Artist: U2
Venue: Vorst National
City: Brussels
Country: Belgium
Date: July 8th, 1987
******** 25th Anniversary edition ********
Tracklist:
01. Intro (Stand By Me) / Where The Streets Have No Name
02. I Will Follow
03. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Exodus (snippet)
04. MLK
05. The Unforgettable Fire
06. Bullet The Blue Sky
07. Running To Stand Still
08. Sunday Bloody Sunday
09. Exit / Gloria (Van Morisson - snippet)
10. In God's Country
11. The Electric Co. / Break On Through (snippet)
12. Help
13. Bad / Ruby Tuesday (snippet)
14. October
15. New Year's Day
16. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Encore:
17. PartyGirl
18. With Or Without You / Shine Like Stars (snippet) / Love Will Tear Us Apart (snippet)
19. 40
Soundcheck:
01. With Or Without You
02. Soundcheck 1
03. The Unforgettable Fire
04. Soundcheck 2
05. Where The Streets Have No Name
06. Soundcheck 3
07. Running To Stand Still
08. Soundcheck 4
Taper: Ard Stegeman
This recording has made it's way to the world through analog copies, minidisc & DAT transfers. But, never before in this quality.
In 2012 these tapes have been transferred to harddrive again from the original masters. We decided to share this with the U2 community on July 8th 2012, exactly 25 years after the concert!
This show was recorded with a Sony WM-R15 recorder and Proline Arrow AST-20 cardiod microphones to two Maxell XLII tapes. These original tapes where played in a completely
restored Nakamichi CR-7E cassettedeck which was connected to an Edirol R44. The Edirol has a preamp but we decided not to use it, to avoid any additional or unwanted soundadjustments. The goal was to preserve the original sound of the tapes as good as possible.
The Edirol recorded the tapes in 24bit/96khz wavfiles, which are kept in the archive. After that no (real) soundrelated editing has been done. There is just no need for it. This recording
by itself is just very good!
The recording was normalized to 99% (peaklevel) in Wavelab 6 and fades have added to the show and at points where tapes where switched, after Sunday Bloody Sunday & after Bad. There is no music lost.
Tracksplitting has been done in CDwave.
For 16bit version: Tracked 24bit files converted to 44.1khz/16bit using Crystal Resampler/UV22HR Dither plugins in Wavelab 6.
Traders Little Helper converted the files to FLAC (level
The result is a truly brilliant recording from U2's Joshua Tree period. Enjoy!
A nice bonus has been added too.
U2 did a soundcheck on the afternoon and part of this was recorded too by the same taper. This part also found it's way to the world earlier in history, but only in heavy edited versions. This is the raw deal. There is nothing more. Apart from some music, you can hear the taper trying his best to hang the mic on a good spot. Some amazing Belgian trafficnoise, some huge trucks and last but not least…a very suspicious securityguy.
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Transferred by Popmarter
Posted on U2torrents on July 8th 2012.
I was there at the live show in Brussels 25 years ago
One of the best U2 shows I've ever seen!!!!!
What a night, what a band, what an audience, Magnificent!!!!!!
