BBC Radion Session (Kid Jensen)

BBC Studios

London, U.K.

14 - October - 1981.

Disc 1 (50:47)

01. Boy/Girl

02. With a Shout

03. I Threw A Brick Through A Window

04. Scarlet

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05. Soundchecking, fixing segments of a couple of songs, crew testing micros

06. Wire

07. The Unforgettable Fire

08. Rehearsing / Soundchecking

09. A Sort of Homecoming

10. A Sort of Homecoming (fixing drums)

11. Bad

12. Preparing MLK sounds

13. Rehearsing / Soundchecking

14. Indian Summer Sky (fixing intro)

15. Indian Summer Sky

16. Pride (incomplete)

Recording Equipment - History

Low-gen analog cassette > Terratec DMX 6Fire soundcard > CEP 2.0 > WAV > mkwAct 0.97 > SHN > CDR

CoolEdit Pro 2.0 was used to remove some tape hiss and normalize the audio levels.

Conversion and remastering by: J.T.

Comments

Tape runs fast, so Bono's voice seems a bit child-like. Sound is muffled, very thin, lacking clarity and cleanness. A wave-like sound stays on the background due to tape degradation (I am not that sure this is a low-gen analog source). Just a rare item, but not very enjoyable if it is not slowed-down a little. Note the inclusion of Scarlet, played for the first and only time live.

Tracks 05 to 16 are an interesting and (also) rare soundcheck in Birmingham (U.K.), at the NEC on November 12th, 1984. All tracks are instrumental, Bono does not seem to be in the venue.