1. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
    The question is: Do people still trade? With 99% of the whole material being available two clicks away, is there a point to trading anymore?
    I find that it's just tapers exchanging stuff with each other and it never hits general circulation.

    In order to trade, you have to have something that isn't easily accessible with click of a button.
  2. Originally posted by hoserama:[..]
    I find that it's just tapers exchanging stuff with each other and it never hits general circulation.

    In order to trade, you have to have something that isn't easily accessible with click of a button.
    Yeah sure, but unlike in the 90s and early 00s, now most of the stuff is out there and one click away. I'm not a part of your closed circles and this is all guessing, but I would imagine that the stuff that's "hidden" from general circulation is only a very very small piece of the cake. Maybe it's increased a little bit in recent tours (2015-17 onwards) since many tapers aren't releasing stuff anymore -but are still taping- and many shows have no recordings that have surfaced.
  3. Pretty much anything that is still worth trading is not on here or U2T
  4. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
    The question is: Do people still trade? With 99% of the whole material being available two clicks away, is there a point to trading anymore?


    We can only guessing and imagine what is out there!

    I have traded with tapers where I never heard off... 99% material being available is bull for sure!
  5. I’m sure there are a lot of recordings from let’s say last 15 years that are out there that may never find there way to this site. But I would really only get excited about something from 84-93 that got released from a tapers vault. Post 2001 really not that interested unless I was at the show. They start to sound the same to me.
  6. I'm intrigued to know what's on his list
  7. Ok, so now we have @noiseless' remaster of 2006-03-02 - Buenos Aires in our show pages. It sounds terrific, it's got more bass and punch than the -already very good- existing recordings. Thanks for the remaster, Noiseless, and thanks and for uploading it, @somedays!

    The crowd chanting "Uno, dos, tres, catorce!" three times during the Vertigo intro is something else


  8. Oh god no. it's hard work these days. I've tried it a few times over the past year and with one exception it's been a nightmare and they weren't even my own tapes or tape transfers. I still have all my cassettes from the 1980's, some I've put out, some i haven't, some are different, better or worse than what appears to circulate. Would I ever put them all out? No. The over-riding reason is I don't want them turning up on guitars 101 in the hands of the cash back gang.

    On a general and none-u2 note no one obviously knows what is out there. All I can say is that after 40+ years of doing this I didn't think I could be as shocked as I have been over the last four months.
  9. Originally posted by eddiemonsoon:[..]


    Oh god no. it's hard work these days. I've tried it a few times over the past year and with one exception it's been a nightmare and they weren't even my own tapes or tape transfers. I still have all my cassettes from the 1980's, some I've put out, some i haven't, some are different, better or worse than what appears to circulate. Would I ever put them all out? No. The over-riding reason is I don't want them turning up on guitars 101 in the hands of the cash back gang.

    On a general and none-u2 note no one obviously knows what is out there. All I can say is that after 40+ years of doing this I didn't think I could be as shocked as I have been over the last four months.
    Yeah the fact that most of the stuff gets re-uploaded for profit and/or destroying the quality/notes/credits is not nice and I can perfectly understand why that would put you or any taper off sharing stuff. Not nice but sadly nothing we can do about it.
  10. 1987-04-29 - Rosemont, Illinois - Rosemont Horizon Rock's Hottest Ticket" version mega files are not working i keep getting this message The file you are trying to download is no longer available
  11. Originally posted by evman:1987-04-29 - Rosemont, Illinois - Rosemont Horizon Rock's Hottest Ticket" version mega files are not working i keep getting this message The file you are trying to download is no longer available
    That's because everyone is supposed to have that recording already
  12. Originally posted by evman:1987-04-29 - Rosemont, Illinois - Rosemont Horizon Rock's Hottest Ticket" version mega files are not working i keep getting this message The file you are trying to download is no longer available


    Download link: https://we.tl/t-hVyTtbpU84



    U2
    "Rock's Hottest Ticket"
    April 29, 1987
    Rosemont Horizon
    Chicago, IL

    Manufacturer: Octopus
    Catalog: OCTO 172-73
    Matrix Disc 1: RPCD 2045 1415-A
    Matrix Disc 2: RPCD 2046 1415-B

    Source CDs by: MacPhisto@ehmail.com
    Conversion: Original silver CDs > EAC (secure mode) >
    WAV > mkwACT (0.97beta) > SHN
    Conversion by: George Nassas (JazzAjax@yahoo.com)
    Hardware: HP CD-Writer+ 9600 (+556 Read Offset, +AC, -C2)


    Disc One [51:30]
    --------
    01 Where The Streets Have No Name
    02 I Will Follow
    03 I Trip Through Your Wires
    04 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
    05 MLK
    06 The Unforgettable Fire
    07 Bullet The Blue Sky
    08 Running To Stand Still
    09 Exit
    10 In God's Country
    11 Sunday Bloody Sunday

    Disc Two [53:03]
    --------
    01 Bad
    02 October
    03 Springhill Mining Disaster
    04 New Year's Day
    05 Pride (In The Name Of Love)
    06 Mothers Of The Disappeared
    07 With Or Without You
    08 Gloria
    09 "40"


    Notes (©1999 Invalid url 'http://www.u2-flom.de): An excellent package, the highlight
    being U2's cover of the Peggy Seeger folk tune "Springhill Mining
    Disaster". While performing the song, Bono tells the crowd, "Shut
    up for a second will ya? Stop whistling 'cause I'm not in the Beatles,
    it's U2 here!" Not to be confused with the 2CD sets, of the same name,
    on the Golden Stars and Live Storm labels.