BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND
Waldbühne, West-Berlin, GER   22. July 1988

Disc 1:
set 1
01.  Badlands
02.  Tunnel Of Love 
03.  Boom Boom
04.  Adam Raised A Cain 
05.  All That Heaven Will Allow
06.  The River
07.  The Promised Land  
08.  // Cover Me >
09.  Brilliant Disguise
10.  Spare Parts
11.  War
12.  Born In The USA

Disc 2:
01.  Chimes Of Freedom  
set 2
02.  Tougher Than The Rest
03.  Who Do You Love? >
04.  // She's The One
05.  You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
06.  I'm A Coward, When It Comes To Love
07.  I'm On Fire  
08.  Downbound Train
09.  Because The Night >
10.  Dancing In The Dark  >
11.  // Light Of Day >
12.  Land Of 1000 Dances (incl. band introduction)

Disc 3:
encores:
01.  Born To Run (acoustic)  
02.  // Hungry Heart >
03.  Glory Days
04.  Can't Help Falling In Love
05.  Bobby Jean
06.  Cadillac Ranch >
07.  Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out // >
08.  Sweet Soul Music >
09.  Raise Your Hand
10.  Twist And Shout

approx. 209 mins

recording info & lineage:
recorded by vortex242  (v242-109)
Aiwa CM30 > Sony D6c > MaC (3 TDK SA 90)
MaC > Tascam 130 > R-09HR (24/48) > USB > 
Adobe Audition 3 (EQing, 16/41, fades) > CDwav > flac

// some cuts due to tapeflips


here's one from the vaults.
recently a torrent of the Waldbühne 1988 show was uploaded.
Incomplete from a cd bootleg...
So I went into the vaults to find two uncirculated complete masters of that show.
here's my master.
A very good audience capture under that circumstances...

... 1988 my lungs collapsed two times.
the second time I had to undergo invasive surgery. four weeks prior to this show.
the waldbühne show was announced around that time (can you guess that? 
nowadays you can get your tickets nearly a year in advance) but bruce wanted 
to play west-berlin as well, after accepting to play that big show in east-berlin.
while I was in hospital my brother got me a ticket. it was placed right beside my bed.
first surgery failed... a second one had to be done...
after that I was a wreck, but expectations for a Springsteen show was giving strength
then I had to fight an internal infection.. and I feared to be too sick to go..
I told the professor that I had an urgent appointment at the waldbühne
and he said, if there's no fever in the next 7 days I'll get permission to go... 
holiday from hospital for some hours...
no fever signs for 7 days...
a friend drove me home to pick up my equipment and then down to the venue.
I had an certificate that I was reconvalescent from surgery so I could use a side 
entrance. Went as planned. I could have smuggled in every equipment...

I was sitting right beneath the soundboard, with lots of clappers and 
asshole singers around me... a taping location I would never choose but
I wasn't able to move away... and I swear I did not sing...

despite of that the show was incredible.

but you know, three and a half hours under my physical condition was hell...
and everybody who ever visited the waldbühne know these steep endless stairs to the exit.
going down at the beginning was ok, but getting up after the show was simply
unbearable. I wasn't simply in the condition for that. it felt like an hour to get to the top...
and during that I called me a silly idiot a hundred times for going to the show...
but in the end it let me heal faster ;-) a perfect drug for me

so now you get the proof I was there