U2start.com | 1985-03-22 - Chicago (Complete)

Hey,

This is a good audience recording! Directly transferred from a master tape. Sound quality is good for its age. Quality of Gloria is less than the rest of the songs. Also the song 40 is included in this recording. This was the only missing song in the current bootleg here on u2start.

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U.I.C. Pavilion, Chicago, IL March 22, 1985

(this was most likely recorded on a Sony Pro Walkman cassette recorder)
1st or 2nd gen. cassette Maxell XLIIS > Yamaha CDR D-651 > iTunes > xACT > flac
1. Intro/4th of July
2. 11 O'Clock Tic Toc
3. I Will Follow
4. Seconds
5. Surrender #
6. Two Hearts Beat as One
7. MLK
8. The Unforgettable Fire
9. Wire
10. Sunday Bloody Sunday ^
11. Cry/The Electric Co. (w/Amazing Grace)
12. A Sort of Homecoming
13. Bad *
14. October
15. New Year's Day
16. Pride (in the Name of Love) (cuts at end, tape flip?)
17. Gloria @
18. 40

# w/Midnight Hour (Roxy Music)
^ w/Heart and Soul (?)
* w/Sympathy for the Devil, Ruby Tuesday (Rolling Stones) Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed) Norwegian Wood (Beatles) You've Got to Hide Your Love Away (Beatles) I'm Waiting for My Man (Velvet Underground) Not Fade Away (Buddy Holly)

@ Gloria is a generation lower. My master copy had 95% of it erased.

I've included two great pics that can be used at artwork as well as a copy of my ticket stub.

I got this from a friend of the taper shortly after the show took place. I know the taper (SL) tweaked the master in some way or another. It is a superb quality recording, VG/VG+. The first night, 3.21.85 has been circulating for some time, but I've never seen this one anywhere. There's no interruption by CBS News during I Will Follow and this night's version of Bad is longer and better than the previous night's, IMO. The band was in top form, although Bono's voice was giving him problems.
The Chicago audience was extremely enthusiastic and made an impression on the band as being one of the loudest in the world. Bono was given a hospital shirt during 40. As per U2 protocol, the setlist is basically the same as every other show on the tour. Enjoy!

I am looking for these U2 shows, PLEASE SHARE if you have any:
Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, May 21, 1983
Rosemont Horizon, October 28, 1987
United Center, Chicago May 15, 2001 (I know this one exists)
United Center, Chicago, October 15, 2001.

Props to my friend Joe Dugan for waiting in the bitter Chicago cold and getting us 1st and 5th row tix for nights one and two respectively.