U2
worcester, MA
The Centrum
May 2, 1987
Taper : ? (Steven Ross Cahill??)
Equip : d3/mini mic
Lineage : 1st gen recieved way back in 1988 > FLAC
[> Goldwave (speed fix) > FLAC]
1. Where the Streets Have No Name
2. I Will Follow
3. Trip Through Your Wires
4. I Still Haven't Found what I'm Looking For
5. MLK
6. The Unforgettable Fire
7. Bullet the Blue Sky
8. Running to Stand Still
9. Exit/Gloria
10. In God's Country
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday
12. Bad/Ruby Tuesday/Sympathy for the Devil
13. October
14. Springhill Mining Disaster
15. New Year's Day
16. Pride
17. With or Without You
18. Gloria
19. "40"
Mike's [Ducheck] comments (3/26/2007)
This was U2's first night in Massachussetts on leg 1 of the Joshua Tree tour, which Bono calls their home away from home, mentioning multiple times their early performances at the Paradise in Boston. This is an otherwise ordinary set, but a pretty nice performance. Bono's voice is pretty strong for this show, and "Bad" and "'40'" both contain some nice vocal interludes as such. As Scott mentions, the taper at two or three times throughout the show can be heard saying something like "This is the Steve Ross Cahill Concert Network," (to me it sounds more like "Rasta Cahill" or something with an extra syllable like that, but his guess is as good as mine) also giving the date of the show. Otherwise aside from an occasionnal person (I think the taper) yelling, this is a nice recording - not quite as crisp as others but very unobstructed and instruments/vocals come through well, and aside from maybe some occasional crowd noise, only a slight part of "In God's Country" is lost at the very beginning, likely due to a tape flip.
As Scott uploaded it, this show played too fast. I slowed it down using a speed/pitch ratio of about .974 for the whole show, and that's pretty close, as it's always hard to get it definitively perfect given the nature of old, analog tapes. My stuff is in the brackets in the lineage above.
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Scott's original comments:
Pardon my ignorance on memory of this ones origins. Got it from a guy who claimed to tape it
back in 1988. While This has been put to CD by me back in 1998 (The JCook version people speak of), this is a 2nd pass at it with a much better soundcard than I used back then and no dae in lineage.
I guess this guys name was Steve, you can hear him scream something about taped by the Steven
Ross (?) Cahill (?) Network with the date listed. If this still exists and wants to put up the master that would be fantastic.
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#53518 by oliverbayerl at 2007-03-28 16:32:26 GMT
"Its very simple why they sound different. The ones Justin says he has from me are from the inferior
first passes when I had one of those soundcards that unfortunately to many of you all have. You know
the one that comes with your computer thats noisy and compresses things to hell because all that
components add up to about $5. Didnt mean to screw him ,but when I bought a better soundcard a couple
years later I didnt go back and redo everything right away and send it out again.
So for those making CD conversions off tapes with one of those stock computer soundcards, your getting
the same problem, just you wont know it until you get a really nice soundcard. Im not saying everyone
should buy a $300 soundcard, but if you have a really good old collection your killing yourself not to
(trust me I learned). Remember when converting music, your only good as your weakest link, so if that
link is a 1/8th inch jack going into a soundblaster card, you have an extremely weak link."
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