Pontiac 30-04-1987

Silverdome

Pontiac (Michigan), USA.

30 - April - 1987.

Attendance: 51.718 (sellout) - Support: Lone Justice

Disc 1 (54:40)

01. Where the Streets Have No Name

02. I Will Follow

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

04. MLK

05. The Unforgettable Fire

06. Bullet the Blue Sky

07. Running to Stand Still

08. A Sort of Homecoming

09. Sunday Bloody Sunday

10. Exit

11. In God's Country

Disc 2 (41:30)

01. Bad

02. October

03. New Year's Day

04. Pride (In the Name of Love)

05. With or Without You

06. Gloria

07. "40"

Recording Equipment - History

2 DAK-5245 mics + Sony D6c Cassette Recorder (Dolby C on) > Master Cassettes (TDK-SA-X90's) > Yamaha Double Cassette Deck K-902 (Dolby C off) > CDWave Editor > THL > flac (level-8)

Taper: Robert Mullen

Additional comments (by the Robert Mullen):  Well here is my only U2 personal recording. We were in the front few rows of the small loge deck (below the upper deck) at about 7:00 o'clock (facing the stage). This was a decent place to record from at that giant cavern. All of the tape flips resulted in no loss of music. The crowd was really well behaved right around us... but were very excited during this terriffic show. All in all a very good document of that great "Joshua Tree Tour". I used to crank a 2nd generation copy in my truck to death back in the day... as I'm a big fan of Edge's "open" guitar sound.

This recording has never been traded and is uncirculated in it's complete format. I did give out some copies off of the '1st Generation Mix' that were not complete so as to fit on one 90 minute cassette tape. That would have been back before 1990. If those somehow made it into circulation, I am not aware.

Comments

Very good audience recording straight off the master cassettes. It represents a big upgrade to what there was on circulation. Sound is very clear but tiny distant and it suffers some reverb due to the acoustics of the covered stadium. However, music and vocals come through pretty clear and solid, and crowd noise is not too intrusive. There are a pair of little edits with no loss of music.

This tape documents the first headlining stadium show by U2 in the United States, and it was soldout. Still Haven't Found was stopped halfway as Bono saw a security guard acting roughly towards a member of the audience. Then, the song was resumed.