Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 
Date: 1985-01-16 
Venue: CHARLOTTE COLISEUM
Location: CHARLOTTE, NC
Source: Tape Man Joe Master Via G
Title: Tape Man Joe Master Volume 49

Sony WM D6C deck> Sony 929 or 939 Mics> TDK MA 90 min tapes> Master Tapes> Tascam 202MkVII> 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. 

We return to the woods of Caroline for the third installment from this series. Joe's tapes are the only known audience 
sources in current circulation from the Columbia,SC and Charlotte,NC shows from the BITUSA tour. Joe's recording from 
this show has been around for decades, but of course never sounded this good. There's a level of detail this recording 
that you just don't find on most BITUSA recordings, even those that circulate from masters.

There are a couple of tape flips. Neither one takes much away from this show. It’s hard to find fault with a set list 
that includes “Darkness On The Edge Of Town” wrapped around four Nebraska styled songs. Not to mention the always-great 
84-85 version of “Racing In The Street” and an Elvis cover to boot.  I do believe that this is the first ever show that 
closes with Ramrod. 

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.BADLANDS 
03.DARLINGTON COUNTY
04.JOHNNY 99
05.DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN
06.REASON TO BELIEVE 
07.SHUT OUT THE LIGHT 
08.JOHNNY BYE-BYE 
09.OUT IN THE STREET
10.GLORY DAYS 
11.THE PROMISED LAND 
12.MY HOMETOWN 
13.PROVE IT ALL NIGHT 
14.THUNDER ROAD 
15.COVER ME
16.DANCING IN THE DARK
17.HUNGRY HEART
18.CADILLAC RANCH 
19.NO SURRENDER
20.I'M ON FIRE
21.GROWIN' UP
22.BOBBY JEAN
23.RACING IN THE STREET
24.CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE
25.BORN TO RUN
26.DETROIT MEDLEY
27.TWIST AND SHOUT - DO YOU LOVE ME 
28.RAMROD


Known faults:
Tape flip during "Out In The Street". Four or five seconds of music lost. No patch available. 
Tape flip at the end of "Growin' Up". No music lost.

From Brucbase WikiDot:

"Johnny Bye-Bye" includes the "Mystery Train" outro. "Growin' Up" includes the bear story. "Detroit Medley" includes "Travelin' Band".

Audience tape, video footage and soundboard. Sixty minutes of pro-shot video footage filmed with a single camera is circulating amongst 
collectors. This footage is comprised of eleven songs; "Darlington County", "Johnny 99", "Darkness On The Edge Of Town", Reason To Believe", 
"Johnny Bye-Bye", "Out In The Street", "Glory Days", "The Promised Land", "Dancing In The Dark" (start cut), "Hungry Heart" and "Cadillac 
Ranch". Audio is available on CDR 'Charlotte 85'. The soundboard audio is sourced from the video footage.