Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

Kleinhans Music Hall

Buffalo, NY

December 17, 1975


ER Archives via JEMS



Audience Recording (equipment unknown)



JEMS Transfer: presumed 2nd generation cassettes > Nakamichi CR-7A azimuth-adjusted transfer (August 2012) > Sound Devices USBPre 2 > Audacity 2.0 (24/96) capture > iZoptope RX click repair and resample to 16/44.1 > Peak 6.0 with iZotope Ozone 5.0 > FLAC



01 Thunder Road

02 Tenth Avenue Freeze-out

03 Spirit in the Night

04 Lost in the Flood

05 She's the One

06 Born to Run

07 Pretty Flamingo

08 Saint in the City

09 Backstreets

10 Kitty's Back

11 Jungleland

12 Rosalita (joined in progress at start of first verse)

13 Sandy

14 Santa Claus is Comin' to Town

15 Detroit Medley

16 For You (incomplete, tape ends)



Welcome back to the third in a planned series of releases from the ER Archives, the collection of an active '70s taper and trader who stepped away from collecting, leaving his tapes pretty much dormant until now. We're still culling through the archive, but it is already clear that it contains previously uncirculated shows as well as upgrades to circulating tapes, both audience and soundboard. ER used high-end tape decks and good tape, so his copies of even well-known shows may well be improvements.



Installment three is another of our favorite kind, a brand new show for which we've never had a recording: Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY, December 17, 1975. It took place but one day after the last ER Archives release of Oswego, NY and was recorded by the same taper. The set list is also identical to Oswego, but don't let that deter you. The sound quality of Buffalo is better and I'm not sure I've ever heard an E Street Band show played at this frenetic pace. Even "Jungleland" positively bounds along. Samples provided.



There are a couple of cuts: the intro to "Rosalita" and the last minute or so of "For You." It is also presumed that "Quarter to Three" ended this show as it did the night before in Oswego, but it wasn't captured to tape. Still there are plenty of highlights in what is there, from the strong piano open of "Thunder Road" to a great "Detroit Medley." And best of all it is new, we've never been able to hear the show at all before, so hopefully it might even reach a few folks who were there that night.



Thanks to the ER Archive for opening up the vault doors and sharing this recording with the fans. Feel free to let him know how you feel in the comments. Thanks too to Flynn for his on-going willingness to help with final production.



The ER Archive will return soon.



Wayne Darlington for JEMS and the ER Archives