Born to Be Wild

 

Strahov Stadion

Prague, Czech Republic.

14 - August - 1997.

Attendance: 80.000 (sellout) - Support: Audioweb

 

 

Disc 1 (58:55)

 

01. Pop Muzik (PA)

02. Mofo

03. I Will Follow

04. Gone

05. Even Better than the Real Thing

06. Last Night on Earth

07. Until the End of the World

08. New Year's Day

09. Pride (In the Name of Love)

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

11. All I Want is You

12. Staring at the Sun

13. - Born to Be Wild  (karaoke) -

 

 

Disc 2 (69:59)

 

01. Miami

02. Bullet the Blue Sky

03. Please

04. Where the Streets Have No Name

05. - Lemon Intermission (PA) -

06. Discothèque

07. If You Wear That Velvet Dress

08. With or Without You

09. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

10. Mysterious Ways

11. One

12. MLK

 

 

Recording Equipment - History

Comments by Mike Duchek, taken from Thor Goodrich's trading website (U2 Trade Site, List & Resources): I got this show from Mauricio Ferrusca, who lives in Mexico. He made it from some CDs he already had, reducing the bass by about 350% and a little hiss. The result is pretty good. The sound is very nice, with the audience very quiet for most of the show. During some songs they are right there heard individually, but for most songs they're so quiet you'd think it was a soundcheck. The clarity is very good, it's not quite as close sounding as for instance the Rotterdam PopMart shows, but it's very close and the mix of frequencies come through very nicely. The only flaws are a few clicks, probably a total of seven, but they are so few that it's not detracting. They were on his original CDs.

The show, U2's first in this city and country, is pretty standard for the tour, but a nice performance with Bono's voice sounding pretty good. He even does a longer falsetto at the end of Mysterious Ways. The Edge performs Born To Be Wild as the karaoke song for the night, one of only a handful of that song. Other than that a fairly standard PopMart show, nothing out of the ordinary, other than the first few lines of Discotheque not coming through the speakers, which has nothing to do with the recording, but seemed worth mentioning.

This is what Mauricio has on his site as what he does to remaster shows. Not all were necessarily used for this recording:
-Indexation (Tracks) ABSOLUTELY NO GAPS! NO CLICKS!
-Noise Reduction
-Audio Enhancement (Crispness, Brightness, Loudness)
-Level Normalization
-Speed Correction

Equipment:
-Pentium III Processor PC
-Cool Edit 2000 Software
-Exact Audio Copy 0.9 Secure
-Creative SoundBlaster 128Bit sound card
-Creative 8/4/32 CD Burner
-Technics Professional Cassette Deck Headroom extension Dolby B/C
-Sony Professional CD Player 18-Bit Digital Filter 8 times oversampling
-Technics Professional Turntable (speed adjustable, belt drive)
-Pioneer Half Inch Reel Recorder

Comments

As mentioned above, a very good recording overall. Clarity is very nice, and music and vocals come through pretty well and powerful. Audience noise is not an issue, just placed between songs. However, there's a noticeable saturation in the sound throughout the concert.