29.05.1981 USA, New York, Palladium Little White Rats very good Audience 01. Intro (bagpipe) [1:10] 02. The Ocean [1:35] 03. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock [4:33] 04. Touch [2:42] 05. I Will Follow [3:20] 06. I Fall Down [3:03] 07. An Cat Dubh / Into The Heart [7:18] 08. Fire [3:52] 09. Another Time Another Place [4:41] 10. Electric Co. (inc. NY NY) [4:37] 11. Things To Make And Do (record flip after song is done) [2:00] one second of dead air... then Bono talking 12. Stories For Boys [3:10] 13. Boy-Girl /cut-tape 3:52 in side B I'm a believer.... [3:52] 14. Boy-Girl (finish) / Out Of Control [4:06] 15. Twilight [4:12] 16. I Will Follow [3:35] (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 Total Running Time: [57:53] ***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. 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." digitized by brewdog April 18, 2005 - definitiv lossless source!!!! Complete concert: No (11 o'clock tick tock is missing) Source: Maxell XLII 90 ->Line In PowerBook -> AIFF (Audio HiJack Pro) Mastering: AIFF>Speed Correct (-6%) -> Normalize, & WAV conversion (Audacity) ->WAV split (QTPro) ->SHN (xACT) -> CD Comments: U2 perform quit well,the songs are performed with high energy. I fall down' is introduced as: 'This is a new song, it’s for in the bus. Fire' is the version eventually ends up on the album. Fire' has moved forward and has become part of the regular set. The sound of this recording is good. Instruments and voice are balanced well.