Bruce Springsteen
Hampton Roads Coliseum
Hampton, Virginia
March 2, 1981
(Recorder 3)
(DS Archives Volume 44)

Transfer: Low Gen Tape > Nakamichi DR-01 (azimuth adjusted) > Sound Devices USB Pre2 > Audacity 2.31 > Peak Pro 6 (pre-production) > iZotope RX / ozone 5 (mastered) > Peak Pro 6 (patch / post production) > xACT 2.39 > FLAC

01 Prove It All Night
02 Out In The Street
03 Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
04 Darkness On The Edge Of Town
05 Independence Day
06 Who'll Stop The Rain
07 Two Hearts
08 The Promised Land
09 This Land Is Your Land
10 The River
11 Badlands
12 Thunder Road
13 Ramrod
14 Fire
15 Candy's Room
16 You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
17 4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
18 For You
19 Wreck On The Highway
20 Racing In The Street
21 Cadillac Ranch
22 Sherry Darling
23 Hungry Heart
24 Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
25 I'm A Rocker
26 Jungleland
27 Born To Run
28 Detroit Medley

Known Faults:
-The Promised Land: 1 second patched at start
-Fire: 1:07 patched at start
-Cadillac Ranch: start slightly cut (no available patch)
-Rosalita: 13 seconds patched at start
-Detroit Medley: 3:17 patched at end

Welcome to Volume 44 of the DS Archives, this time out we feature Recorder 3 for the Hampton, Virginia show on what is essentially the second leg of the River Tour. By this point in the tour we still had over 6 months of shows to go included the European leg of the tour and another leg in North America.

The end of the 1980 leg of the tour had stretched to maximum epic length, for the 1981 portion of the tour and with Europe just over the horizon, the band was tightly focused and the shows were serious all business rock and roll shows.

Until I was working on this show again I had forgotten what a one-off mixed up setlist the second half of this show is with "Ramrod" opening the second set and the usual opening triple play of "Cadillac Ranch", "Sherry Darling" and "Hungry Heart" is moved to the end of the set. After listening to every show of The River tour at one time or the other it is a little jolting to go from "Hungry Heart" into "Rosalita". Who knows what prompted the move but whatever it was Bruce quickly reverted back to the previously mentioned triple play to open set two.

Quality on this one is good though a bit distant with some reverb that I was able to know down just a bit. A number of audience members yelling "sit down" points to a back of the floor capture. Being a low gen copy it is clean with little to no hiss present. I did have to remove many whistles around and near the taper. Samples provided...

It's no surprise there are three recording sources for this show, Virginia being a de facto second home for the band and they were embraced as one of their own early in Bruce's career. It would not surprise me at all if there were not a couple more recording sources lurking out there just waiting to be discovered.

Thanks as always to Dan S and his fabulous archives, many more shows yet to come.

Artwork included...

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