Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
American Airlines Center
Dallas, TX
April 13, 2008
DPA 4061>Sony DAT D100>Sony CDRW66>CDR>EAC>FLAC
Taper: V4TX w/a purse assist from PRews
Artwork: JoeyJay

Nowhere near perfect recording from the side of the stage.  Missing the “in your face” feel, but overall very acceptable.  I was kind of in a speaker no man’s land.  There really wasn’t any bank of speakers with a direct bead on me.  However, the bigger problem may be the crowd around me.  In front I have the young drunks who two songs into the encore have successfully made a mad dash to the concession stand to make sure each guy had 4 beers left to drink.  Then there was the party girl next to me who tried to get me to dance. –Can’t you see I’m doing something here?!-  The best might have been the play by play guy behind me who through the course of the night tried to be the first person to shout out the song title. He also let us know “this is my favorite Springsteen song,” “this is the best song on Magic,” and “this is what the E Street Band is all about.”  He kinda lost credibility when he said Reason To Believe was a cover of an old blues song.  If I wasn’t taping I would have told him all about the album Nebraska. As you listen be prepared for the random scream, overclapping, and crowd chatter. 

This was a fun show, and from what I read a bit on the long side for the tour.  Bruce spent a bit of time with a group of very young girls right at the front of the stage.  He talked to them for a few minutes, at the end of disc 1, and invited all of them onstage for Dancing In The Dark.  Tour debut of Independence Day.  For those of you that use longer format discs, if you remove the last track from disc 1 and the first track from disc 2 you should have a seamless show.  Tracks done on the fly so they are not perfect.  Artwork included.  Enjoy. 

Disc 1
1. intro/Tenth Avenue Freeze-out
2. Radio Nowhere
3. Lonesome Day
4. Gypsy Biker
5. Magic
6. Trapped
7. Reason to Believe w/Spirit In The Sky intro/outro
8. Prove It All Night
9. Because the Night
10. She's the One
11. Livin' in the Future
12. The Promised Land
13. Girls in Their Summer Clothes
14. talk to the girls
15. fade out

Disc 2
1. disc 1 overlap
2. Independence Day
3. Devil's Arcade
4. The Rising
5. Last to Die
6. Long Walk Home
7. Badlands
8. encore wait
9. Meeting Across the River
10. Jungleland
11. Born to Run
12. Glory Days (with Jon Bon Jovi)
13. Dancing in the Dark
14. American Land