STOCKHOLM 1988 – STOCKHOLMS STADION, ESTOCOLMO, SUECIA, 2 JULIO 1988 – 3CD – OFICIAL SONIDO DEFINITIVO

STOCKHOLMS STADION, ESTOCOLMO, SUECIA, 2 JULIO 1988.

Editado de los archivos de Bruce Springsteen.

Gira Tunnel Of Love Express Tour.

El sonido definitivo. 3CD oficiales.

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Estocolmo, 2 de julio de 1988, es un complemento del famoso concierto transmitido por radio en el mismo lugar 24 horas después (también editado en los Live Archive Series). Esta noche, el primer capítulo en Estocolmo ofrece un set más relajado de 30 canciones repleto de joyas de la gira Tunnel, incluyendo «Boom Boom», «Adam Raised A Cain», «Seeds», «Chimes Of Freedom», «Paradise By The ‘C'», «You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)», «I’m A Coward», «Light Of Day», «Sweet Soul Music» y «Raise Your Hand», además de la arrolladora combinación de «War» con «Born In The U.S.A.» y el debut en gira de «Cadillac Ranch».

Stockholm July 2, 1988 is a companion to the famous radio broadcast concert at the same venue 24 hours later (also released in the Live Archive series). This night one Stockholm warm-up delivers a looser, 30-song set teeming with Tunnel tour gems, including «Boom Boom, «Adam Raised A Cain,» «Seeds,» «Chimes Of Freedom,» «Paradise By The ‘C’,» «You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch),» «I’m A Coward,» «Light Of Day,» «Sweet Soul Music and «Raise Your Hand,» plus the storming coupling of «War» into «Born In The U.S.A.» and a tour debut for «Cadillac Ranch.»

02-07-1988 – STOCKHOLMS STADION, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

TUNNEL OF LOVE / BOOM BOOM / ADAM RAISED A CAIN / THE RIVER / ALL THAT HEAVEN WILL ALLOW / SEEDS / COVER ME / BRILLIANT DISGUISE / TOUGHER THAN THE REST / SPARE PARTS / WAR / BORN IN THE U.S.A. / CHIMES OF FREEDOM / PARADISE BY THE «C» / WHO DO YOU LOVE? – SHE’S THE ONE / YOU CAN LOOK (BUT YOU BETTER NOT TOUCH) / I’M A COWARD / I’M ON FIRE / BECAUSE THE NIGHT / DANCING IN THE DARK / LIGHT OF DAY / BORN TO RUN / HUNGRY HEART / GLORY DAYS / BOBBY JEAN / CADILLAC RANCH / TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT / SWEET SOUL MUSIC / RAISE YOUR HAND / TWIST AND SHOUT

«Cadillac Ranch» is played for first time on the tour. «Adam Raised A Cain» includes «Hoochie Coochie Man» and «I’m A Man» in the outro. «Cover Me» includes «Gimme Shelter» in the outro. «You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)» includes the sung «Don’t You Touch That Thing» introduction. «Dancing In The Dark» includes «Lookin’ For A Love» in the outro. «Light Of Day» includes «Born To Be Wild». «Born To Run» is solo acoustic. «Twist And Shout» includes a snippet of «I Don’t Want To Go Home». First ever performances in Sweden of «Tunnel Of Love», «Boom Boom», «Adam Raised A Cain», «All That Heaven Will Allow», «Seeds», «Brilliant Disguise», «Tougher Than The Rest», «Spare Parts», «War», «Chimes Of Freedom», «Paradise By The «C»», «Who Do You Love?», «I’m A Coward», «Light Of Day», «Sweet Soul Music», and «Raise Your Hand».

Bruce Springsteen – Lead vocals, guitar, harmonica; Roy Bittan – Piano, keyboards; Clarence Clemons – Tenor and baritone saxophones, percussion, keytar, backing vocal; Danny Federici – Organ, keyboards; Nils Lofgren – Guitars, backing vocal; Patti Scialfa – Guitar, percussion, backing vocal; Garry Tallent – Bass; Max Weinberg – Drums

Additional musicians: Mario Cruz – Tenor saxophone, backing vocal; Ed Manion – Baritone saxophone, backing vocal; Mark Pender – Trumpet, backing vocal; Richie «La Bamba» Rosenberg – Trombone, backing vocal; Mike Spengler – Trumpet, backing vocal

Also appearing as The Ringmaster – Terry Magovern

Recorded by Toby Scott

Mixed and Mastered by Jon Altschiller; Additional engineering by Danielle Warman

Post Production by Brad Serling and Arya Jha

Art Design by Michelle Holme

Cover Photo by Neal Preston

Tour Director: George Travis

Management: Jon Landau

HD Files are 24 bit / 44.1 kHz; DSD files are DSD64

ARCHIVE RELEASE: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Stockholm ’88 Night 1
by Erik Flannigan

Contains Adult Themes, Viewer Discretion Advised

The Tunnel of Love Express tour is marked by changes: the addition of a horn section for the first time on E Street since 1976 (save for a few dates in 1984 including August 19 and 20, both released in the Live Archive series); the billing of Bruce Springsteen featuring the E Street Band; and where those seven musicians were positioned on stage. In retrospect, none seem material in terms of lasting impact.

Perhaps the most significant change in 1988 was Springsteen’s public embrace of adulthood and its inherent and often private complexities, explored so movingly on the tour’s namesake album, Tunnel of Love. Much of the yearning and pining romanticism found on Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, and The River gave way to starker realizations (“When you’re alone…you ain’t nothing but alone”) and threshold questions that are difficult to answer (“Is that me… or just a brilliant disguise?”).

“The River” is arguably his first song to delve into heavier relationship realities, but in 1979 Springsteen wasn’t writing his own story, but one inspired by his sister Virginia. With Tunnel, songs reflected and refracted personal experience: the doubts (“Tunnel of Love,” “Brilliant Disguise,” “One Step Up”), the aspirations (“All That Heaven Will Allow,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Tougher Than the Rest”), the admissions (“Ain’t Got You,” “Two Faces,” “When You’re Alone”), and the dreams (“Valentine’s Day”), joined by a pair of kindred, finely crafted, third-person narrative tales, “Cautious Man” and “Spare Parts.

Emblematic of this narrative shift was the on-stage move of Patti Scialfa from background vocalist on the rear risers to front and center spotlight for the set’s key moments. On the 1984-85 Born in the U.S.A. tour, Patti grew to become “one of the guys.” Singing “Brilliant Disguise” into a shared microphone, millimeters away from Springsteen in 1988, Scialfa was 100% XX–in terms of chromosomes. Fun fact: While the “Brilliant Disguise” duet was happening upstage in Europe, Clarence Clemons was downstage left playing a keytar.

Their personal narrative is of course widely known, ends happily and carries on 38 years later. We should all be so lucky. But well before any canoodling, Scialfa was already a catalyst who allowed Springsteen to bring adult themes to his stage. Her contributions to the Tunnel of Love Express tour cannot be understated, as Stockholm 7/2/88 makes crystal clear.

We’re familiar with her signature contributions: playing Emmylou to Gram on the show-opening “Tunnel of Love” and the stately “Tougher Than the Rest,” the aforementioned close-quarters vocals on “Brilliant Disguise,” her defiance-drenched background vocals that send “Spare Parts” soaring and three come-hither lines teasing “Do you love me, baby?” in “I’m a Coward.”

Scialfa is also central to 1988 readings of “The River” (which suits this grown-up setlist) and “She’s the One,” a song that’s never sounded better than it did on the Tunnel tour, punched up by the “Who Do You Love?” prelude. Her interplay with Springsteen is vital throughout the Stockholm show and heightens moments of subtext like the transition from “Seeds” to “Cover Me.”

“Seeds” describes the kind of economic collapse and layoffs that were all too common in the 1980s, putting breadwinners and their families on the street when once-stable jobs vanished. Springsteen sings “Seeds” with conviction, but after the last line, “It’s gone gone, it’s all gone,” he appends, “I’m alone and lost, and I can’t find my way home,” before ripping a visceral guitar solo. Is he still referring to the same circumstances or a different kind of collapse?

Scialfa’s memorable opening refrain to “Cover Me” provides a response: “Got nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide.” The brilliant disguise has come off, and our choices have left us adrift and exposed.

This alternate interpretation of the song pairing adds vulnerability to the aforementioned list of themes drawn from the album. And the setlist further makes the case for lust (“Boom Boom”), manhood (“Adam Raised a Cain”) and standing up for what’s right (“War,” “Chimes of Freedom”), too.

“War” was a fitting opener for this year’s Land of Home and Dreams Tour, but one misses Clarence Clemons’ forceful baritone background vocals on the song, heard so clearly in Stockholm. Jon Altschiller’s 7/2/88 mix provides fresh audio perspective on the tour, showcasing Scialfa’s vocal turns as well as Danny Federici to a degree previous tour recordings had not.

Phantom Dan fans, this is the Tunnel show you’ve been waiting for as he is all over songs like “Adam Raised a Cain,” “The River,” “Seeds” and “She’s the One.”

Following a poignant, acoustic “Born to Run,” the encore leaves the adulting behind in favor of good clean fun. “Light of Day” includes a romp through Steppenwolf’s “Born to Wild,” “Cadillac Ranch” makes its tour premiere and no one can complain about a 1967 southern soul two-fer of “Sweet Soul Music” and “Raise Your Hand.”

The significance of Stockholm dates back to being one of only three overseas markets on the Born to Run tour, and the capital city has been an important European port of call ever since. On July 3, the day after this show, Springsteen would broadcast the opening set of his second Stockholm set across international radio airwaves, a performance later released in full in the Live Archive series. To use a classic Swedish bootleg analogy, consider the second of July the Follow That Dream to the third of July’s Teardrops on the City.