U2
Pontiac Silverdome
30 April 1987
Pontiac, Michigan, USA


All differences present within alternate recording source (not created by me):
- this recording omits one song to fit concert onto source cassette - Exit / Van Morrison's Gloria (snippet)
- crowd cheering edits between encore sets (no music missing)
- tape flip between Sunday... and In God's... (no music missing)
- different recorder source (seems to be more nearby crowd noise)


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store-bought behind-counter 1980s cassette > Audacity capture > edits to 16b/44.1Khz AIFF > FLAC

01 - Where The Streets Have No Name
02 - I Will Follow
03 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (with scolding of security)
04 - MLK
05 - The Unforgettable Fire
06 - Bullet The Blue Sky
07 - Running To Stand Still
08 - A Sort Of Homecoming
09 - Sunday Bloody Sunday    (exit missing)
10 - In God's Country
11 - Bad / Ruby Tuesday (snippet) / Sympathy For The Devil (snippet)
12 - October
13 - New Year's Day
14 - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
15 - With Or Without You / Shine Like Stars (snippet) / Love Will Tear Us Apart (snippet)
16 - Gloria
17 - "40"


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An upload of this show was provided on this forum later in 2020 (thanks!), reminding me that I had my own cassette (dub) of the same show. In the comments for the earlier upload, a participant here mentioned another source for this show they possessed, which seems similar to the cassette I owned. Indeed, only one song (Exit) was omitted from the cassette in order to fit the show onto the cassette, alone with a few presumed-minutes of crowd-cheering between encores. Having not played this cassette in ages, I thought I'd digitise it.

Some history: I bought the cassette in the late 1980s at the Wax Trax store (R.I.P.) in Chicago, the red label inserted into the case tempting me from behind the counter (image provided). I'd attended the legendary Chicago concert on the day before (fantastic recordings of the Chicago concert circulate here, as "Rock's Hottest Ticket"), but didn't yet possess a recording of the Chicago show. One day later in Michigan? Sure I'll check it out!

The cassette dub's sound quality was fine, nothing hi-fi, but sufficient for someone wanting to enjoy something like the Chicago concert. I'd guess it's maybe a 2nd generation dub, but one never knows. Eventually I acquired versions of the Chicago show (wow!), and also, a few months ago, downloaded the above-mentioned Pontiac recording. I noticed quickly that my cassette was a different recording of the same Pontiac concert, but also not as complete. However, my cassette's sound quality, though not great, improved upon the earlier Pontiac upload.

I'm not sure if my cassette is the same recording described by the commenter noted above (comment quoted below), but it sure seems like it could be. The two shows differ in duration by about eight minutes, which certainly would cover Exit and some crowd cheer excerpts. The intro music also is not present on this cassette. Fans near the taper are captured on the recording, but they're not obnoxious, and the concert audio frequently drowns them out. There's no distortion, and Bono's vocals are pretty prominent ... perhaps the recorder was quite in-line or proximate to amps.