Keeping the Faith

Isstadion

Stockholm, Sweden.

25 - January - 1985.

Attendance: 10.000 (sellout)

Disc 1 (51:26)

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

02. I Will Follow

03. Seconds

04. MLK

05. The Unforgettable Fire

06. Wire

07. Sunday Bloody Sunday

08. Cry / The Electric Co.

09. The Electric Co. / Amazing Grace

10. The Electric Co.

11. A Sort of Homecoming

12. Bad

Disc 2 (42:09)

01. October

02. New Year's Day

03. Pride (In the Name of Love)

04. Gloria

05. Party Girl

06. Two Hearts Beat As One

07. "40"

Recording Equipment - History

Analog 1st > remastering process > silver pressed CD

Comments

Superb audience tape overall. Sound is extremely clear with music and vocals very powerful and coming through well upfront. Crowd noise is virtually non-existent and there is a soundboard-like feeling in the sound. This is just an amazing audience recording for the era. The capture of the instruments and the balance among them is fantastic. This one comes from a first generation cassette, and then silver pressed. But it seems it has been remastered before being silver-pressed, as it sounds very solid, more balanced and Eq'ed.

Note a big skip at 4:16 in Bad that kills a good part of the song (it jumps from the "bruised silken sky" part to the "condemnation, revelation" part). This skip is also present in my other tape of this show (the so-called 'Stockholm Fire'), so they both come from the same master source. Note that The Electric Co. has been splitted into three different tracks, just to separate the Amazing Grace snippet into an individual track.