xx.xx.1983 Boy Story (refurbished bootleg / music and interview radioshow with B.P. Fallon) exc. FM Broadcast Total Time: [44:04] 01. A Day Without Me (mix of unreleased, but commonly bootlegged demo with the Boy CD version) / B.P. Fallon's Show Intro [3:43] 02. "first studio experience" / Twilight (demo - used as B-side on "Another Day" single) [6:33] 03. "trying to get a record deal" [1:33] 04. Stories For Boys (U2-3 version) / "failing to get a record deal" [4:35] 05. "cinematic sound" / Stories For Boys (Boy CD version) / "Steve Lillywhite" [4:23] 06. Twilight (Boy CD version) / "one of the great debut LP's" [4:27] 07. "strip out the fussiness" / Out Of Control (demo - not from U2-3) / "playing it ten times" [4:39] 08. "worth the wait" / Out Of Control (Boy CD version) [4:26] 09. "discussion" / Another Time Another Place (demo - unreleased, but commonly bootlegged version) / "I have to laugh" [5:03] 10. "a new understanding" / Another Time Another Place (Boy CD version) / "thanks cats" [4:38] Source: Original Pressed Commercial Bootleg LP "Boy Story" > CoolEdit2000 (WAV) > SHN Bootleg Info: Hammy Hamster Records England (1986) - no other info available Notes: 1983 music and interview radioshow with B.P. Fallon This is sourced from an vinyl bootleg LP, which itself seemed to be sourced from a multi-gen. cassette of an FM radio show. The host, B.P. Fallon chats with Bono about the making of he BOY LP, and they compare and contrast the original demo versions to the final versions that made it to the album. The sound quality of the vinyl bootleg was not all that great, so I had the idea that it might be "fun" to make it better myself. (We all have different definitions of "fun" - just remember that!!) My process was as follows: 1. Played the vinyl on my stereo and fed it into my harddrive via an RCA stereo jack and the CoolEdit2000 .WAV editing program. 2. De-clicked the vinyl as best as I could by hand (removing them manually in a .WAV editing program). I don't have a good de-clicking program and I don't trust them anyway. 3. Went ahead a de-hissed it too. I normally wouldn't do this to a vinyl source, but since the vinyl was obviously sourced from a multi-gen. tape anyway, I figured it could only make things better. I did this by using a mild amount of noise reduction followed by some equalization to improve the mid-range a bit while also getting rid of the high-end hiss. 4. Replaced all the music from the LP with the same tracks from better sources. I used the BOY CD as source for the final album versions, and I used the CONTRACT DEMOS bootleg CD as source for the othe demo versions. However, one track didn't seem to match any known demo: the version of "Out Of Control" on this bootleg seems to be an entirely new demo version not heard anywhere else! So it was not replaced. 5. Went back and speed-corrected all the interview segments. While I was comparing the music tracks, I noticed that the speeds of the album tracks on the bootleg were way off from the speeds of the BOY CD versions. So I used CoolEdit's "stretch" function to fix everything. 6. Used CoolEdit's 4-track mixer to smoothly fade from the interviewer voice-overs at the beginning and end of each track into the upgraded songs mentioned above. There are also one or two cases where they talk over a song's mid-section so I had to match and mix those together too. Oh, and just for grins I mixed up a "demo vs. LP version" of "A Day Without Me" to start off the CD. This was not on the original. Hope you enjoy the results, Dirk Horst (dhorst@airmail.net) Thetradersden.org: Torrent 52710 (by somedays)