U2 - Live From Dublin
Show #93-36 for broadcast the weekend of September 4, 1993
Recorded at:
R.D.S. Arena
Dublin, Ireland
August 28, 1993
Disc One:
01 Dave Fanning, Dia Stein - Intro - talking to fan
02 Dave Fanning, Dia Stein - List of sponsors
03 Commercial - Tropicana Twister
04 Commercial - M&M's
05 Commercial - American Plastics Council
06 Commercial - Labatt's
07 Dia Stein - Break
08 Dia Stein, Dave Fanning, Mal Redding, Bono, The Edge - talk
09 U2 - Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car (studio)
10 Dia Stein, Dave Fanning, Moya Brennan (Clannad), Peter Aiken - talk
11 U2 - I Will Follow (studio)
12 Dia Stein - Break
13 Commercial - Sony
14 Commercial - Snickers
15 Commercial - Tropicana Twister
16 Dave Fanning - Break
17 Dave Fanning - talk
18 U2 - Paint It Black (studio)
19 Dia Fanning, Bono, the Edge - talk
20 U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
21 Dia Stein, Dave Fanning, Mal Redding, Bono, The Edge - talk
22 Commercial - Nike
23 Commercial - M&M's
24 Commercial - American Plastics Council
25 Commercial - Discover Card
26 Dia Stein - Break
27 Dia Stein, Dave Fanning - talk
28 U2 - Salome
29 Dave Fanning, Dia Stein, Bono, The Edge - talk
30 U2 - Zooropa
31 Dave Fanning, Dia Stein - talk
32 Commercial - M&M's
33 Commercial - Tropicana Twister
34 Commercial - American Plastics Council
35 Commercial - Snickers
36 Dave Fanning - Break
Disc Two:
01 Dia Stein, Dave Fanning, Mal Redding - talk
02 U2 - Zoo Station
03 U2 - The Fly
04 U2 - Bono talks
05 U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing
06 U2 - Mysterious Ways
07 U2 - One
08 U2 - Unchained Melody
09 U2 - Until The End Of The World
10 U2 - New Year's Day
11 U2 - Numb
12 U2 - Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World
13 U2 - Angel of Harlem
14 U2 - When Love Comes To Town
15 U2 - Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
16 U2 - Satellite Of Love
Disc Three:
01 U2 - Bad
02 U2 - Bullet The Blue Sky
03 U2 - Running To Stand Still
04 U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
05 U2 - In The Name Of Love
06 Dia Stein - Break
07 Commercial - Sony
08 Commercial - Labatt's
09 Commercial - Nike
10 Commercial - M&M's
11 Commercial - American Plastics Council
12 Commercial - Tropicana Twister
13 Dia Stein - Break
14 Dia Stein, Dave Fanning - talk
15 U2 - Desire
16 U2 - Bono Talks
17 U2 - Help!
18 U2 - Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
19 U2 - With Or Without You
20 U2 - Love Is Blindness
21 U2 - I Can't Help Falling In Love With You
22 Dave Fanning - Break
23 Commercial - Discover Card
24 Commercial - Tropicana Twister
25 Commercial - American Plastics Council
26 Commercial - M&M's
27 Commercial - MCI 1-800 Collect
28 Dave Fanning - Break
29 Dia Stein, Dave Fanning, Mal Reading - talk
30 Commercial - Labatt's
31 Commercial - Snickers
32 Commercial - American Plastics Council
33 Commercial - Tropicana Twister
34 Dia Stein - Break
35 Dia Stein, Dave Fanning - Outro
Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music! Heck yeah!
Collective member Just Dave over at The New JDP (LINK:https://thenewjdp.blogspot.com/ ) was given a digitized copy from one of his readers and sent me the files. I chaptered the files and did research into the concert and found press coverage and some pretty bad scans of the CDs. We do have good scans of the cue sheets, so hurray us! (See how this "collective" works? we've got a team working cross-country on giving you, our Beloved Audience, the best shows, ever!).
As usual, we have some Rock & Roll Mysteries for you, the Voodoo Wagon Beloved Audience (and the New JDP audience) to ponder and peruse and perhaps...even SOLVE!
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| This guy hated it... |
The show was recorded on August 28, 1993, at the R.D.S. Arena in Dublin, Ireland in front of a crowd of 30,000 fans. This concert was the last show for the ZOOROPA ‘93 European tour and it was only fitting it would end in U2's hometown of Dublin. The show was a BIG DEAL at the time; I've included a lot of the press coverage from Irish newspapers.
The coverage has a lot of things lost to the past... Complaints about opening act Marxman using the phrase "Tiocfaidh ár lá" on their debut single. Foster's Lager considering an injunction against Guinness over beer rights at the show, counterfeit tickets, and lots of articles about money.
Anyway...there is a TON of press coverage here, this show was HUGE. It was broadcast live, via satellite, around the world. Westwood One not only advertised the broadcast in the press but published a "teaser" ad on July 9th - seven weeks before the concert - announcing in ALL CAPS "ON AUGUST 28, 1993 THE CONCERT BROADCAST EVENT OF THE YEAR WILL AIR LIVE ON RADIO STATIONS AROUND THE GLOBE."
They didn't name the group, or the venue, you had to figure it out for yourself.
Now...here's the MYSTERY:
What the heck are these CDs?
In 1993 WW1 was using factory pressed CDs, not CD-r's. We don't have the original discs to examine but the other 1993 WW1 discs I have are glass-mastered
factory pressed CDs, not burned CD-rs.
This begs the question: Can you record a concert on a Saturday, edit, master, and press it on CD and ship the CDs to radio stations for broadcast six days later the following Friday?
I'm skeptical of such a short turn-around time...plus...this thing has eight national advertisers... lots of moving parts. Jeez, this stuff was a nightmare when I managed preprint advertising at the local newspaper. Is the copy released and ready to print? Anyway...the ONE WEEK turn-around is noteworthy...
And yet we have the basic facts: the concert was on August 28, and the Westwood One show cue sheets claim a broadcast date of September 4th.
The other mystery is WHY? If you have a worldwide satellite broadcast on Saturday, why repeat the same concert with commercials the following weekend? Why would you do that?
It is POSSIBLE this was some sort of promotional release... except it makes no sense to put paid national ads on a promotional release.
So...we have a MYSTERY!
Why put out a concert a week after you broadcast the concert by satellite?
One other note: Westwood One's numbering system at the time was a year, plus the calendar week of the show. It didn't indicate the show was part of a series, so it doesn't work as a catalog number. There is a Westwood One In Concert 93-36 (Melissa Ethridge) and a Superstar Concert 93-36 (Robert Plant).
