Love to Love You Baby

Tower Theater

Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), USA.

01 - December - 1984.

Attendance: 3.000 (sellout) - Support: The Waterboys

Disc 1 (38:45)

01. 4th of July (PA) / 11 O'clock Tick Tock

02. I Will Follow

03. Seconds

04. Sunday Bloody Sunday

05. Cry / The Electric Co.

06. A Sort of Homecoming

07. MLK

08. The Unforgettable Fire

09. Wire

Disc 2 (41:37)

01. Bad

02. October

03. New Year's Day

04. Pride (In the Name of Love)

05. Gloria

06. Party Girl

07. Two Hearts Beat As One

08. "40"

Comments

This is a fair recording of a hard-to-find show. Originally in a tape, it was transferred into digital mode by Yauckt. These are his comments: "The sound of this recording is not great. Audience is agressivly present, sometimes instruments (especially drums) are marred by audience screams. Anyway, sound is powerful. I removed a part of the distortion that was present. Occasional loss of clarity occurs by moments. A slight backnoise (sounding like the taper didn't care too much about his position and was shaking his microphone all a long). My work on this tape was first slowing down the recording, decreasing the medium that caused this strange distorsion on the high notes, and of course, pasting the occasional edits."

Sound is very muffled, and a little distorted in the high-end. Both vocals and music are well audible, and clarity is decent, but really lacks more overall definition, more sharpness. Some rumbling noise can be heard throughout the recording, and it seems, as Yauckt mentioned above, as if the taper was shaking the mics. This show is the first one of the third leg of The Unforgettable Fire tour, a bunch of shows in the United States to calibrate the band's demand for the upcoming spring tour in 1985.