U2
Nassau Vetrans' Memorial Coliseum
Uniondale, NY
September 11, 1987
JEMS Archive via BIGGIRL

Recording Gear: Unknown

LINEAGE: [analogue compact cassette master] > VHS HIFi > .flac (24/96) >
[2020] > TLH > .wav (24/96) > iZotope RX 7 > Mbit+ > .wav (16/44.1) > 
Adobe Audition CC (edit & track split) > .wav > Frontend FLAC (7) > .flac

VHS HiFI to Digital Transfer by Mike Ziegler


TRACK LISTING:

01-Bullet The Blue Sky [joined in progress]
02-Where The Streets Have No Name 
03-I Will Follow 
04-Trip Through Your Wires
05-I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
06-MLK 
07-The Unforgettable Fire 
[fades]
08-Silver And Gold [joined in progress]
09-In God's Country 
10-Sunday Bloody Sunday 
11-Helter Skelter 
12-Bad 
13-Running To Stand Still 
14-New Year's Day 
15-Pride (In The Name Of Love) 
16-One Tree Hill 
17-With Or Without You
[fades]
18-Party Girl [joined in progress]
19-"40" [cut/fade out]

NB: "Exit" and "Help!" were not recorded.


JEMS' NOTES:
While JEMS was recording on DAT as early as 1989, many tapers didn't make the leap 
until the mid '90s. During that period, some turned to VHS HIFi as a way to copy 
and trade the highest quality copy of an analog master without DAT. This show was 
obtained by JEMS circa 1993. The lineage is Master Cassette > VHS hifi > FLAC. 
It is one of hundreds of audio recordings preserved on VHS HIFi in Jared's collection. 
The best of them were transferred by Mike Ziegler in early 2017 after Jared's death.
BK

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BIGGIRL NOTES:
Unfortunately this excellent recording comes with a lot of drop-outs, most likely caused 
by the taper pausing and restarting the tape recorder as to make sure the whole show would 
fit a 90 minute cassette. In this the taper almost succeeded as the first minutes of "40" 
are still captured on tape. But, alas, this comes at the expense of many songs missing the 
first few bars and omitting "Exit" and "Help!" entirely. 
I smoothened all those "stop-and-go" transitions the best I could with either (cross-)fades, 
or simply by joining the song "in progress". Still, what is captured of this night is very 
enjoyable and, in my opinion, an upgrade compared to the Scott Zumsteg recording transferred 
by M. Duchek (this is the same recording as "Joshua Tree Uniondale 2"). The music is nice 
up front, while the audience "ambient" is comfortably distant, give or take a few moments of 
nearby chat.
This was U2's second show after their one month summer break, and they were still warming up 
to the slightly renewed set. Bono's voice wasn't in good health as he told the audience after 
"In God's Country" - this is omitted in this recording, but it can be heard in Scott Zumsteg's.
Bono manages his voice quite OK though and the result is a very focused U2 concert. 
There is a bit of a fun moment in "Party Girl" when Bono lets a young girl from the audience 
join the last chorus. Earlier in the song he had already changed the lyric "when I was three" 
to "when I was seven."

March 2020