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"Keith M master via JEMS"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: JEMS (Recording transferer), KeithM (Audio Taper)
Equipment: Sony ECM-939 (Microphone), Sony Walkman D6C (Audio recording device)
Lineage: [analogue master] > Nakamichi CR-7A > Sound Devices USBPre2 > Audacity 2.0 > iZotope RX6 and Ozone 6 mastering > Peak Pro 6 > xACT 2.39 > .flac [ > fre:ac > mp3]
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KeithM Master via JEMS
1644 Mastered Edition

Recording Gear: Sony ECM-939 Stereo Microphone > Sony Walkman D6C

JEMS 2017 Transfer: master cassettes > Nakamichi CR-7A azimuth-adjusted playback > Sound Devices USBPre2 > Audacity 2.0 > iZotope RX6 and Ozone 6 mastering > Peak Pro 6 (post production) > xACT 2.39 > FLAC

01 Stand By Me
02 MLK
03 Pride
04 Trip Through Your Wires
05 I Will Follow
06 Bullet The Blue Sky
07 Running To Stand Still
08 The Unforgettable Fire
09 Sunday Bloody Sunday
10 Exit
11 In God’s Country
12 The Electric Co.
13 October
14 New Year’s Day
15 Gloria
16 Bad
17 Where The Streets Have No Name
18 I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
19 With Or Without You
20 40

Known Issues:
-Running To Stand Still: two splices

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Los Angeles, April 22

The legendary closing night of the high-profile, five-show stand in Los Angeles is one of tour’s best. For the first time, the band turns the set list on its head, moving songs out of their familiar positions and changing the dynamic of the set substantially. The night opens with a surprise as instead of Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me” fading out as the pre-show music, the band pick up and finish the song themselves in its first-ever performance.

Spirits are high throughout as the mixed-up order and closing night energize the band, who are playing at a peak already. The tour debut of “The Electric Co.” is another highlight and it is refreshing to hear “Where The Streets Have No Name” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” so late in the show.

It would appear KeithM’s master is the underlying recording for circulating copies of this show, including the bootleg “U2 Versus The US,” so this should represent an upgrade to all. Of the four nights KeithM recorded in LA, it is probably his best, with rich, full sound and very few issues. Samples provided. Given the historic significance of the show, we are presenting the recording in both 1644 mastered and 2496 unmastered editions.

I’d like to express my personal gratitude to KeithM for loaning us his precious master tapes and allowing us to share his work. He is enjoying reading your comments so please keep them coming. Special credit goes to DIME member bitrate for helping me connect to KeithM and remaining persistent as the months went by before we finally got things going with the tapes. Lastly, there’s no one JEMS trusts more to handle post-production of this series than our esteemed colleague mjk5510. Thanks to him for his continued vital support of our efforts. Without him, our recordings would come out a whole lot slower.

BK for JEMS

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Bit rate: 256, bit depth: 16, sample rate: 44100, channels: 2

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"U2 Versus The US"

Origins: Audience microphone, CD Silver
Credits: Winged Wheel (Silver Manufacturer), KeithM (Audio Taper)
Lineage: Winged Wheel ‎– WW 9418/19
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"2nd gen (SA90)"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: KeithM (Audio Taper)
Equipment: Sony ECM-939 (Microphone), Sony WM-D6C (Audio recording device)
Lineage: [KeithM master] > [analogue copy] > 2nd gen (SA90) > wt2496 > CEPRO > 2 CDR > EAC > FLAC

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review by 2UToo

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Performance

This show notably features the first U2 performance of Ben E. King's classic "Stand by Me" as Bono suddenly appeared on stage while the song was still being played over the PA. The band soon followed and took over from the tape with the houselights still on. Bono changes lots of the words to fit with U2's LA shows. The entire setlist is quite unique with many songs being in different positions than usually ("Bad" closing the main set, "Where the Streets Have No Name" and "Still Haven't Found" both being encores), the return of "Trip Through Your Wires" and the "Joshua Tree" debut of "The Electric Co.", notably omitting "The Cry" at the start for the first (known) time since November 1980. This is also one of the rare 80s shows where Bono corrects the lyric of "Pride" to say "early evening" instead of "early morning".

Although Bono sounds a tad rougher compared to the previous night, he's in great shape tonight nonetheless, adding many great belts and embellishments to a lot of songs and once again adding some really unique but fantastic adlibs.

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Recording: "Keith M master via JEMS" - 4 stars

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Overall

• Stand by Me
• Trip Through Your Wires
• The Unforgettable Fire
• Exit / Gloria
• New Year's Day
• Gloria
• Where the Streets Have No Name
• I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

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1987-04-22 - Los Angeles, California - Sports Arena

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