Westwood One - U2 - Live From Dublin

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!

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?

https://mega.nz/file/qIBTyKDY#Tr2ciaiKCo7nBl8LJ6uySNeO2D3NYTTId4vBtZkWSx4

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). 

NBC The Source NBC 84-9 - U2, Red Rocks, Morrison, CO June 5, 1983

U2
NBC The Source NBC 84-9
Broadcast date March 16, 17, 18, 1984

Recorded at:
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 
Morrison, CO ("Denver")
June 5, 1983.

01 Rona Elliot - NBC The Source NBC 84-9 Intro
02 Commercial - Budweiser (A Flock Of Seagulls)
03 Commercial - Lee Jeans
04 Rona Elliot - NBC The Source NBC 84-9 Intro 2
05 Barry Fey - Stage Intro
06 U2 - Out of Control
07 U2 - Twilight
08 U2 - An Cat Dubh, Into The Heart
09 U2 - Surrender
10 Rona Elliot - NBC The Source NBC 84-9 Break
11 Commercial - Air Force Reserve
12 Commercial - Max Factor Maxi
13 U2 - Two Hearts Beat As One
14 U2 - Seconds
15 U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
16 U2 - Cry, The Electric Co.
17 U2 - I Fall Down
18 Rona Elliot - NBC The Source NBC 84-9 Break
19 Commercial - Budweiser
20 U2 - October
21 U2 - New Year's Day
22 U2 - Gloria
23 Rona Elliot - NBC The Source NBC 84-9 Break
24 Commercial - Max Factor Maxi
25 Commercial - Air Force Reserve
26 U2 - Party Girl
27 U2 - 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
28 U2 - I Will Follow
29 U2 - '40'
30 Rona Elliot - NBC The Source NBC 84-9 Outro

Run out grooves (according to Discogs....)
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout): NBC-84-9-A L-16842
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout): NBC-84-9-B L-16842
Matrix / Runout (Side C runout): NBC-84-9-C L-16842
Matrix / Runout (Side D runout): NBC-84-9-D L-16842

From the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection
Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music

This was a repeat of the first broadcast of this show, which was originally on NBC The Source NBC 83-37, broadcast July 8, 9, 10, 1983.  This original broadcast featured custom disc labels and a printed cover, all of which carried the image of the child on the album cover. This later rebroadcast did not come with the fancy packaging.

There is an unusual 3 minute and 21 second section before the encore of audience clapping, hooting, screaming, and whistling until the band starts the final song.  That's not unusual on an actual live broadcast; the radio station has no control over the length of the encore break. On an edited show for syndication, they usually tighten it up and cut right to the final number.  It's even more unusual that this was repeated on the second syndication.

https://mega.nz/file/SBoBVZwT#iInNN1nIsiwnka9vN-Zonqa8ceDegWHlyOAVGtybxGk

Portions of the concert was issued on VHS, Betamax, Laserdix, and DVD.

U2 - The Point Depot Dublin, Ireland 1st January 1990

 

                                            https://workupload.com/file/Jz3bVTYTTCg

U2 / Kosovo Stadium, Sarajevo, Sept. 23, 1997

U2
Stadion Koševo  (Kosovo Stadium)
Sarajevo
September 23, 1997
Maxell MX-S 100 master cassettes
recorded from KFOG-FM

01 John Grappone - KFOG-FM Intro
02 J.J. Jackson - WW1 Intro
03 U2 - Mofo
04 U2 - I Will Follow
05 U2 - Gone
06 U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing
07 U2 - Last Night On Earth
08 U2 - Until The End Of The World
09 U2 - New Years Day
10 J.J. Jackson - Break
11 U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love)
12 U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
13 U2 - All I Want Is You
14 U2 - Staring At The Sun
15 J.J. Jackson - Break
16 U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
17 U2 - Bullet The Blue Sky
18 U2 - Please
19 U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
20 J.J. Jackson - Segment Intro
21 U2 - Discothèque
22 U2 - If You Wear That Velvet Dress
23 U2 - With Or Without You
24 J.J. Jackson - Break
25 U2 - Miss Sarajevo
26 J.J. Jackson - Break
27 U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
28 U2 - Mysterious Ways
29 U2 - One
30 U2 - Unchained Melody
31 J.J. Jackson - Outro
32 Linda McInnes - KFOG-FM Outro

This is a transfer off of my metal MX-S 100 cassettes, which have sat in a box since I recorded them back in 1997.  I've never been a big fan of U2, and to be blunt, recording on expensive metal cassettes probably wasn't necessary because I never listened to the show more than once or twice.  The stadium sound is muddy, instruments are poorly defined, and Bono is in poor voice.

  
That being said... it was an historic concert.  Spin Magazine ranked it as 7th on their list of the 35 Greatest Concerts of the last 35 Years in 2020.  

The collapse of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991 led to armed conflict between the multitude of ethnicities, nationalisms, religions, languages, and ideologies.  It may be apocryphal, but Otto von Bismark's comment "If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans" came to mind.  

As the conflicts wound down, U2 became the first major act to play a concert in Sarajevo in several years.  The concert was carried world-wide by satellite.  This version is from San Francisco's KFOG-FM, with the starting and ending of the show handled by the local radio personalities, and the Westwood One portions by in-house personality J.J. Jackson.

There are several bootlegs of this show.  Westwood One also syndicated a rebroadcast of an edited version on April 6, 1998, as In Concert #98-15 show, also tracks appeared on December 19, 1998 as In Concert #98-51 (combined with Hammersmith Palais 1982), and just the 1997 tracks again as #00-35 on August 26, 2000.  

The Superstar Concert Series produced a 3-cd set as #97-39.  Discogs has this as "released on Sep 23, 1997" which is impossible as that's the date of the concert itself. The cue sheet does not show a broadcast window.  The Hammersmith/Sarajevo compilation was broadcast again as 02-09 on March 2, 2002.

In keeping with my new policy of giving Our Beloved Audience a big pile of junk to wade through (or delete), there's a bunch of press coverage in the artwork file about the concert, and a sad note about the death of West Coast disc jockey Linda McInnes.

On McInnes... one thing to note about radio here is that disk jockeys often moved between the L.A./San Diego and Bay Area radio markets.  Air fare was inexpensive, the flight time is short (about 70 minutes of flight time).  As there were "network" stations in both markets, if they needed a disk jockey to fill a slot they would have one fly in to cover shifts for a week or two.  McInnes was a regular on Bay Area radio...but also in the San Diego and Los Angeles markets.

https://mega.nz/file/2VBlxA4b#YJX1cgZqkK5-1nwDHDSClaBwuM0V9a9dNKSPScdjpwk

U2 - Live Boston, MA. 1987

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U2 -Boston Garden
Boston, MA.
 September 18, 1987
Soundboard @flac

 "Forever in Fever, Forever in Heat" on the Godfather label.

CD > EAC > Traders Little Helper > Flac8 sector aligned

 

Disc 1:

01 - Where The Streets Have No Name
02 - I Will Follow
03 - Trip Through Your Wires
04 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
05 - MLK
06 - The Unforgettable Fire
07 - Bullet The Blue Sky
08 - Running To Stand Still
09 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
10 - Exit
11 - In God's Country

Disc 2:

01 - Help
02 - Helter Skelter
03 - Bad
04 - October
05 - New Year's Day
06 - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
07 - One Tree Hill
08 - With Or Without You
09 - Spanish Eyes
10 - Out Of Control
11 - 40

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U2 - Hammersmith Palais, Dec. 6, 1982 - BBC College Concert #27

U2 – BBC College Concert #27
for broadcast March 27, 1983
recorded:
Hammersmith Palais, December 6, 1982
Label: London Wavelength – 27
Series: BBC College Concert

01 Pete Larkin, Richard Skinner - BBC College Concert #27 Intro
02 U2 - Surrender
03 U2 - I Threw A Brick
04 U2 - A Day Without Me
05 U2 - An Cat Dubh
06 U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
07 Pete Larkin - BBC College Concert #27 Break
08 U2 - The Electric Co.
09 U2 - October
10 U2 - New Year's Day
11 U2 - Gloria
12 U2 - I Will Follow
13 U2 - Fire
14 Richard Skinner, Pete Larkin - BBC College Concert #27 Outro

Run out grooves:
BBC COLLEGE CONCERT 3/27/83-A"U2"
BBC COLLEGE CONCERT 3/27/83-B U2

This version digitized February 2023 from the syndicated radio disc as part of the ongoing series of Đ®åⒻṬëŕṽøï needledrops.  

Yeah, I did this a month ago but I've been busy with those tapes I mentioned, plus I'm happy to report that the grandson passed his eighth weekly spelling test with a perfect score.  

Comes with 300 dpi scans of the cue sheet and disc labels.  Flac files of wavs.

This show also appears on BBC In Concert #295, which has one additional song (A Celebration). London Wavelength also repeated these tracks on the BBC Rock Hour #410, with commercials added.

The show has been bootlegged many times, too.

https://mega.nz/file/iVYEzLpJ#EQaen75VwEWLZeRJgStvmNY-BVM_YiGEZPrML0XGB2o

U2 - Live Dublin 1993

U2 - Royal Society Dublin Showgrounds,
Dublin, Ireland
August 28, 1993
Excellent matrix recording @256

Track List:
Disc 1:
1. Intro / Zoo Station
2. The Fly
3. Even Better Than The Real Things
4. Mysterious Ways
5. One / Unchained Melody
6. Until The End Of The World
7. New Year's Day
8. Numb
9. Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World
10. Angel Of Harlem
11. When Love Comes To Town
12. Stay (Far Away, So Close!)
13. Satellite Of Love

Disc 2:
1. Bad
2. -OFFICIAL TRACK REMOVED- (Bullet for Blue Sky)
3. Running To Stand Still
4. Where The Streets Have No Name
5. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
6. Desire
7. Help / Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
8. With Or Without You
9. Love Is Blindness
10. Can't Help Falling In Love


Dublin '93 pt 1

Dublin '93 pt 2

U2 - Live Pinkpop Festival 1981

U2 - Pinkpop Festival
Sportpark, Geleen, Netherlands
June 8, 1981
Broadcast Recording @160

Track List
The Ocean
11 O'Clock Tick Tock
I Will Follow
An Cat Dubh
Into The Heart
Another Time, Another Place
The Cry - The Electric Co.
Stories For Boys
Boy-Girl
Out Of Control
Twilight
I Will Follow

Pinkpop '81

U2 - Live Johannesburg 1998

U2 - Johannesburg Stadium 1998
Johannesburg, South Africa
March 21, 1998
Soundboard @160


Track List:
Disc One:
Pop Muzik
Mofo
I Will Follow
Gone
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Last Night On Earth
Until The End Of The World
New Year's Day
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Stand By Me
All I Want Is You
Staring At The Sun

Disc Two:
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Please
Where The Streets Have No Name
Lemon
Discothèque
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
With Or Without You
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Mysterious Ways
One
40


Last live performances of Mofo, Last Night On Earth, If You Wear That Velvet Dress, and Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me.


Johannesburg '98

U2 - Live Hilversum, Netherlands 1980

U2 - Hilversum, Netherlands
KRO Studios Broadcast
October 14, 1980
Fantastic FM Source @128

A great sounding concert before U2 went all hypocrite.

Bono speaking in Tokyo last year said: “My prayer is that we become better in looking after our planet.” Meanwhile U2's tour carbon footprint can also be measured in space terms, with their colossal emissions of up to 65,000 tons of CO2 enough to fly Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr from earth to the planet Mars — and back.
Read more at The Independent

Track List:
I Will Follow, Touch
An Cat Dubh
Into The Heart
A Day Without Me
Twilight
The Electric Co.
Send In The Clowns
Stories For Boys
Boy-Girl
Out Of Control
11 O'Clock Tick Tock

Hilversum

U2 - Dublin 1980

U2 - National Stadium
Dublin, Ireland
February, 26 1980
FM Source @192

pw - fbsvw

Great sounding show and good energetic set. Recorded the week of the release of their 1st album and long before Bono, Edge and the rest of the boys became multi-gazillionaires.

Track List
01 - DJ intro - Silver lining
02 - Speed of life
03 - The magic carpet
04 - Stories for boys
05 - Trevor
06 - Another time, another place
07 - Another day
08 - Pete the Chop
09 - The dream is over
10 - Cartoon world
11 - Jack in the box
12 - Shadows and tall trees
13 - A day without me
14 - Twilight
15 - Boy-girl
16 - Out of control - DJ outro

Bonus
Stories for Boys Late Late Show 01-15-1980

Dublin '80