Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
Joe Louis Arena
Detroit, MI
March 29, 1988
(Recorder 2 - "dgpirl"Audience Master)

Taper: DGPIRL
Location: Main Floor F1, Row 33, Seat 11

Transfer: "DGPIRL" Audience Master > Nakamichi Dr-01 (azimuth adjusted) > Audacity > Peak Pro 6 (pitch adjusted) > iZotope RX / ozone 5 (mastered) > Peak Pro 6 (patches / post-production) > xACT 2.39 > FLAC

01 Tunnel Of Love
02 Be True
03 Adam Raised A Cain
04 Two Faces
05 All That Heaven Will Allow
06 Darkness On The Edge Of Town
07 Roulette
08 Cover Me
09 Brilliant Disguise
10 Spare Parts
11 War
12 Born In The USA
13 Tougher Than The Rest
14 Ain't Got You > She's The One
15 You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
16 I'm A Coward
17 I'm On Fire
18 One Step Up
19 Part Man, Part Monkey
20 Backstreets
21 Dancing In The Dark
22 Light Of Day
23 Born To Run
24 Hungry Heart
25 Glory Days
26 Love Me Tender
27 Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
28 Detroit Medley > Sweet Soul Music
29 Raise Your Hand

Known Faults: 
-Tunnel Of Love end > Be True start: 1:26 patched
-Cover Me: 10 seconds patched at end
-Hungry Heart: Recorder 1
-Glory Days: Recorder 1
-Love Me Tender: 59 seconds Intro and start patched

A welcome Recorder 2 source for the second night in Detroit from the "DGPIRL" master tape, this is the same collector that acquired and brought us the unreleased penultimate Steel Mill performance...what might he do for an encore!

He could not remember what deck and mic he used for the capture, possibly an Aiwa deck, the raw tape, based on his taping location and deck, was biased towards the high end. After adjusting it to the proper pitch, a bit of nudging the low end and focusing the mid-range we have a fine capture that could be considered an upgrade. 

Comparing the Recorder 1 source which has a touch of distance to it and lacking some punch, this source has more presence and punch to it. There is the occasional audience chatter being on the floor, I've removed as much as possible along with some mic bumps. Fortunately, for the most part the music overpowers most audience noise making it mostly insignificant. There were also a few patches needed and 2 songs substituted from Recorder 1 (dgpirl could not recall what caused him to miss two songs).

Some of the early Tunnel tour shows could be inconsistant. This show is not one of those inconsistant affairs, it's laser focused throughout with the band in top form.

Thanks to "DGPIRL" for taping and lending out his master tapes as well as to 
"Horst hrubesh" for putting us in touch.

Samples and artwork provided...additionally dgpirl has supplied us with his ticket stub and numerous newspaper articles reviewing either the show on the 28th or 29th.

mjk5510 and DGPIRL