paving the way for the multiple internate forums the Bruce community enjoys today.
The show was then shelved and essentially hasn't moved for the past two decades...until now.
The "mono" file was supplied to see what kind of spit and polish could be applied. I immediately noticed lurking underneath was a close to the stage fairly stable recording that was good but flat, missing much of the mid and high frequencies. The file was leveled, smoothing out the low dialogue and high audience claps, typical for a Tom Joad show. Then mastered to bring out the frequencies hiding underneath. I was extremely pleased with the way it mastered and finished it off by adding back a small amount of reverb to widen the mono field, this brought it all together. I believe the final product is a stunning recording upgrade.
The show itself is also a stunning performance, the film 'Dead Man Walking' was to be released two days later on January 12th featuring the tune 'Dead Man Walking' written specifically for the film. This film release spurred the rarely played 'Dead Man Trilogy', a threefer of "Johnny 99", "Dead Man Walking" and "Nebraska" only played together on two other occasions.
First thanks for this one goes to KK, wherever you are, thanks for the original "Luckytown Digest" and helping pioneer this whole crazy Bruce community as well as the capture and though having some warts, having the foresight to allow the DAT Master to be cloned opening the door to what we present today.
Second big thanks goes to AK, for the original channel fix some twenty years ago and once again dusting it off and helping unleash it in the world...it's a beauty!
Samples and artwork provided...
mjk5510 / AK
IVAN EDIT:
1) Tracks renamed/renumbered for CD burning
2) Tracks tagged
3) New .md5 & .ffp files created
4) Spectral/frequency graphs included
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