U2start.com | Shows | 1987-06-12 - London, England (2024)

"Analogue Soundboard Recording"*

TAPE TRANSFER (see details below)#: bonoman66 (aka Trevor)

LINEAGE: [analogue master] > Maxell UDI90 [Unknown Analogue Generation]
> Sony Micro HiFi > SoundBlaster Live Platnium > [PC] > .wav > .flac

TRACK LISTING:

CD1
Where The Streets Have No Name
I Will Follow
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
MLK
The Unforgettable Fire
Bullet The Blue Sky
Running To Stand Still
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Exit
In God's Country

CD2
Trip Through Your Wires
People Get Ready
Bad
October
New Year's Day
Pride (In The Name of Love)
Party Girl
Gloria
With Or Without You
"40" [cut]

*Almost Fully Complete (Last Track - "40" only approx 60 secs long)

#TAPE TRANSFER details:

- WAV file edited to chop off non relevant parts at start & end
- Volume brought up
- Hiss Reduction gently applied - Its still a bit hissy, but I didn't want to apply too much
noise reduction as it would have destroyed too much top end.
- No Eq was applied to the recording, no frequencies were enhanced - just some mild hiss filteing
- Wav file split into individual tracks for 2 CDs etc..
- Fades added to relevant tracks at start & end of them so they'd suit 2 CDs
- Wav converted to FLAC (Level6)

ORIGINAL NOTES:
"Thanks so much for your patience, support, kind comments & for giving me the time to work
on this without being pressured. Its finally here!! This may well be a WORLD PREMIERE for
U2Torents - The First Soundboard recording from a U2 Wembley Stadium Joshua Tree Tour
Concert ;-))

Like my last torrent (The Montreal Forum Soundboard Upgrade), I received this tape the on
Feb 27th 1988. I hadn't though about it much at the time as I wasn't very familiar with U2
& this tape , along with the Montreal one, were the ones that gave me my initiaion to the
band & their music. I was given the tape by a close friend at college, told it was a
'special' tape & asked to keep it to myself, which I've done for approx 19 years.

I recently came across this tape again during the midst of a 'clear out' of my attic at home.
On listening to it again, it brought a smile to my face & I thought the very generous people
on this site (U2 Torrents) in particular might like to have it. I verified with my friend that
it was ok for me to share this now & was told it would be ok - so my conscience is clear ;-)

I hope you all enjoy this recording. Please bear in mind its far from perfect, its an old
analogue recording that was thrown in an attic & is approx 19 years old etc.etc etc Saying
that, I've spent some time trying to digitally clean it up as much as I could without
emphasizing any frequencies, adding any digital artifacts or masking out what's left of the
higher frequencies. I've used some 'gentle' hiss reduction to try ensure as much of the music
takes prominence but I chose not to over do it. Its still a little hissy as you might expect
but I think people might like it.

There is a small amount of vocal repitition on Bono's mic for the first 3 songs - approx 12mins
total duration. I guess its some effects processig or delay to the PA towers being adjusted as
the concert starts. The tape was almost complete, the last track "40" is only approx 60secs long.
There are also some very small edits on the tape that I did not make myself - it was that way
when given to me. This is a live soundboard so you might hear some imbalances in the soundmix,
bonos vocal effects switching on or being changed & since its not heavily compressed - watch out
for Larry on occasion (some parts of Bad!)

[...]
Feel free to share this with others but don't attempt to charge anyone for it, don't ebay it etc..
Please only convert to MP3 if using for your own ipod, zen, personal device etc..

Please don't forget to rate it, so others will know if its worth downloading etc.. Thanks to all
the other seeders/uploaders for their generousity with some of the excellent material recently
posted on U2 Torrents.

Regds,

bonoman66

NB: possibly the soundboard was recorded by nickh97, but I have not been able to verify this,
nor do I know where the information came for (it was tagged at a previous U2Start entry).
BIGGIRL 2019

U2
Wembley Stadium
London, U.K.
June 12, 1987

"STORIES OF BOYS (aka STORIES OF THE BOYS)" - PART ONE

SOURCE: 2xLP [Amazing Stork Records 7487 A-D]

Lineage: Original vinyl LPs (Side A & B) > Audio Technica
AT-LP60-USB Turntable > Audacity > .wav > TLH (8) > .flac

TRACK LISTING:

01-[PA intro: Stand By Me]
02-Where The Streets Have No Name^
03-I Will Follow
04-I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Exodus
05-MLK
06-The Unforgettable Fire
07-Bullet The Blue Sky
08-Running To Stand Still
09-Sunday, Bloody Sunday
10-Exit / Gloria
11-In God's Country
12-Trip Through Your Wires
13-People Get Ready

^ WTSHNN has two small skips, one at 2:07 and the other at 4:32

Vinyl tracks:
Side A: T01-T07
Side B: T08-T13

ORIGINAL NOTES:
This recording is a curious one to me. I purchased these vinyl LPs at my local
record shop some years ago with the hope of digitizing them someday. (This despite
the fact that I did not own a turntable at the time!) Unfortunately, I didn't get
around to purchasing a USB turntable until very recently. Once I did that, I listened
to this recording for the first time. This generated more questions that it answered.
When I purchased the set, I naturally assumed that this was a complete recording from
a single show on The Joshua Tree tour. Part of my reason for this assumption was that
the spine of the LP sleeve identifies the show as coming from "Wembly 87". And yes,
Wembley is misspelled on the spine. (The spine also identifies the title as
STORIES OF THE BOYS) whereas the front labels it as simply STORIES OF BOYS.) I had also
hoped that this recording was a soundboard recording. But upon listening to the albums,
it became apparent that at least two different shows were sourced, and both were audience
recordings. My best guess (and I've listed several clues below that will hopefully help
to positively identify the sources) is that Sides 1 & 2 are taken from the show at
Wembley Stadium on 12 June 1987, and Sides 3 & 4 are taken from the show at The Sports Arena
in Los Angeles on 20 April 1987. If I am correct, then that makes this an incomplete concert
and therefore probably only of interest to collectors and fans of vinyl bootlegs.
I hope someone out there gets some enjoyment out of it.

[...]

NB: Sides C & D (The 1987-04-20 Los Angeles) show are omitted.

"With Or Without You"

LINEAGE: unknown low gen > CD-R > [...] .flac
[U2Start2019] > TLH (sbe's fix) > .flac > fre:ac > mp3@256kb/s

TRACK LISTING:

1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. I Will Follow
3. I Still Haven't Found
4. MLK
5. The Unforgettable Fire
6. Bullet The Blue Sky
7. Running To Stand Still
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday
9. Exit
10. In God's Country
11. Trip Through Your Wires
12. People Get Ready
13. Bad
14. October
15. New Year's Day
16. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
17. Party Girl
18. Gloria
19. With Or Without You
20. 40

Disc 1 (T01-10): (42:22)
Disc 2:(T11-20): (46:10)

COMMENTS: This bootleg starts off so poorly that I immediately
thought it would be the worst recording in my collection when
listening to it the first time. Suffice to say that "Where the
Streets Have No Name" is essentially a waste of disc space.
The bass is far too high and it sounds as if the person recording
the show was standing outside of the stadium. The sound is muffled
and the thundering, dull bass only makes matters worse. Thankfully,
things improve and by the time "I Will Follow" begins, the sound is
much clearer -- the recorder must have made his way inside of the
building by this point! This is not to say that the sound is suddenly
wonderful. There is still some persistent static in the background
and the crispness that is a feature of any audience recording worthy
of an "B+" or greater isn't there. Audience noise is certainly audible
and stray conversations can be heard at times.
Also, there is a small skip at the beginning of "With Or Without You".

Review taken from Justin M. Cook's webpage.

"Camden Market Tape"

Source & Lineage :Low Analog generation tape (TDK-D)> JVC Tape deck > Tascam DR-2D > SanDisk > HDD-PC > Adobe Audition > CD Wawe Editor >Flac level 5

Setlist :

01 Where The Streets Have No Name (to beginning the sound is a little muffled)
02 I Will Follow
03 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
04 MLK
05 The Unforgettable Fire
06 Bullet The Blue Sky
07 Running To Stand Still
08 Sunday Bloody Sunday
09 Exit
10 In God's Country
11 Trip Through Your Wires
12 People Get Ready
13 Bad
14 October
15 New Year's Day
16 Pride
17 Party Girl
18 Gloria
19 With Or Without You
20 '40'

Total Running Time:100m14s
WAV Size: 1060 MB
FLAC Size: 545 MB
Sound Quality: Fair to Good stereo audience recording.

NOTE:
I got these tapes from a British collector a long time ago (are his cassettes and not a copy) he had bought in London at "Camden Market" in autumn 1987. Surely they are of low generation.Overall sound quality is almost good,and if it hadn't been for some flaws it could be very good audience recording,unfortunately the sound is saturated and distorted at many points.

Transferred and uploaded by Mauxworld,November 2014

Source & Lineage : > Stereo recorder (Built-in mic)> Unknown Analog generation tape
(Sony HF)> JVC Tape deck > Tascam DR-2D > SanDisk > HDD-PC > Izotope RX > Flac level 8

Setlist :

01 Where The Streets Have No Name
02 I Will Follow
03 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
04 MLK
05 The Unforgettable Fire
06 Bullet The Blue Sky
07 Running To Stand Still
08 Sunday Bloody Sunday
09 Exit
10 In God's Country
11 Trip Through Your Wires
12 People Get Ready
13 Bad
14 October
15 New Year's Day
16 Pride
17 Party Girl
18 Gloria
19 With Or Without You (cut out at minute 5:29)
20 '40'

Total Running Time:99m20s
WAV Size: 1002 MB
FLAC Size: 666 MB
Sound Quality: Fair to Good stereo audience recording,
but crowd noise is audible and invasive.

Transferred and uploaded on u2 torrents by mauxworld,November 2014

"Burning Down Love"

Silver CD: The Godfatherecords – G.R. 161/162 (2006)
Barcode: 29092006161 (fake)

TRACK LISTING:

CD 1
1-1Where The Streets Have No Name
1-2I Will Follow
1-3I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Exodus
1-4MLK
1-5The Unforgettable Fire
1-6Bullet The Blue Sky
1-7Running To Stand Still
1-8Sunday Bloody Sunday
1-9Exit / Riders On The Storm / Gloria
1-10In God's Country
1-11Trip Through Your Wires
1-12People Get Ready
1-13Bad / Biko / Ruby Tuesday / Sympathy For The Devil
1-14October
1-15New Year's Day
1-16Pride (In The Name Of Love)

CD 2
2-1Party Girl
2-2Gloria
2-3With Or Without You / Love Will Tear Us Apart
2-440 (cut)

Bonus Tracks*:

2-5Two Hearts Beat As One
2-6MLK
2-7The Unforgettable Fire
2-8Wire
2-9Sunday Bloody Sunday
2-10The Cry / The Electric Co. / Amazing Grace
2-11A Sort Of Homecoming
2-12Bad / I'm Waiting For My Man / Ruby Tuesday / Sympathy For The Devil
2-13Knockin' On Heaven's Door
2-14Gloria
2-1540 / Do They Know It's Christmas

*1985-03-27 Montreal,Canada - The Forum