Bruce Springsteen releases Tunnel of Love era live show
Bruce Springsteen yesterday released a 1988 live show via his Live Bruce Springsteen website which he launched late last year.
This concert performance is from the 28 April 1988 and was the 28th show on the Tunnel of Love Express tour where the band were augmented by ‘The Horns of Love’. It was the second night of a five night stand at the Sports Arena in Los Angeles.
The tour was obviously supporting Springsteen’s eighth studio album, 1987’s superb Tunnel of Love, which had been issued the previous October, and most of the tracks on that record get a live workout on this Californian evening (Cautious Man, Walk Like A Man, When You’re Alone and Valentine’s Day are the ones not performed from the album).
Amongst the 31 songs in the set are the debut of The Sonics’ Have Love Will Travel and the first appearance on the tour of Sweet Soul Music.
The show has been mixed from digital multitrack masters by Toby Scott, is available now exclusively from the Springsteen site in several download formats (including DSD and 24 bit/192 kHz HD files). More importantly, you can order a physical three-CD set too but they won’t ship until early August. You can add a set of MP3s to your CD order for $5, which is a bit much in this era of ‘autorip’, but at least you get to hear the audio now while you wait for the CDs. To be fair $23 for a three-CD set isn’t bad and most fans are going to be very happy to support this initiative.
Track listing
SET ONE
1.TUNNEL OF LOVE 7:59
2.BE TRUE 4:52
3. ADAM RAISED A CAIN 5:51
4. TWO FACES 4:39
5. ALL THAT HEAVEN WILL ALLOW 11:21
6. SEEDS 5:47
7. ROULETTE 4:22
8. COVER ME 7:31
9. BRILLIANT DISGUISE 5:11
10. SPARE PARTS 10:09
11. WAR 2:59
12. BORN IN THE U.S.A. 8:18
SET TWO
1. TOUGHER THAN THE REST 6:02
2. AIN’T GOT YOU 2:33
3. SHE’S THE ONE 6:57
4. YOU CAN LOOK (BUT YOU BETTER NOT TOUCH) 6:00
5. I’M A COWARD 9:42
6. I’M ON FIRE 4:19
7. ONE STEP UP 5:49
8. PART MAN, PART MONKEY 4:53
9. BACKSTREETS 7:52
10. DANCING IN THE DARK 6:22
11. LIGHT OF DAY 7:36
FIRST ENCORE
1. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ROY ORBISON 3:06
2. BORN TO RUN 5:32
3. HUNGRY HEART 5:00
4. GLORY DAYS 8:58
5. ROSALITA (COME OUT TONIGHT) 10:26
SECOND ENCORE
1. HAVE LOVE, WILL TRAVEL 5:47
2. TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT 4:34
3. SWEET SOUL MUSIC 3:28
4. RAISE YOUR HAND 6:37
By Paul Sinclair
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