Bootlegs

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[no title] (17 Mar 2008)
[no title] Ademotte version
Date: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Bradley Center, Milwaukee, WI
Format: –
Duration: –
Disc 1:
01- Intro
02- NO SURRENDER
03- RADIO NOWHERE
04- LONESOME DAY
05- STREETS OF FIRE
06- GYPSY BIKER
07- Intro
08- MAGIC
09- REASON TO BELIEVE
10- IT'S HARD TO BE A SAINT IN THE CITY
11- PROVE IT ALL NIGHT
12- SHE'S THE ONE
13- LIVIN' IN THE FUTURE
14- THE PROMISED LAND
15- CADILLAC RANCH
16- MY HOMETOWN

Disc 2:
01- DEVIL'S ARCADE
02- THE RISING
03- LAST TO DIE
04- LONG WALK HOME
05- BADLANDS
06- Encore break
07- LOOSE ENDS
08- Intro
09- MEETING ACROSS THE RIVER
10- JUNGLELAND
11- BORN TO RUN
12- RAMROD
13- AMERICAN LAND


Disc 2, track 09: with Richard Davis

Source: Audio Technica AT-899 omni => Edirol R-09
Transfer: R-09 => WAV => Magix Audio Cleaning Lab => WAV => FLAC (level 8)
Taping location: Side stage, left, 10th row


Notes from info file:

A memorable St. Patrick's Day in Milwaukee; Bruce played to a mostly full house and put on a great performance. Plenty of surprises in the set, including "Streets of Fire" (which I think hadn't been performed since the 1999-2000 tour) and a show-opening "No Surrender." Richard Davis, a session musician Bruce had recorded with in the '70s, was brought on to play upright bass on "Meeting Across The River" (for which he'd originally contributed to the BTR recording) in the most emotional moment of the show, followed by a fiery "Jungleland" that brought the house down. "Cadillac Ranch" got its regular Wisconsin appearance; it seems E Street hardly ever plays that song anywhere BUT Wisconsin anymore. Fun, loose, long performance.

This is not my finest recording, but I figured I would post it in the absence of other recordings surfacing to this point. I was 10 rows up beside the stage; apparently I had bought a ticket in the "talking section." The women next to me barely knew who Bruce was and talked loudly to each other literally without interruption for 2 1/2 hours. Being a male, I can't imagine what I could talk about for 150 minutes without stopping, but apparently it was important enough that they had to carry on an in-depth conversation 30 feet from Bruce for the whole night. Miraculously, they barely appear on the recording, but in my efforts to redirect my mikes away from them I caught the full force of a "clapper" for several songs of the show.

In a nutshell, there's too much crowd noise and I'm too close to the PA to catch the full vocals -- they're a little low in the mix. I tried to address the latter with some basic EQ'ing, but there wasn't much I could do about the former. This is a decent recording and worth having until a better source shows up, but hopefully there *will* be a better source that turns up before long. (Please post in the comments what you think - it could be that I'm too critical about my master.)