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"Tokyo Rock 'N' Roll Star"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: BigGiRL (Remasterer), Yoshiaki Sumitomo (Audio Taper)
Equipment: SONY TCD-5M (Audio recording device), Sony ECM mics (Microphone)
Lineage: [analogue master] > 1stGEN > [unknown transfer] > .flac > iZotope RX7 > Ozone 7 > Adobe Audition CC > .wav > Frontend FLAC > .flac [ > fre:ac > mp3]
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"TOKYO ROCK 'N' ROLL STAR"

TAPER: Yoshiaki Sumitomo (S.K. - through Goldmine)*
Remastered by BIGGIRL

SOURCE: SONY TC-D5M + SONY ECM mics
LINEAGE: [analogue master] > 1stGEN > [unknown transfer] > .flac >
[2020 REMASTER] iZotope RX7 > Ozone 7 > Adobe Audition CC > .wav >
Frontend FLAC (7) > .flac

*see remaster notes & original notes

TRACK LISTING:

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-With Or Without You
06-God Part II
07-Desire
08-All Along The Watchtower
09-All I Want Is You
[fades]
10-Van Dieman's Land
11-Bullet The Blue Sky
12-Running To Stand Still
13-People Get Ready
14-Angel Of Harlem
15-When Love Comes To Town
16-Love Rescue Me
[encore break with fades]
17-Pride (In The Name Of Love)
18-"40"

REMASTER notes:
There is one known recording of this Tokyo '89 date. At some point a transfer
of the master was done to DAT. The taper was identified as Yoshiaki Sumitomo,
who must have been the same guy as S.K., as mentioned in the original notes.
The source info was established from the DAT transfer.
A wonderful recording really, but to me this analogue transfer to 1GEN sounds
better than the master to DAT (no doubt the analogue copy was made on a top-
notch Japanese tape-deck!).
The remaster was pretty straight forward with a little pitch correction
(reference A=440) first, then most of the upfront hand claps were removed
by a "De-click" in the RX7. I also took out some of the more louder screams
and whistles. A tat of dynamic EQ in Ozone 7 merely to give the bass a bit
more prominence and bit more overall body to the sound. Fades were applied
to smoothen the tape-flips. There is a bit of introduction missing before
"Angel Of Harlem". This remaster was then used for the U2START mixlr listening
party of May 30, 2020.

ORIGINAL notes (by unknown):
As luck would have it, I managed to locate a great tape trading partner
in Japan (S.K. - through Goldmine), who taped shows as well. This guy was
a real find, his recordings were of the highest quality and he had a number
of other contacts in Japan who had some older shows. I traded with him for
close to 10 years until he told me he was getting out of the hobby all
together ... that was a sad day indeed.
The only drawback to trading with him is that it often took months from
when I sent him his tapes and my requests, to actually getting my tapes…
small price really for the rare and superior sounding shows I got from him.
Lots of top-notch video too, so if anyone could tell me how I go about moving
my VHS tapes to my pc, I could share some great 1st gen video from Japan as
well ...

This is one of the shows he taped himself ... a great sounding U2 from the
Love Town tour. Simply stated, it is fantastic quality, even more so when you
consider it's over 20 years old ...

Tape flips are noticeable but nothing is missing. Weird cut after Bono introduces
the BB King Orchestra before Angel Of Harlem though ... after he introduces Walter,
there was some silence on the tape (which I edited out) then Angel starts ...
not sure what happened there but nothing is missing really ...

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"Lovetown Japan - Second Night [sic]" aka "1st Generation"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: Yoshiaki Sumitomo (Audio Taper)
Equipment: SONY TCD-5M (Audio recording device), Sony ECM mics (Microphone)
Lineage: [analogue master] > 1stGEN > [unknown transfer] > flac > mp3
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"Analogue Master to DAT"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: Yoshiaki Sumitomo (Audio Taper)
Equipment: SONY TCD-5M (Audio recording device), Sony ECM mics (Microphone)
Lineage: [analogue master] > DAT > CDR > SHN > CDR > FLAC
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"Lovetown, Tokyo"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: Yoshiaki Sumitomo (Audio Taper)
Equipment: SONY TCD-5M (Audio recording device), Sony ECM mics (Microphone)
Lineage: [unknown analogue generation]
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"Unknown Analogue Generation"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: Yoshiaki Sumitomo (Audio Taper)
Equipment: SONY TCD-5M (Audio recording device), Sony ECM mics (Microphone)
Lineage: [1993 Cassette (UAG)] > WAV > Lossless FLAC > Audigy 4 Line-In > Audacity v3.81-BETA > dBPoweramp Music Converter > FLAC

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review by Bullet_Blue

7 years ago

Performance

A very strong and energetic concert. Maybe the best bootleg of the first leg.

Sound

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Recording: "Lovetown Japan - Second Night [sic]" aka "1st Generation" - 3.5 stars

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Overall

Highlights: Where The Streets Have No Name (excellent), I Will Follow, God Part II, All Along The Watchtower, Running To Stand Still (love the way the "ha-la-la-la-de-days" are sung in the 1st leg).

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