Bruce Springsteen – Los Angeles, CA (08/20/81)

Bruce Springsteen
August 20, 1981
The Sports Arena
Los Angeles, CA

Disc One:
01 Arena Announcement
02 Bruce Springsteen Intro
03 Bobby Muller Intro
04 Who’ll Stop The Rain*
05 Prove It All Night
06 The Ties That Bind
07 Darkness On The Edge Of Town
08 Intro / “Hold On To Yourself”
09 Johnny Bye Bye
10 Independence Day
11 Intro / “You End Up Trapped”
12 Trapped
13 Two Hearts
14 Out In The Street
15 The Promised Land
16 The River
17 Intro / “Dream That Won’t Die”
18 This Land Is Your Land
19 Badlands

Disc Two:
01 Thunder Road
02 Hungry Heart
03 You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
04 Cadillac Ranch
05 Sherry Darling
06 Jole Blon
07 Wreck On The Highway
08 Racing In The Street
09 Candy’s Room
10 Ramrod
11 Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)**

Disc Three:
01 Jungleland
02 Ballad Of Easy Rider
03 Born To Run
04 Detroit Medley (w/ I Hear A Train, You Can’t Sit Down, Sweet Soul Music, Shake)
05 Twist And Shout

06 Proud Mary – Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA August 28, 1981.
07 Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) – Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA August 28, 1981.
08 Stolen Car – Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA August 23, 1981.
09 Follow That Dream – Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA August 21, 1981.
10 Jackson Cage – Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA August 24, 1981.
11 I Fought The Law – Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA August 28, 1981.
12 Quarter To Three – Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA August 28, 1981.

* Beginning of “Who’ll Stop The Rain?” mixed with the (very bad) soundboard source.
** Very small skip in the beginning

Title: As Dreams Don’t Mean Nothing – A Night For The Vietnam Veterans

source: nakamichi cm300(cp2) > sony tcd5m
transfer from master cassettes
taper : bobb / markp
transfer: markp

To keep people from asking:
Since this ‘remaster’ is from MarkP’s master recording, this doesn’t have the cuts every other release has.
‘This Land Is Your Land’ which was missing from other versions, is complete on this one.
‘Twist & Shout’ was missing half the song – it’s complete on this one.
Only cut on this is in the beginning of “Who’ll Stop The Rain?”, which was on all the other version too. (Tried to fix it)
To sum it up, this is much better than all the old ‘releases’ of this legendary show.

‘Editors’ view: Probably the best show ever, definitely best Who’ll Stop The Rain? he’s ever played.

“Possibly the most emotional show of Bruce’s career, this benefit show starts with an introduction by Bobby Mueller,
a disabled Vietnam veteran, and several band members reportedly had tears in their eyes when they started
‘Who’ll Stop the Rain?,’ Credence Clearwater Revival’s song about the Vietnam conflict.
Bruce himself was overcome with emotional during ‘The River’ and stopped singing at one point.
This show features the one and only performance of ‘Ballad of Easy Rider.'” -theboots.net

“Only performance [ever] of Ballad Of Easy Rider.
This was a benefit for the Vietnam Veterans and features passionate versions of The River and Who’ll Stop The Rain.”
-brucebase

Thanks to Gchord for the artwork source, and let’s not forget the man who we all owe a lot – Mark P. We can’t thank you enough.