U2 - Tucson 05-04-1987     Sony D6C

Community Center

Tucson (Arizona), USA.

05 - April - 1987.

Attendance: 8.032 (sellout) - Support: Lone Justice

Disc 1 (39:46)

01. Where the Streets Have No Name

02. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For 

03. Gloria

04. I Will Follow

05. Bullet the Blue Sky

06. Running to Stand Still

07. Exit

08. In God's Country

09. A Sort of Homecoming

Disc 2 (39:29)

01. Sunday Bloody Sunday

02. Maggie's Farm

03. Bad

04. October

05. With or Without You

06. New Year's Day

07. Pride (In the Name of Love)

08. Lucille

Recording Equipment - History

Sony D6C + Realistic Boundry mics > Analog Master (TDK Metal Dolby C 90) > Soundforge > FLAC

Taper: Mark Anderson (aka sorround)

Additional notes (by the taper): I had friends who were going to the show and pleaded with me to tape the show. I contacted a friend who managed the facility and asked if he had any spare tickets. "Yeah, I was saving these for the mayor’s kids, but they never called". He then
handed me 11th row floor tickets to the right side of the stage.

At the time I was using a Sony D6C cassette deck that I had smuggled in by a girl friend strapped to her thigh since they were searching folks and two radio shack mikes taped into the inside of a baseball cap. The foam inside the hat was cut where the mike elements are located and the fabric on the outside left in place to conceal the mikes. This setup worked really well since it put the mikes up above the audience and they were using a suspended overhead P.A. system. The only downside was that you could not move your head or the sound shifted. So there I stood like a mic stand.

Once the show started, I realized that I left the spare cassette in the car and had to make due with 1 C90. With only one tape, I missed four songs (MLK, The Unforgettable Fire, People Get Ready & 40). These songs appear on the other source recorded by Joe Dupree on a Sony D3 cassette deck further back in the arena which also sounds really good. Excellent show and quality.

Comments

Brilliant audience tape, straight off the master cassette. It sounds strong and pretty clear, and the output comes through very close. This one is punchier than the 'D3 source, taped by Joe Dupre'. However, note the bass is very loud in this source. The drawback of this recording is that it is incomplete, as it is missing four songs (MLK, The Unforgettable Fire, People Get Ready and "40"), as explained above by the taper. I'd rate this source as "exc / exc+".