The Fourth Night in L.A.

Los Angeles Sports Arena

Los Angeles (California), USA.

21 - April - 1987.

Attendance: 14.835 (sellout) - Support: Lone Justice

Disc 1 (41:36)

01. Where the Streets Have No Name

02. I Will Follow

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

04. MLK

05. The Unforgettable Fire

06. Bullet the Blue Sky

07. Running to Stand Still

08. Exit

09. In God's Country

Disc 2 (49:23)

01. Bad

02. October

03. New Year's Day

04. Pride (In the Name of Love)

05. With or Without You

06. Gloria

07. Sunday Bloody Sunday

08. "40" 

Recording Equipment - History

Sony ECM 939 mic / WM-D6 Master > Analog 1st > Analog 2nd > CDR

Comments

A pretty good sounding tape that documents the fourth of five nights in Los Angeles (CA, USA). All instruments sound very clear, and well balanced, and clarity is excellent as well. Just this recording lacks some more punch to it, more brigthness. Audience noise is well audible throughout the concert, but generally shut up during songs. A slight hiccup happens between Bullet and Running.

As Justin Cook remarks in his trading page: [I received this recording from Scott Zumsteg, webmaster of the the "U2 Joshua Tree Tour Preservation Project".  Below is a description of the bootleg taken from his website:

"Created from a 2nd generation tape done with a D6 and 939 mic, most likely Chris Nilsens tape.  It sounds pretty good, strong high end from 'bullet' to 'pride' then mic got lowered a tiny bit during the encore. The version I had played a little fast, so I slowed it down in the remastering process. This was the weakest of the LA shows performance wise, they blasted through the gig in about 85 minutes."

This recording is very good, but not quite as nice as the 18 April 1987 bootleg. The sound is quite clear and audience noise is minimal.  For some reason, the indexing for "Exit" is a bit off -- the first eight seconds of the track are actually part of the outtro to "Running To Stand Still". There is intermittent "popping" throughout much of the second disc. This sounds very much like the noise that results from a vinyl to CDR transfer, yet, given Scott's description, this cannot be the case.]

Anyway, I'd state that a good portion of the tape is really brilliant, and borders with excellent sound quality.