Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band 
Date: 1985-01-04
Venue: HAMPTON ROADS COLISEUM
Location: HAMPTON, VA
Source: Tape Man Joe Master Via G
Title: Tape Man Joe Master Volume 24

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. 

Bruce and the band returned to the road to finish off the first leg of the Born In The U.S.A tour, after a couple of weeks off to celebrate the holidays. 
Nothing much changed set list wise since December and the band didn't really seem to lose much of a step over the break. Even though multiple singles had 
already been released, I doubt even Bruce could have seen how big of a year 1985 would be for him at its inception.

Joe's recording now gives us three separate tapes if this show. Joe's taping spot seems to capture a lot of reverb. The low and mid ranges also sounded over 
captured, requiring some extra mixing to try and even things out. This show was upgraded back in 2015 from the master tapes of ML via the JEMS team. It is 
the definitive tape from this month of tour to my ears. The show was made complete by patching Santa Claus is coming to Town from a second, less than stellar 
tape (the only other one available at that time). Included in this set are bonus tracks. I patched Joe's recording with ML's to give a better ending to 
that tape.

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.PROVE IT ALL NIGHT
03.DARLINGTON COUNTY
04.JOHNNY 99
05.ATLANTIC CITY
06.REASON TO BELIEVE 
07.MANSION ON THE HILL
08.JOHNNY BYE-BYE 
09.OUT IN THE STREET 
10.GLORY DAYS
11.THE PROMISED LAND
12.MY HOMETOWN
13.BADLANDS 
14.THUNDER ROAD
15.COVER ME
16.DANCING IN THE DARK
17.HUNGRY HEART 
18.CADILLAC RANCH 
19.DOWNBOUND TRAIN
20.I'M ON FIRE
21.PINK CADILLAC
22.BOBBY JEAN
23.RACING IN THE STREET
24.BORN TO RUN
25.DETROIT MEDLEY - TRAVELIN' BAND 
26.TWIST AND SHOUT - DO YOU LOVE ME
27.SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN


Known faults:
None


From Brucbase:
Bruce and the band return to the stage after the Christmas and New Year break. "Johnny Bye-Bye" includes the "Mystery Train" outro.

Audience tape. Two recording sources are known to exist, released on CDR 'First Evening At The Hampton Coliseum' (missing "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town"). The 
same source was recently put into circulation directly from ML's master tapes via JEMS and is a huge upgrade but still misses "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town". A 
second complete source of poor to fair quality is in limited circulation and includes "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town".