LDB Vintage Series #077

Hi there! After closing both my Master and Special series I took a break from seeding, enjoying life and most of all
preparing for a new series! This is not going to be as frequent as my previous ones, I'll be seeding shows from time
to time so don't expect massive volumes here.

Why a "vintage" series? Because music in the 70's and 80's was really something...so different, so special with "that" kind
of sound which you don't find anymore. That was the era of real music without the internet, of long tours and enjoyable live
shows spanning from metal to new wave, progressive, jazz, fusion, pop. So many bands were born and disappeared during those
two decades.

I am then celebrating the 70's and the 80's and their unmistakeable sound in this LDB Vintage Series. You will find many bands
I have never seeded in the past but that I still enjoy listening to. Most of these come from low generation tapes that were traded
around that period, many radio broadcasts and overall lots of surprises.

U2
Hamburg, Congress Centrum Hamburg (CCH)
January 28, 1985

01.4th Of July / 11 'O Clock Tick Tock 
02.I Will Follow
03.Seconds
04.MLK
05.The Unforgettable Fire
06.Wire
07.Sunday Bloody Sunday
08.The Cry / The Electric Co. / Amazing Grace (snippet) / Wooden Heart (snippet)
09.A Sort Of Homecoming
10.Bad / I'm Waiting For The Man (snippet)
11.October
12.New Year's Day
13.Pride (In the Name of Love)
14.Gloria
15.Party Girl
16.Two Hearts Beat as One
17.40
18.Concert Radio Report (January 29th)

TT 105:45

Lineage: Audience > Unknown recording device > 1st generation tape > TEAC Tape Deck AD-RW900 > Creative Sound Blaster Recon 3D > HD > 
SoundForge Pro 10.0 > CD Wave > FLAC Frontend (level 6) 

Bono - vocals
The Edge - guitars, piano, vocals
Adam Clayton - bass
Larry Mullen Jr. - drums

RLR used to be an avid U2 collector back in the 80's. He was also an extensive taper and I am sure lots of his masters are floating around. 
His masters are also from the italian dates of the UF tour 1985...I don't remember if I seeded them. He is of german origin despite living in 
Italy and had lots of connections with german tapers.

About 5 years ago he handed over to me his entire collecion, some 2000 tapes which I have carefully digitized and some of them has been shared 
freely on different trackers. Many of them were 1st copies from masters coming from Germany (with the unmistekanly german hand-written style) 
and this one from Hamburg was the case. Same goes for Munich from the same tour but that version with Sort Of Homecoming tape flip is already 
circulating.

This one from Hamburg is pretty solid recording from a wild audience. I do not know how does this compare with other versions circulating but 
at least this is a known 1st gen sourced copy. It also includes a radio report for that concert broadcasted the day after which makes it a nice bonus.

Enjoy!