Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Nassau Coliseum Uniondale, NY April 1, 1988 CBG Classic Master Video Series Vol. 33 side video angle: (CBG) Ricoh R-600 (same spec as Sony CCD-V5) 8mm camcorder (w/ 2X teleconverter lens) master 8mm analog tape; NTSC, 4:3 PAR, 29.97 fps; transferred to harddrive via a firewire using a Sony TRV-330 8mm digital camera w/ Time Base Correction rear video angle: unknown recording device; VHS tape in SP mode (probably 1st gen); played back through a JVC S-VHS HR-S8007UM VCR connected to a Canopus ADVC-110 via an S-Video cable; connected to the computer via firewire; NTSC, 4:3 PAR, 29.97 fps; video capture done with Sony Vegas Pro 13. Video capture, editing, and 2-pass VBR encoding done with Sony Vegas Pro 13 at 8K max, 4.4K avg, 1K min; NTSC, 4:3 PAR, 29.97 fps; authored to DVD in Sony DVD Architect Pro 6. All video editing & mixing, audio synching and DVD authoring by Silver Stallion. audio: Recorded by: Hobbes4444 (Sony Lavalier Mic > Sony D6) Transfer: mjk5510 (a Hobbes approved transfer) Denon HD8 Transfer: Hobbes4444 master cassettes > Nakamichi CR5A (azimuth adjusted) > Audacity > Peak Pro XT (volume smoothing / patch / edit / index / subtle tweak) > xACT > FLAC > decoded w/ TLH to 1536 bit wave (unaltered for this DVD project except for re-encoding at 48 kHz for DVD compliance). Audio credited to JEMS by request. disc 1 (1hr 39mins) 1. Tunnel Of Love 2. Be True 3. Adam Raised A Cain 4. Two Faces 5. All That Heaven Will Allow 6. Seeds 7. Roulette 8. Cover Me 9. Brilliant Disguise 10. Spare Parts 11. War 12. Born In The USA 13. Tougher Than The Rest 14. Ain't Got You/She's The One 15. You Can Look disc 1 (1hr 36mins) 1. I'm A Coward 2. I'm On Fire 3. One Step Up 4. Part Man Part Monkey 5. Walk Like A Man 6. Dancing In The Dark 7. Light Of Day 8. Born To Run 9. Hungry Heart 10. Glory Days 11. Love Me Tender 12. Rosalita 13. Detroit Medley 14. Sweet Soul Music 15. Raise Your Hand mjk5510's notes regarding the audio: Not only is Hobbes one of the current elite active tapers bringing us show after quality show, but he began plying his craft back in the '80s. He has been very generous with us and supplied me his master tapes to transfer and share with everyone. This show was a pleasure to work on as very little had to be done to it. There were 6 seconds missing at the start of both 'Roulette' and 'Cover Me'. I've patched both these missing bits with the 1st generation source. Both recorder 1 and 2 were missing the first few seconds of 'Love Me Tender' (actually recorder 2 was missing the song entirely). 'Love me Tender' is complete here and with the two small patches this show is now certified 100% complete in the best quality to date. There was a 19 second volume drop during "I'm A Coward" I was able to boost and it's very close to the same dynamic as the rest of the show, so pretty seamless. The April series of shows has gotten a bit of a bad rap over the years due to the static setlist and some of the tour's staged 'scenes' but hearing the show a new in this quality has given me a new appreciation for this particular show. Thanks goes to Hobbes for allowing me to babysit his masters for a while, do the transfer, and enjoy the show with a new perspective. ------ I only have one request, that you don't take these files and post them on other torrent sites. I have many shows to upload. I will upload, let them get seeded by others and after a majority have downloaded the files completely, remove my files so I can seed something new. I prefer to manage my own shows on DIME and The Traders Den. I will upload to other sites when I wish to for select shows. Thanks for honoring my wishes in advance. This is “CBG Classic Master Video Series Vol. 33”. This was the first show I attempted outside of my comfort zone of New Haven Coliseum or Springfield Civic Center. I tried venturing out in February 88 at the Worcester Centrum and had to get a ticket for the opening night of the Bruce Springsteen's Tunnel Of Love Express tour, which was night 1 of three nights at the Centrum to start the tour, but I was unsuccessful to find a ticket that was somewhat reasonable cost. This was 1988. So when someone offered me a ticket, a single seat, after looking around the building for an hour or so in the cold, and said $85, I refused to pay that much. Now I know some of you are laughing now, considering what concert tickets cost now, but that just seemed way too expensive for me to pay. It was opening night of the tour, so that is probably the reason, but back then I just assumed that is how it would be, so I didn’t bother driving all the way back to Worcester for nights 2 or 3 to see if I could find a ticket. In retrospect, I should have, but I didn’t. This was also the second time I was attempting to film in Worcester, so I didn’t want to invest that kind of money in a ticket and then not be able to get the camera in, so I passed. I drove home as the show was playing. I did attempt to film with the VHS-c camera I had on New Year's Eve 1987 for Aerosmith, but I felt I couldn't get the camera in after looking at the search, so I bagged the attempt and went in just to see the show. For Kiss a month later in January, I could have just walked into the Centrum with the camcorder and no search, but I figured it would be like it was for Aerosmith and didn't even bring the camcorder with me, stupid me. So for these shows, I knew I already had tickets to both nights at the Nassau Coliseum, so I just figured I would wait to see Bruce. As it turned out, Nassau was the first arena that I tried to film in other than New Haven and Springfield. It also seemed bigger, which the arena was structurally compared to New Haven and definitely Springfield. Just the energy of the crowd and magnitude of the show was bigger. This was the Extra Large show. Plus it was a marathon show. A long first set, then an intermission, and a long second set and then an encore set that went on afterwards. I knew this, I had seen Bruce in 1984 and 1985 several times. You definitely got your money’s worth at a Springsteen show. I liked the show a lot, but it was definitely different that 4 years earlier on the Born in the USA tour. The new album songs were not as powerful as the USA songs. Also, Bruce went with a sport coat and Patti was more of a central figure on stage and in the songs. It was still a Springsteen show and left you with that feeling as you neared the end in the encores. For as crazy as the show went the next night, this one was rather tame. But what was different this night was I had met the NYBG over the holiday break for the first time and found out he filmed….we met at a small bar with a Kiss cover band playing. In early February I believe it was. He was filming the band for a friend that was in the band. I also knew someone in the band too, a different member. I saw a friend from High School there, and we started talking. He mentioned that his friend was standing there on the chair filming the band. When I was introduced to the NYBG, the one filming on the chair, the told me he had filmed Kiss in Poughkeepsie and I told him I just did too in New Haven. We struck a friendship from that night on and would later film shows together and mix them, the first two and three camera mixes to be done privately by fans getting camcorders into shows. Back then, you were lucky to have one person in an arena filming a show. The one piece of information that I took from the NYBG that night was about the camera he was using, the first Sony 8mm camcorder, the V5. It was bigger than my VHS-c camcorder, but it used one tape at the fast SP speed allowing you to put 120 min on one tape without flipping the tape. The tapes were also half as small as VHS-c tapes. One of the best things was on playback, you didn't have to adjust the tracking of the tape. There was no tracking adjustment like VHS-c (or VHS decks). And 8mm recorded at the fast speed, SP, for 120 minutes. With that fact, the sound quality was alot better with the 8mm camcorder. Then I looked at the picture quality at his place and it was alot better than the VHS-c camera. There was no significant grain to the picture in low light situations like the VHS-c camcorder. With all of this considered, and only 4 months after I spent $1200 for the VHS-c camcorder, I went out and bought the Ricoh version of the same exaxt Sony V5 8mm camcorder. This Bruce show would be the first time I would use this new Ricoh 8mm camcorder filming a show. I went all the way from Whitesnake in New Haven in January 1988 to this Bruce show on the 1st of April without filming anything. So I was somewhat nervous getting into the arena but I ended up getting right in the Nassau Coliseum, found a seat on the upper level on the right side, and had to stand and film for the entire three plus hours with a 2x lens attached to the camera. It was far from the stage, and getting used to the camera was a challenge in the dark and in the pressure of getting my first Bruce show filmed, but it was all worth it! My first Springsteen video! The memory of not getting into Worcester was erased. The confidence of getting into Nassau helped me build my desire to try other places. My filming hobby was about to break loose. Enjoy the Boss on Long Island in Billy Joel's stomping grounds as Bruce lamented in Hungry Heart as the crowd sang along so loud! CBG5150 Posted to Jungleland 2015-09-11.