Lovetown Wellington

 

Athletic Park

Wellington, New Zealand.

08 - November - 1989.

Attendance: 35.000 (capacity: 50.000) - Support: BB King

 

 

Disc 1 (44:14)

 

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. One Tree Hill

06. Gloria

07. Desire

08. All Along the Watchtower

09. All I Want is You

10. People Get Ready

 

 

Disc 2 (56:36)

 

01. Bad

02. Van Diemen's Land

03. New Year's Day

04. Pride (In the Name of Love)

05. Angel of Harlem

06. When Love Comes to Town

07. Love Rescue Me

08. Bullet the Blue Sky

09. Running to Stand Still

10. With or Without You

11. "40"

 

 

Recording Equipment - History

Sony WM-D3 + PC-62 microphones > Analog Master > Analog 1st > WAV > DVDr > WAV > FLAC (level-6)

 

Transfer: boyacrobat

 

Additional notes (by kennerado): Here is a nice tape I got from my friend Sam. He told me he got this straight from the taper. Sound is pretty good, I would say very good to excellent audience. Audience chatter can be heard from time to time but its not really distracting. I sent the tape to boyacrobat/George who then converted it to wav and did some remastering.

 

Comments

Very nice sound in this recording with pretty good clarity. All instruments are well audible and captured, as they sound powerful. Audience noise is audible behind the music, with stray conversations and cheering near the taper, but never laying over the music. I have two recordings of this show, both from the same source. However, Stadtfelder's transfer sound to me slightly better than this one, with a more full output. This leads me to think that this probably comes from a higher cassette generation.

 

There's an edit in Bad at 07:39 that causes a feedback. Another nasty edit kills a big portion of Angel of Harlem, as the song only lasts 01:57. Last edit is noticeable after Love Rescue Me, affecting to the first notes of The Star Spangled Banner. A few other imperfections are audible (some high end distortion), but they don't bring any major problems / inconveniences.