Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Market Square Arena
Indianapolis, Indiana
March 5, 1981
(JEMS Archive Low Generation)

Transfer: JEMS Archives Low Gen Tape > Nakamichi DR-01 (azimuth adjusted) > Sound Devices USB Pre2 > Audacity 1.3.11 > Peak Pro 6 (pitch adjusted) > iZotope RX / Ozone 5 (mastered) > Peak Pro 6 (post production) >  xACT 2.37 > FLAC

01 Prove It All Night
02 Out In The Street
03 Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
04 Darkness On The Edge Of Town
05 Factory
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 Fade Away
20 Because The Night
21 Stolen Car
22 Racing In The Street
23 Candy’s Room
24 Ramrod
25 Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
26 I’m A Rocker
27 Jungleland
28 Born To Run
29 Detroit Medley

Known Faults:
-Two Hearts: end cut as last notes fade out
-The Promised Land: start patched with less than 1 second of music from   
  alternate source
-Stolen Car: 54 seconds near the end patched with alternate source

We wrap the end of the first North American leg of the River Tour with a very nice capture of the last night in Indianapolis out of the JEMS archives. This comes from a batch of tapes Butterking supplied, same batch that gave 
us an upgrade for Nashville, around a handful of shows I thought deserved an upgrade check.

This show, originally scheduled on February 9th, was one of two shows rescheduled for unknown reasons. By this late in the tour, the marathon shows from November/December had been scaled back slightly to a tightly focused finely tuned set, in preparation perhaps for the much shorter sets to follow in Europe.

The set features the last “Fade Away” until 2005 (solo) and 2009 (band), the balance of the set is tried and true by now.

The quality is excellent and this low gen copy gives us a nice material upgrade, like the circulating copy, for reasons unknown, the second set is brighter, cleaner and a bit clearer than the first set but retains the same basic location feel and atmosphere as the first set.

We will be re-visiting this show once more in a future upload with an alternate, slightly inferior, capture that gives us our patches out of my own archives.

Thanks to Butterking for always being at the ready to dig into the JEMS archives for our benefit, Jared and Mark S. for being the original keepers and curators of the archives, a position Mark S. continues to hold and Butterking has assumed with the passing of our friend and mentor Jared.

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