Los Angeles 13-04-1992

Los Angeles Sports Arena

Los Angeles (California), USA.

13 - April - 1992.

Attendance: 15.846 (sellout) - Support: The Pixies

Disc 1 (56:43)

01. Intro / Zoo Station

02. The Fly

03. Even Better than the Real Thing

04. Mysterious Ways

05. One

06. Until the End of the World

07. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

08. Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World

09. Angel of Harlem

10. Dancing Queen

11. Satellite of Love

12. Bad / All I Want is You

Disc 2 (47:59)

01. Bullet the Blue Sky

02. Running to Stand Still

03. Where the Streets Have No Name

04. Pride (In the Name of Love)

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

06. Desire

07. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)

08. With or Without You

09. Love is Blindness

Recording Equipment - History

Sony ECM-939 mic > Sony WM-D6C (TDK MA 110) > Dolby C

Taper: JEMS

Transfer: Analog Master > NAK CR-7A (azimuth correction) > WAV > CDR-Master > FLAC

Additional comments (by JEMS): 

Second of two nights in Los Angeles JEMS recorded (we also did San Diego a couple days later; still looking for the part two master) and not without problems, though this tape isn't as bad as I once thought.

First, my seats were halfway back on the side in the next to last row, though the Sports Arena is so small by today's arena standards, that would only be half way up at Staples. Second, the introduction of a 110 min. metal tape seemed like a godsend for tapers, but it turned out that at least on our D6 (and I've heard others had this problem too), if the deck wasn't held in the right position, it struggled to pull that much tape through across the heads properly. Hence the problems with this tape, where the first two songs on side one of the master and the first song on side two flutter in and out. By "Even Better" on side one and the middle of "Bullet" on side two the problem corrects itself and from there on out this is a good if somewhat distant recording.

Comments

Nice recording of the second night in Los Angeles during the first leg of the ZooTV Tour in North America. The overall quality is very good. The sound is pretty clear and crowd noise is not too distracting. Tape sounds powerful, but not perfectly clean. Only drawback to remark is the muffled tracks, described above by JEMS (Zoo Station, The Fly and Bullet the Blue Sky). Other than that, the recording is quite good, with a good mix between vocals and music, and all instruments well audible. Definitely, it borders with excellent audience, but lacks some crispness.

A little skip occurs at 02:29 during Arms Around the World.