Nantes 23-10-1984 / ANA-1    (complete)

St. Herblain Hospatlier

Nantes, France.

23 - October - 1984.

Attendance: 8.000 - Support: Big Audio Dynamite

Disc 1 (45:51)

01. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

02. I Will Follow

03. Wire

04. MLK

05. The Unforgettable Fire

06. Surrender

07. Two Hearts Beat As One

08. Seconds

09. A Sort of Homecoming

10. Sunday Bloody Sunday

11. Cry / The Electric Co.

Disc 2 (36:36)

01. Bad

02. Indian Summer Sky

03. October

04. New Year's Day

05. Pride (In the Name of Love)

06. Party Girl

07. Gloria

08. "40"

Recording Equipment - History

Mixing desk > Analog Master > Analog 1st > CDR-Master > Plextor TSI 40max > EAC v0.9 beta 4 (secure mode, accurate stream) > WAV > CDWave (retracking) > FLAC Frontend > FLAC

Conversion: Javi Dieguez

Additional notes (by Javi Dieguez): Some music was lost at the start of the show, and also during the tapeflip (The Electric Co. -> Bad). This comes from outside the U2 circles... The story on this is I found a highly rated 3rd gen in the list of a Cure guy in Europe and tracked it down a bit. 2nd gen was someone from France, and 1st gen was a guy in Nantes itself, who was kind enough to put his tape onto CDR for me. This is as complete as the best version that is circulating, but shows no tape degradation. I hope this is an upgrade to most of you.

Comments

This is a new source that popped up on U2T on December 28th, 2008, uploaded by Javi Dieguez. As he hoped, this is a big upgrade to what it was on circulation. It comes from the same source that my other tape of this show, but this is an upgrade both in terms of sound quality and lineage, as this one comes off a first generation cassette. So this is the real 'Analog 1st' source that I did reference in my comments of the 'Analog 3rd source'. The 'Analog 3rd source' has been mislabeled as "Analog 1st" in some tradinglists.

Sound quality is fantastic in this new source, with a better balance, and a more full / natural output, as music and vocals come through crisper. This seems to run OK, or closer to the proper speed, and there are minimal shows of tape wear. However, there is a bit of hiss in the quieter parts of the concert.

11 O'Clock Tick Tock fades in, joined in progress. The Electric Co fades out at 04:41, missing a good portion of the song. Bad, which is the first track of CD2, fades in, so this is where the taper did a tape flip.