U2 and the New Voices of Freedom (Remastered) 
September 28, 1987 

Joshua Tree Tour (3rd Leg)
Madison Square Garden
New York, New York 

Source: Audience
Format: 2CD
Total Time: 102:18

Disc 1 (46:57)

01. Intro* / Where the Streets Have No Name (7:07)
02. I Will Follow (4:20)
03. Trip Through Your Wires (3:33)
04. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Exodus (5:51)
05. MLK (1:50)
06. The Unforgettable Fire (4:31)
07. Bullet the Blue Sky (5:30)
08. Running to Stand Still (5:45)
09. In God's Country (2:48)
10. Sunday Bloody Sunday (5:56)

Disc 2 (55:28)

01. Exit (4:55)
02. Help (2:00) (The Beatles)
03. Bad (9:06)
04. October (2:03)
05. New Year's Day (5:37)
06. Pride (5:22)
07. With or Without You (5:36)
08. Party Girl (3:19)
09. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (with The New Voices of Freedom) (6:00)
10. Spanish Eyes (5:45)
11. 40 (5:38)

* "All You Need Is Love" over PA

Enjoy!

Source:

CD Trade > EAC (Secure) > WAV > Shorten > SHN > alt.binaries.u2 (KBRY post) > WAV > FLAC 1.1.2 > TLH > WAV > CoolEdit Pro > TLH > FLAC6

Comments (from Steve Vahey):

History of this set is: AKG 313 mics > Sony TCM D-5. Transferred Sony TC KA1-ES > HHb 850. Tracked on the fly > CDR (Gen?) > Digital Sound Processing > CDR

This is my remastered version of the "U2 and the New Voices of Freedom" show that I received from Justin Cook. I remixed the audio a bit, increased the level to saturated (without clipping), isolated and removed some low level background noise (most likely recording deck noise), and blended out 3 or 4 abrupt breaks in the recording (where the cassettes were flipped, etc.). Fades were added to the front and back ends of each disc. I also removed a repeating clicking noise that can be heard on the original Disc 2 between the marks of 29:05 and 55:24 (from "With or Without You" to "40"). There was a break in the original recording at the 29:05 mark, so this must have been where Cassette 2 was flipped. Apparently only Cassette 2, Side B suffered from the clicking noise, because it can't be heard anywhere else in the original recording. The clicking has been removed and can no longer be heard in the remastered version.

The clarity in areas of Disc 1, track 1 ("Streets") is not as good as the rest of the show. The taper was apparently either still moving into position or still getting set up and didn't have the mics as high. After track 1, the clarity is consistently excellent throughout the rest of the show.

The track lengths on the remastered version are slightly different than on the original set because I put together new cuesheets with different index points. All track transitions are seamless with no audible indication of track changes. I also eliminated the index point at track 11 of disc 1 because it was unnecessary.

This is one of the best Joshua Tree audience recordings in my collection. And it's a great show, including rare performances of ISHFWILF with the New Voices of Freedom (Edge and Adam watch from the sidelines on this one) and Spanish Eyes. This is a definite must-have. I wish all audience recordings were this awesome!

CT's notes: I love this show & recording, and I've played around with the idea of fixing the 2 edits for awhile (missed beginnings of MLK & SBS). To my knowledge there is no complete audience recording. I'd considered attempting to patch it with the soundboard source (from the R&H outtakes VHS) but that source is pretty thin and would not have transitioned well with the audience tape. So this was my compromise. 

MLK - I used the beginning of the 2nd verse to patch in the missing "Sleep, sleep tonight" in the first verse. Transition is as smooth as I could get it.

Sunday Bloody Sunday - Luckily there is enough of Larry's drum intro on the tape to be able to patch it in and complete the intro. I like how this worked out, on the original the first drum hit almost sounds like it fades in; now it comes in sharply as it should on SBS. 

Compiled 2007-11-10