| J-Card Comment | Notes (from Mike, Jan. 4, 2007):
I received this as two large WAV files transfered by Erik of JEMS. I joined the files and adjusted the speed as close as I could (it was very slow, more so than I ususally find). I then deleted the dead air at the beginning and end of the show, added small fades at those respective points and split the show into tracks, all using Goldwave.
Sound quality is very good, and everything comes in sounding pretty close and clear.
Problems - There is what I presume to be a tape flip exactly one hour into the show. A small part of "Bullet the Blue Sky" is lost due to this. In its place is dead air, which I decided to leave alone. "Desire" also comes in a bit late, possibly because the taper turned off the walkman duing the encore.
Static and dropouts (appear to only be left channel) at the end of "Pride" and at the end of "I Still Haven't Found." Upon closer inspection these appear to be times where the left channel went out. I don't know why, but maybe it was a loose mic. This could be fixed sort of by copying the right channel to the left, but for the purists I again decided to leave it alone.
So basically this is not a flawless recording, and it might be worth cleaning up a bit more, perhaps by adding the missing portion of "Bullet" from another source, or even doing a matrix with anouther source or sources. However, it would probably be a good idea to wait on this because Erik has told me that JEMS taped this show, and if and when he finds the JEMS recording it may be much better than this (though this is very good).
Other sources - As I understand it there are probably at least 3 sources for this show:
1. This one, call it the MH version. Sound is very clear and close sounding.
2. The one that I acquired from a trader in Mexico that was apparently from a first gen cassette, unknown lineage. That recording I would have liked to have put up here simultaneously but one of my discs was damaged, and since my attempts to re-acquire that have stalled, I decided to just upload this now. Anyway, that version, which I traded under the name "Over the Hills and to the Sea" is more distant and boomy, but also sounds very good.
3. The JEMS source(s) - I guess it's possible #2 is actually the JEMS source, but I doubt it. Erik has yet to find their tapes and I don't know if they have ever been transfered or traded, although the following night has (same venue).
The show - For the record, this is a decent show, though nothing too spectacular. Bono mentions that "Tryin'" was written while the band was in LA after the song is introduced by Adam as being about a man from County Donnygall (may be misspelled). "With or Without You" is extended a bit. |
