Bedoc

U2
National Tennis Centre, Melbourne, Australia
October 7, 1989
soundcheck

Sony WM D 3 > pc-62 microphones > first generation analog copy > Yamaha K-540 deck > Soundforge 9.0 > CD Wave Editor > wav. > FLAC

taper: N.N. (to respect the taper's privacy)

recording position: hiding at the top of some scaffolding

CD 1 (45:38)
01 checking the sound: bass, vocals (3:35)
02 checking the guitar sound: Where The Streets Have No Name, In God's Country,
Desire, All I Want Is You, Gloria (7:53)
03 Where The Streets Have No Name intro (1:51)
04 checking the guitar sound: I Still Haven't Found, Bad (1:00)
05 The Unforgettable Fire intro (1:01)
06 One Tree Hill intro, Bad intro (1:25)
07 Desire - instrumental - (1:20)
08 With Or Without You - instrumental - (2:31)
09 New Year's Day piano (1:42)
10 checking the guitar sound (2:50)
11 blues instrumental (2:49)
12 guitar jam with blues, Desire (2:57)
13 blues song "baby, change your mind" (5:09)
14 Desire - instrumental - (7:25)
15 dead air (2:03)

CD 2 (44:34)
01 Desire - instrumental - (4:33)
02 dead air, checking the drum sound (1:35)
03 checking the guitar sound: Desire, All Along The Watchtower (1:20)
04 All Along The Watchtower - instrumental - (1:56)
05 All I Want Is You (6:50)
06 dead air (1:25)
07 The Unforgettable Fire - instrumental - (4:24)
08 checking the drum sound (1:31)
09 Where The Streets Have No Name - instrumental - (6:13)
10 dead air (1:00)
11 Where The Streets Have No Name - instrumental - (2:49)
12 checking the guitar sound: Desire, I Still Haven't Found,
dead air (10:53)

The venue (National Tennis Centre) must have been a taper's dream in those days. The entrance was always open for the tennis
players and the fire exits to the arena were never locked. This was the reason that the soundcheck could be recorded.

Transfer and upload in July 2011.