FLAC master, 21 January 2019:
Analog audience recording (stereo) {recorded by the Stonecutter crew}: Sony ECM-909 mic > Sony WM-D6 Walkman recorder > analog audio cassette master > European 1984-85 TDK SA 90 (Type II CrO2) analog audio cassette {from the Stonecutter Archives} > Sony TC-WE435 (azimuth adjustment) > Roland R05 (24/96) > Cool Edit Pro 2.0 (audio cleanup, convert to 16/44) > SHNtool (fixed SBE) > CD Wave (track splits) > TLH (WAV > FLAC8).
Created this text file.
Total running time [1:35:03]
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01 11 O'Clock Tick Tock [5:18]
02 I Will Follow [3:46]
03 Seconds [3:50]
04 Two Hearts Beat as One [5:02]
05 MLK [2:42]
06 The Unforgettable Fire [5:00]
07 Wire [4:01]
08 Sunday Bloody Sunday [5:35]
09 The Cry > The Electric Co. (incl. Amazing Grace) [7:50]
10 A Sort of Homecoming [5:39]
11 Bad (incl. Ruby Tuesday / Sympathy for the Devil) [11:48]
12 October [2:07] >
13 New Year's Day [5:23]
14 Pride (In the Name of Love) [6:05]
-- encore 1 --
15 Knockin' on Heaven's Door [6:08]
16 Gloria [5:59]
-- encore 2 --
17 40 (incl. Do They Know It's Christmas / We Are the World) [8:42]
Band line-up:
Bono – lead vocals, additional guitar
The Edge – lead guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals on t03, bass on t17
Adam Clayton – bass, backing vocals, guitar on t17
Larry Mullen Jr. – drums, percussion, backing vocals
Notes:
Courtesy of the Stonecutter Archives is this blazing show for U2's fifth leg of Unforgettable Fire tour at Madison Square Garden, the very first of many at this "big nightclub" for the band. Bono incorrectly calls it Madison Square Gardens (plural), as many first-timers do. Regardless of the massive capacity audience that the Garden can hold, all 20,000 seats for the show were sold out within an hour.
About two weeks prior to this gig, in the midst of this tour, Rolling Stone put U2 on its cover and declared them the "Band of the 80s." Shortly after that, they would be interviewed by Pam Lambert of the Wall Street Journal in their Detroit hotel room the day after their performance there, with an article headlined "U2: Keeping the Rock Faith with Unforgettable Fire," being readied for their upcoming NYC appearance.
Pegging this gig as one of their important conquests, U2 flies in family, friends, as well as select journalists from Ireland to attend the show. The band holds a press conference the following day confirming that they undoubtedly delivered a knockout performance this night (which is interesting in contrast to their better-known Live-Aid set where they felt they failed, but were then met with favorable reviews).
As Bono says, the people and the music are bigger than the place, and the sound really does fill out the venue. This Stonecutter tape circulated plenty back in the tape trading days, and is easy to identify (it's the "Got my lighter?" source). The are some level imbalances and jumps here and there, but minor ones, and this is mainly an outstanding capture. Compared to the lossy versions that can be heard online, the high end on this brand-new transfer direct from a first gen made back in 1985 is night and day.
Enjoy,
elegymart
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