SOUND CHECK (TECH CREW)
Lineage: Tech Crew > Dana Fletcher's Tape >cdr> EAC>WAV>
Adobe Audition (EQ, Dynamics, and Noise reduction)>SHN>FLAC
Note: format conversion from SHN to FLAC 2011/01/19 due to
traders' preference shift from SHN to FLAC since original upload.
Audio Quality: 9
Track List:
1. Lovely to See You / Mysterious ways
2. One
3. New Years Day
4. Bullet the Blue Sky / Ultraviolet
5. One
6. Vocal Clowning
7. Until The End of the World / Pride
8. Zoo Station
9. Until The End of the World
10. Love Is Blindness
11. Even Better Than the Real Thing
12. Mysterious Ways
13. Bad / Bullet the Blue Sky
14. Where the Streets Have No Name
15. Pride
16. Unknown / Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World
17. Angel of Harlem / When Love Comes to Town
18. Madman Across The Water / When Love Comes to Town
19. Unknown / Satellite of Love
20. Angel of Harlem / All I Want Is You
21 Running To Stand Still (Harmonica)
22. Microphone Check / Jam Session
23. Mysterious Ways
24. Unknown Jam / With or Without You
25. Unknown Jam
Comments on this recording:
This is a great recording of a U2 soundcheck. It was a sunny
November afternoon, and a handfull of fans were standing by the
fence at Jack Murphy Stadium, listening to U2 prepare for another
evening of Zoo TV. The area was ringing with riffs and raucous
pieces of U2 music followed by intricate and gentle guitar pickings
by The Edge. That morning, I went on an airline jumpseat ride from
Albany, NY to hear this concert, and arrived just as the band was
working on "Bad." Although we fans loitering outside had some trouble
hearing quieter parts, the taper - on the Zoo TV crew - caught it quite
clearly. His one disadvantage was being so close to the speakers that the
recorder was sometimes overdriven. Those loud bits we heard very
clearly across the parking lot!
By the time U2 concluded the sound check, there were dozens of
people standing glassy eyed in amazement at what had just been
heard. This recording catches that great soundcheck AND is of great
quality. Perhaps a soundboard or DAT machine on the 50 yard line
would sound better. Thanks to Dana Fletcher, Justin Cook, and
the other traders for keeping these soundchecks in circulation!
Spectral analysis indicates that the audio is from a video tape;
there may be more to this event than only this audio.
Do that "song1" / "song2" slashes mean that they rehearsed that transitions between songs? I'd like to see how they merged Bullet The Blue Sky into Ultraviolet then!
