Larry Stands by Me

Entertainment Centre

Sydney, Australia.

29 - September - 1989

Attendance: 12.500 (sellout) - Support: Weddings Parties Anything, BB King

Disc 1 (45:18)

01. Where the Streets Have No Name

02. I Will Follow

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

04. One Tree Hill

05. God Part II

06. Desire

07. All Along the Watchtower / Like a Hurricane

08. - Bono's speech -

09. Stand by Me

10. Bad

Disc 2 (42:25)

01. With or Without You

02. Angel of Harlem

03. When Love Comes to Town

04. Love Rescue Me

05. Bullet the Blue Sky

06. Running to Stand Still

07. All I Want is You

08. New Year's Day

09. Pride (In the Name of Love)

Comments

Nice sound quality overall for this recording, although sound is pretty muffled. However, it keeps very good clarity, with all instruments and vocals highly audible. Audience noise is also very audible, but not very detracting from the listening pleasure. A bit of hiss is noticeable in the background, in the quieter parts of the gig. Track divisions are absolutely seamless. A slight but noticeable skip occurs at the very beginning of When Love Comes to Town. There is an edit before Bullet the Blue Sky, with no major issues.

The show is outstanding, full of energy and improvisations. A funny sequence occurs during Stand by Me. You can find this info on the book U2 Live (Omnibus Press, 2003) by Pimm Jal de la Parra and Caroline van Oosten de Boer:

-- [...] Bono then starts to sing Stand by Me, and halfway through says: "Larry Mullen, you can sing this too!". Larry is dragged up front and he sings while Bono takes Larry's place, débuting as U2's drummer! [...] Edge helps Larry out at the end, while Bono tries to finish the song with a drum solo but one of the sticks flies out of his hand and he desperately attempts to close with only one stick. --