(FM broadcast FLAC)
The Way It Was - The Complete Bottom Line Broadcast 8/15/1975
CD1
01 - Opening Comments
02 - Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
03 - Spirit In The Night
04 - Then She Kissed Me
05 - Growin Up
06 - It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
07 - Intro to E Street Shuffle
08 - E Street Shuffle
09 - When You Walk In The Room
10 - She's The One
11 - Born To Run
12 - Thunder Road
CD2
01 - Intro to Kitty's Back
02 - Kitty's Back
03 - Rosalita
04 - Encore Comments
05 - Sandy
06 - Quarter To Three
07 - Closing Comments
CD3
01 - Jungleland 1974
02 - Kitty's Back 1974
03 - E Street Shuffle 1975
04 - Jungleland 1975
05 - Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
06 - It's Hard to Be A Saint in the City
07 - Thunder Road
08 - When You Walk In The Room
09 - She's The One
Source for Discs 1 and 2, except where noted, was a reel to reel recording at 3 3/4 ips.
Transfer Path: Reel > Sony DTC-790 DAT (44.1 khz) > Hoontech Digital Soundcard > PC > WAV
CDWave software used to record the WAV file and cut into song segments.
No attempt was made to enhance the limited stereo soundstage, or to remove clicks/pops/hum present in the original broadcast. These artifacts were part of the broadcast itself, and were not related to reception.
Pasting of missing segment plus limited EQ to boost low end applied to all tracks by Cool Edit Pro software.
Track 203: Edit from another source (mono) used to replace missing segment due to reel flip
from 2:43 - 4:02
Tracks 301-302 Bottom Line Soundboards, 7/14/1975
Tracks 303-304 Bottom Line 1975 Soundboards
Tracks 306-309 Bottom Line 8/15/75 from WNEW rebroadcast 7/3/1988,
recorded on a Dolby C cassette deck - these are much better quality
than those used during the main show.
Personal Notes:
Truly a labor of love...
August 15, 1975 - High Temp in NYC 85, Low 65, Wind 10mph avg, gusts to 15mph. No precipitation.
A breezy midsummer night in NYC, where all the heat was concentrated on the corner of West 4th and Mercer in Greenwich Village, NY.
Lots of Springsteen fans (me included) couldn't get into the Bottom Line - it usually seats 400, but there was a larger than usual number of music industry seats reserved for these 10 shows (two shows each night August 13-17.)
WNEW-FM broadcast the early show Friday night.
I've been searching for a complete copy of this broadcast since that night, when the mono reel to reel tapes I made had many missing pieces due to lots of different reasons. All of the bootlegs released by the profiteers were incomplete in some way, minor or major. Finally, in March 2004, nearly 29 years later. I found it. It is not the final word on this show in terms of sound quality, but it is the COMPLETE broadcast, without anything missing. Turn it on and listen to it just like you would have back in August 1975. All the station breaks and DJ chat and such are there.
Thanks to the many people involved in this project, from the tape source, to those who let me borrow reel to reel decks to get the dub to DAT, to others who gave advice on mastering procedures or supplied alternate sources. Your kindness will not be forgotten.
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