Bruce Springsteen
St. Paul MN USA
St. Paul Civic Center
Sunday 1 July 1984
[stereo audience recording (incomplete); total running time: 01:33:51.73]

CONTRAST CLAUSE:
A more complete version of this concert from a different recording is running here:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=554627

cassette side A (46:55.52):
[MISSING: Born In The U.S.A.]
A01. Prove It All Night (05:15.62)
A02. Out On The Street (05:07.40)
A03. crowd noise (00:55.17)
A04. Reason To Believe (04:33.63)
A05. Atlantic City (05:23.22)
A06. crowd noise (00:21.49)
A07. comments / intro (01:19.30)
A08. Open All Night (03:27.30)
A09. crowd noise (00:20.66)
A10. interim / guitar change (01:00.60)
A11. comments / intro (01:03.16)
A12. Mansion On The Hill
A13. Darlington County (05:36.30)
A14. Glory Days [truncated] (1:14)
[MISSING: The Promised Land]
A15. Used Cars (03:33.10)
A16. comments / intro (00:45.17)
A17. My Hometown (03:37.23)

cassette side B (46:56.21):
B01. Badlands (05:23.30)
B02. Thunder Road (05:51.24)
B03. Cadillac Ranch (05:03.00) >
B04. Hungry Heart (04:17.29) >
B05. Dancing In The Dark (05:16.25)
B06. Sherry Darling (05:07.28)
B07. crowd noise (01:06.35)
B08. Nebraska (04:38.40)
B09. Pink Cadillac (06:41.59)
B10. Fire [truncated] (03:30.51)

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Bruce Springsteen: vocals, guitar, harmonica
Roy Bittan: piano, keyboards
Patti Scialfa: backing vocals, percussion
Garry Tallent: bass, percussion
Max Weinberg: drums
Danny Federici: organ, accordion, keyboards
Clarence Clemons: tenor and baritone saxophones, backing vocals, percussion
Nils Lofgren: guitar; backing vocals

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Digitizing notes:
There are other sources for this concert, but it seems that this particular tape never made the rounds. It sounds like the taper was a bit farther back in the crowd, but for the most part, still captures a fairly decent recording from the overhead P.A., marred perhaps only by a particularly enthusiastic whistler near the taper.

According to the Brucebase, Springsteen was in town for a few days; shooting a video for Dancing In The Dark at the same venue on Thursday 28 June, then officially starting the tour the next night. Oddly enough, there is no record of a Saturday show, and then this concert takes place on Sunday.

“Born In The USA” is missing; something happened during “Glory Days”; the tape is shut off and cuts the song short, then starts up again for “Used Cars”, missing “The Promised Land”. The tape runs out during “Fire”, and approximately the last hour and twenty minutes were not recorded.

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from:
http://www.mrpopculture.com/1984/20-1984/1344-july-1-1984

Music news – July 1, 1984
Bruce Springsteen plays his first concert in nearly three years in St Paul. Nils Lofgren replaces Miami Steve Van Zandt on guitar in the E street Band.

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from Setlist.FM:
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/bruce-springsteen/1984/st-paul-civic-center-st-paul-mn-7bd6e6b0.html

Born in the U.S.A.
Prove It All Night
Out in the Street
Reason to Believe [live debut]
Atlantic City
Open All Night [live debut]
Mansion on the Hill
Darlington County [tour debut]
Glory Days
The Promised Land
Used Cars
My Hometown
Badlands
Thunder Road

Set two:
Cadillac Ranch
Hungry Heart
Dancing in the Dark
Sherry Darling
Nebraska [live debut]
Pink Cadillac [live debut]
Fire
Bobby Jean
Ramrod
Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)

Encore:
I'm a Rocker
Jungleland
Born to Run
Street Fighting Man [Rolling Stones]
Detroit Medley

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lineage:
original master cassette [2-channel stereo] > Nakamichi DR-3 cassette deck [Azimuth adjustment applied to playback head] > Edirol R-04 [RCA/analog in; 24-bit/96kHz transfer (.wav)] > PC [via USB] > CD Wave Editor [Version 1.98; Windows Build Number: 0000.23F0] (sector boundary tracking) > Trader's Little Helper [Version 2.7.0; Build 172] (Level 8 .wav > .flac conversion)

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The Mr. Smith Tapes.
Made available to the world through the collaborative resources of these people:
Recorded in 1980 by “Mr. Smith”.
Digitized in 2016; and technical notes by J. Free [sonicarchives.com]