U2
Southpark Meadows
Austin, Texas
June 11, 1983
(1st Generation)

Taper: BV
Recording: ECM 939T > Sony WM-D6

Transfer: 1st Generation Tape > Nakamichi DR 01 (azimuth adjusted) > Sound Devices USBPre 2 > Audacity 1.3.11 > Peak Pro 6 (pitch adjusted) > iZotope RX / Ozone 5 (mastered) > Peak Pro XT (post production) > xACT 2.37 > FLAC

01 Out of Control
02 Twilight
03 An Cat Dubh > Into the Heart
04 Surrender
05 Two Hearts Beat As One
06 Seconds
07 Sunday Bloody Sunday
08 Cry/The Electric Co.
09 I Fall Down
10 October
11 New Year's Day
12 Gloria
13 Party Girl
14 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
15 I Will Follow
16 40

Known Faults:
None

New transfer of U2's Austin stop on the War tour, this show and source has circulated for some time from a 1st Gen > CDR (?) and an unknown low gen tape transfer. This comes from my 1st generation copy and takes out all the CDR lineage, I believe you will find this to be a big material upgrade for a couple of reasons.

The raw capture of this show is very low end heavy, typical for an outdoor capture. After taming and tightening up the bass so it sounds like an actual instrument and a few other frequency tweaks in combination with correcting the pitch I'm extremely happy with the final results.

Don't confuse this as a different source due to the lack of audience noise matching the circulating versions as I've given this one the deluxe treatment and extracted 95% of the close to the taper offending noises. All the annoying outside noises like the high pitched whistle in the middle of "October", the extremely annoying whistle at the start of "Gloria" and at the start of "Party Girl" as well as plenty of audience chatter and yelling have been seamlessly extracted.

The boys really seems to take to playing in Austin, they are definitely firing on all cylinders here adding the "Party Girl" bonus song. We also get a mid-song interruption as Bono stops "Sunday Bloody Sunday" due to the audience fighting over a white flag, assumably thrown from the stage.

I believe with the combination of quality and performance you will find this show ranks as one of the very best War tour performances.

Samples provided and artwork included...

mjk5510