Los Angeles 12-04-1992

Los Angeles Sports Arena

Los Angeles (California), USA.

12 - April - 1992.

Attendance: 15.846 (sellout) - Support: The Pixies

Disc 1 (49:45)

01. Intro

02. Zoo Station

03. The Fly

04. Even Better than the Real Thing

05. Mysterious Ways

06. One

07. Until the End of the World

08. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

09. Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World

10. Angel of Harlem

11. Satellite of Love

Disc 2 (54:29)

01. Bad / All I Want is You

02. Bullet the Blue Sky

03. Running to Stand Still

04. Where the Streets Have No Name

05. Pride (In the Name of Love)

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

07. Desire

08. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)

09. With or Without You

10. Love is Blindness

Recording Equipment - History

Sony Walkman with built-in mic > Maxell UR 120 (Master cassette) > Nakamichi CR-7A > Peak 5.2 > WAV > DVD > Goldwave (file join, speed fix, fade in/out at beginning/end of show) > FLAC

Taper: M.H.

Location: lower level about half way back

Transfer: JEMS

Remastering: Mike Duchek (using Goldwave, and putting WAVs into FLAC)

Additional notes (Mike Duchek): I received this as two large WAV files transfered by Erik of JEMS. I joined the files and adjusted the speed as close as I could (it was very slow, more so than I ususally find). I then deleted the dead air at the beginning and end of the show, added small fades at those respective points and split the show into tracks, all using Goldwave. Sound quality is very good, and everything comes in sounding pretty close and clear.

Problems - There is what I presume to be a tape flip exactly one hour into the show. A small part of "Bullet the Blue Sky" is lost due to this. In its place is dead air, which I decided to leave alone. "Desire" also comes in a bit late, possibly because the taper turned off the walkman duing the encore. Static and dropouts (appear to only be left channel) at the end of "Pride" and at the end of "I Still Haven't Found." Upon closer inspection these appear to be times where the left channel went out. I don't know why, but maybe it was a loose mic. This could be fixed sort of by copying the right channel to the left, but for the purists I again decided to leave it alone. So basically this is not a flawless recording, and it might be worth cleaning up a bit more, perhaps by adding the missing portion of "Bullet" from another source, or even doing a matrix with another source or sources.

Other sources - As I understand it there are probably at least 3 sources for this show:
1. This one, call it the MH version. Sound is very clear and close sounding.
2. The one that I acquired from a trader in Mexico that was apparently from a first gen cassette, unknown lineage. That recording I would have liked to have put up here simultaneously but one of my discs was damaged, and since my attempts to re-acquire that have stalled, I decided to just upload this now. Anyway, that version, which I traded under the name "Over the Hills and to the Sea" is more distant and boomy, but also sounds very good.
3. The JEMS source(s) - I guess it's possible #2 is actually the JEMS source, but I doubt it. Erik has yet to find their tapes and I don't know if they have ever been transfered or traded, although the following night has (same venue).

The show - For the record, this is a decent show, though nothing too spectacular. Bono mentions that "Tryin'" was written while the band was in LA after the song is introduced by Adam as being about a man from County Donnygall (may be misspelled). "With or Without You" is extended a bit.

Comments

As Mike mentioned above, very good recording overall. Sound is quite clear with music and vocals well upfront. Just somewhat unpolished but very clear though. Crowd noise is audible, but only between songs, as people calm down when the band are playing. So a pretty enjoyable tape, with a different sound compared to the other I have (the so-called 'Over the Hills and to the Sea'). As Mike described above, the 'Over the Hills and to the Sea' is more distant and has a boomy sound due to a heavy bass, but it doesn't sound so raw.

The 'dead air' remarked by Mike Duchek lasts from 2:52 to 3:16 on Bullet the Blue Sky.