Too Much Fuss Over Flags
War Austin, Texas
11 June 1983
(75:40)

1. Out of Control
2. Twilight
3. An Cat Dubh/Into the Heart
4. Surrender
5. Two Hearts Beat As One
6. Seconds
7. Sunday Bloody Sunday
8. Cry/The Electric Co.
9. I Fall Down
10. October
11. New Year's Day
12. Gloria
13. Party Girl
14. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
15. I Will Follow
16. 40

History (Tracks 1-12, 16): Analog master (Sony recorder + mics) > Wav > Remastered by taper > CDR  > Wav > CoolEdit 2000 (see below) > CDR
History (Tracks 13-16): Analog 1st > CDR
Taper (Tracks 1-12, 16): M. K.
 

NOTE: Most of this recording is from the master analog tape.  It had been remastered by the taper before being burned to CDR.  Excellent overall sound quality and only a few individual conversations among audience members are audible.  The copy that I received had small pops between many of the tracks, so I used CoolEdit 2000 to delete 0.01 seconds of dead air from the beginning of each song.  The only transition that I couldn't make complete smooth is betwen Track 11 and Track 12.

Unfortunately, somewhere in the digital lineage of this recording there seems to have been a bad rip that resulted in a lot of skipping and dropouts during Tracks 13-16.  I decided to splice in "Party Girl", "11 O'Clock Tick Tock", "I Will Follow", and most of "40" from my other bootleg of this concert, "Austin - 11/6/83".  Unfortunately, the drum solo at the end of "40" on that bootleg is plagued by massive skipping as well.  Therefore, I had to splice in the drum solo from the analog master > CDR recording at the end.  There were a few small skips in the drum solo that I edited out pretty cleanly, but a trained ear can probably hear where they were.  FYI, the first splice occurs as Bono says "Party Girl" just before the song beings and the second splice occurs at 3:42 of "40".

After "Sunday Bloody Sunday", Bono talks about the controversy that the song has created.  "There's been a lot of talk about that song.  Perhaps too much talk.  The song is not a rebel song.  It seems to me that though we're an Irish band, and we're very much an Irish band, that there's too much fuss over flags...whatever country.  This is a white flag."