ZooTV Sheffield    remastered

Sheffield Sports Arena

Sheffield, U.K.

17 - June - 1992.

Attendance: 11.250 (sellout) - Support: Fatima Mansions

Disc 1 (68:21)

01. Intro

02. Zoo Station

03. The Fly

04. Even Better than the Real Thing

05. Mysterious Ways

06. One

07. Unchained Melody

08. Until the End of the World

09. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

10. Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World

11. Angel of Harlem

12. Dancing Queen

13. Satellite of Love

14. Bad

15. All I Want is You

16. Bullet the Blue Sky

17. Running to Stand Still

Disc 2 (40:32)

01. Where the Streets Have No Name

02. Pride (In the Name of Love)

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

04. Stand by Me

05. Desire / Phone Call

06. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)

07. With or Without You

08. Love is Blindness

Comments

This fair sounding tape documents the Sheffield show, and this is probably the worst recording in terms of sound quality of the whole second leg of the ' ZooTV Tour'. Note this is a remastered version of the original recording, grabbed from U2Torrents. It really represents an upgrade to the original tape, as it sounds cleaner and enhanced. However, the output still is very muffled and distant. The good new is that the persistent pops and ticks that were in the background in the original recording have disappeared in this remastered version. All in all, it sounds as if there was a wall between the taper and the stage (of course, it is not, due to the crowd noise and voices around the taper).

Grabbed this one on U2Torrents, it came with the next notes about the remastering process:

Heavy declicker was used to remove LOTS of scratches, pops, clicks here and there. A dehisser was also welcome. It sounds like this recording was taped in the highest and farest point of the arena, resulting by a distant and echoed sound. Audience noise is a fact but you can live with it. I adjusted instrument balance, added some bass as they were absent from the original version. The result is a listenable recording, sound is still echoed but much more powerful and understandable than the original bootleg. The great thing is related to all these cracks that were killing the concert. With almost 90% of these shits removed, it doesn't distract anymore the pleasure of listening a great U2 zoo tv show.

As written on U2Depot (which owns the same bootleg): There is some poor editing before Until the End of the World, which was on the original tape. There is a second of silence toward the end of Streets and an edit before Desire.

I suppose i corrected this with fades, i can't remember, it's been a while since i've worked on this show and as usual, i lost my original text file... Didn't got the time to listen the show again.

Lineage is unknown. Hi-gen tapes transferred to cdr.