Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Johanneshovs Isstadion Stockholm Sweden May 7, 1981 Recorder 2 (Floor Source) Transfered and upped by mjk5510 (January 2013) Transfer: Early 1980's tape trade > Nakamichi CR-5A (Azimuth Adjusted) > MacBook Pro > Audacity > Peak Pro XT (indexing/volume smoothing) > xACT > FLAC Patch source bonus tracks: Recorder 1 source (pitch corrected) DISC ONE 01 Follow That Dream 02 Prove It All Night 03 Out In The Street 04 Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out 05 Darkness On The Edge Of Town 06 Independence Day 07 Who'll Stop The Rain? 08 Two Hearts 09 The Promised Land 10 This Land Is Your Land 11 The River 12 Badlands 13 Thunder Road DISC TWO 01 Cadillac Ranch 02 Sherry Darling 03 Hungry Heart 04 Fire 05 You Can Look 06 Stolen Car 07 Racing In The Street 08 Backstreets 09 Candy's Room 10 Ramrod 11 Rosalita DISC THREE 01 Born To Run 02 The Detroit Medley 03 Rockin' All Over The World BONUS: Patched Tracks All edited tracks patched with pitch corrected segments from "Warm Welcome In Stockholm" D1 Track 07: Who'll Stop The Rain Patched D1 Track 13: Thunder Road Patched D2 Track 08: Backstreets Patched D3 Track 02: Detroit Medley Patched First and most importantly, thanks to the original taper(s) that produced such a beautiful recording over 31 years ago, I truly wish I could sit down, buy you the beverage of your choice and somehow show my gratitude for the enjoyment I've gotten out these tapes for 30 years now. Also, thanks to my long time, missing in action, trading partner that sent them to me 29 or so years ago. The 1981 European tour produced some great shows with a few counted among my favorite Bruce shows. This and the show on the 8th being at the top of the list and recognized as 2 of the greatest shows, of not only the European leg of the River tour but of the River tour era. As I continue to make my way through the 1200+ Bruce tapes I traded for in the 80's, I'm finding some of my assumptions challenged, one being this previously uncirculated Recorder 2 source I never realized I had. A little story about how we got here: The tapes we have here I traded for in 1982 or 1983 and were among the first tapes I acquired once I got into taping and trading. Having listened to them for years and years, I always assumed they were the same source used for all the circulating LP/CD bootlegs. After all, the quality on the tapes is excellent and the circulating bootlegs are excellent as well, so what would the chances be we had two recorders producing an excellent quality capture that night in 1981 in Stockholm and one not being widely circulated for 31 years, I figured slim to none. My process is to pull the tapes for a certain show, see what is circulating and research if my copy can improve on it. After reading that the master tapes for "Follow That Dream" were supposedly lost in a fire in the mid 80's and knowing that I had traded for this set of tapes in the early 80's. I hoped that maybe I had an actual tape copy of this show to share since all the circulating silver disc copies were produced from the vinyl LP's. I don't think I listened to the vinyl versions of this show more than once since I had the tapes. After reading "Promised Land" was cut on all circulating versions I figured I would start there, imagine my surprise when "Promised Land" was complete on the tapes I had. At this point I figured I had an uncut tape copy of the widely circulated source. I then compared to all circulating versions. I was able to confirm the tapes I had for close to 30 years were indeed from a 2nd recorder. The audience characteristics for this source are of a floor recording very close to the stage. During the music passages audience noise is for the most part non existent, between songs you get much closer, detailed individual clapping which characterize a floor recording. The music itself is in your face with Bruce's vocals being up front and exceptionally clear. You can make out all the subtle voice inflections. Clarence and Steve's back up vocals are clean and clear as well. Instruments have beautiful clear separation. There is some hiss in the quieter dialogue sections but cutting it any removed too much of the vocal quality and tone so was left as is. The 2nd recorder source we have here really puts you in the seat and gives you that feeling of being there. So what are the differences between sources when it comes to the music. "Promised Land" is complete on this recorder 2 source so for the first time we can now hear the harmonica solo in it's entirety, an additional 30 seconds. We also get 15 seconds more dialogue between "DarknessÉ" and "Independence Day". The known issues with the recorder 2 source are edits/splices in 4 songs. -10 seconds missing in "Who'll Stop The Rain" after the line "good men through the agesÉ" -38 seconds missing in "Thunder Road" after "your graduation gown lies in rags at their feetÉ" -19 seconds of the intro to "Backstreets" missing. -54 seconds missing in "Detroit Medley" after "Baton Rouge LouisianaÉall aboardÉ" The main download contains the show as it was sent to me 30 years ago with just a few small tweaks & volume smoothing. I've added as bonus tracks the spliced tracks patched with the missing segments from a pitch corrected version of "Warm Welcome In Stockholm". If you prefer, simply replace the spliced tracks in the main body with the patched tracks and for the first time, to my knowledge, the show can be heard 100% complete with no music or dialogue missing. I'm always reluctant to say a tape is totally uncirculated unless it's never been out of the taper's hands, so I'll just say this is less widely circulated than the more common source and uncirculated here as best I can tell. If it's out there it's not easily found and I could find no reference to a second recorder that night. I've cherished these tapes for 30 years, this show still gives me chills especially with this now proper digitizing, the old tapes never sounded so good. It's my pleasure to bring you this show, one of the best from the River tour, now complete in the best ever quality. Enjoy! MJK5510 ==================================================================================================== Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Johanneshovs Isstadion Stockholm Sweden May 8, 1981 Recorder 2 Source Transferred and upped by mjk5510 (January 2013) Transfer: Early 1980's tape trade > Nakamichi CR-5A (Azimuth Adjusted) > MacBook Pro > Audacity > Peak Pro XT (indexing/volume smoothing) > xACT > FLAC Patch source bonus tracks: Recorder 1 source DISC ONE 01 Run Through The Jungle 02 Prove It All Night 03 The Ties That Bind 04 Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out 05 Darkness On The Edge Of Town 06 Independence Day 07 Factory 08 Who'll Stop The Rain? 09 Two Hearts 10 Out In The Street 11 The Price You Pay 12 This Land Is Your Land 13 The River 14 Promised Land 15 Badlands DISC TWO 01 Cadillac Ranch 02 Sherry Darling 03 Hungry Heart 04 Because The Night 05 You Can Look 06 Wreck On The Highway 07 Point Blank 08 Backstreets 09 Candy's Room 10 Ramrod 11 Rosalita DISC THREE 01 Born To Run 02 The Detroit Medley 03 Can't Help Falling In Love 04 Rockin' All Over The World 05 Twist And Shout BONUS: Patched Tracks All edited tracks patched with Recorder 1 Source D1 Track 10: Out In The Street Patched D1 Track 15: Badlands Patched D2 Track 1: Cadillac Ranch Patched D2 Track 2: Sherry Darling Patched D2 Track 4: Because The Night Patched D2 Track 8: Backstreets Patched D2 Track 10: Ramrod (Song is complete and no Music patch needed however a portion had to be used to patch the start of Rosalita) D2 Track 11: Rosalita Patched Recorder 2 source tape from night 2 in Stockholm. I received this in the same trade as the alternate night 1 tape. Very similar quality as night 1 but more edits. Run Through The Jungle is presented here complete for the first time. As with the show from the 7th some hiss is present during the quieter sections and has not been tweaked so there is no tonal change in Bruce's vocals. Since this recorder 2 source is being presented here, I patched the edits in this source tape with recorder 1. I've enjoyed this version most of my life and wanted to make this one as close to complete as possible. Main download has all the songs with edits in tack as traded, bonus tracks are the same tracks patched with recorder 1 and can be substituted for the edited tracks make this version complete with the exception of the missing segment in Sherry Darling also missing in recorder 1. Known issues, edits and patches: -Out In The Street *missing 15 seconds at 3:34, patched with recorder 1 source *missing 3 seconds at the very end, patched with recorder 1 source -Badlands *missing 10 seconds at the very start, patched with recorder 1 source -Cadillac Ranch *missing 9 seconds at the very end, patched with recorder 1 source -Sherry Darling *both recorder 1 & 2 sources have edits in different places within the first 1.5 minutes. Recorder 1's edit comes at about 42 seconds in and the entire 1st chorus is missing on 2 sources I checked. The edit is done very well and you might miss it if you aren't paying close attention on the 2 sources I checked. Recorder 2's edit comes at 1:07, this could not be patched because this section of missing music is not available in the recorder 1 source either. Recorder 2 has more music available than recorder 1 according to the recorder 1 versions I have. *missing 6 seconds at 1:29, patched with recorder 1 source *missing 39 seconds at 1:39, patched with recorder 1 source -Because The Night *missing 9 seconds at :20, patched with recorder 1 source -Backstreets *missing 8 seconds at :01, patched with recorder 1 source -Rosalita *missing 1 second at start of Rosalita, patched with recorder 1 source. This one was tricky, the only way to make it sound somewhat smooth was to take 1 second off the outro to Ramrod and splice in 2 seconds at the start of Rasalita, that is why there is a Ramrod patched track though there are not any edits or music missing from it but it goes into Rosalita without a break. So if you burn using the patched Rosalita you will also need to use the "patched" Ramrod. Enjoy! MJK5510