I already uploaded this in lossless in the torrent section here as well: http://www.u2start.com/torrents/details/153/
The original text file:
U2
PopMart Leg 4
Nelson Piquet Autodrome Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1998-01-27
Unknown taper/lineage/generation
Lineage: Cassette > CD > EAC/secure mode > WAV > TLH > Flac level 6
Disc 1
01. Pop Muzik
02. Mofo
03. I Will Follow
04. Gone
05. Even Better Than The Real Thing
06. Last Night On Earth
07. Until The End Of The World
08. New Year's Day
09. Pride
10. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
11. All I Want Is You
12. Desire
13. Staring At The Sun
14. Sunday Bloody Sunday
15. Bullet The Blue Sky
Disc 2
01. Please
02. Where The Streets Have No Name
03. Lemon Intermission
03. Discotheque
05. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
06. With Or Without You
07. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
08. Mysterious Ways
09. One
10. Wake Up Dead Man
U2's first ever concert in South America. During Desire, some local samba percussionists came on stage to perform with U2. Many fans attending the concert arrived late due to a significant traffic jam; before One, Bono thanked fans for their patience.
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The wav files were sent to me by U2lemonman who asked me to upload it on U2T. They were transferred from a cassette obtained in 1998. I'm not sure if it's ever been torrented here in the past. There doesn't appear to be much information about the source of this recording. I found covers for two different versions. This show is not listed on Achtungbootlegs and the following comment comes from Justin's website:
'For completists only! How a recording from 1998 -- not exactly the dark ages of recording technology -- can sound so bad is beyond me. The sad thing is that a considerable amout of effort was put into remastering this recording just to get it to sound like it does now. I can't even imagine how bad the original recording is. Remember, when you find a recording of a concert that has taken a long time to surface, don't expect much more than 'average audience'.
The volume on the recording is VERY low and the clarity is poor. I think the best description I can provide is that it sounds like the taper was standing in the parking lot a half mile from the stadium.'
The recording is plagued by small gaps and cuts and a considerable amount of hiss so please listen to the samples before commiting yourself to downloading the whole show.
Hopefully this will fill a few gaps
........thanks k, it's finally raining.
I converted it to 192kbps MP3 from FLAC. It is an unknown linage/taper/generation (as said in the info file). I would give it about a 2.5 star rating. Or 3 if you feel generous.
Download Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/436397419/1998-01-27_-_U2_-_Rio_de_Janeiro__Brazil.rar