Tempe 09-05-1997 IEM    Sharebear's upgrade

 

Sun Devil Stadium

Tempe (Arizona), USA.

09 - May - 1997.

Attendance: 33.539 (capacity: 45.000) - Support: Rage Against the Machine

 

 

Total Running Time - 116:04

 

01. Pop Muzik (PA)

02. Mofo

03. I Will Follow

04. Even Better than the Real Thing

05. Gone

06. Do You Feel Loved

07. Pride (In the Name of Love)

08. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Stand by Me

09. Last Night on Earth

10. Until the End of the World

11. If God Will Send His Angels

12. Staring at the Sun

13. - Daydream Believer  (karaoke) -

14. Miami

15. Bullet the Blue Sky

16. Please

17. Where the Streets Have No Name

18. - Lemon Intermission (PA) -

19. Discothèque

20. If You Wear That Velvet Dress

21. With or Without You

22. - encore break -

23. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

24. Mysterious Ways

25. One

 

 

Recording Equipment - History

IEM Receiver > DAT-Master (LP Mode) > DAT Clone-1 > HD > remastering process > FLAC


Taper: Gambler
Remaster: Sharebear

 

Additional notes (by Sharebear):

* Show notes:
Early Popmart show. Starting to pull things together, but still some mess-ups during the show. Staring at the Sun takes a while to come together, Bono turns into a major asshole during Miami, and the band forgets how to end With or Without You. I get the feeling they couldn't wait to end the show by the end. Nice little soundcheck bonus, with some full songs and warm-ups.

* Recording/remaster notes:
Soundcheck was a pretty solid standard Edge feed. Did the usual basic eq/reverb/etc. No static cleanup needed. The show had a decent amount of static and rf noise, especially in the second half of the show. The most interesting version of With or Without You I've heard was unfortunately striken with a good amount of static. Did the best I could to clean it up, but you'll probably notice some glitches. The feed is from the crew feed, so you'll notice crew talk and instruments/vocals switching in the feed.

* Extra notes:
This recording was stolen way back in the day in the infamous shower heist, and slowly was traded out from there. A while back it (and later the soundcheck) was torrented, but it ran slow and sounded bad. I'm unsure if it was intentionally traded with the speed/sound issues to preserve its "trade value" (as was done by these lovely thieving traders by some of the European Pop IEMs), or if the source was just a multi-gen analog tape. In either case, this is from a much better source and cleaned up.

 

Comments

Brilliant mono IEM recording with a strong output, pretty solid sound. It was remastered by 'Sharebear'. Only issues to note are a few hiccups here and there that occasionally cut some seconds of the songs. Techs can be heard talking on occasion. This is a major upgrade to the other IEM-recording in circulation, that played way too slow.

 

The band played the very last performance of Do You Feel Loved that night. A line of Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child appeared in Still Haven't Found, and then Bono followed into a brief version of Stand by Me.