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rob okorn ([email protected])
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 23:15:59 PDT

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I don't think it's fair to say there's a dearth of quality material
worthy of release.
Salome is a bad example, the bootleggers released everything on the DAT
tapes. That was a bit tedious and those songs were a year away from
their ultimate version so these rehearsals were essentially very
premature.
The Lovetown December Dublin Depot DAT soundboard masters were stolen
and released on boots, the new year's gig was released on boot, most of
those releases are at least official release quality sonically. Some
might argue that some of the Melbourne shows were better performance
wise.
J mentioned Chicago 87, the RHT boot defeats the purpose, besides a
soundboard of that wouldn't capture the transprency of the stellar
audience recording.
On the first leg, U2 recorded the 5 New Jersey Meadowlands shows, while
the 2nd show may be the better of the 5, those shows are definitely
inferior to 'JT on Fire' and 'RHT'.
Third leg, they did record quite a few shows inclusing the 2nd fort
Worth show which was quite good although the first was superior. The
night before in austin they played a superb 'Spanish Eyes' which is far
better than the Denver Mcnichols version which they have. I guess it
depends on which shows they recorded and having someone having an ear
for releasing the best versions. Hopefully they won't dull the
recording like they did on the flat compressed 'popheart' which is mind
boggling given the equipment thay have access to.
U2 haven't released any real live artifact from the UF tour besides the
one track, a pro shot UF concert is a void that U2 fans would embrace.
Luckily boots like 'Four at Four' and the Bologna boot exist in their
better than official release sound quality but an official live disc
wouldn't hurt. Even though 'A Sort of Homecoming' live on Wide Awake
was a soundcheck version, at least the sound quality is superb and open
which bodes well for a legit live release. They recorded a bunch of the
fall 84's.

As far as Red Rocks, they could have released the entire show(even with
the Electric co. edit). Red Rocks though really captures the energy and
passion of that period.

Alot of great live performances have already been captured on boots, an
official release will inevitably have some inferior performances and a
more polished flat sound(heaven forbid popheart sound quality). That's
why the 'Joshua Tree Sessions' is such a natural given the appeal and
timelessness of that album. What U2 did on JT was play the songs a
bunch of times and pick the parts they preferred and overdubbed. Salome
was more a smorgasboard of starts and stops and Salome sessions were
over a year before the final versions.
Hopefully Island/U2 will have the forsight to not neglect some of those
b-sides, especially Luminous times and spanish Eyes.

If enough people email and mail Island and Polygram and post to Wire, it
will have it's intended impact.

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