Little Steven & The Disciples Of Soul
The 23rd Reading Rock Festival
Reading, UK
August 28, 1983

Transfer: Cre001 FM Master digital file transfer > Peak Pro XT (pitch adjustment / tweak / edit / index) > xACT 2.21 > FLAC

01 Inside Of Me
02 Solidarity
03 Under The Gun
04 Forever
05 This Time It's For Real

I searched for a copy of this one for a long time and all the while it was right under my nose in my good friend and fellow dime member Cre001's archive.

Little Steven's breakout year from the E Street Band saw him hitting some major festivals. I posted the short FM of his US Festival performance a few months back and this short but sweet Reading Festival performance makes a nice compliment.

Little Steven has always held a special place in my musical conscience, his was the first show I ever taped in Dallas 1983 which got me started on a long taper's journey and the minor masterpiece 'Men Without Women' hit me just right from the first notes back in 1982.

I've always hoped at one of the many Springsteen shows I've seen Steven would take the spotlight just for a couple of minutes and rip into "Lyin' In A Bed Of Fire" or "Under The Gun".

More can be found about the festival with some Steven pictures at the excellent "UK Rock Festivals" website.
http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/reading-83.html

Thanks go out to dime member 'Cre001' for supplying the raw master tapes digital file, Prof Goody for the pitch adjustment setting and a special shout out to dime member 'Fearless1' that kept very politely checking on my progress, sorry it took so long my friend and I hope you feel it was worth the wait.

Now if anyone has an audience recording of the complete set it would be MOST welcome!

mjk5510