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[no title] (02 Dec 1975)
[no title] JEMS, 16bit/44.1kHz
Date: 02 Dec 1975
Location: Music Hall, Boston, MA
Format: –
Duration: –
01- THUNDER ROAD
02- TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT
03- SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT
04- LOST IN THE FLOOD
05- SHE'S THE ONE
06- BORN TO RUN
07- THE E STREET SHUFFLE
08- GROWIN' UP
09- IT'S HARD TO BE A SAINT IN THE CITY
10- BACKSTREETS
11- KITTY'S BACK
12- JUNGLELAND
13- ROSALITA (COME OUT TONIGHT)
14- SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN
15- DETROIT MEDLEY
16- 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY)
17- PARTY LIGHTS
18- QUARTER TO THREE


Track 07: slight cut

Source: Steve Hopkins master via JEMS

Taping Gear: Sony ECM-99A > Sony TC-152SD (recorded on two Maxell UD 90-minute tapes, Dolby B encode) Fourth Row Center

JEMS 2011 transfer: SH master cassette > Nakamichi CR-7A (Dolby B decode) > Sound Devices USBPre2 (24/96) > Peak 6.0 with isotope Ozone > .wav (24/96) > resample via iZotope MBIT+ to .wav (16/44) > FLAC

Release notes:

JEMS is proud to partner once again with Boston taper Steve Hopkins to release some of the essential Springsteen recordings he made between 1974 and 1977. Steve recorded Springsteen a total of nine times and he has previously tormented three of those shows from his masters. Late last year, JEMS released in the first of Steve's remaining Bruce masters, Providence, July 20, 1975.

This first of two nights at the Boston Music Hall finds Bruce and the band newly returned from their brief European tour that included the now legendary shows at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. Bruce talks about the trip in some detail during this outstanding show that is packed with highlights. It opens with the slow "Thunder Road" that features just Roy and Bruce, and cruises through 17 other songs including "Lost in the Flood," the first known recorded performance of "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" and an ultra rare cover of Claudine Clark's 1962 hit "Party Lights." For Hopkins though, the personal highlight was "the epic, 18-minute 'Kitty's Back' both this night and the following." Hard to argue with that.

As it was the first show back in the states after three weeks away, the crowd is a mix of Boston fans and others who drove up from NY/NJ. As a result, there's plenty of audience response and chatter (I especially like the guy who sarcastically tells the folks in front of him "congratulations for standing up"), but nothing that detracts from Hopkins' excellent and complete recording, save for a short tape flip inside "The E Street Shuffle." Samples provided.

We hope you enjoy this second release from the Hopkins masters.

BK for JEMS