Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Maple Leaf Gardens
Toronto, Canada
November 16, 1978
(Recorder 1 - 1st Generation - JEMS Archives)

Recording: Uher CDR 240 (taped from the 10th row)

Lineage: First-generation Cassette > Nakamichi 670 azimuth-adjusted playback deck > Nakamichi outboard Dolby B > Wavelab 96/24 > convert to 16/44 > data files > Peak Pro XT (pitch / volume smoothing / subtle tweak / index / patch) > xACT 2.21 > FLAC

01 Ready Teddy
02 Badlands
03 Streets Of Fire
04 Spirit In The Night
05 Darkness On The Edge Of Town
06 Independence Day
07 The Promised Land
08 Prove It All Night
09 Racing In The Streets
10 Thunder Road
11 Jungleland
12 The Ties That Bind
13 Fire
14 Candy's Room
15 Because The Night
16 Point Blank
17 Mona + She's The One
18 Backstreets
19 Rosalita
20 Born To Run
21 Detroit Medley
22 Quarter To Three

Known faults:
-Prove It All Night: last 1:14 patched with un-circulated Recorder 3
-Because The Night: first 10 seconds patched with Recorder 2
-Rosalita: 6:46 patched with un-circulated Recorder 3

Known recorders:
Recorder 1: CDR version in current circulation / JEMS 1st Gen (this share)
Recorder 2: Mackeck Master Tapes
Recorder 3: Un-circulated version used to patch "Prove It All Night" and 
"Rosalita"

While working with JEMS on Recorder 2 (mackeck master) for this show, a search was done of the archives for the possibility of an upgrade to the common Recorder 1 source. The archives once again did not disappoint and a 1st generation cassette emerged.
Taped from the 10th row on a Uher CR 240 deck, J of JEMS attended this show and sat with the taper, enjoying a rare taping night off. As tends to happen, the taper and master have disappeared into the night but we are fortunately left with this fine 1st generation copy.

Interestingly, not only do we get a material upgrade to the circulating Recorder 1 that we used to patch the new source shared a few weeks ago but during the final mastering process it was discovered this source has been patched with a previously unknown 3rd recorder. 

This source is a big upgrade to the currently circulating source and though it still has it's share of issues (some parts are better than others, Candy's Room to Point Blank is slightly lesser quality) all in all it's an excellent listen of a tremendous late Darkness era show.

Not much you can add about the show itself that hasn't been said before, it's Darkness and it opens with 'Ready Teddy' what more could you ask for.

Big thanks to J and E of JEMS for keeping the archives open and "on call" so the music continues to freely flow. Now if we can just find that 3rd recorder...

Download includes artwork and updated "Multiple Recorder Project" spreadsheet now up to 94 shows and 227 unique recorders, thanks to all that have helped identify the multiple sources. There are still many more to come...

mjk5510 (tapping the JEMS Archives once again)