Tokyo 30-11-1983

Sun Plaza Hall

Tokyo, Japan.

30 - November - 1983.

Disc 1 (45:26)

01. Gloria

02. I Threw A Brick Through A Window / A Day Without Me

03. An Cat Dubh / Into the Heart

04. Surrender

05. Two Hearts Beat As One

06. Seconds

07. Sunday Bloody Sunday

08. Cry / The Electric Co.

Disc 2 (36:46)

01. I Fall Down

02. October

03. New Year's Day

04. Out of Control

05. A Celebration

06. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock / I Will Follow

07. "40"

Comments

Great recording for the last show in Tokyo. Very nice clarity and crispness, with the music and vocals coming through pretty loud and clean. There are a few pops throughout the recording, as if it was vinyl-sourced. An edit can be found before A Celebration, with no loss of music. Last edit occurs before "40". The only major blemish is that I Fall Down contains some light static around 02:00 to 02:35 more or less. This static might come from scratches on the vinyl used to transfer this recording to CDR.

On the other hand, Bono mentions after A Day Without Me this is the last night in Tokyo. A few doubts about the Tokyo 1983 dates have appeared in the "trading market". I received this recording as Tokyo 29-11-1983, but I opted to date this recording as 30-11-1983, according to the last edition of book U2 Live by Pimm Jal de la Parra (and Caroline van Oosten de Boer). Tokyo gigs were placed in their right date and venue in this last edition (2003, Omnibus Press): November 26th, 27th, 29th and 30th, with a day off on November 28th (in my opinion, this schedule is more reliable).