Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Capital Centre
Largo, Maryland
August 7, 1981
Recorder 2

Transfer: Hobbes4444 DAT transfer > Peak Pro 6 (pitch adjusted) > iZotope RX / ozone 5 (mastered) > Peak Pro 6 (patched / post production) > xACT 2.39 > FLAC

01 Badlands
02 Prove It All Night
03 The Ties That Bind
04 Darkness On The Edge Of Town
05 Summertime Blues
06 Johnny Bye Bye
07 Independence Day
08 Two Hearts
09 Out In The Street
10 The Promised Land
11 The River
12 This Land Is Your Land
13 Who’ll Stop The Rain
14 Thunder Road
15 Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
16 Hungry Heart
17 You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
18 Cadillac Ranch
19 Sherry Darling
20 4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
21 Backstreets
22 Ramrod
23 Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) > Sweet Soul Msic
24 Jungleland
25 Born To Run
26 Detroit Medley > New Orleans > Shake
27 Twist And Shout

Known Faults:
-Badlands: 11 seconds at beginning patched with Recorder 1
-Born To Run: taken from another version of the same source
-Detroit Medley: taken from another version of the same source
-Born To Run: 56 seconds patched at the beginning with Recorder 1

Recorder 1: River Flood Project 
Recorder 2: Hobbes4444 / mjk5510 (this version)

The homestretch of The River Tour produced some of Bruce's most inspired concerts of his entire career and none perhaps more inspired than the three night run at the Capital Centre in Largo, Maryland.

Though the final night of the three night run may be a step below the opening night on 8/4 it still ranks as one of Bruce's best performances of the River tour. After returning from a successful run of shows in Europe, the last leg of the tour was more focused losing some of the excess that would stretch the marathon shows at the end of 1980 to the longest of his career.
 
Feeling a bit like the late 1980's shows younger brother, it sits nicely between those marathon performances and the much shorter get in, take care of business and get out European shows.

After discovering my copy of this show was indeed a second source and much improved quality, I contacted the usual suspects for any additional copies and "Hobbes4444" came through with a beautiful DAT copy of the same source that was superior to my copy albeit with a few issues.

Unfortunately, the DAT was missing "Born To Run" and "Detroit Medley". Fortunately, my copy had both, though "Born To Run" was missing the start. We've used those two tracks from my slightly inferior copy and patched "Born To Run" from Recorder 1.
The first few notes of "Ramrod" were also missing from the DAT but were present on my copy so 2 seconds have been patched from my copy to the DAT copy (this is fairly seamless). Two additional patches in "Badlands" and "Born To Run" from Recorder 1 are noted above.
Bruce's mic also goes out during "Prove It All Night" after the "...if dreams came true, oh wouldn't that be nice" line for the next couple of lines.

This is a major upgrade to a brilliant show and we're hoping this new source gets frequent play in your River Tour playlist.

mjk5510 	& Hobbes4444