Wembley Nights 3 & 4 The Definitive Edition & remaster
Wembley Stadium
London, U.K.
12 - August - 1993.
Attendance: 72.000 (sellout) - Support: PJ Harvey, Big Audio Dynamite II
Disc 1 (71:32)
01. TV: The Drug of the Nation (PA) / Drumming Boys (PA)
02. Zoo Station
03. The Fly
04. Even Better than the Real Thing
05. Mysterious Ways
06. One
07. She's a Mystery to Me
08. Until the End of the World
09. New Year's Day
10. Numb
11. Zooropa
12. Babyface
13. Stay (Faraway, so Close!)
14. I Will Follow
15. Satellite of Love
16. - Sarajevo link-up -
Disc 2 (62:01)
01. Bad / The First Time
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. - ZooTV Videoconfessionals -
07. Desire
08. - MacPhisto's phone call to Lady Diana -
09. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
10. Love is Blindness
11. Can't Help Falling in Love
Recording Equipment - History
OKM IIc + Sony TCD-D7 > DAT Master > DAT-C1 > Original Wembley Nights CD set > EAC (Secure) > remastering process > FLAC
Taper: Ard Stegman
Remaster: Francesco Donadel -
It has been a long and hard
work. It took me nearly 2 months. I've restarted the work many times because I
was not satisfied with the final result. I've used different programs, setup,
monitors and even different eq for each track of each cd. For sure I'm not the
best audio mastering engineer in the world (of course i'm not!) but I've tried
my best to achieve the most pleasing sound. I had to find a comprimise and avoid
any kind of dynamic compression for example 'cos the low frequencies tended to "fart"
on the speakers, and the background noise was rising to an annoying level. Yeah
the noise reduction process has not been so easy... I had to find a comprimise
between quality and clarity. By the way all the tracks have perfect transitions,
no gaps, no volume changes...
I received the original set way back in 1995 when Geraldo V.K. made 30 copies of
each set and sold them to people for 500 dollars each box containing the 4
concerts.
For me the best recordings are the second and the third night. I love the versions of Babyface, Bad and Bullet from the second night and on the third night the sound is so dynamic that the walls of the Wembley Stadium must have been cracked!
Comments
This awesome recording documents the second of four nights at the Wembley Stadium in London. Like the other 'Wembley Nights' recordings, sound quality is stunning with fantastic crispness and clarity, as music and vocals come through very powerful and extremely close. The live feeling is superb and crowd noise is virtually non-existent.
The setlist included again Zooropa and Babyface, and the band added I Will Follow to the acoustic part. On the other hand, this was the last time that Zooropa has been played. Violinist Jo Shankar joins the band onstage during Bad to play along.
** It seems the consensus among fans say the show was taped by Ard Stegman, but it was Geraldo v. K. who converted his 'DAT clone' to create the original 'Wembley Nights' CD sets, that he later sold out there. First remastered series appeared in the trading market, by Francesco Donadel, when he acquired a copy from Geraldo. As mentioned above by himself, he wasn't happy with the final result, so he just made in 2007 a 'definitive edition' with a second and fresh remaster, and the output offers outstanding sound quality. **