Hamburg 28-01-1985

Congress Centre

Hamburg, Germany.

28 - January - 1985.

Attendance: 5.000 (sellout) - Support: Belfegore

Disc 1 (41:12)

01. 4th of July (PA intro)

02. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

03. I Will Follow

04. Seconds

05. MLK

06. The Unforgettable Fire

07. Wire

08. Sunday Bloody Sunday

09. Cry / The Electric Co.

10. A Sort of Homecoming

Disc 2 (46:23)

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"

09. - Harry's Game (PA outro) -

Recording Equipment - History

Unknwon gen cassette (Maxell XLII or TDK SA) > Sony KETC5000S 3 head deck line out > PC line in > EAC (record WAV) > FTP > Cool Edit Pro 2.0 (to reduce hiss) > CDWave (to separate wav files) > FLAC Frontend 1.7.1 > FLAC (level-6)

Transfer: Dana F.

Conversion: Petergoode

Additional notes (by Petergoode): This is the second of the concerts which Dana has generously helped me/us upgrade from lossy (multiple discs now coasters) to lossless. It was sent to me in two wav files, each representing a side of the tape. As with the Gateshead show, it was run through Cool Edit Pro 2.0 to reduce hiss, then divided into separate tracks with CD Wave. Graphic equalizing with various tweaks did not add enough to make it worth changing the original files. The sound is probably 3/5, conservatively speaking. Bono's voice is a tad distant, but everything is reasonably clear... you certainly can hear the crowd as a whole, but the taper managed to keep adequate distance from anyone yelling, singing, or clapping.

Comments

Very harsh sound in this recording. Music and vocals come through quite distant and the overall output is somewhat muffled, lacking clarity and cleanness. There's not much crowd noise, usually placed between songs. However, the recording still is pretty listenable, as the instruments are well audible, but it really lacks more strength and dynamics, so don't expect a great thing. To sum up, decent sound quality.

An edit exists a few seconds before "40", cutting off some seconds of Bono's speech to introduce the song.