Live in Hampton 12/12/87
Joshua Tree Hampton, Virginia
12 December 1987
(52:00)
(65:04)

Disc 1:
1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. I Will Follow
3. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For/ Exodus (snippet)
4. MLK
5. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
6. Sunday Bloody Sunday
7. Exit/Gloria (snippet)
8. In God's Country
9. Tequila Sunrise (Larry on vocals)
10. Out of Control
11. Bad

Disc 2:
1. Bullet the Blue Sky
2. Running To Stand Still
3. New Year’s Day
4. Pride (In the Name of Love)
5. Mothers of the Disappeared
6. With or Without You/Shine Like Stars (snippet)
7. Lucille
8. 40 (cuts out at 2:32)
9. The Electric Co. (instrumental except for “Light My Fire” snippet by Bono)
10. Mothers of the Disappeared
11. Unreleased Song
12. Mothers of the Disappeared
13. Unreleased Song
14. Silver and Gold (alternate music)

Source:
Disc 1, Disc 2 (1-8): December 12, 1987.  Hampton, Virginia.  Coliseum.
Disc 2 (9- ): April 25, 1987.  San Francisco, California.  Cow Palace.
 

NOTE: A very nice recording feature excellent sound quality and clarity for a bootleg from this era.  The recording features a nice overall mix, with Bono’s vocals up front and all of the band’s instruments clearly distinguishable.  The overall sound captures the live concert “feel” very well.  Some screaming from women in the vicinity of the taper is audible in the background on occasion and rhythmic clapping can also be heard during some songs.

There is a notable skip during “Bad” at around 2:16.  There is a brief warble in the tape just before Bono introduces “Pride”.  There is a quick fade out after “Pride” before the recording immediately cuts back in just prior to the beginning of “Mothers of the Disappeared”.  There is also a cut in the recording between “Mothers of the Disappeared” and “With or Without You” that makes the transition between songs awkward, but that does not sacrifice any music.

This concert is well known as the show at which Larry first sang; he provides the vocals for the band’s rendition of The Eagle’s “Tequila Sunrise”.  After “In God’s Country”, Bono says the following:

“We started up about ten years ago...Actually eleven years ago, I think.  I was sixteen.  Larry was fourteen.  Edge was fifteen.  Adam was thirty-six.  We just wanted to be in a band.  The person who owned the worst record collection got to be the drummer.  He was particularly fond of The Eagles.  Remember them?  We’re going to play this song with Larry.  It’s called ‘Tequila Sunrise’.”

Larry makes it through the first verse and then basically draws a blank on the remaining words.  He makes up the lyrics the rest of the way, a la Bono during the most recent tours when he tried to sing some of the band’s older songs but couldn’t remember the lyrics.

During “Bullet the Blue Sky”, Bono offers the following rant about the state of America:

“So I went walking through this promised land.  Took trains and planes…buses to the United States of America.  Finally ended up in Hampton.  It seems like there’s two Americas.  It seems like there’s the one that I see when I turn on CBS news or NBC news.  When I see a TV preacher stealing money from the old and the sick.  People getting ripped off, syringes stuck into their arms, inventing new drugs like crack that will fuck them up even more.  Then there is another one where another sixteen, seventeen thousand people can get together and for one night agree on something.  And that something is rock and roll music.  And hey, it’s a start.  Rock and roll is the soundtrack to some kind of change.  You’ve got Amnesty International people over here…people working for third world relief organizations over there…some mother just trying to raise her children over there.  If this is America, I like it!”

After Bono thanks security, the road crew (singling out Joe O’Herlihy), management, et al. following “With or Without You”, The Dalton Brothers, led by The Edge’s guitar technician Dallas Schoo, come on stage.  They play “Lucille” with Bono signing the lyrics.