Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 
featuring the Miami Horns 
Richfield Coliseum 
Richfield, OH 
February 17, 1977 
Uncirculated “Official Audience Recording” Source 
JEMS Archive 
Nothing to Lose: The 1977 Tour Revisited Vol. 12 

JEMS Transfer: first-generation cassette > Nakamichi 670ZX (azimuth adjustment) > DAT > Wavelab 16/44.1 capture > .wav > Peak Pro XT (post production) > xACT 2.37 > FLAC

01 Baby I Love You (w/ Ronnie Spector and Flo and Eddie) 
02 Walking In the Rain (w/ Ronnie Spector and Flo and Eddie) 
03 Say Goodbye to Hollywood (w/ Ronnie Spector and Flo and Eddie) 
04 Be My Baby (w/ Ronnie Spector and Flo and Eddie) 
05 Born to Run 
06 Quarter to Three (w/ Miami Horns) 

Welcome to this encore edition of JEMS’ Nothing To Lose series revisiting Bruce's remarkable 1977 tour. For the full history of our obsession with this era and the back story on the "Official Audience Tapes" that make up several volumes of the series, please refer to the notes in Vol. One found here: http://jungleland.dnsalias.com/torrents-details.php?id=38539

The recent official release of the outstanding Albany and Rochester soundboards has put this tour top of mind again, and it seems as good a time as any to release this modest, partial upgrade to the first volume in our series.

As we explained in Vol. 11, JEMS obtained its copies of the so-called official audience recordings from two different sources, one in the early ‘90s and a second a few years later. In both instances, we borrowed our source’s cassettes and transferred them to DAT. However, it seems we never compared EVERY tape we transferred from Source Two and presumed all of them to be the same quality as the identical shows we obtained from Source One.

In mining some of the hard drives left to me after the untimely passing of the J in JEMS Jared Houser, I found part two (sadly, no part one) of the Richfield, OH show from Source Two (Vol. One in our series came from Source One plus patches). While only six songs, it contains the entirety of the show’s unique guest appearances by Ronnie Spector and Flo and Eddie and is a material upgrade to our initial release, sounding much closer in quality to Binghamton and New Haven. Source two is clearer, fuller fidelity and more natural sounding, owing undoubtedly to being a generation closer to the master and seemingly a better transfer overall. Samples provided.

We love this tour so much, we figured any upgrade to available sources is worthwhile. We hope you think so too.

Special thanks to the folks on the Stone Pony message board whose thread sparked this series, to M from JEMS who curates our full Springsteen archive with aplomb and to mjk5510 who continues to excel as JEMS' post-production partner. We can’t do it without him.

BK for JEMS