Born To Be Wild
PopMart Prague, Czech Republic
14 August 1997
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Disc 1:
1. Pop Muzik
2. Mofo
3. I Will Follow
4. Gone
5. Even Better Than the Real Thing
6. Last Night On Earth
7. Until the End of the World
8. New Year's Day
9. Pride (In the Name of Love)
10. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
11. All I Want Is You
12. Staring At the Sun
13. Karaoke: Born To Be Wild

Disc 2:
1. Miami
2. Bullet the Blue Sky
3. Please
4. Where the Streets Have No Name
5. Lemon Intermission
6. Discotheque
7. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
8. With Or Without You
9. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
10. Mysterious Ways
11. One
12. MLK
 

NOTE (from Mike's U2 Trading run by Mike Duchek): I got this show from Mauricio Ferrusca, who lives in Mexico. He made it from some CDs he already had, reducing the bass by about 350% and a little hiss. The result is pretty good. The sound is very nice, with the audience very quiet for most of the show. During some songs they are right there heard individually, but for most songs they're so quiet you'd think it was a soundcheck. The clarity is very good, it's not quite as close sounding as for instance the Rotterdam PopMart shows, but it's very close and the mix of frequencies come through very nicely. The only flaws are a few clicks, probably a total of seven, but they are so few that it's not distracting. They were on his original CDs.

The show, U2's first in this city and country, is pretty standard for the tour, but a nice performance with Bono's voice sounding pretty good. He even does a longer falsetto at the end of "Mysterious Ways." The Edge performs "Born to be Wild" as the karaoke song for the night, one of only a handful of that song. Other than that a fairly standard PopMart show, nothing out of the ordinary, other than the first few lines of "Discotheque" not coming through the speakers, which has nothing to do with the recording, but seemed worth mentioning.

This is what Mauricio has on his site as what he does to remaster shows. Not all were necessarily used for this recording:

-Indexation (Tracks) ABSOLUTELY NO GAPS! NO CLICKS!
-Noise Reduction
-Audio Enhancement (Crispness, Brightness, Loudness)
-Level Normalization
-Speed Correction

Equipment:
-Pentium III Processor PC
-Cool Edit 2000 Software
-Exact Audio Copy 0.9 Secure
-Creative SoundBlaster 128Bit sound card
-Creative 8/4/32 CD Burner
-Technics Professional Cassette Deck Headroom extension Dolby B/C
-Sony Professional CD Player 18-Bit Digital Filter 8 times oversampling
-Technics Professional Turntable (speed adjustable, belt drive)
-Pioneer Half Inch Reel Recorder