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"Unkown Analogue Generation" aka "Ever Peaceful"

Origins: Audience microphone
Lineage: [UAG] > [unknown transfer] > mp3
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"UAG - Sony TCKE5000s transfer"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: Danafletch (Recording transferer)
Lineage: [Unknown Analogue Generation] > Sony TCKE5000s 3 head deck > [...] > EAC > flac > fre:ac > mp3
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"JEMS fixed"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: JEMS (Recording transferer)
Lineage: Likely 2nd Gen > Nakamichi CR-7A > Peak 5.2 > DVD > Goldwave > FLAC

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Taper : ?
Equip : ?
Lineage : Likely 2nd Gen. Cassettes (From the JEMS archive) > Nakamichi CR-7A transfer (03/07)
> Peak 5.2 > DVD > Goldwave (delete silence and overlap, add fades, speed correction, file split) > FLAC

1. Where the Streets Have No Name
2. I Will Follow
3. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For/Exodus
4. MLK
5. The Unforgettable Fire
6. Bullet the Blue Sky/America
7. Running to Stand Still
8. A Sort of Homecoming
9. Sunday Bloody Sunday
10. Exit/Gloria
11. In God's Country
12. Trip Through Your Wires
13. C'mon Everybody
14. Bad/Candle in the Wind/Ruby Tuesday/Sympathy for the Devil
15. October
16. New Year's Day
17. Pride (In the Name of Love)
18. With or Without You
19. "40"

Notes (from Butterking of JEMS):

Here's the second night of the Worcester run, following up on the 5/4/87 I posted a few weeks back.
Same person recorded both and the sound is pretty much the same. I obtained these tapes in 1988.
I wish I could tell you who recorded or what gear; perhaps someone can shed some light.
Regardless, based on available information, this should be an upgrade for most folks.

As I wrote about 5/4, this version is likely second generation (notes are incomplete), and the sound quality
is very good though the incredibly boisterous audience does overwhelm in several spots.

Notes (from Mike):

First, I tried to see what other transfers are out there of this show. This one is pretty good and has the
benefit of known digital and (probably) known analog lineage. Ernesto Lara has a version with lower volume
but perhaps a little better balanced sound, but he nonetheless thinks it's the same source. Anyway, if anyone
has what you think is a better version of this, please consider putting it up especially if you know the
lineage.

That said, this is to me a good, but not great, recording. Not overly sharp or clear and a tad distant, but
the music comes through pretty nicely. I'd say Bono's voice comes through most loudly, more so than the music.
Audience noise could certainly be worse but gets loud at times with occasional loud screaming. Overall though
I'd say it's not quite as bad as the May 4 recording Erik refers to above.

This came to me as four WAV files from Butterking (he had received the tapes in a trade), corresponding to
two sides of two 60-minute tapes. The show, however, had additional breaks, suggesting that this was
originally on 90 minute cassettes. This resulted in the speed being different for each part. Part one
(through "Bullet the Blue Sky"), in my estimation, had non-linear speed issues, meaning that as the show goes
on, the speed gets slower. I read a remark that the speed of a walkman may have been changed as the batteries
ran out, which may be one explanation for this. In any case, I did not try to correct for this, so I tried to
kind of get it in the middle. As such I think "Streets" maybe is a tad fast while the end of that part
("Bullet the Blue Sky") is a bit slow. Anything more accurate would have required some kind of variable pitch
correction, and I don't even know if such a thing exists (another option would be to go through it song by song
but that is pretty arbitrary). So this won't sound perfect but as good as I can get, and I think the rest of the
show sounds pretty good. If anyone wants the original unaltered WAV files please let me know.
Thanks to Jeff Shrikey for helping with the speed/pitch correction. Hopefully some day a better source comes up.

Anyway, a decent show, but not the best. Some sloppy versions of a few songs, due mostly to Bono, but he still is
clearly having a good time. After "C'mon Everybody" Bono says "another classic trashed by U2." Not their best cover
(or worst, probably), but it's nice to know he had a sense of humor about it. He changes the lyrics a bit with a
reference to the Paradise Club that they played in 1981 (he has refernced this often over the years while in Massachusetts).
During "Pride," Bono apparently brings his cousin, A.J. onto the stage, and then mentions something about cameras.
I tried to look for a review of this show to explain what was going on, but the only one on U2tours.com clearly had
to be referring to a different show, as his description does not seem to match this one.

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"1st Gen Analog-Tape"

Origins: Audience microphone
Lineage: 1st Gen Analog-Tape > SoundTrax > Wav-Files > Flac-Frontend > Flac-Files (Level 6)

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review by MattG

14 years ago

Performance

Amazing, spectacular performance. Can't find a single bad thing to say about it.

Sound

The first few songs are more of a 2.5, but it gradually gets easier to listen to. This is this show's only downfall- the sound really just isn't that great. It was very listenable by the end though- don't know if I just got used to it, or if the sound actually improved little bits throughout the way. I couldn't even hear The Edge's intro to "Where the Streets Have No Name", and barely heard the opening of "I Will Follow" over the boom of the crowd after Edge started playing it, but songs like "New Years Day" came across nice and clear.
Recording: "Unkown Analogue Generation" aka "Ever Peaceful" - 3.5 stars

Audience

Again, truly phenomenal. They were the most prominent part of this show, as the sound wasn't exactly top-notch. Loud, but never annoying.

Overall

Since the sound is such a crucial part of a bootleg, this one is only getting a 4 from me. An awesome JT show, but also not the best I've ever heard. Maybe I would throw it in my top 3, but even then only #3. That's alright though- listening to U2 shows becomes more and more about variety the more you do it, and "Trip Through Your Wires" being so much later in the setlist than I'm used to was a great change...and hey- sometimes it's even kinda cool to listen to a not-so-great-sounding bootleg.

Highlights:

-The Unforgettable Fire
-A Sort of Homecoming
-Exit
-In Gods Country
-Trip Through Your Wires
-Bad

Not a bad pick for Show of the Month, March 2010, guys!

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