Bootlegs

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[no title] (06 Feb 1975)
[no title]
Date: 06 Feb 1975
Location: Widener College, Chester, PA
Format: DVD
Duration: –
01- INCIDENT ON 57TH STREET
02- MOUNTAIN OF LOVE
03- BORN TO RUN
04- SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT
05- I WANT YOU
06- THUNDER ROAD
07- KITTY'S BACK
08- NEW YORK CITY SERENADE
09- ROSALITA (COME OUT TONIGHT)
10- 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY)


Track 05: fragment only

Region: One
Type: NTSC
Menu: Basic
Chapters: Every 5 Minutes
Source: camcorder audience recording (shot from front of the stage, black and white, moves a lot)
Running time: 62 minutes

Video Attributes:
Video compression mode: MPEG-2
TV system: 704 x 480 (NTSC)
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29,970
Bitrate: 4298 KBPS

Audio Attributes:
Audio Coding mode: AC3 2/0
Sampling Rate: 48kHz
Number of Audio channels: 2
Bitrate: 256 Kbps
Number of Audio streams: 1

Lineage:
Unknonw Generation VHS Tape
Panasonic DMR-EH50 To DVD
DVD VOB To PC Hardrive

Notes from info file:
Audio tapes are all probably sourced from the video of the show. All songs suffer from either/or speed fluctuations/cuts. Only other source of the 'Wings for Wheels' version of Thunder Road. Video is B&W but still a fascinating glimpse of Bruce and the band in this early line up. The video features more of Rosalita and a fair amount of Sandy also.

Notes from Brucebase:
One show, held in the 1,500 seat Widener Field House, with Springsteen & The E Street Band the sole act on the bill. This second night at Widener was a sellout. Video from this show has been in circulation since the late 1970s. The detail surrounding this video production has long been a source of speculation. For many years the circulating quality of the footage was uniformly poor. However portions of the video were shown in Springsteen TV documentaries in the '90s and the quality was significantly better than anything seen before. This has lent weight to a long held rumour that this footage (far from emanating from a shadowy fan) may have been shot by Widener students involved in a film-making course and that there may have been some pre-arranged conditional approval to film the concert from the Springsteen camp. Since then upgraded versions have made their way into DVD trading circles, but the quality still doesn't quite match up to what has been seen in documentaries. The partial setlist mentioned above is from an audio source generally believed to be directly associated with the film footage (i.e. soundtrack). Portions of the film footage are known to have been circulating among the Widener community as early as 1976. As is the case with the video footage, there are numerous bootlegged variations of the audio source in circulation, of varying quality and individual track completeness. However these 'variations' seem to be minor, all incorporate the same 9 songs from a show that featured approximately 16 songs in total.