U2
Tibetan Freedom Concert
Downing Stadium
Randall's Island
New York, NY
June 7, 1997

jlizard

Recording Gear: Sonic Studios DSM-6S > PA-6LC3 > Sony TCD-D7 DAT (modded)

Lineage: Flac file > JEMS mastering via iZotope RX, Unfilter and Ozone > mastered .flac

01 Intro
O2 Gone
03 Mysterious Ways
04 One
05 Until The End Of The World
06 Please > Hallelujah

During the Pop album cycle in 1997 U2 took a detour to play the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefit gig along with a host of other great artists.

The show was broadcast and broadcast-derived audio of the performance has circulated for years and can be found on YouTube and other torrents, but I've never found the sound from those sources to be particularly appealing.

Several months ago our friend cpscps posted a fine audience recording of the show on his YouTube channel, recorded by jlizard. I asked if he could share the raw audio and if he was open to me doing a remaster. He did and he was, the results of which are here.

The original recording was quite good, with full, up-close sound and little audience interference, though perhaps lacking a little detail, instrument separation and punchiness which I hope the JEMS remaster solves for.

I've always enjoyed U2's performance on this day and now the remastered audio will serve as my go-to version of the show.

Thanks to cpscps for sharing the file with us, to jlizard for his fine master recording and to mjk5510 for handling post production.

BK for JEMS