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Stuart Ferguson's Collection

U2   08/22/1992

Foxboro Stadium, Foxboro, MA
Source Audience
Media CDR   2 discs
Notes DVD 2058; lineage: Aiwa CM-30 mic > Sony WM-D3 analog recorder > Maxell XL-II Master cassettes > Nakamichi CR-7A playback (azimuth adjust) > Peak 5.2 .wavs > DVD > Goldwave (file join, speed fix, fade in/out at beginning/end of show, file split) > FLAC. Taper: Brother KM, in association with JEMS
J-Card Comment Butterking's Comments:

Calling this tape "the lost master" might be going a little too far, but suffice it to say Brother KM's Foxboro recording had certainly been lost to history. If memory serves this is the last time KM taped U2 himself (he has seen many many shows since then, right up through Honolulu, but after Foxboro he left the chores to myself and JH), and upon his return from the Boston area to Seattle almost 15 years ago, this tape was deemed to have too much audience chatter to be considered one of our/his best. We did a lot of masters along the Zoo TV tour and this one was prematurely viewed as a lesser effort and confined to a shelf at KM's house never to be thought of again.

But newly motivated by this tracker, I've been rounding up all our masters anew, and on a visit to KM's house in February, I pulled this tape out and was pleasantly surprised by the quality. Sure it is a little distant, and sure there's more chatter than I'd like, but not half bad. So I took the masters home with me and a couple of weeks ago I did a fresh transfer on the newly tuned up Nakamichi CR-7A. Brother KM used the same set up he had since Tempe 4/4/87: the shockingly decent Aiwa CM-30 mic and the trusty Sony Walkman WM-D3 (on Maxell XL-II cassettes if you must know).

I transfered three cassette sides to three .wav files and given a recent focus on checking speed/pitch accuracy, I sent the three files to Mike Duchek on a DVD to correct them before converting to FLAC and posting. He has done so graciously as ever and I thank him once again.

Dedicated to Alexis, Brother KM's daughter of just 5 weeks who has absolutely no idea how many great tapes her dad contributed to U2 collectors over the last 20 years.

Butterking for JEMS
Trades Allowed Yes
Reference / Generation 2058
Owned by Stuart Ferguson · Last Updated May 23, 2023