Riot In Hamburg

Fabrik

Hamburg, Germany.

03 - November - 1981.

Disc 1 (46:44)

01. Gloria

02. Another Time, Another Place

03. I Threw A Brick Through A Window

04. An Cat Dubh

05. Into the Heart

06. Rejoice

07. Cry / The Electric Co.

08. I Fall Down

09. October

10. Stories for Boys

11. I Will Follow  (take one)

12. I Will Follow  (take two)

13. I Will Follow  (take three)

14. Twilight

Comments

Extremely clean audience recording. Clarity is just fantastic in this item. There's almost no audience noise. The next review has been taken from Justin Cook's site (http://www.justinscdrtrading.com), as he did a great review for this recording:

This is a fantastic recording of one of the most infamous U2 concerts. The sound is so clear that this may well be a soundboard recording. There is absolutely no crowd noise between tracks also supports the soundboard theory. However, the bootleg does not have the "feel" of a soundboard recording, so I have listed it as excellent plus audience. Here's some information on the concert, taken from "U2 Live: A Concert Documentary":

U2 share the bill with The Psychedelic Furs but for reasons unclear they do not play. Rumor has it that they refused to play because they had not had time to do a soundcheck. Most of the audience have come for the Furs. "Sorry for the delay, the piano broke down, things like that," Bono explains but the damage is already done. Halfway through "Gloria" something is thrown on stage. Bono stops the song. "In Dublin, people who come to our concerts show people that start throwing things the way out. I expect that here, or we leave the stage."

U2 toil to break through the hostile, oppressing tension. "Right," Bono says firmly. "The atmosphere in here has got to change. You've been sold a dummy tonight; you expected to see two bands, there's one band. It's not our fault, it's not The Psychedelic Furs fault. They wanted to be here. This is called 'I Fall Down'. Let's break through this!"  During "I Will Follow" a few hooligans work off their irritation on bystanders, and the band stop the song. "This isn't a circus, right? Hey you! Shall I tell you something about violence? I come from a country where violence is real, not pretend violence." Edge starts "I Will Follow" again, and Bono shouts as if possessed, "And again, we start from the beginning!  We go up, we go up, 'I Will Follow!'" Ten seconds later, things go wrong again. "Look, there's some people back here who wanna eat you up. They're called security people. We don't want them, right? We wanna get on with this. Is there anybody here who wants to hear what we're doing, or should we just go now?" Some weak cheers satisfy the band; "I Will Follow" is essayed for the third time. They finish the set with all their energy, but there is no reason for an encore.