U2
Meadowlands Arena
East Rutherford, NJ
May 16, 1987.,
Probable lineage: Sony ECM 909 > WM-D6 > Analog Master > Nakamichi Dragon > CD-R(u)
[> EAC Secure > Goldwave (speed fix) > FLAC]
(Analog Master unconfirmed > speed fix) AKA The Last Night in Town (see below)
Disc 1:
1. Stand By Me
2. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
3. MLK
4. The Unforgettable Fire
5. Bullet the Blue Sky/Battle Hymn of the Republic
6. Running To Stand Still
7. Sunday Bloody Sunday
8. Exit/Riders on the Storm/Gloria
9. In God's Country
10. Trip Through Your Wires
11. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
12. The Electric Co./Light My Fire/Break on Through
Disc 2:
1. Springhill Mining Disaster
2. New Year's Day
3. Gloria
4. Bad/
5. Where the Streets Have No Name
6. I Will Follow
7. With or Without You/Love Will Tear Us Apart
8. "40"
Lineage on this one is supposed to be D6 master > CD-R.
I got this from Chris Wolf and on my site I had it written that he had it as D6 > DAT,
but that was likely an error on my part (however, a search has revealed another analog
master listed as Binural mics > Ananlog 0 > dat > Delta Dio 2496, which could confirm
the DAT I had listed in the lineage was correct.
It is unknown if that is the same recording though, so I am not sure).
Chris' site now has a link to Justin's review, which has my old notes, and Chris no longer
remembers whom he got this from. In any case, it is thus probably true that this is a
D6 master with no further analog gens, and I received a note that the above lineage is
probably what this is (my fix is the part in brackets). So I would consider the lineage
noted above to be what this probably is, thanks to Trevor's comparison, but the lineage
may incorrectly omit a DAT in the lineage.
Listening to this one, it was clearly very close to fine, but sounded just a bit slow.
I worked on it very carefully, agonizing over it, and ended up stretching it to a speed
of about 0.08% increase (very small, compared to most other fixes I have done, but noticeable
to some). After re-indexing it, I did nothing else to this recording. So to confirm, this
is probably a D6 analog master with the above set up, with possibly a DAT before the transfer
to CD-R.
This is certainly a nice recording. HOWEVER, when Adam's bass or Larry get loud there is
some distortion and muddiness, and to my ears, this recording sounds very close to mono,
making it a somewhat less pleasurable listening experience. Nonetheless it's a pretty nice
recording, better than you could reasonably ask for.
Audience noise is not very audible, but someone near the taper apparently thought brining
an air horn to a concert served some good purpose. Luckily, said air horn is used mostly
between songs. There is a tape flip about a half hour into the show before "Exit" where
little or no music is lost, another edit before "Streets" and one before "'40,'" before
each of which a little is lost, but not much. I noticed a "flaw," possibly from an early
DAE extraction of or just something on the original tape, a pop at about 0:23 in "Springhill
Mining Disaster."
The show is very good, but they are maybe not quite as pumped as they were for other shows
on this leg. Nonetheless it's very good. Bono has an audience member up on stage to play
harmonica during "Trip Through Your Wires." He also gives a tremendous vocal performance
in "Springhill Mining Disaster." "Bad" contains what are either improvisations or unknown
snippets.