Bono - 2022-11-12 - San Francisco, CA (IEM/FLAC)

(IEM FLAC)

Bono

San Francisco

November 12, 2022

The Orpheum

Lineage:

1. Multiple IEM Receivers > Multitrack Recorder (24/44.1)

Taper: Sharebear/hoserama

2. Custom Omnis > Custom 12v battery box > M10 (24/4

Taper: Salem

* Note: Custom mics are very similiar to the DPA 4061

Mixed by sharebear/hoserama

Dithered using Izotope MBIT+

Flac'ed using Trader's Little Helper

Mix version 20221205C

01. Intro

02. City of Blinding Lights

03. Vertigo

04. (On Tour With Me Book)

05. With Or Without You

06. (Show Intro)

07. (I Was Born With an Eccentric Heart)

08. (My Father, The Tenor)

09. (My Mother, Iris)

10. (The Ramones)

11. Out of Control

12. (Geomoetry and Geography of the Irish Mind)

13. (Drummer Seeks Musician)

14. (Larry Mullen Jr.)

15. (The Edge)

16. (Adam Clayton)

17. Stories for Boys

18. (U2's Rehearsal Room)

19. I Will Follow

20. Iris

21. (Back in the Sorrento Lounge)

22. (Mt. Temple Comprehensive School)

23. (Paul McGuinness)

24. (Business of Pumped Up Personalities)

25. Sunday Bloody Sunday

26. (Two Tenors in Search of a Third)

27. Pride

28. (A Bigger Brain)

29. Where the Streets Have No Name

30. (After the Joshua Tree)

31. Desire

32. (Love Makes the World Go Around)

33. (Back in the Sorrento Lounge Again)

34. Beautiful Day

35. (Unscientific Theory)

36. Torna a Surriento

37. (Closing Remarks)

38. City of Blinding Lights

(Parentheses indicate spoken word sections and set pieces)

--

Show Notes:

About the halfway point of Bono's book tour, second to last in the US. Bono's voice in good form, mind in good spirit, and a good and respectful crowd. Glad I went and saw it, although I think just one show is good enough for me.

Recording Notes:

The PA for this show was on the low side, and the dynamics were very wide. Bono goes from a whisper that you can't hear unless you're next to the speaker to a loud yell of a rock star. Then since the PA volume is low, crowd noise can overpower the music easily. Thankfully the wireless recordings help greatly in that regard, putting a direct line from Bono's microphone(s) to your ears. That said, the wireless cames with a bunch of extra sauce. All four folks on stage to a high level of click track and verbal cues during the musical sections of the show. In particular, several songs have a "one" cue on every downbeat of the song. Very annoying for the outside listener (can't blame them though--not meant for outside listening). I've spent a lot of time scrubbing those counts and clicks. Sometimes you'll hear a little left over, or some artifacts when the cue overlapped with a spoken word. Can't be perfect, but much better than the original source in my opinion.

Bono - 2022-11-08 - Chicago, IL (AUD/FLAC)

Bono

November 8, 2022

Chicago Theatre; Chicago, IL

Source: AT853s > Sony PCM-A10 @ 24-bit/44.1kHz

Location: center floor

Transfer: A10 > Audacity > FLAC

Taper: lowlight10

01 -intro-

02 City of Blinding Lights

03 Vertigo

04 -tour-

05 With or Without You

06 -heart and music-

07 Out of Control

08 -pubs-

09 -the band-

10 Stories for Boys

11 I Will Follow

12 Iris (Hold Me Close)

13 -Pavarotti-

14 -school and Paul McGuinness-

15 Sunday Bloody Sunday

16 -Princess Diana-

17 Pride (In the Name of Love)

18 Where the Streets Have No Name

19 -fame as currency-

20 Desire

21 -love-

22 Beautiful Day

23 -surrender-

24 Torna a Surriento [Ernesto De Curtis]

25 City of Blinding Lights

Notes: Entire file amplified by +4.7dB prior to dithering to 16-bit.

Archive: Master WAVs archived @ 24-bit/44.1kHz.

Bono Vox - 2022-11-02 - New York City, NY (AUD/FLAC) 24-bit/96 kHz

Bono

Recording date: Nov 2 2022

Location: Beacon Theater, NY, NY

Source: audience

Lineage:

Roland CS-10EM binaural mics -> Zoom H1 -> Audacity -> CD Wave Editor -> FLAC 1.3 -> you

Bono: vox

Jacknife Lee: DJ, percussion, keys

Gemma Doherty: harp, keys, vox

Kate Ellis: cello, vox

01 setting the stage

02 City of Blinding Lights

03 Vertigo

04 talk

05 With or Without You

06 talk (a bit of Ramones)

07 Out Of Control

08 talk

09 Stories for Boys

10 I Will Follow

11 Iris (Hold Me Close)

12 talk

13 Gloria, talking about Mt Temple

14 October, talking about Edge, Paul McGuinness

15 Sunday Bloody Sunday

16 talk (excerpt from Miss Sarajevo)

17 Pride (In the Name of Love)

18 talk

19 Where the Streets Have No Name

20 talk

21 Desire

22 talk

23 Beautiful Day

24 talk

25 Torna a Surriento

26 audience

27 talk

28 City of Blinding Lights

This torrent is incompatible with the CD-Audio standard. The sound is in 24-bit stereo sampled at 96 kHz.  Feel free to post a downsample - I’m not going to at least until I’ve got all my tapes done.

A Great Night in Harlem - 2012-05-17 - New York City, NY (FM/FLAC)

(FM broacast FLAC)

Apollo Theater

Source:
WWOZ-FM > RadioShark v2.0.2 > Macintosh MacMini (2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) > aiff > Quicktime 7.6.3 (convert aiff to wav) > wav > flac v1.2.1 (linux command line; level 8 compression) > flac file

Transfer: flac file (transferred by ftp from remote pc) > MacBook Pro (2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) > X Audio Compression Toolkit 2.18 (convert to aiff) > aiff > Bias Peak Pro 6.2.0.21692 (trimmed, split into tracks) > X Audio Compression Toolkit 2.18 (sector boundaries repaired, level 8 compression) > flac

featuring
Macy Gray
Dr. John
Randy Weston
Bono
Bettye LaVette
Paquito D'Rivera
Davell Crawford
David Johansen
and more

01 - Treme and Rebirth brass bands fade in > - 5:14
02 - stage intro - 4:37
03 - Essie Mae Brooks - 4:39
04 - Just a Closer Walk - Treme and Rebirth - 6:47
05 - Recorded messages from various people - 5:39
06 - stage talk - 3:51
07 - Claude Nobs and George Wein intro - 1:01
08 - Claude Nobs - 3:12
09 - Donna Summer moment of silence - 0:50
10 - David Johansen intro - 0:25
11 - Kicking the Gong Around - 3:53
12 - Bettye Lavette - 7:11
13 - stage talk - 3:08
14 - Omar Edwards (tap) - 8:40
15 - Darrell Hammond intro - 0:59
16 - Darrell Hammond - 6:48
17 - John D. Holeman intro - 1:05
18 - John D. Holeman talks - 0:53
19 - 6:22
20 - Macy Gray intro - 0:37
21 - 4:24
22 - Randy Weston - 1:10
23 - 9:40
24 - (David Johansen) - 3:21
25 - Triumph the Insult Comic Dog intro - 0:13
26 - 6:44
27 - Quincy Jones intro - 0:45
28 - (Quincy Jones) - 0:37
29 - Quincy talks - 5:26
30 - more yakking - 2:02
31 - Claude Nobs talk - 2:11
32 - Bono intro - 1:32
33 - Angel of Harlem - 6:27
34 - Macy Gray intro - 0:34
35 - At Last - 4:56
36 - The Shape I'm In (Glen Hansard) - 4:04
37 - Wendy Oxenhorn intro and talk - 3:29
38 - song - 4:10
39 - Oxenhornn talks some more - 1:41
40 - Paquito Riviera talks - 1:33
41 - Solitude - 6:33
42 - Dr John intro - 1:04
43 - Motherless Child (with Davell Crawford) - 8:20
44 - Stand By Me - 7:56

165:02

Bono - 2023-04-26 - New York City, NY (IEM/AUD/FLAC)

Bono

New York City, NY

April 26, 2023

Beacon Theater

entire show here

Lineage:

1. Multiple IEM Receivers > Multitrack Recorder (24/44.1)

Taper: Sharebear/hoserama

2. AT943 > Battery Box > Tascam DR-2D (24/48)

Taper: Tapehead2

Mixed by sharebear/hoserama

Dithered using Izotope MBIT+

Flac'ed using Trader's Little Helper

Mix version 20230508

--

00. Off-Stage Banter

01. Intro

02. City of Blinding Lights

03. Vertigo

04. (On Tour With Me Book)

05. With Or Without You

06. (Show Intro)

07. (I Was Born With an Eccentric Heart)

08. (My Father, The Tenor)

09. (My Mother, Iris)

10. (The Ramones)

11. Out of Control

12. (Geomoetry and Geography of the Irish Mind)

13. (Drummer Seeks Musician)

14. (Larry Mullen Jr.)

15. (The Edge)

16. (Adam Clayton)

17. Stories for Boys

18. (U2's Rehearsal Room)

19. I Will Follow

20. Iris

21. (Back in the Sorrento Lounge)

22. (Mt. Temple Comprehensive School)

23. (Paul McGuinness)

24. (Business of Pumped Up Personalities)

25. Sunday Bloody Sunday

26. (Two Tenors in Search of a Third)

27. Pride

28. (A Bigger Brain)

29. Where the Streets Have No Name

30. (After the Joshua Tree)

31. Desire

32. (Love Makes the World Go Around)

33. (Back in the Sorrento Lounge Again)

34. Beautiful Day

35. (Unscientific Theory)

36. Torna a Surriento

37. Outro

--

Show Notes:

Bono decided to try his hand at a Broadway residency show. Not quite the number that Springsteen did, but 12 is a lot for our irish friend Bono. Plus the extra show they added in Italy.

I had seen the San Francisco show back in November 2022, and was interested in going again. Originally was planning on doing two shows (4/28 + 4/29) and taking my mother to go see NYC. Then had a bit of clarity that maybe I should expand the trip to actually see NYC, as opposed to a hit and run show. IEM taping isn't very conducive to tourism in general. So we expanded the trip for over a week, and ended up doing a total of five shows.

This Wednesday show on 4/26 was the show #3 out of 5 for me. Bono and the band had done some extra rehearsing the night before, and extended soundcheck in the afternoon. It paid off. The last three shows I saw were significantly better than 4/21 + 4/22, just in terms of energy and accuracy. Much less random moments of disorientation on stage (I think he learned to leave his mic stand in front of the center stage teleprompter so he could see it in the dark). Also much less moments where I felt he was reading off the teleprompter, and more natural storytelling. Things you notice when you see five shows in a row! Anyways, 4/26 was probably my favorite of the five shows (although I did like his impersonations of GW Bush he started doing the next show).

Recording Notes:

As I mentioned for the SF release, the PA for this show was on the low side, and the dynamics were very wide. Bono goes from a faint whisper to a loud yell of a rock star. Then since the PA volume is low, crowd noise can overpower the music easily. Thankfully the wireless recordings help greatly in that regard, putting a direct line from Bono's microphone(s) to your ears. That said, the wireless cames with a bunch of extra sauce. All four folks on stage to a high level of click track and verbal cues during the musical sections of the show. In particular, several songs have a "one" cue on every downbeat of the song. Very annoying for the outside listener (can't blame them though--not meant for outside listening). I've spent a lot of time scrubbing those counts and clicks. Sometimes you'll hear a little left over, or some artifacts when the cue overlapped with a spoken word. Can't be perfect, but much better than the original source in my opinion.

In the end, I think it's a very nice listen to the show. His spoken word sections and the musical numbers should be leveled so you're not riding the volume knob. There's just enough audience noise but shouldn't be overpowering. I always like a nice stereo mix, and there's a lot of cool stereo effects plus panning of the cello + harp.

Also, the wireless feeds caught some off-stage chatter before start of the show. Left that in as a bonus.

Bono - Irelands Greatest (DVDfull pro-shot)

(DVDfull pro-shot)

Broadcast Date Sunday 17 Oct 2010 ( Second Broadcast ) 
RTE Network 2 - Ireland

PAL 4:3 MPEG-2 Video PAL 25 FPS 9210kb/s
Audio Dolby Digital 48000Hz 2 Channel 256 kb/s

Linage 
Digital TV -> Philips DVDR3480 Recorder -> PC -> Authered with TEMPgenc -> You 

Irelands Greatest is a competition being run by RTE to find Irelands greastest historical figure.
From an initial list it was narrowed down to 6 individuals including Bono. This documentry was made by Dave Fanning and tells the life story of Bono from the early days ( including a trip to the house where he grew up ) to the present day.

Packed with acrhive snippets from interviews , TV footage and News Items , have fun trying to identifying them all 

Tapded and authered with a basic menu by frankhealy.