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Rich Willis's Collection

U2   03/27/1985

The Forum, Montreal, QC
Media CDR   1 disc
Notes SBD
J-Card Comment U2
March 27th 1985
Montreal Forum
Quebec

Analogue Soundboard Recording


1. Two Hearts Beat As One
2. MLK
3. The Unforgettable Fire
4. Wire
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday
6. Cry / The Electric Co.
7. A Sort of Homecoming
8. Bad
9. October
10. New Year's Day
11. Pride (In the Name of Love)
12. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
13. Gloria
14. "40"


Hi Everyone, I was given a cassette tape on Febuary 27th 1988
while still at college. I'd heard about the group on the tape but wasn't
very familar with their material at that time. The tape turned out to be a
very good quality (for the time - nothing digital commonly around then ;-))
analog Soundboard recording of U2 performing live at The Montreal Forum on
March 27th 1985. That bootleg was the tape that introduced me to the band &
their music. Since those college years, I've gone on to purchase every
official album, most of the singles, & been lucky enough to see them live at
various places throughout the world etc..Its a nice performance. I'm sharing
this here as I've only recently come across the tape again after cleaning
out the attic. I've not come across a better group of fans than those
consistenly sharing on these forums, & hope people might like this.

I do realise that there was a bootleg recording of this show previously
pressed to CD & released in 1999 - I think. My tape is definately from the
same source, but I think it might be of a lower generation than the source
that the CD was pressed from. I think there's slightly less muffle in my
recording . I'm hoping it'll be an upgrade for everyone. I've had a quick
listen to the CD called Cinema Screen & while its good, its quite 'muffled'
in parts - I've not heard any other recordings so I don't know if better
ones exist.

Here's the lineage for my post....

Maxell UDI90 - Sony Micro HiFi - SoundBlaster Live Platnium - PC - WAVfile

WAV file edited to chop off non relevant parts at start & end
Fades added to start & end
Pitch lowered slightly as the tape appeared to be playing slightly too fast
resulting in a higher piched than normal Bono ;-)
Volume brought up
Hiss Reduction gently applied - Its still a bit hissy, but I didn't want to
apply too much noise reduction as it would have destroyed too much cymbal,
vocal, guitar top end etc..
No Eq was applied to the recording, no frequencies were enhanced - just some
mild hiss filteing
Wav file split into individual tracks

Wav converted to FLAC (Level6)
Trades Allowed Yes
Owned by Rich Willis · Last Updated May 23, 2023