Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band
Date: 1984-10-25
Venue: LOS ANGELES MEMORIAL SPORTS ARENA 
Location: LOS ANGELES, CA
Source: Tape Man Joe Master Via G
Title: Tape Man Joe Master Volume 15

Sony WM D6C deck> Sony 929 or 939 Mics> TDK MA 90 min tapes> Master Tapes> Kenwood KX-4070 cassette deck> TDK-DA3826 standalone CD burner> EAC 
(Secure Mode)> CD Wave Editor (remove cuts)> Goldwave (fades, patching & file merging)> MAGIX audio cleaning lab> CD Wave Editor (track splits)> 
Trader's Little Helper (Flac Level 8, Align, Verify)

Welcome back to the series of probably uncirculated audience recordings. So the story goes, Tape Man Joe attended many concerts. Joe used a Sony 
D6 with either a Sony 929 or 939 microphone (memories have faded on which exact mic) and TDK metal tapes. Joe made a few copies and gave them to 
friends but never actively traded his recordings. Recently Joe lent a few of his masters to his friend, Jungleland user G (a generous collector 
himself who has lent tapes from his collection to help upgrade many shows). G asked me to finish off the transfers and post them. 

Joe's taping skills are on full display here. This show lasts over three and a half hours, including a staggering 16 song first set. Yet he only 
misses a few seconds between Prove It All Night and Darlington County and the very start of Backstreets. While this isn't his best tape, it is a 
remarkably consistent document of this epically long show. It doesn't sound like Joe was perfectly in line with the speakers on this particular 
night, but don't let that detour you. It’s still an excellent recording. I did my best to pull the recording up front as much as possible. The 
recording has a slight echo. There are talkers and clappers around Joe also. 

The show has quite a distinctive set list highlighted by a great five pack of Nebraska material and a playful, yet intense Backsteets. I'm sorry 
if I'm a sucker for the intro to the version of Point Blank on this tour, but I could listen to it all day long. It also features other BITUSA 
tour rarities such as Who'll Stop the Rain and Street Fighting Man.

To my knowledge, I don't believe this ever circulated before. Let's call Mark Persic's master Recording One and Joe's Recording Two.


Thanks to Tape Man Joe for recording and sharing his tapes and G for transferring the files.

01.BORN IN THE U.S.A.  
02.WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN
03.OUT IN THE STREET
04.ATLANTIC CITY
05.JOHNNY 99
06.REASON TO BELIEVE
07.MANSION ON THE HILL
08.STATE TROOPER  
09.PROVE IT ALL NIGHT
10.DARLINGTON COUNTY 
11.GLORY DAYS
12.THE PROMISED LAND
13.MY HOMETOWN
14.POINT BLANK 
15.BADLANDS
16.THUNDER ROAD 
17.COVER ME
18.DANCING IN THE DARK
19.HUNGRY HEART
20.CADILLAC RANCH
21.DOWNBOUND TRAIN
22.I'M ON FIRE
23.PINK CADILLAC
24.BOBBY JEAN 
25.BACKSTREETS  
26.ROSALITA (COME OUT TONIGHT)
27.I'M A ROCKER
28.STREET FIGHTING MAN
29.JUNGLELAND 
30.FOLLOW THAT DREAM
31.BORN TO RUN
32.DETROIT MEDLEY - TRAVELIN' BAND 
33.TWIST AND SHOUT - DO YOU LOVE ME	

Known faults:
Tape flip between Prove It All Night and Darlington County. Not Patched. Crossfaded, no music lost. 
Tape flip between Bobby Jean and Backstreets. Patched with four seconds of Recorder One (Mark Persic Master).

From Brucbase:
Audience tape. Available on CDR from Mark Persic's master recording, good sound quality, titled 'Palace Revolution' from Ev2. First night 
of the seven show stand at the Sports Arena in Los Angeles. Set features five songs from Nebraska. "Glory Days" includes a couple bars of 
"Out Of Limits" in the introduction. 
Following the show Springsteen donates $10,000 to the Steelworkers Oldtimers Foundation, a local food bank.


Tape Man Joe Master Springsteen Collection

Volume 01.1985-09-27 Los Angeles CA 
Volume 02.1988-05-02 Mountain View CA 
Volume 03.1992-08-10 East Rutherford NJ 
Volume 04.1984-09-17 Philadelphia PA 
Volume 05.1984-07-18 Rosemont IL 
Volume 06.1985-09-29 Los Angeles CA 
Volume 07.1984-09-21 Pittsburgh PA 
Volume 08.1984-09-11 Philadelphia PA 
Volume 09.1984-09-14 Philadelphia PA 
Volume 10.1988-03-09 Philadelphia PA
Volume 11.1988-03-20 Pittsburgh PA
Volume 12.1985-09-30 Los Angeles CA 
Volume 13.1985-01-05 Hampton VA
Volume 14.1984-10-22 Oakland CA
Volume 15.1984-10-25 Los Angeles CA