U2
May 29, 1981
Palladium
New York, NY
"Little White Rats" (aka Heath St. Tape #4)

conversion: Maxell XLII 90>Line In PowerBook> AIFF (Audio HiJack Pro)
mastering:AIFF>Speed Correct (-6%), Normalize, & WAV conversion (Audacity) >WAV split (QTPro)>SHN (xACT)

Main Set:
01. Intro (bagpipe)
02. The Ocean
03. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
04. Touch
05. I Will Follow
06. I Fall Down
07. An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart
08. Fire
09. Another Time Another Place
10. Electric Co. (inc. NY NY)
11. Things To Make And Do (record flip after song is done)
one second of dead air... then Bono talking
12. Stories For Boys
13. Boy-Girl /cut-tape 3:52 in
side B 
14. Boy-Girl(finish)>Out Of Control
Encore(s):
15. Twilight
16. I Will Follow
(lost) 11 O'Clock Tick Tock, encore version (at the end of IWF, Bono calls out "We've got one more" and the recording ends, inexplicably

[there are 2 md5 files because I had an error the first time in track 16, reencoded to wav, no error, but a separate md5 for the separate SHN]

***brewdog's notes*** 
This is one of a series of shows I'm torrenting from what I'll call the Heath Street tapes. My buddy Tim has always been a huge tape trader, dating back to the early 1980's. I lived for a year in a house on Heath Street he used to live in, and before I moved, I rescued 60 shows he had left in the attic. 

The tapes are all copies from about 1983-1987. They cover 27 U2 shows from 1980-1987, 23 REM shows from the same dates and 10 The Alarm 1983-85. The newest show is from 1987, which means all the tapes are at least 17 years old. I am playing them on a JVC TD-W205 cassette player through line-out straight line-in into my PowerBook. I am capturing the line-in audio using Audio HiJack set for 44.1 stereo AIFF. I'm using QTPro to edit into tracks and convert to WAV, with xACT handling the WAV>SHN duties. This may not be audiophile, but it produces a nice, listenable set. 
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Heath St. Tape #4 is apparently a rare one, and after digitizing, I realized it ran way too fast, so I mastered it a bit. I have been listening to a lot of Boy-era shows, so I took those as my guide in what Bono's voice should sound like. I settled on slowing it down 6% and since I was in Audacity already, I applied normalization.

The performance is hot, the band in a groove, and you will enjoy it for sure. The title "Little White Rats" should evoke a chuckle for those who remember the other "Saint" from Live Aid fame... And to hear Bono belt out "New York, New York" reveals the depth of his Sinatra-worship.

This has to be from vinyl, since there's a pause after "Things to Make and Do" and my tape flips a couple songs later. Back in the day, LPs were a little closer to 35ish mins a side, so if there's a break before the 45min mark, it has to be a record flip. I can't tell if the end of "Boy Girl" that starts track 14 is a repeat of the part at the end of track 13, so I left it, especially since there is no break going into "Out of Control." 

I've been getting a lot of comments about taper/source and I will reiterate- I don't know where these shows came from except my buddy Tim was in an exclusive tape-trading circle. None of the tapes that have cards list anything but track order, so you will have to accept "taper unknown."

Next up- Heath St. Tape #5= Hammersmith Palais 6/9/81

digitized & torrented to U2T by brewdog April 18, 2005