LDB Special Series #337 (RLR collection) Out of my 7,000+ shows and radio broadcasts, I have many concerts that were special for some reasons: the setlist, the musicians, the venue or unexpected events. These are the ones I'd like to propose you. Most of these come from my cassettes collection, so they will be released at a slower pace than my Master Series! But you won't be disappointed! I will try to gather the most unusual things I have in my collection and, as always, your feedback and comments will be my reward for all the work involved in this project. DO NOT share this music on mp3, just convert it for your own use. Sharing mp3's is the right way to make me stop sharing music here. I think I have something really special to share with all Dimers, but first a bit of background. RLR has been a very active trader back in the early 80´s with very wide musical tastes: he could go from Kiss to Joni Mitchell; from Genesis to Deep Purple, Queen, Simple Minds, The Who, Springsteen and many more. In the past I could access his enormous collection to get many U2 tapes some of which I have been sharing with you folks. RLR had all sorts of tapes in his collection, traded not long after the show happened so most of them are low generation, in particular tons of shows recorded in Italy which to me are some of the most interesting. Some of them, I had never seen circulating in the trading circuit. Unfortunately he did not care about generation so this info, except for the shows he has as masters, is not available. RLR has kindly given me access once again to his collection. It was like a "kid in a toy shop" situation: it was hard to select tapes and at the end I came home with some 250 tapes to listen and eventually to transfer in the digital domain. Some of them will be shared here, possibly the most interesting ones. I am ok with globs and sites to re-post my seeds - provided they are in lossless form - however I ask you to keep intact the infos of the concert including that this is part of LDB series. And I am referring to (and not only): - http://musictravellerstwo.blogspot.it - http://www.guitars101.com Thanks in advance. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Berlin, Internationales Congress Centrum April 9, 1981 01.FACTORY (tape problems) 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 14.CADILLAC RANCH 15.SHERRY DARLING 16.HUNGRY HEART 17.FIRE 18.YOU CAN LOOK (BUT YOU BETTER NOT TOUCH) 19.WRECK ON THE HIGHWAY 20.RACING IN THE STREET 21.BACKSTREETS 22.RAMROD 23.ROSALITA (COME OUT TONIGHT) 24.BORN TO RUN 25.DETROIT MEDLEY 26.ROCKIN' ALL OVER THE WORLD / OUTRO MUSIC (but the audience wants more!) 27.TWIST AND SHOUT TT 151:57 Lineage: Unknown recording device > low generation tape > Aiwa Tape Deck TC-WE475 > Audiophile 2496 Soundblaster > HD > SoundForge 7.0 > CD Wave > FLAC Frontend (level 6) Bruce Springsteen - guitar, vocals, harmonica Roy Bittan - piano Clarence Clemons - saxophone, percussion, background vocals Danny Federici - organ, electronic glockenspiel, accordion Garry Tallent - bass guitar Steven Van Zandt - guitars, background vocals Max Weinberg - drums I like the sound of this one. I was transferring it and listening at the same time and I kind of liked the ambience and audience reaction. The performance was also nice. Although the show ended with the outro music, the audience did not leave the hall and requested one more encore. Still not my best tour but not bad. To finish off this mini-series for the Boss, I will dig into something older than this (look the photo in the comment...) ldb