This is from a copy straight from the master, shared somewhere on u2torrents. It is actually the same source that was used for Rotterdam Lovetown, but this copy already played at the correct speed (again based on the assumption that "All you Need Is Love" was played at a correct speed over the PA at the time), while Rotterdam Lovetown runs 1/8 semitone too fast.
Another thing is that the latter is quite severly compressed, and even saturated at times. And while the "raw" copy of the master does not sound nearly as good as Rotterdam Lovetown, I believe that my remaster has succeeded in bringing the sound on par with that well-known bootleg just mentioned, while avoiding any of the addressed “problems.” In fact the new remaster should even sound more clear and has the original dynamics of the recording better preserved. I only wish the original MvdV master will surface someday…
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U2
January 6, 1990
Sportspaleis Ahoy
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"STILL RUNNING"
(25th anniversary edition)
TAPER : MvdV
Remaster: BIGGIRL [2015]
LINEAGE : Master [Sony WMD6 with Sennheiser MKE 40’s] > [...]
> Maxell XL II [UAG] > [unknown transfer] > Wav > TLH > FLAC >
[REMASTER:] WAV > EQ > Channel Swap* > Vol Adj# > edit^
> FLAC (Frontend 6) >
Track list
01-Where The Streets Have No Name
02-I Will Follow
03-I Still Haven’t Found What I’m looking For
04-MLK
05-The Unforgettable Fire
06-God Part II
07-Desire
08-All Along The Watchtower
09-All I Want Is You
10-Van Diemen’s Land
11-Bullet The Blue Sky
12-Running To Stand Still
13-She’s A Mystery To Me
14-Angel Of Harlem
15-When love Comes To Town (feat. BB King )
16-Love Rescue Me (feat. BB King )
[fade out/fade in]
17-With Or Without You
18-Pride (In The Name Of Love )
19-"40"
* Channel Swap: Taper must have faced stage and speakers for best sound,
meaning that PA-intro must have been recorded with swaped channels (i.e.
left=right; right=left). But based on the PA-intro "All You Need Is Love",
left and right must have switched in some transfer. Compare, Rotterdam
Lovetown also has switched channels in comparison to this transfer (which
should be correct).
# Volume adjustment: particulary after VDL
^Edit: God Pt. II = fixed; transition AIWISY & VDL (patched with mixed crowd
noise from elsewhere); transition BBTBS & RTSS = fixed; fades between LRM &
WOWY (omission of some 3 minutes of crowd noise); fades at the end (another
omission of a good minute of crowd noise).
(and ZOO too...but that is a complete different story...).