1985-06-01 Slane Ireland (1st Gen Tape Transfer).txt
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Date: 1985-06-01
Venue: SLANE CASTLE
Location: SLANE, IRELAND
Source: Maxwell XLII Cassettes (1st Gen)
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Sometime in the late 90's, I put a request on the old Luckytown Digest looking for trading partners. I received a reply back from a guy
who stated that he converted his tape collection to cd-r and was willing to send me the cassettes if I paid for postage.I rolled the dice
and sent him the $30 and he sent me roughly 100 tapes. There wasn't a bad tape in the lot. Everything was on quality cassettes. All
recordings were the quality of the boots of the time. Many shows were yet to commonly trade on cd-r. As the 2000's rolled on, I collected
all these shows on cd-r and like an idiot, tossed away the tapes. I held on to only what I had not obtained on cd-r. Only a handleful of
tapes remain from the cache.
To my ears, this is a slight upgrade to the circulating version. The tapes ran extremely fast and needed to be corrected. This probably
explains why there are parts missing on these tapes that aren't missing on other versions. Who knows? Maybe the tapes were made using
high-speed dubbing. Either way the issue is fixed here. These tapes required two patches. The ending of "Prove It All Night" is severely
cut. I patched it with recorder two. Also the ending of "Born To Run" into "Bobby Jean" was missing from this copy of recorder one, but
not on the circulating version.
After almost sevens weeks off, the band returns for their first ever show in Ireland. As the extensive notes below from Brucebase state,
it didn't go off as smoothly as Bruce and Co. would have liked. The show features the only ever performance of "When I Grow Up To Be A Man".
The band is a little rusty (missing some cues, some bad notes here and there) but overall it's average performance for a 1985 stadium show.
01.BORN IN THE U.S.A.
02.BADLANDS
03.OUT IN THE STREET
04.JOHNNY 99
05.ATLANTIC CITY
06.THE RIVER
07.WORKING ON THE HIGHWAY
08.TRAPPED
09.PROVE IT ALL NIGHT
10.GLORY DAYS
11.THE PROMISED LAND
12.MY HOMETOWN
13.THUNDER ROAD
14.COVER ME
15.DANCING IN THE DARK
16.HUNGRY HEART
17.CADILLAC RANCH
18.DOWNBOUND TRAIN
19.I'M ON FIRE
20.PINK CADILLAC
21.ROSALITA (COME OUT TONIGHT)
22.WHEN I GROW UP (TO BE A MAN)
23.BORN TO RUN
24.BOBBY JEAN
25.RAMROD
26.TWIST AND SHOUT - DO YOU LOVE ME
Known faults:
Prove It All Night-Cut at end. Patched With 1:39 of Recorder Two (Cre01 Tape Transfer)
This copy was missing four seconds betweeen Born To Run and Bobby Jean. I patched it with a higher generation verison of Recorder one.
From Brucbase:
Springsteen's first ever appearance in Ireland. The actual location was not Dublin (a common error) but the small village of Slane in County
hot! This was the largest crowd Bruce had played to up to this point, with 90,000 to 100,000 in attendance. Prior to the show there was much
concern amongst locals that the influx of Springsteen fans would result in disturbances and violence similar to the previous summer when Bob Dylan
performed at the same venue. In the event the day passed without any major problems. However Bruce did show some concern for the safety of the
crowd during the show, the rhythmic swaying and movement meant there was real danger of crushing at the front. Springsteen was led to make a
request for calm before "Johnny 99". News reports suggest that Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend joined Bruce on stage. First appearance of the
River Boyne on the big screens during "The River" - this shot would continue to appear on the screens throughout the rest of the tour. Slane
sung introduction. European debuts for "Born In The U.S.A.", "Johnny 99", "Atlantic City", "Working On The Highway", "Glory Days", "My Hometown",
"Cover Me", "Dancing In The Dark", "Downbound Train", "I'm On Fire", "Pink Cadillac", and "Bobby Jean".
Audience tape. Two recording sources circulate, released on LP 'Dancing In Dublin' and the same source in an upgraded tape transfer ('cre001').
A second very good alternate source circulates from a tape transfer.
IVAN EDIT: Thanks to Buckshot for sharing
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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