Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Convention Center Theater
Dallas, Texas
September 16, 1975
Dan Scripsema Archives Volume 4
(Low Generation - likely 2nd Generation)

Transfer: Likely 2nd Generation via DS Archives > Nakamichi DR-1 (azimuth adjusted) > Audacity > Peak Pro XT (pitch adjustment / volume smoothing / subtle EQ / edit / index) > xACT 2.21 > FLAC

01 Incident On 57th Street
02 Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
03 Spirit In The Night
04 It's Gonna Work Out Fine
05 Growin' Up
06 It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
07 E Street Shuffle
08 Born To Run
09 Thunder Road
10 Kitty's Back
11 Jungleland
12 Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
13 4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
14 Quarter To Three
15 Carol

Known Faults:
-MC Introduction: 1 second patch at very start
-E Street Shuffle: seamless splice at very start
-Kitty's Back: seamless splice towards end

Volume 4 of the DS Archives takes us to North Texas and an outstanding show in Dallas 2 months into the �Born To Run� Tour.

About six weeks ago I was able to upgrade this show from my own archives via a relatively low generation source.
While that release was a decent material upgrade to the source in general circulation, I felt it only took the show a notch up from �collectors only�.
With this release out of the DS Archives we take another leap forward to extremely enjoyable territory even for the casual fan.

While still having some issues in the actual recording process and the limitations of the equipment used at the time, this release has some big advantages over my previous release. We have a big material upgrade with more dynamics and up front sound, lots of punch and clarity, very little hiss and most importantly for the very first time, 40 years after the show we finally get to hear 3 minutes of near perfection with the inclusion of "Growin' Up". It has not appeared on any previous releases of this show. This is not a new recording source but a lower generation, most likely 2nd.

The tapes had no venue or city noted on them and were misdated as September 15th. Originally, with the inclusion of �Growin� Up�, I didn�t recognize it as Dallas and thought it was likely another show from early in the tour and I honestly thought the quality was too good to be Dallas. Having recently worked on my own copy of Dallas, once I heard �E Street Shuffle� it was easy to properly date. Our other missing song, �She�s The One�, is not included here but there doesn�t appear to be any noticeable break between �E Street Shuffle� and �Born To Run�. I have concluded that this is most likely the entire show and "She's The One" was dropped for this performance. The taper did an excellent job capturing the entire show with 3 tape flips, 2 being in places making it possible for seamless splices and one between songs. Since we now have "Growin' Up", I don't really see a reason why the taper would have missed all of "She's The One". We will likely never know for sure unless the taper and master tapes surface.

Early on Dallas was not one of Bruce's strongest fan bases, one can look at my first Bruce show in 1978 as evidence, being re-located from the 10,000 seat Convention Center Arena to the more modest sized 2,500 seat Theater, the same venue we have here. A re-location that couldn�t have worked out better for me being re-located to the front row of the �suicide seats�, musically speaking it was a life changing event. I have plenty of friends in my hometown that are as passionate about Bruce�s music as anyone I know and that level of passion comes through loud and clear with this 1975 show.

With the much improved quality we get a clearer picture of the intensity and energy bringing the crowd to a frenzy on multiple occasions. From the opening notes of "Incident On 57th Street", a version here I have listened to again and again never tiring of it, to the closing notes of "Carol", the audience reciprocates the energy again and again.

Thanks go out to a number of folks that helped get this into your hands, from those that have been in touch with Dan for years and in turn put me in touch with him...IvannF, EarlMv, Oats1jvo to E from JEMS for the continued use of the NAK DR-1.
The biggest thanks to Dan for making his archives available for the enjoyment of us all...

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