LDB Special Series #353 (RLR collection) Out of my 7,000+ shows and radio broadcasts, I have many concerts that were special for some reasons: the setlist, the musicians, the venue or unexpected events. These are the ones I'd like to propose you. Most of these come from my cassettes collection, so they will be released at a slower pace than my Master Series! But you won't be disappointed! I will try to gather the most unusual things I have in my collection and, as always, your feedback and comments will be my reward for all the work involved in this project. DO NOT share this music on mp3, just convert it for your own use. Sharing mp3's is the right way to make me stop sharing music here. I think I have something really special to share with all Dimers, but first a bit of background. RLR has been a very active trader back in the early 80´s with very wide musical tastes: he could go from Kiss to Joni Mitchell; from Genesis to Deep Purple, Queen, Simple Minds, The Who, Springsteen and many more. In the past I could access his enormous collection to get many U2 tapes some of which I have been sharing with you folks. RLR had all sorts of tapes in his collection, traded not long after the show happened so most of them are low generation, in particular tons of shows recorded in Italy which to me are some of the most interesting. Some of them, I had never seen circulating in the trading circuit. Unfortunately he did not care about generation so this info, except for the shows he has as masters, is not available. RLR has kindly given me access once again to his collection. It was like a "kid in a toy shop" situation: it was hard to select tapes and at the end I came home with some 250 tapes to listen and eventually to transfer in the digital domain. Some of them will be shared here, possibly the most interesting ones. I am ok with blogs and sites to re-post my seeds - provided they are in lossless form - however I ask you to keep intact the infos of the concert including that this is part of LDB series. And I am referring to (and not only): - http://musictravellerstwo.blogspot.it - http://www.guitars101.com Last but not the least, a very important message: I will not be uploading anymore @ Dimeadozen. TTD will be my new home from now. If you want to download my shows please subscribe here and not re-upload @ Dime. Stay tuned because I have more and more shows coming up! BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E-STREET BAND Zürich, Hallenstadion April 11, 1981 01.FACTORY 02.PROVE IT ALL NIGHT 03.OUT IN THE STREET 04.TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT 05.DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN 06.INDEPENDENCE DAY 07.WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN 08.TWO HEARTS 09.THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND 10.THE RIVER 11.BADLANDS 12.THUNDER ROAD 13.CADILLAC RANCH 14.SHERRY DARLING 15.HUNGRY HEART 16.FIRE 17.YOU CAN LOOK (BUT YOU BETTER NOT TOUCH) 18.WRECK ON THE HIGHWAY 19.RACING IN THE STREET 20.BACKSTREETS 21.RAMROD 22.ROSALITA (COME OUT TONIGHT) 23.BAND INTRO / ROSALITA (REPRISE) 24.BORN TO RUN 25.DETROIT MEDLEY - I HEAR A TRAIN 26.ROCKIN' ALL OVER THE WORLD TT 138:00 Lineage: Unknown recording device > low generation tape > Harman Kardon HK 1500 > Audiophile 2496 Soundblaster > HD > SoundForge 7.0 > CD Wave > FLAC Frontend (level 6) Bruce Springsteen - lead vocals, guitars, harmonica Roy Bittan – piano, synthesizer, background vocals Clarence Clemons – saxophone, congas, percussion, background vocals Danny Federici – organ, glockenspiel, piano, synthesizer Garry Tallent – bass guitar Max Weinberg – drums Not the best gig in terms of quality, I would rate it 6 out of 10. Also, the quality changes from tape 1 to tape 2 so it is not uniform. But I loved the ambience of this show, the third one in the european tour. As it often happened in the late 70´s / early 80´s tons of italians travelled to Switzerland to see the show, Italy being banned from all the major rock tours. This is a low generation tape from RLR collection. Enjoy! ldb