The Joshua Tree In Montpellier

Espace Richter

Montpellier, France.

18 - July - 1987.

Attendance: 35.000 (sellout) - Support: World Party, UB40, The Pretenders

Disc 1 (65:42)

01. Where the Streets Have No Name

02. I Will Follow

03. Trip Through Your Wires

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

05. MLK

06. The Unforgettable Fire

07. Sunday Bloody Sunday

08. Exit

09. In God's Country

10. People Get Ready

11. Bad

12. October

13. New Year's Day

14. Pride (In the Name of Love)

Disc 2 (29:41)

01. Bullet the Blue Sky

02. Running to Stand Still

03. With or Without You

04. - encore break -

05. Party Girl

06. "40"

Recording Equipment - History

Analog 2nd > WAV > remastering process > Monkey's Audio 3.97 > APE

Comments

I'd say overall sound is "Good to Very Good audience", although several moments of the concert can be perfectly rated as "Very Good audience". Show was transferred by 'Yauckt' from a second generation tape to CDR. He remastered the recording, too. A bit of hiss still remains on the background, and individual voices near the taper can be heard on occasion. Anyway, clarity is more than good, but perhaps the tape is a bit thin. These are Yauckt's comments:

Coming from a second generation audio tape, i tried to take the best of this concert. Let's start by the minors :
Sound has often volume fluctuation. A hiss can be hear all long due to my attempt adding some clean to the recording. Sound is a bit distant, so sound without too many audience noise but a group of people can be heard (also the taper i think). I tried to normalize these peaks manually, reducing a lot the audience screaming. 

The performance of the band is good, Bono tried his very good french... one more time, With or without you is memorable, in France it's often this way. An interesting intro on Bullet the blue sky, an inspired version of The Unforgettable Fire and many other good moments.

My personal opinion is that the sound is not very solid, but it doesn't really affect the listening pleasure. I took a look at Justin Cook's or U2depot's page, it seems they have the same source as I have, but i don't have all their minors (fades everywhere and all that, except for the sound fluctuation that I tried to recover). I know there's another source of this concert available, but where?? So at this time, consider this as probably a pretty decent one.