Tokyo 25-11-1989    SK master

Tokyo Dome

Tokyo, Japan.

25 - November - 1989.

Attendance: 45.000 (sellout) - Support: BB King

Total Running Time - 87:18

01. Where the Streets Have No Name

02. I Will Follow

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

04. MLK

05. With or Without You

06. God Part II

07. Desire

08. All Along the Watchtower

09. All I Want is You

10. Van Diemen's Land

11. Star Spangled Banner

12. Bullet the Blue Sky

13. Running to Stand Still

14. People Get Ready

15. Angel of Harlem

16. When Love Comes to Town

17. Love Rescue Me

18. Pride (In the Name of Love)

19. "40"

Recording Equipment - History

Analog Master (S.K.) > Analog 1st > WAV > FLAC

Taper: Seiji Kobayashi

Transfer: jer7767

Additional notes (by jer7767): As luck would have it, I managed to locate a great tape trading partner in Japan (S.K. - through Goldmine), who taped shows as well. This guy was a real find, his recordings were of the highest quality and he had a number of other contacts in Japan who had some older shows. I traded with him for close to 10 years until he told me he was getting out of the hobby all together ... that was a sad day indeed. The only drawback to trading with him is that it often took months from when I sent him his tapes and my requests, to actually getting my tapes… small price really for the rare and superior sounding shows I got from him.

This is one of the shows he taped himself... a great sounding U2 from the Love Town tour. Simply stated, it is fantastic quality, even more so when you consider it's over 20 years old. Tape flips are noticeable but nothing is missing. Weird cut after Bono introduces the BB King Orchestra before Angel of Harlem though .. after he introduces Walter, there was some silence on the tape (which I edited out) then Angel of Harlem starts... not sure what happened there but nothing is missing really.

Comments

This is a second source of the first of two soldout nights in Tokyo. It comes from a first generation cassette, and offers fantastic sound quality. Music and vocals come through pretty clear and powerful, and there's not much crowd interference. The live feeling is very nice, too. 

About minors, there are edits after All I Want is You and Van Diemen's Land, that only affects to crowd cheering. Another edit occurs when Bono is introducing BB King's orchestra. Finally, the last edit is placed after Love Rescue Me, cutting off crowd noise during the encore.