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Sunday, July 27th 2008

1981-12-13 Lido Beach "December"07/27/2008 10:18 AM

Yes, it does appear like we are on a every-other-week schedule. Summers seem to do that around here. Almost missed today, too; I was babysitting some friends' kids overnight, and while the evening went smoothly the morning did not. Nothing quite like everything going wrong for multiple children all at the same time at six in the morning on a Sunday. Trust me, you don't want any more detail than that.

Let's get in to the reason for your visit today - more music from the October tour! Once again, I have some excellent music to dish out. I am uncertain of the source of this recording, but various other sites list it as a pre-broadcast recording. It's certainly very close to soundboard. The Lido Beach performance is the last of the first American leg of the October tour, though they return just a few months later. There's almost no audience at all in the recording, but U2 is so full of pep and energy that you can easily imagine the crowd going nuts right along with them. Bono sounds so young, there's almost none of the preachiness that radiates from him today, and you can so easily here the youth. The instruments are all behind his voice, present but definitely second fiddle to the lyrics. All of the songs are performed perfectly. . . when they get started correctly. "Rejoice" begins with a funny delay as Bono dives into the song while the Edge is only tuning up. Other than that bit of goofiness, this performance is high energy, high enthusiasm, high fun. Grab the torrent from the box on the top right, or here from the tracker.

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1. germcevoy07/31/2008 07:27:44 AM
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Loving this early material. Keep it up and many many thanks

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