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"Keith M master via JEMS"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: JEMS (Recording transferer), BigGiRL (Uploader), KeithM (Audio Taper)
Equipment: Sony ECM-939 (Microphone), Sony WM-D6C (Audio recording device)
Lineage: [analogue master] > Nakamichi CR-7A > Sound Devices USBPre2 > Audacity 2.0 > iZotope RX6 & Ozone 8 > Adobe Audition CC > .wav > .flac [ > fre:ac > mp3]
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"Nak CM-300 - D5 master "

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: MarkP (Audio Taper)
Equipment: Nakamichi CM-300 (Microphone), SONY WM-D5 (Audio recording device)
Lineage: [analogue master] > CDR > EAC > .wav > Mkwact > .shn > TLH > Frontend FLAC (6) > .flac > [fre:ac > mp3]
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"JEMS Master - Hi-Res"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: JEMS (Audio Taper), S.V. (Recording transferer), BigGiRL (Uploader)
Equipment: Sony WM-D6C (Audio recording device), Teac M-100 (Microphone)
Lineage: [Maxell UD-XLII (master)] > Nak. 670 ZX > Nak. NR-200 > Wavelab > Audio DVD Creator > DVD Audio Extractor > .wav (24/96) > [...] > Adobe Audition > .wav (16/48) > [...] > fre:ac > mp3
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JEMS Master - Hi-Res FLAC (24bit/96Hz)

Taper: JEMS
Gear: Teac M-100 mic (same as Nakamichi 300) > Sony Walkman D6-C
Position: Halfway up and Halfway back on the side

History: Maxell UD-XLII master cassette
-> Nakamichi 670ZX azimuth-adjusted transfer (February 2008)
-> Nakamichi NR-200 external Dolby noise reduction processor
-> Wavelab 24/96 capture
-> Audio DVD Creator
-> DVD-Audio [LPCM 24bit/6kHz Stereo]
-> DVD Audio Extractor 7.1.2
-> 24bit/96kHz WAV
-> Trader's Little Helper v2.7.0 (Build 172)
-> FLAC lvl 8
-> Full Tags with dbpoweramp Music Converter 15.1

DVD-Audio to FLAC Conversion: S.V. 08/12/2014

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re-sampled to 16/48000 with Adobe audition (triangular dither)
> Frontend FLAC (8) > .flac [BIGGIRL 2017]
***

[...]

Tracklist:

01. Where The Streets Have No Name [6:15]
02. I Will Follow [3:57]
03. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For [5:02]
04. MLK [2:28]
05. The Unforgettable Fire [4:31]
06. Bullet The Blue Sky [5:04]
07. Running To Stand Still [4:45]
08. A Sort Of Homecoming [5:51]
09. Sunday Bloody Sunday [6:01]
10. Exit [4:56]
11. In God's Country [3:02]
12. Bad [10:20]
13. October [2:09]
14. New Year's Day [4:56]
15. Pride [5:25]
16. With Or WIthout You [6:09]
17. Gloria [4:33]
18. 40 [7:18]

# S.V. Comments 08/12/2014:

"Amazing recording of an amazing show. I made this conversion to
24bit/96kHz FLAC in order to playback from a home music server or for
use in hi-res portables. JEMS gave the green light for this version.
Bit-perfect extraction. No audio has been altered or remastered in any
way from the original JEMS DVD-AUdio. Just extracted, converted
and fully tagged."

# Original JEMS DVD-Audio Comments:

"Special shows deserve special releases.

Over the years we've had many requests to transfer and torrent our Cow Palace '87
masters. These shows are among the best U2 shows I ever saw and I'm not sure
the 25th was ever topped. Our ol' pal Mark Persic was also there and his tapes are
excellent. Ours are too.

The first night was recorded about halfway up and halfway back on the side;
the second night from behind the stage.

INDULGENCE ALERT: The most amazing thing about these two shows for the
JEMS crew is that we had driven down 700 miles from Tacoma without tickets in
hand for either night. In fact
between us and our friends in San Fran who were letting us crash, we needed
12 tickets between the two nights and we had NOTHING.

Back in the day, tickets to the toughest shows were handled (at least for
Bill Graham Presents shows in the Bay Area) by what for my money remains
the most fair and equitable system possible: mail order. Tens of thousands
sent in money orders and self addressed stamped envelopes, a few thousand
were selected at random and received tickets in their SASE; the rest
of us just got our money orders back.

We struck out on the lottery but remained undaunted. Upon arrival in
San Francisco (and after eating a North Beach Pizza) we heard from a local
friend that he had received a phone message from a kindly sounding
"Mrs. Watson" at the Cow Palace box office who was calling local residents
that had missed out on tickets via the mail-order lottery and offering seats
that had become available once the stage was put in place.

Armed with that vital information, we drove down to the Cow Palace box
office and told the girl working that we had received an answering machine
message about tickets being held for us after missing out on the lottery.
She looked and looked on the list, but could not see our name, but when we
mentioned that it was a "Mrs. Wilson" who had left the message, she looked
up from the list and said, "how many tickets do you need?" Unbelievably, we
worked the trick at least three times and wound up with tickets for all of us,
both nights.

END OF INDULGANCE

This show has been listed as being recorded with a Nakamichi 300 microphone;
you'll see above that it was actually a Teac mic, which were manufactured by
Nak but sold by Teac. Same mic, different name.

We've always considered these tapes to be among our best U2 masters and
while we traded them way back in the day on cassette, in the digital era, the first
DAT transfers we ever made were at 32khz. A few years ago we did do a proper
DAT transfer at 44.1 but that hasn't appeared to circulate very wildly since I've
seen the 32khz version on lists.

When we started planning to transfer the masters anew a few months ago we
figured it might be wise to do a 24/96 capture to preserve this for future uses
and to get the most out of the masters while they are still playing back without
issues. Burning to DVD Audio would preserve the 24/96 fidelity for playback,
but for those of you who know about DVD Audio, the quality is amazing, but the
problem is that you need a DVD player that is specially enabled to play the DVD
Audio format and many players aren't.

We had long-looked for a solution that would allow us to burn a high-resolution
24/96 DVD that could play back in any DVD player. That's when we stumbled
across a cool little program that does just that: Audio DVD Creator.

With this program you can author a gapless, 24/96 audio disc playable in any
DVD player, a true high-fidelity disc that holds nearly four times the digital
information as a standard CD. You can't hear these masters in any better quality
than this.

And as it yields a standard Video_TS file, it burns just like a regular DVD. The one
small concession is that while you can skip track to track, the authored disc
CANNOT be fast-forwarded or rewound. Don't know why. But it seems a small concession.

I'm sure some of you will want us to do a standard audio version, at 44.1 and ready for
CD burning. And at some point we will so please don't post asking for it.. But we thought these
shows and recordings deserved the higher quality presentation and the format might encourage
you to listen on a real stereo, not just your computer.

AGAIN, JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: THIS IS A 24/96 AUDIO ONLY DVD AND YOU CAN
BURN IT AND PLAY IT JUST LIKE ANY OTHER NORMAL DVD YOU DOWNLOAD FROM HERE.

For now, enjoy Night One.

Butterking for JEMS

Audio / MP3

Bit rate: 224, bit depth: 16, sample rate: 48000, channels: 2

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"JEMS Master (16/44.1)"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: JEMS (Audio Taper), CTU2Fan (Recording transferer)
Equipment: Sony WM-D6C (Audio recording device), Teac M-100 (Microphone)
Lineage: Maxell UD-XLII (master) > Nak. 670 ZX > Nak. NR-200 > Wavelab 24/96 capture > Audio DVD Creator > LPlex > CoolEdit Pro 2 > .wav 16/44.1 > TLH > .flac
Downloads: 29

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***CTU2Fan did these transfers as a favor to JEMS and absolutely did so WITH our permission (Butterking for JEMS)***

Gear: Teac M-100 mic (same as Nakamichi 300) > Sony Walkman D6-C

Transfer: Maxell UD-XLII master cassette > Nakamichi 670ZX azimuth-adjusted transfer (February 2008) > Nakamichi NR-200 external Dolby noise reduction processor > Wavelab 24/96 capture > Audio DVD Creator > LPlex (ripping, log included) > CoolEdit Pro 2 (downsampling to 16/44.1 > TLH > FLAC6

01 Where The Streets Have No Name
02 I Will Follow
03 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
04 MLK
05 The Unforgettable Fire
06 Bullet The Blue Sky
07 Running To Stand Still
08 A Sort Of Homecoming
09 Sunday Bloody Sunday
10 Exit
11 In God's Country
12 Bad
13 October > New Year's Day
14 Pride (In The Name Of Love)
15 With Or Without You
16 Gloria
17 40

Special shows deserve special releases.

Over the years we've had many requests to transfer and torrent our Cow Palace '87 masters. These shows are among the best U2 shows I ever saw and I'm not sure the 25th was ever topped. Our ol' pal Mark Persic was also there and his tapes are excellent. Ours are too.

The first night was recorded about halfway up and halfway back on the side; the second night from behind the stage.

INDULGENCE ALERT: The most amazing thing about these two shows for the JEMS crew is that we had driven down 700 miles from Tacoma without tickets in hand for either night. In fact between us and our friends in San Fran who were letting us crash, we needed 12 tickets between the two nights and we had NOTHING.

Back in the day, tickets to the toughest shows were handled (at least for Bill Graham Presents shows in the Bay Area) by what for my money remains the most fair and equitable system possible: mail order. Tens of thousands sent in money orders and self addressed stamped envelopes, a few thousand were selected at random and received tickets in their SASE; the rest of us just got our money orders back.

We struck out on the lottery but remained undaunted. Upon arrival in San Francisco (and after eating a North Beach Pizza) we heard from a local friend that he had received a phone message from a kindly sounding "Mrs. Watson" at the Cow Palace box office who was calling local residents that had missed out on tickets via the mail-order lottery and offering seats that had become available once the stage was put in place.

Armed with that vital information, we drove down to the Cow Palace box office and told the girl working that we had received an answering machine message about tickets being held for us after missing out on the lottery. She looked and looked on the list, but could not see our name, but when we mentioned that it was a "Mrs. Wilson" who had left the message, she looked up from the list and said, "how many tickets do you need?" Unbelievably, we worked the trick at least three times and wound up with tickets for all of us, both nights. END OF INDULGANCE

This show has been listed as being recorded with a Nakamichi 300 microphone; you'll see above that it was actually a Teac mic, which were manufactured by Nak but sold by Teac. Same mic, different name.

We've always considered these tapes to be among our best U2 masters and while we traded them way back in the day on cassette, in the digital era, the first DAT transfers we ever made were at 32khz. A few years ago we did do a proper DAT transfer at 44.1 but that hasn't appeared to circulate very wildly since I've seen the 32khz version on lists.

When we started planning to transfer the masters anew a few months ago we figured it might be wise to do a 24/96 capture to preserve this for future uses and to get the most out of the masters while they are still playing back without issues. Burning to DVD Audio would preserve the 24/96 fidelity for playback, but for those of you who know about DVD Audio, the quality is amazing, but the problem is that you need a DVD player that is specially enabled to play the DVD Audio format and many players aren't.

We had long-looked for a solution that would allow us to burn a high-resolution 24/96 DVD that could play back in any DVD player. That's when we stumbled across a cool little program that does just that: Audio DVD Creator.

With this program you can author a gapless, 24/96 audio disc playable in any DVD player, a true high-fidelity disc that holds nearly four times the digital information as a standard CD. You can't hear these masters in any better quality than this.

And as it yields a standard Video_TS file, it burns just like a regular DVD. The one small concession is that while you can skip track to track, the authored disc CANNOT be fast-forwarded or rewound. Don't know why. But it seems a small concession.

I'm sure some of you will want us to do a standard audio version, at 44.1 and ready for CD burning. And at some point we will so please don't post asking for it.. But we thought these shows and recordings deserved the higher quality presentation and the format might encourage you to listen on a real stereo, not just your computer.

AGAIN, JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: THIS IS A 24/96 AUDIO ONLY DVD AND YOU CAN BURN IT AND PLAY IT JUST LIKE ANY OTHER NORMAL DVD YOU DOWNLOAD FROM HERE.

For now, enjoy Night One.

Butterking for JEMS

CT's notes - I've included the original info for the excellent audio DVD of the gig, only updating the lineage to include the conversion from audio DVD to standard .wav, and then FLAC.

Audio / FLAC

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

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"U2 vs The Cow" aka "(MarkP, Nak300, D6)"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: MarkP (Audio Taper)
Equipment: Sony WM-D6 (Audio recording device), Nakamichi CM-300 (Microphone)
Lineage: [analogue master] > dbx decode > Soundforge > CDR > EAC > [...] > .shn > TLH > .wav > Frontend FLAC > .flac [unkown mp3 (vbr)]
Quality based on reviews:
Downloads: 845

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

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"AIWA CM30 - WM D3"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: MarkP (Recording transferer), Little Guy (Audio Taper)
Equipment: Sony WM-D3 (Audio recording device), Aiwa CM30A (Microphone)
Lineage: [analogue master] > [unknown transfer] > .flac

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"Joshua Tree In Flames"

Origins: CD Silver
Credits: Arts & Entertainment (Silver Manufacturer)
Lineage: Num. cat: A19710612-10E - Barcode: 19710612010

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review by 2UToo

2 months ago

Performance

Following the five-show run in Los Angeles, U2 play two sold out shows at the Cow Palace in Daly City near San Francisco and while it seems this first night is slightly cooling them down from the excitement of the final LA night, the band are still giving it their all. Bono's voice is still thriving off the Californian sun and he delivers yet another remarkable show, filled with sweet falsetto and lots and lots of powerful, raspy, godly belts and sustains, showing that even "Bad" isn't much of an issue for him anymore. Many songs feature unique adlibs and variations of snippets once again, examples being "Streets", "Exodus" and "40" finally having some nice improvisation again, something that had been strangely absent from most LA shows. "Sunday Bloody Sunday" is also notably having its "NO MORE" segment repeated as Bono first leads the audience through it, then holds his speech about Amnesty International and does it again.

Sound

The sound sometimes distorts at high volume parts (like the guitar solo of "Bullet the Blue Sky" but otherwise another very good recording by KeithM.
Recording: "Keith M master via JEMS" - 4.5 stars

Audience

Not bad but also not out of the ordinary. Just a pretty solid audience as far as it goes for U2 in the late 1980s.

Overall

Highlights:
• I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Exodus
• The Unforgettable Fire
• Bullet the Blue Sky
• Running to Stand Still
• A Sort of Homecoming
• Sunday Bloody Sunday
• Bad / Ruby Tuesday / Sympathy for the Devil
• With or Without You / Shine Like Stars / Love Will Tear Us Apart
• "40"

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