Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Saginaw Civic Center
Saginaw, Michigan
September 3, 1978
JEMS Master

From the Series: JEMS: The Darkness Tour Masters Revisited
Format: 3CD
Source: Audience
Lineage: ANA(M) > Nakamichi 670zx > Wavelab 24/96 capture > .wav >
Converted to Stereo 24/96 and mastered in Adobe Audition > Resampled to 16/44.1.
Taping Gear: Teac M-100 > Sony TC-153SD (Dolby B on, mono)
Taped and Transferred By: JEMS
2011 Release Mastered By: Flynn


Disc 1
1. Intro
2. Good Rockin' Tonight
3. Badlands
4. Streets of Fire
5. Spirit in the Night
6. Darkness on the Edge of Town
7. It's My Life
8. Factory
9. Heartbreak Hotel
10. The Promised Land
11. Prove It All Night

Disc 2
1. Racing in the Street
2. Thunder Road
3. Jungleland
4. Paradise by the C
5. Fire
6. Sherry Darling
7. Intro/Guitar Tuning/Banter
8. I Don't Wanna Hang Up My Rock and Roll Shoes
9. Candy's Room
10. Adam Raised a Cain
11. Mona --> She's the One
12. Growin' Up

Disc 3
1. Backstreets
2. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
3. Born to Run
4. Quarter to Three


Volume Four of JEMS' Darkness Tour Masters Revisited series is this much-requested show from Saginaw. It beings to sound redundant to call this out as a special show given how many there were on the tour, but it truly is. The most notable set list inclusion was what was then a one-off cover (it came back in Buffalo 2009) of Chuck Willis' "(I Don't Want to) Hang Up My Rock 'n' Roll Shoes," which has long defined this show. But it boasts other terrific covers of "Good Rockin' Tonight" and "Heartbreak Hotel," a great (as noted by the indispensible Brucebase Wiki) version of "Growin' Up" and lots of fun Bruce chatter.

That voice you hear shouting requests like "SUM-UR-TIME-BLOOZ" is J's old friend and taping buddy, ML. Never bashful, ML let his voice be heard and while it adds a lot more audience noise than you find on most other JEMS masters, it also adds a certain charm to the recording.

For the fresh transfer, every minute JEMS recorded is available in best-ever quality.  The tape is clear, sharp and on par with our best work from the tour. This 24/96 capture from the original master cassettes was then passed to Flynn for mastering and release. The show is being presented both in CD-friendly 16/44.1 and, if there is enough demand, high-res 24/96 versions.

There is still more JEMS ground to cover from the Darkness tour: some good recordings, some great recordings and some mind-blowing ones. Hell, turns out there are shows we recorded that I didn't even know about until a month or so ago. And so the Revisit rolls on.

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