REC
Active topics
  1. I'm in for the video too
  2. Nice one Sergio - added.

    In so far:

    Daley - audio only
    Harry - audio only
    Casper - audio only
    Drew - video
    Dieder - audio only - posted
    Mark - audio only
    chooser - aussiemofo - video
    Steve - audio only
    Gerard - video
    Sergio - video

    @Dieder....no worries mate....it's great to have you here. I hope its the first of several from you.
  3. Originally posted by aussiemofo:Ok guys, time for a little bit of novelty to add a bit of spark into BRT.

    This week's BRT bootleg is a personal favourite of mine.

    [image]

    1983-05-30 - Devore, California - Glen Helen Regional Park[/u]

    1. Gloria
    2. I Threw A Brick Through A Window
    3. A Day Without Me / Dear Prudence (snippet)
    4. An Cat Dubh
    5. Into The Heart
    6. New Year's Day
    7. Surrender
    8. Two Hearts Beat As One / Let's Twist Again (snippet)
    9. Sunday Bloody Sunday
    10.The Cry
    11. The Electric Co. / Send In The Clowns (snippet) / California, Here I Come (snippet)

    encore(s):

    12. I Will Follow
    13. 40 / Give Peace A Chance (snippet)

    Download this brilliant 5-star Soundboard recording here.
    http://www.u2start.com/bootlegs/1983-05-30/Devore,%20California%20-%20Glen%20Helen%20Regional%20Park

    But, wait there's more.

    Participants will have the added option of reviewing the iPod ready video![/u]

    Download the iPod ready video here...
    http://www.u2start.com/topic/4592

    So you can either review the audio OR review the video from your iPod.

    Participants should declare which one they'll review and they will then have over a week to download the version they choose.

    I'm pretty sure (Gerard or somebody can confirm) that both versions are the same audio.
    We will then begin posting the reviews from next Sunday (19 April) onwards.

    Can I recommend the video? That's the one I'll be reviewing.
    It's a great show when the boys were really hitting their straps as a live act. This could be the biggest crowd they had ever played to at the time too (somebody else needs to confirm this however...).

    So everybody, get downloadin'!


    Bump....reviews from this Sunday. Newcomers welcome...
  4. Let the reviews begin!
  5. Performance - 4 stars

    A quick note before I start: I see this is one of aussiemofo's personal favourites. That makes two of us...


    A small gig in Devore, California from May 1983, just before the historic Live At Red Rocks performance, is a 13-song performance which definitely eclipses anything done before it and probably for the next few years after. These early performances are the best of the best for U2, as you get awesome renditions of the early material - raw and ready to go.

    Every single song is nailed - except for one snippet: Give Peace A Chance. I'd be asking to Give Chance Some Peace - it's utter tripe. I love the young lady and her utterly brilliant dancing skills during the Let's Twist Again snippet in Two Hearts Beat As One - and not a bad looker, either. A definite highlight (for me, anyway).

    You've gotta love the band's enthusiasm in these days. They're all over the stage, going from side to side, and are pretty free to go wherever they like (within possibility), which it hasn't changed so much in recent times, but they just seem less shackled here and more relaxed, less choreographed and staged.




    Sound - 4.5 stars

    The sound here is excellent (for 1983), but you do hear a lot of clipping, which was to be expected - most of these television broadcasts have the same problems from the early 80s. However, as a pro-shot, it's a soundboard and a good one at that, if not very good.

    The instruments are easy enough to pick up (Adam's bass in most songs is perfectly audible and so is Edge's guitar) and so is the audience at the end of each song. Sometimes the vocals get lost in the mix and the backing vocals too, but they're definitely there. No major issues with Larry's drumming, except sometimes it's mixed way too loud and that's where the distortion comes from.




    Audience - 5 stars

    Enthusiastic and right into this 'New Wave' band. Great, great participation...




    Picture - 4.5 stars

    The picture quality for this show is very nice, again more than acceptable for 1983, of course dependent on the video transfer method. You don't see too many artefacts or PQ errors you shouldn't be seeing - whether that's due to the condition of the master tapes or just damn good transfer by a genius, I don't know. Because it's a pro-shot, you get to see all the action - which is important for any kind of live film.

    Regarding direction, the whole video is directed beautifully and in the way a concert video should be. The camera keeps on the main subject at the time, moves with brilliant precision and just does what he's meant to do, which is directing the show in such a way that isn't seen anymore, even in U2's recent videos since the Elevation era. I also love the fact that during New Year's Day, the camera gets so close to the piano - which is another credit to the film crew.




    Overall - 4.5 stars

    A great relaxed, fun gig and at times, even better than the Red Rocks release.
  6. 1983-05-30 - Devore, California - Glen Helen Regional Park

    Performance: 4 stars
    A nice gig from U2's early days. Just before climbing the legendary stage of Red Rocks the boys play a small gig on the US Festival in Devore. The band shows it's great shape and they're definitely pulling off a great show.
    Gloria is a great song and they play it very good here. Still, it's nothing more than an average version.
    ITABTAW/A Day Without Me is one of the best sequences they ever came up with and it's really awesome here. Especially A Day Without Me is fantastic, the highlight of the show. And one of those great snippets of The Beatles' Dear Prudence is involved, makes it awesome
    They're not completely able to pull it through tough. An Cat Dubh and Into The Heart are weak and New Year's Day is no good either. It almost sounds as if the boys are kinda tired of playing NYD.
    Things get fantastic after that again tough. Surrender is awesome, 2nd highlight. I would've prefered to see Seconds instead of Surrender, but they play Surrender awesome. Two Hearts Beat As One is great too, altough again just an average version.
    Sunday Bloody Sunday and TEC make a great end of the main set, but they're not legendary or special. Average versions, still great tough.

    The encore is more interesting. I Will Follow is brilliant, as it always was in the early days. It's hard, it's big and it's just rock n roll
    40 is pretty good too, altough the snippet of Give Peace A Chance really sucks. Bono kinda fucks it up there. Overall a great gig, but there are certainly better gigs.

    Audience: 4 stars
    Good crowd. Nice sing alongs, not annoying. But if I sense right they're more waiting for David Bowie to climb the stage.
    Heard better crowds, but for a crowd that isn't completely full of U2 fans they're great.

    Sound: 5 stars
    Could easily be released as live album.

    Overall: 4,5 stars
    A very nice boot just before the famous Red Rocks gig. The gig is good, they boys are in shape. I missed Seconds and the snippet of Give Peace A Chance doesn't work very well. A Day Without Me and Surrender are the highlights. Great sound, would easily fit as live album.
    It's nice to hear U2 just before their legendary first dvd performance, so it's worth a download. Nice boot too for if you don't have time for 2 hour gigs or so. Overall 4,5 stars worth.
  7. Great reviews guys, I should have mine sorted by the weekend
  8. 1983-05-30 - Devore, California - Glen Helen Regional Park

    I'm reviewing the iPod ready video. The picture is fantastic for its age. Perhaps better than Live at Red Rocks which was shot only a few days after. The footage is decently shot and edited, making for a very worthwhile concert viewing. The video component of this bootleg is 4.5/5 stars.

    Performance
    I'll say from the outset that this is one of my all time favourite 80's performances from my all-time favourite band.

    It's always nice to see them once in a while from their early days when Bono looked like he had a dead animal on his head, Adam had an afro, Edge had hair (though receding) any Larry thought that it was ok to wear shorts. And it's the only gig I've got where Larry looks like he enjoys his drumming!

    This show clearly shows Bono starting to come into his own as one of the great showmen of his time - his enthusiasm, energy and charisma were just bursting at the seams during this gig. And he timed this perfect frontman performance perfectly because the band were probably playing to their biggest crowd ever at the time (this was the 80's answer to Woodstock afterall - some 670,000 people over four days!) It's a short setlist to fit into the festival's full schedule. They look like they hit the stage pretty early on in the day before the likes of Stevie Nicks and David Bowie but what way to get the crowd going! They were just lapping it up.

    The lads start the shortish gig with a proven crowd-starter - Gloria - and it was a beauty. Even one of their over-rated numbers (IMHO) at the time - I Threw A Brick... - was a joy to watch and listen to and from there it really started to get a kick-along with A Day Without Me. The best version I've got of this great song and that Dear Prudence snippet is a killer. Just brilliant!

    Honestly I can't point out anything where the band put a foot wrong. I loved Bono's impulsive leap in the crowd during Black Cat - and that priceless look on the face of one of the security guys who pulls him up. What a crack-up! We then move on to an electric series of War tracks starting with a great New Year's and climaxing with a very funny dance with "Angeline " during Two Hearts (notice after she returns to the crowd the camera guy can't keep his eyes off her ) and ending with fired up Sunday Bloody Sunday, complete with the trade mark War white flag.

    But the highlight of this awesome show for me is The Cry/Electric Co. when Bono decides to climb the 25 metre stage set leaving Edge to play a 3-minute solo in the middle. It clearly took everyone by surprise and I don't think too many people realised where he was! And he must have thought how the hell he was going to get back down.

    With the crowd wanting more, how could the boys pass up the opportunity to play a cracking I Will Follow/40 encore. Only '40' is left out of the video.

    It may not have been a full concert setlist but they squeezed all the passion and energy of a normal length concert into this 2/3 gig.

    5/5 stars

    Audience

    Top notch effort from the California crowd, many of whom obviously weren't there for U2 but enjoyed the band putting in a monster effort and showed their appreciation.

    4/5 stars

    Sound

    Next to perfect soundboard recording and that's with the sound compacted to fit on the Ipod video.

    4.5/5

    Overall

    Bono left nothing on that stage. He owned that crowd by the encore. Just a brilliant early show. Must have it on your iPod and not just the audio. Get the video!

    Highlights
    The best A Day Without Me I have
    One of the best Electric Co's ("I love this crowd"), Gloria, and Two Hearts I have.
    Bono's stage climbing, stage diving and other theatrics.
    Everyone's hair.
    Twist Again snippet dance

    Lowlights.
    Only the lack of '40' in the video version.



    5/5 stars
  9. Mine will come this Sunday..
  10. Let's have it fellas. Time's running out!
  12. mines coming tomorrow, my laptop died so i've had to sort things, especially with uni work
Contribute to the U2 community with uploading photos or by telling us which shows you have visited.
Contribute to the U2 community with uploading photos or by telling us which shows you have visited.
Contribute to the U2 community with uploading photos or by telling us which shows you have visited.
Contribute to the U2 community with uploading photos or by telling us which shows you have visited.