Date: 1984-08-17 
Venue: BRENDAN BYRNE ARENA
Location: EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ
Source: Tape Man Joe Master Via G
Title: Tape Man Joe Master Volume 62

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. 

I finally couldn't take it anymore. I couldn’t listening to the screams, whistles and all other ear piercing noises that ruined 
some of Joe's best recordings. This was easily the worst master so far in terms of offensive noises. In fact I would put the 
untouched master in the unlistenable category because of the crowd around Joe. So I took the plunge and got Izotope Rx 7. I 
definitely was nervous about using such a program. After playing around with it for a while, I got serious. I took me an hour 
to clean up the first three songs of the show. The beginnings of shows are notorious for the moron factor being high. This 
show was it off the charts.

The worst of all offenders that I had to remove was a "woo" guy. He says it at least 100 times during the night. My wife and 
both kids asked if he ever was going to give up? He still bleeds through from time to time. As good as Izotope Rx is, it can't 
overcome multiple yokels hollering at the same time. Unfortunately there are quite a few moments like that. The magic wand does 
a great job of highlighting the offenders. The problem was the other idiots hiding behind the "woo" guy. You have to pick your 
poison and choose what bothers you the most. There are few very short moments (usually not during a song) when I choose to remove 
all of the noises. It sounds weird but for my tastes better than original. All told I spent in the neighborhood of 7 hours working 
on this show in RX. Well worth the effort.

There are a couple of seconds missed by Joe on this recording. He flips between "Prove It" and "Glory Days". Joe might have missed 
a seconds worth of Bruce's opening chords of the song. It looks like Joe was going to flip after "Pink Cadillac" as he stops the 
recording only to restart it a second later when he realizes that Bruce is going straight into "Fire". He then flips during the 
portion of the song when Bruce and Clarence play it up with silence. 

It's an excellent Born in the USA show featuring the tour premieres of "I'm Going Down" and "Follow That's Dream". The former was 
a late minute add to the album over "Pink Cadillac". It's interesting to me that Bruce played "Pink Cadillac" 21 times before he 
decided to premiere "I'm Going Down". 

I feel that Joe’s is now the best version to date. That being said, I have been sent a 4th recorded that is better than the first 
three. It will be a while before it is uploaded. It has some time consuming issues. 

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.OUT IN THE STREET
03.TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT
04.ATLANTIC CITY
05.JOHNNY 99 
06.HIGHWAY PATROLMAN 
07.I'M GOIN' DOWN 
08.PROVE IT ALL NIGHT 
09.GLORY DAYS 
10.THE PROMISED LAND
11.MY HOMETOWN
12.REASON TO BELIEVE
13.BADLANDS 
14.THUNDER ROAD
15.CADILLAC RANCH 
16.HUNGRY HEART
17.DANCING IN THE DARK
18.SHERRY DARLING 
19.FOLLOW THAT DREAM
20.I'M ON FIRE
21.COVER ME 
22.PINK CADILLAC 
23.FIRE
24.BOBBY JEAN
25.BACKSTREETS
26.ROSALITA (COME OUT TONIGHT)
27.JUNGLELAND 
28.BORN TO RUN
29.DETROIT MEDLEY
30.TWIST AND SHOUT - DO YOU LOVE ME

Known faults:
Tape flip between "Prove It All Night" and "Glory Days" One second of music missed. Not patched.
Aborted tape flip after "Pink Cadillac". A second or two missed. Not patched. 
Tape flip during "Fire" No music lost. Not patched.

From Brucbase WikiDot:

Live premiere of "I'm Goin’ Down", a rearranged version of the album take with Bruce performing the first verse and 
chorus alone before the band kicks in. The song will be played like this all through the tour. A first "Follow That 
Dream" of the tour – different to the versions played on the River Tour, similar to the take recorded during the Born 
In The U.S.A. sessions. "Backstreets" again has a lengthy intro and a short "Sad Eyes" in the middle. "Detroit Medley" 
includes "Travelin' Band".