| Tech Note | U2
10/08/89
National Tennis Center - Melbourne, Australia
"BAD AT ITS BEST"
Complete Show: Yes
Disc 1: (47:56)
Disc 2: (51:26)
Disc 1:
1. Hawkmoon 269 [4:22]
2. Desire [3:04]
3. All Along The Watchtower [4:20]
4. Bullet The Blue Sky [6:42]
5. Running To Stand Still [4:00]
6. All I Want Is You [0:48]
7. Where The Streets Have No Name [5:33]
8. I Will Follow [3:55]
9. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For [5:21]
10. MLK [1:38]
11. One Tree Hill [4:38]
12. God Part II [3:35]
Disc 2:
1. Bad [8:44]
2. October [1:58]
3. New Year's Day [4:56]
4. Pride (In The Name Of Love) [6:44]
5. Angel Of Harlem [3:43]
6. When Love Comes To Town [6:43]
7. Love Rescue Me [6:23]
8. With Or Without You [5:41]
9. "40" [6:34]
Source:
October 8, 1989. Melbourne, Australia. National Tennis Centre.
Comments:
There are three different recordings of this show in the archive, all from different positions
within the arena and with different equipment. By far the best recording was probably a transfer
to CDR from the original source tape...this version sounds like it was recorded with excellent
mics and to a recording unit that wasnt plagued with AUTO GAIN which is good, as this allows
the recording to retain excellent punch and dynamics. However I imagine that the mics used were
not flat in response, leaving the sound seriously lacking in bottom end, and with a fairly harsh
top end, and the recording was playing at the wrong speed (too fast). Unfortunately this
recording was also missing 3 1/2 songs....but half of "I Will Follow" remained. All of these
anomalities were corrected and the frequency balance restored to a full, clean and tight response.
The second recording was from a different location and using less superior equipment, but
fortunately the missing songs from the better version above were in complete form here. This show
was on a first generation TDK SA tape and was fully restored (NR, EQ, Speed Adj, etc) before the
missing songs were re-balanced and slotted into the above recording in the correct position to
make a complete recording for the project...entitled "Bad at its Best"...this is without a doubt
the most incredible performance of BAD in the archive....and better than any of the versions of
BAD from 87 shows i've heard as well. Bonos voice roars as he puts all of the singing phrases
that he uses individually in different versions of BAD all into this one performance, and
flawlessly. He ends up singing in all 3 sections right to the very end of the song just to fit
them all in, instead of leaving the last section an instrumental as is usually the case.
(This extension only happened one other time, in Tokyo.)
Comments courtesy of Darren Glen.
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