U2 - 1997-05-09 - Tempe, AZ (IEM/FLAC)

(IEM FLAC)

Popmart Tour - Tempe, Arizona, USA
Sun Devil Stadium
May 9, 1997

Equipment: IEM Receiver > DAT @ LP Mode
Lineage: DAT 1st gen clone > Computer > Remaster > You
Taper: Gambler
Remaster: Sharebear/hoserama

01. Pop Musik
02. Mofo
03. I will Follow
04. Even Better Than the Real Thing
05. Gone
06. Do You Feel Love
07. Pride
08. I Still Haven't Found
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
14. Miami
15. Bullet the Blue Sky
16. Please
17. Streets
18. Lemon Interlude
19. Discotheque
20. If You Wear That velvet Dress
21. With Or Without You
22. Encore
23. Hold Me Thrill Me
24. Mysterious Ways
25. One

Soundcheck:
01. Warm-Up
02. Gone
03. Do You Feel Love
04. Pride
05. Edge Talk
06. Last Night on Earth
07. Edge Talk
08. Dead Air
09. Guitar Warm-Up
10. Mofo
11. Edge Talk
12. Mofo Guitar
13. Discotheque Warm-up
14. Discotheque
15. Fiddling
16. Dead Air
17. Good-bye

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 a*****e 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. Enjoy y'all.