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Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band 11/19/84
Kemper Arena, Kansas City, MO

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Set I

Born In The USA
Prove It All Night
Out In The Street
Atlantic City
Johnny 99
Reason To Believe
Nebraska
Johnny Bye Bye
Darlington County
Glory Days
I'm Goin' Down
The Promised Land
My Hometown
Badlands
Thunder Road

Set II

Cover Me
Dancing In The Dark
Hungry Heart
Cadillac Ranch
No Surrender (acoustic)
I'm On Fire
Pink Cadillac
Bobby Jean
Racing In The Street

Set III

Jungleland
Born To Run
Devil With A Blue Dress/Good Golly, Miss Molly/C.C. Rider/Jenny Take A Ride
Travelin' Band/Kansas City
Twist And Shout/Do You Love Me?
Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town

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Mark Jochim (Thailand)	My first Springsteen concert! I was a freshman attending Kansas State University in Manhattan (about a three-hour drive from KC). I wrote a letter to Chris Fritz, the promotor with New West Presentations, and explained that I couldn't get to Kansas City for the ticket on-sale day, asking if I could obtain tickets directly from him. Lo and behold, he sent me a pair of excellent tickets (a scan of which is on Brucebase and included on the artwork for the excellent EV2 version of the recording). My roomate - Cruiser - and I borrowed a friends car for the trip (we drove to the show, attended, and drove staight back!). What can I say? Awesome concert...as the recording attests...and converted me into a lifelong fan. I suck at reviewing the actual music but let me say that we were both very impressed with "Racing In The Street" in particular and the lengthy "Detroit Medley" into "Kansas City" into "Twist & Shout", etc. was quite the energetic (and exhausting!) ending. Fun to see "Santa Claus" in the finale as well... And "Jungleland" remains my all-time favorite Bruce track (hearing the booming of Max's drums in the section before the final slow part was a definite highlight of the Kemper show). A version of this particular recording was also my first Bruceleg: Although it's an audience recording (but was listed on many trader lists at the time as a "soundboard" because of it's high quality), the tape was broadcast on the popular radio station KYYS-FM (KY-102) during Memorial Day Weekend of 1986. I had to work (in a Pizza Hut restaurant) that day so my mother taped the broadcast for me - she did a great job at the tape flips, etc. so I only missed the first song or two at the beginning and perhaps a small bit of "Thunder Road." If I remember correctly, there was some DJ chatter between songs during the encores. Anyway, I used a copy of this tape to make my first trade - in the summer of 1986 - for a copy of the 1978 Cleveland Agora broadcast (which also wasn't entirely complete but still a great show). A hobby was born! It's so nice to have this particular remaster. I'd obtained a more complete copy of the show (on tape (possibly the same version as used for Crystal Cat's version) some years ago but I honestly didn't feel it sounded as what I'd taped off the radio and it was also missing a bit of "Thunder Road" and some audience cheering here and there that I had on my radio version. Imagine my thrill in November 2006 -- just a couple of weeks before the 22nd anniversary of the actual show -- at finding this remaster (from the original master tapes no less!) on Jungleland torrents! Finally, I would have the most complete recording in the highest-quality possible... In honor of the first Bruce show I ever attended, I listened to the download during the weekend anniversary. My Thai wife was even dancing along to most of the recording (and that doesn't happen too often with Western music!)...	\| \|