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Bridge School Benefit 1986-10-13 Shoreline Ampthitheatre Mountain View, CA

First Bridge School Benefit
Oct 13 1986
Presented by Pegi and Neil Young
Shoreline Ampthitheatre
Mountain View, CA

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OldNeumanntapr Notes:
This show came to me as a work in progress and the files were not completely processed because apparently this was another taper's project that was never fully completed.
I had to track out the raw WAV file for the Bruce Springsteen set in Audacity and also edit a tape flip at the end of the set and splice in the two encores, which had been tracked on to the end of the CSNY raw WAV file and did not appear to belong there. Two songs were missing in the Bruce Springsteen set and I couldn't locate them on any of the untracked raw WAV files that were supplied to me.
Fortunately I was able to obtain them from the same source a day later. They had inadvertently been left off the first batch sent to me, so those two tracks were level matched, and spliced into the Springsteen set with splices repaired. Each set is listed individually in separate folders, but the show will play sequentially in order from start to finish. All sound files have been down sampled to 16 bit / 44.1kHz in Audacity, and converted to FLAC with tags added via xACT 2.51. Thanks to all involved for the capture of this first ever Bridge benefit show, and thanks as well to 'Rocksuitcase' from Taperssection.com for making his uncompleted files available for me to add the finishing touches and complete this amazing show. The sound on the Bruce Springsteen set is a bit 'hollow', possibly as a result of weak internal batteries in the Nakamichi microphone bodies, but this is just a guess. Front-cover artwork added to FLAC tags.
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Set 1:

Nils Lofgren
01. Keith Don't Go
02. Wonderland
03. Believe
04. Man At The Top
05. Mud In Your Eye

Don Henley
01. Bill Graham intro & band intros **
02. The Boys Of Summer
03. New Kid In Town
04. Best Of My Love
05. Yes It Is
06. Desperado
07. You Don't Miss Your Water        ++
** (with J.D. Souther, Timothy B Schmidt, Danny Kortchmar, Jai Winding)
++  cut at end; missed about 60 seconds

Set 2:

Neil Young & CSN
01. Comes A Time (Neil solo)
02. Heart Of Gold (Neil solo)
03. Helpless  (Neil with Bruce Springsteen and Nils Lofgren) **
04. I Am A Child (Neil solo)
05. Neil's Intro Of CSN
06. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
07. Change Partners
08. Daylight Again / Find The Cost Of Freedom
09. Ohio

Set 3:

Tom Petty    [22:57]
01. American Girl
02. Blue Moon Of Kentucky
03. Shadow Of A Doubt (A Complex Kid)
04. The Waiting        (w/Benmmont Tench - keys)
05. It'll All Work Out (w/Benmmont Tench - keys)
06. Twist And Shout    (w/Benmmont Tench - keys)

Robin Williams   [15:33]
01. Standup Comedy, Springsteen Intro

Bruce Springsteen (With Nils Lofgren and Danny Federici)   
01. You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)   solo a' capella
02. Born In The U.S.A.
03. Seeds
04. Darlington County
05. Mansion On The Hill
06. Fire
07. Dancing In The Dark (tape flip)
08. Glory Days
09. Follow That Dream
Encores:
10. Hungry Heart (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
11. Teach Your Children (With all the day's performers)

**  Bruce on Acoustic guitar, Nils on Accordion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TSV8LnWn1s        Robin Williams set
https://www.bridgeschool.org/about/history/        Bridge School info

Recording Information:
2nd GEN CA AUD
microphones: Nakamichi 300's shotgun capsules > dbx 224 NR
recorder: Sony TC-D5M
location: lawn 40 feet from stacks
1st gen transfer: Sony TC-D5M > dbx 224 > Nakamichi LX5 Dolby C
digital transfer: Nakamichi LX5 > Benchmark AD2k @24/48 > Marantz PMD 661|SD
Recorded by:
transferred: via TP: KAH

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