Soundcheck - Tempe 09-05-1997 IEM

Sun Devil Stadium

Tempe (Arizona), USA.

09 - May - 1997.

Soundcheck

Disc 1 (42:33)

01. - tuning up -

02. Gone

03. Do You Feel Loved

04. Pride (In the Name of Love)

05. - Edge talking -

06. Last Night on Earth

07. - Edge / Joe chatting -

08. - dead air -

09. - guitar riffs -

10. Mofo

11. - Edge talking -

12. - guitar riffs / playing with effects -

13. Discothèque

14. Discothèque

15. - tuning up -

16. - dead air -

17. - Joe talking -

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

Pretty interesting soundcheck to accompany the IEM recording of the actual show. Sound quality is excellent with a clean output. It is a mono IEM but the output is powerful and very clean. It comes off Edge's earfeed.