Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Date: 1984-08-16  
Venue: BRENDAN BYRNE ARENA
Location: EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ
Source: Tape Man Joe Master Via G
Title: Tape Man Joe Master Volume 58


Sony WM D6C deck> Sony 929 or 939 Mics> TDK MA 90 min tapes> Master Tapes> Tascam 202MkVII> TDK-DA3826 standalone 
CD burner> EAC (Secure Mode)> CD Wave Editor (remove cuts)> Goldwave (fades, patching & file merging)> MAGIX audio cleaning lab> 
CD Wave Editor (track splits)> Trader's Little Helper (Flac Level 8, Align, Verify)

Welcome back to the series of probably uncirculated audience recordings. So the story goes, Tape Man Joe attended many concerts. 
Joe used a Sony D6 with either a Sony 929 or 939 microphone (memories have faded on which exact mic) and TDK metal tapes. Joe 
made a few copies and gave them to friends but never actively traded his recordings. Recently Joe lent a few of his masters to 
his friend, Jungleland user G (a generous collector himself who has lent tapes from his collection to help upgrade many shows). 
G asked me to finish off the transfers and post them. 

Night seven of the ten-night stand at the Brendan Byrne Arena is highlighted by the tour premiere of “Johnny Bye-Bye”.  As Brucebase 
states below, it’s the reworked B-Side and not the sparse version that was played late on the River tour. Bruce’s call outs during 
the song indicate that he was looking to fill in the end of song with something. Later on the tour he would add lines from “Mystery 
Train”. 

It’s still early in the tour and a few songs haven’t quite found their place in the set list yet. “Cover Me” is in the first set, 
“My Hometown” in the second. “Fire” is featured directly after the closing notes of “Pink Cadillac”. “I’m A Rocker” is still in the 
encore rotation, much to the delight of the fellow standing next to Joe. 

Recorder One has circulated for a long time as an incomplete recording missing "Born To Run" and switching the order of  "I'm A Rocker" 
and Jungleland". Recorder Two made into circulation six years ago. It contained "Born to Run" but it also had many cuts and wasn't as 
good as Recorder One. Which brings us to Joe's Master, Recorder Three. There are two minor imperfections on Joe's tape listed. The 
quality is easily better than Recorder Two and slightly better than Recorder One. Considering that Joe’s recording has only a couple of 
issues and is the most complete, it’s clearly the best version to date.


Thanks to Tape Man Joe for recording and sharing his tapes and G for transferring the files.

01.BORN IN THE U.S.A.  
02.PROVE IT ALL NIGHT
03.OUT IN THE STREET
04.ATLANTIC CITY
05.OPEN ALL NIGHT
06.NEBRASKA
07.COVER ME 
08.DARLINGTON COUNTY 
09.GLORY DAYS
10.THE PROMISED LAND
11.JOHNNY BYE-BYE
12.THE RIVER
13.BADLANDS 
14.THUNDER ROAD
15.HUNGRY HEART
16.DANCING IN THE DARK 
17.CADILLAC RANCH 
18.SHERRY DARLING
19.NO SURRENDER
20.MY HOMETOWN
21.PINK CADILLAC
22.FIRE
23.BOBBY JEAN
24.BACKSTREETS
25.ROSALITA (COME OUT TONIGHT) 
26.I'M A ROCKER
27.JUNGLELAND
28.BORN TO RUN
29.DETROIT MEDLEY
30.TWIST AND SHOUT - DO YOU LOVE ME

Known faults:

Volume fluctuations at the start of "Born In The U.S.A". It lasts for 6 seconds.
"I'm a Rocker" is cut at the started. Patched with 3 seconds of Recorder One.


From Brucbase WikiDot:

First "Johnny Bye-Bye" of the tour, similar to the "I'm On Fire" b-side rather than the slow River Tour version, furthermore it does not 
contain lines from "Mystery Train", as it will later in the tour. "Backstreets" again has a lengthy intro and a short "Sad Eyes" in the 
middle. Bruce sings a bit of Chubby Checker's "Let's Twist Again" as an introduction to "I'm A Rocker". "Detroit Medley" includes 
"Travelin' Band".