U2 and the New Voices of Freedom remastered
Madison Square Garden
New York (New York), USA.
28 - September - 1987.
Attendance: 19.755 (sellout) - Support: The Pogues
Disc 1 (46:52)
01. All You Need is Love (intro over PA) / 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 / Exodus
05. MLK
06. The Unforgettable Fire
07. Bullet the Blue Sky
08. Running to Stand Still
09. In God's Country
10. Sunday Bloody Sunday
Disc 2 (55:15)
01. Exit
02. Help
03. Bad
04. October
05. New Year's Day
06. Pride (In the Name of Love)
07. With or Without You
08. Party Girl
09. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (with The New Voices of Freedom)
10. Spanish Eyes
11. "40"
Recording Equipment - History
Master cassette > DAT > CDR (4th gen) > Digital Sound Processing > CDR
Comments
Fantastic recording of an awesome concert. Phenomenal clarity and crispness, with music and vocals coming through quite loud and clean. Audience noise is just minimal, being audible between songs, or adding a nice live feeling with their participation.
This is the remastered version by Steve Vahey. These are the comments of Steve Vahey and the person who passed the original recording to Steve, Justin Cook, taken from Justin Cook's website:
This is my remastered version of the "U2 and the New Voices of Freedom" show that I received from Justin Cook. I remixed the audio a bit, increased the level to saturated (without clipping), isolated and removed some low level background noise (most likely recording deck noise), and blended out 3 or 4 abrupt breaks in the recording (where the cassettes were flipped, etc.). Fades were added to the front and back ends of each disc. I also removed a repeating clicking noise that can be heard on the original Disc 2 between the marks of 29:05 and 55:24 (from "With or WIthout You" to "40"). There was a break in the original recording at the 29:05 mark, so this must have been where Cassette 2 was flipped. Apparently only Cassette 2, Side B suffered from the clicking noise, because it can't be heard anywhere else in the original recording. The clicking has been removed and can no longer be heard in the remastered version. The clarity in areas of Disc 1, track 1 ("Streets") is not as good as the rest of the show. The taper was apparently either still moving into position or still getting set up and didn't have the mics as high. After track 1, the clarity is consistently excellent throughout the rest of the show. The track lengths on the remastered version are slightly different than on the original set because I put together new cuesheets with different index points. All track transitions are seamless with no audible indication of track changes. I also eliminated the index point at track 11 of disc 1 because it was unnecessary.
Disc 2, Track 9 features The New Voices of Freedom, a gospel choir from New York whom the band heard singing "Still Haven't Found" in a church while walking in the city. Also included is a rare rendition of "Spanish Eyes". There is a brief cut between "In God's Country" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday" which sacrifices Larry's first few drumbeats to the Sunday Bloody Sunday intro.