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"Fradoca Remaster"

Origins: Analogue Cable Television Broadcast
Credits: Fradoca (Remasterer)
Lineage: HI-FI VHS MASTER [audio] -> DAT -> PC(DIGITAL) -> FRADOCA RM -> FLAC 6 -> WAV -> FLAC and Mp3@VBR
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"A Fire In Dortmund"

Origins: Analogue Cable Television Broadcast
Credits: CET (Remasterer)
Lineage: [unknown source] > CDr > SHN > WAV > fre:ac > mp3@256kb/s
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"The Fire Is Rising"

Origins: CD Silver
Credits: U2 Vintage Recordings (Silver Manufacturer)
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Audience microphone

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: Minimax (Audio Taper)
Equipment: Maxelll UD-XLII (Audio recording device)
Lineage: AIWA walkman and an extra microphone
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So here it is!! The "complete" desaster-tape!! But, all you folks out there wanted to listen to it again!
And cry! and cry! and cry! and cry!

U2 Dortmund, Westfalenhalle 1 November 21st, 1984 (Buss- und Bettag in Germany!!)

Master - Audience recording from my old Maxell XL II C-90 Tapes
ZDF RockPop in concert (German TV)
The unforgettable fire - tour

Artwork is included !! See below!!

Other artists that evening were:
Gianna Nannini
Bryan Adams
The Waterboys
Spandau Ballet
Talk Talk

This concert I taped with an AIWA walkman and an extra microphone
(I can't remember what microphone it was).

It was recorded from the middle of the audience about 5 meters from the stage or 10 meters from the stage
and again 5 meters from the stage. It depends. (See below why)
The sound quality is very good +, sometimes better.

This is a real fine audience master because it is from an audience master as an audience master should be:
a lot of talk of the people around. Sometimes shouting:"U2! U2!" or "I will follow" or another shit.
And there have been many people around me and my microphone
during that gig because - hey, I was in the middle of a sometimes really enthusiastic crowd,
hopping around (me too) and going wild. I remember a poor ZDF-camera-man (und sein Kabeltraeger) just beside me
filming it and sweating like a .... (don't know an english word for it, sorry). And me taping
and we took a look at each other and we suddenly knew that we both had a shit-job to do that evening.
This was the best U2 experience I went through in my concert-career.
The worst and last will follow later (Cologne 1987 - as told before).

.and now the desaster: I really don't know what happened. The first side of my master-cassette
is really fine. But after the tape-flip (after BAD) the cassette ..aaaaaaaargh!! (in german: die eiert wie Sau!!!)
I have seeded the desaster-part here too and you will recognize that there is no hope / chance for repairing it.
I don't know why the rest of it then again really works fine. Sorry!
It is what it is!!

Anyway hope you like it!!

01 Intro / 11 o'clock tick tock
02 I will follow
03 Sunday bloody sunday
04 The electric co. incl. Amazing grace
05 A sort of homecoming
06 MLK
07 The unforgettable fire
08 Bad
09 (The Desaster! incl. October, New years day, Pride) (Missing in bootleg)
10 Gloria (Missing in bootleg)
11 Forty
12 Outro

Do not sell. For trading only. ..and perhaps for fun!

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Here you can find and post reviews of this show. We encourage everyone that either attended or listened to this show to write a review. Currently we have 14 reviews for you to read.

review by cesar_garza01

9 years ago

Performance

What else can be said? One of the best concerts in their history, no doubt about it.

Sound

OK, here's where it gets tricky. To me, the sound is very good, but not excellent. There are some parts that show that this bootleg is 30 years old, like in October, specially when you use earphones. Don't get me wrong, it's still amazing and you must get this, but I (ducks for cover) prefer the sound of Bologna or Glasgow, minus the distortions.
Also, the end of Bad is cut.
Recording: "Fradoca Remaster" - 5 stars

Audience

Fantastic audience, check the Youtube videos to see them.

Overall

As everyone said before me, this is one of the best bootlegs you can find here, but I couldn't give it an overall 5 stars for 2 reasons: the concert is cut and, most importantly, the sound is not 5 stars.
No need to put highlights, all the songs here are one of the best versions you can find anywhere (specially Pride, Gloria and 40). Be sure to download this, Bologna and Glasgow for amazing UF bootlegs.

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1984-11-21 - Dortmund, Germany - Westfalenhalle

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