02-04-85, Providence Civic Center. Sound Quality: Fair audience, this show was transferred from tape to CDR. Comments: The most interesting feature of this show is the playing of Knocking on Heaven's door between the Electric co. and A sort of homecoming. Although I cannot stomach the song ever since Guns and Roses tormented us when they released it as a single, it's always nice to see that improvisation is still alive with U2. For some reason they are unable to start A sort of homecoming so Bono asks for a guitar and starts to play the Bob Dylan song. I do find it strange though that U2 play no song before Gloria during the encore. Usually at this stage of the tour it's either Knocking on Heaven's door or Party girl, but since the former was already played, where was the latter? Maybe a little cut during recording? The soundquality is only just fair, not so surprising since my sourcetape sounded like it was recorded in whispermode and by the Chipmunks. At least the speed proved little problem. |