U2
Bono: vocals
Adam Clayton: bass
The Edge: guitar
Larry Mullen Jr.: drums
Tower Theater
Upper Darby, Pa, USA (suburban Philadelphia)
May 14, 1983
runtime: 87:24 (minutes/ seconds)
from master audience recording
Recording gear: JVC M-201 stereo mic > Sony WM-D6
Taper: T.L.
877 MB wav
630 MB flac
setlist:
1: out of control 4:23 (cuts in)
2: twilight 4:52
3: un cat dubh (the black cat) > into the heart 8:30
4: surrender 5:13
5: two hearts beat as one 6:12
6: seconds 3:15
7: sunday bloody sunday 5:50
8: the cry > electric co 6:39
9: I fall down 3:31
10: October 2:10
11: Gloria 4:45
12: I threw a brick (through a window) > 3:46
13: a day without me 3:11
14: new year's day 5:10
15: party girl 2:48 (cuts in)
16: eleven o'clock tick tock 5:12
17: I will follow 4:44
18: 40 6:33
tracking and loud clap reduction by glasnostrd19
Taper Anonymous here -
All good things must come to an end and this series ends with a bang this week.
#1 in this series was a Master of U2 during the West Coast U.S. War tour
and we are ending with #100 and a completely uncirculated Master of U2
during the U.S. War tour on the East Coast.
There's bound to be at least one know it all on here who posts a comment
about how this show is a common FM radio show. No it wasn't.
It was a mislabeled BT CD and is actually the Boston '83 show.
This date does circulate in collector's circles but it is from a
different audience recorder and is poor quality and distorted.
In my opinion this may be the best quality U2 U.S. War tour audience.
It is not often that a 42 year old U2 Master gets unearthed
so this release is indeed very special.
I am very interested in U2 up until 1987 and especially focused on 1983-1985.
If anyone has Masters or low gen upgraded audiences of the France and Brussels
1984 shows I would be very interested.
Also looking for improved generations of all commonly circulating 1983 shows with an emphasis on the U.K. leg.
Things have changed over the years from snail mail analog trades through Goldmine, to $30 "live CD's",
to the click of a mouse to download a show that was captured less than 24 hours prior.
For many years I have been an unapologetic tape hoarder.
This may sound foreign to the youngsters and noobs on here,
but there was a time when concerts were traded minute for minute and not shared freely
unless you were "in" with the "clique" with like rarities.
Sometimes these trades would take months and therefore a long wait to hear a recently played show.
Over the last few years I have had a change of heart by seeing many old school tapers dig into their
boxes of crispy uncirculated D6 masters and unselfishly offer up new "Master series" with many bands
that I collect. Thank you for those that take the time to crawl into your attic to find your old analogs,
adjust your azimuth and transfer, track etc. If you have enjoyed my series and have tapes in your parents
basement please consider reaching out to those on here who have the tools to proper preserve these treasures
before it is too late. If an analog tape was not traded multiple times, there is a chance that it
might not ever get digitized and therefore cease to exist among collectors.