Title: Warm Night In Chicago Label: Ev2 Format: 3CD Source: Audience Date: August 9, 1985. Location: Soldier Field, Chicago, IL. ----------- source: PCM-F1 MASTER RB Recorder: Sony PCM-F1/Beta Tape: Sony Beta Mics: AKG 460 B ck1 Played back on same exact gear (not original gear) through> Pre-amp: Naim 52 w/chord co. cable CDR Recorder (Stand Alone): Marantz CDR-600 (Philips CDR-101) CDR: Taiyo Yuden Gold 74-ZY PC Drive: UltraPlex40max SCSI EAC>FLAC>To You Guys, enjoy, RB ----------- Disc One: 01 Born In The U.S.A. 02 Badlands 03 Out In The Street 04 "Watch The Guy Next To You" 05 Johnny 99 06 Seeds 07 Atlantic City 08 Intro / "Some Place To Go" 09 The River 10 Working On The Highway 11 Trapped 12 Darlington County 13 Glory Days 14 The Promised Land Disc Two: 01 Intro / "Chicago Food Depository" 02 My Hometown 03 Thunder Road 04 Cover Me 05 Dancing In The Dark 06 Hungry Heart 07 Cadillac Ranch 08 Downbound Train 09 I'm On Fire 10 "The Garden Of Eden" 11 Pink Cadillac 12 Bobby Jean Disc Three: 01 Intro / "The Greatest Song" 02 This Land Is Your Land 03 Born To Run 04 Band Introduction 05 Ramrod 06 Twist & Shout (w/ Do You Love Me) 07 Sherry Darling 08 Reason To Believe 09 Intro 10 No Surrender 11 Prove It All Night 12 Jungleland 13 Racing In The Street - D3 Tracks 8-12: Kemper Arena, Kansas City, MO. November 19, 1984. ====== This one was re-edited two times (wasn't satisfied with the results), hope I got it finally right. Huge thanks to mr. analog for taping the show and sharing the master. Thanks! ====== "This recording is absolutely sick and borderline ridiculous in terms quality for an audience. If you want to hear power captured via digital audie, this is the tape for you. Not sure we could do as well today for some reason and why is that? One trainspotter moment I have called out before from the show is beautifully captured on this tape in the first minute or so of "Born in the U.S.A." As some of you might know, for this tour Max Weinberg switched from miking his drums to using drum triggers to fatten the sound. The drum trigger hits a sampler which plays commanding "whoomp" sound. When Bruce starts BITUSA in Chicago, Max comes in with those single snare beats, only someone forgot to turn on the drum sampler/triggers. So for the first few bars its like "tick," "tick," "tick" as we only here the miked drum, then someone throws the switch and it's "kaboom," "kaboom," "kaboom." The difference is incredible and you'll hear it here." -'Butterking' "This was also my first Springsteen show (although my Dad's secretary wanted to take me to see him on The River tour-- folks said NO--I was only 10). I was playing high school football and had to run the mile for time. I was running every day and I HATE running. The Sunday before the show, I was laying in bed listening to WCKG (they USED to play music back then) trying to avoid getting out of bed to go running. They announced that they were going to be giving away tickets to the show, so I figured that was an excuse to stay in bed a little longer. I never actually thought that I would win. When the time came, I called and actually won. I called my sister, who was working at a drugstore and asked her if she wanted to go. She didn't believe me. When I finally convinced her that I was serious, she dropped the phone and screamed. This actually got me out of a HUGE jam with my sister, as she had graduated high school that summer and I never got her a gift, and her birthday was between the Sunday I won the tickets and the day of the show. We went to the show with a friend of hers, his boyfriend, and a friend of hers (who I happened to be playing football with). We got there at 10am (general admission seating) and ran into some friends that had been there since 7am. We hopped in line with them and waited. When they finally let people in, we ran (which sucked for me as I had a micro-cassette recorder in my shoe). I taped the show from about 10 rows of bodies back, but all you can hear is Herman (the guy I played football with) screaming "BORN IN THE USA" for 3 hours with Springsteen in the background. So this is a huge upgrade for me. It was hotter than hell that day and there was 1" thick black rubber matting covering the playing field. We kept going and soaking under the showers that the players use on the sidelines. Someone near us had a bag of chocolate chips that get spilled and melted on the matting. By the time we got home, we looked like we had spent 3 months in the same clothes in Beirut. By the way, the show was SMOKING!!" - 'toadhead' Thanks to the taper Rick B. - amazing recording (as all of yours).