Bruce Springsteen
Indoor Arena
Sheffield, England
April 15, 1993

Lineage:  Unknown master audience (probably DAT) => cassette => cassette => Stand-alone Sony ES DAT => Stand-alone Pioneer CD burner => EAC => Magix Audio Cleaning Lab => WAV => FLAC Front-end (level 8)

Disc one (50:22):
(1)  Entrance (0:43)
(2)  Seeds (3:18)
(3)  Adam Raised A Cain (3:56)
(4)  This Hard Land (4:48)
(5)  Better Days (4:32)
(6)  Lucky Town (5:37)
(7)  57 Channels (and Nothin' On) (5:53)
(8)  Atlantic City (5:47)
(9)  Badlands (6:40)
(10)  Many Rivers To Cross (3:49)
(11)  My Hometown (5:12)

Disc two (51:29):
(1)  Leap of Faith (4:48)
(2)  Man's Job (6:23)
(3)  Roll of the Dice (5:49) =>
(4)  Everybody Needs Somebody To Love (3:46)
(5)  Born In The U.S.A. (3:03)
(6)  I'm On Fire (4:00)
(7)  Because The Night (6:34)
(8)  Human Touch (7:48)
(9)  The River (6:01)
(10)  Who'll Stop The Rain (3:13)

Disc three (60:02):
(1)  Souls of the Departed (5:24)
(2)  Prove It All Night (5:13)
(3)  Light of Day (13:24)
(4)  Glory Days (9:13)
(5)  Intro (1:51)
(6)  Thunder Road (5:58)
(7)  Born To Run (5:22)
(8)  Encore break (0:57)
(9)  My Beautiful Reward (6:54)
(10)  Working On The Highway (5:41)

Fingerprint file is included.  Sorry, no artwork - perhaps someone can create some

Comments:  Outstanding audience recording from the tail end of Bruce Springsteen's 1992/1993 world tour with the "replacement" band.  This tour tends to be dismissed by Bruce's hard-core fans; most feel that neither the band nor the material stand up to any of the E Street tours.  While I agree with that assessment on the whole, an exception should be made for the spring 1993 European tour and the benefit dates in New Jersey in June -- by the end of the tour, the band was hitting on all cylinders and the setlist had been refined into a great live show.  

This particular recording is phenomenal -- the recording is up-front and nearly perfect, and  there is enough of the rowdy European crowd to capture the "live," celebration feel of the show.  The E Street covers sound great (almost as good as E Street), and even the Human Touch/Lucky Town material is really impressive.  This is by far my favorite recording from the tour.

I assume this is the same source that was used on Crystal Cat's "Sheffield Night," but mine comes directly from the tape source (I got the tapes in trade in 1993; I assume this is long before the boot was released).  Not having heard the boot, I'm not sure how this one compares; I assume this is less compressed and has a fuller, more authentic sound.  (Hopefully someone that has the CC version can weigh in on this.)

Even the hardcore collectors don't have much from 1992/93; I'd say this (and the NJ benefit shows) is one that even casual Bruce fans would really like.