19.03.1985
USA, Minneapolis, Auditorium
Minneapolis AUDm [24/96 CS]
vg / exc. Aud. 

Disc 1: [46:47]
01. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock [4:45]
02. I Will Follow [3:44]
03. Seconds [4:15]
04. MLK [2:48]
05. The Unforgettable Fire [4:47]
06. Wire [4:01]
07. Sunday Bloody Sunday [4:54]
08. The Electric Co. / Amazing Grace [6:55]
09. Interim / Comments [0:44]
10. A Sort Of Homecoming [4:32]
11. Bad [cut] [5:15]

Disc 2: [41:26]
01. Bad [continued] / Ruby Tuesday [Rolling Stones] / Sympathy For The Devil [Rolling Stones] [5:19]
02. October [2:20]
03. New Year´s Day [4:51]
04. Pride (In The Name Of Love) [5:03]
05. Applause [0:44]
06. Knockin' On Heaven's Door [9:15]
07. Gloria [4:50]
08. 40 [9:03]

[The song "40" includes an a capella reprise by the audience - after the band had left the stage - even singing over the outdo/set music played thru the P.A., which was approximately 20 seconds of "Theme From Harry's Game", by the Irish group Clannad.]

digitizing notes [provided by J-dot]:
This is one of a handful of shows from "Mr. Smith" that I had also recorded. To the best of anyone's recollections, this version from the Mr. Smith collection has never seen the light of day until now. "Mr. Smith" has indicated that these tapes more than likely were not shared publicly, although there *may* have been a few exceptions.

My own recording was originally shared via old-school tape-trading circles, which would have been copies made from my own re-compiled 1st-gen master tape. It had never previously been digitized, but hearing the "Mr. Smith" version prompted me to do so in 2016, as I was pretty sure there were a few differences, sonic and possibly otherwise. The biggest difference between the two recordings is that the "Mr. Smith" version misses the walk-on intro, where the band was playing along to "4th Of July", and Bono greets the crowd, before they launch into "11 O'Clock Tick Tock", and "Bad" is cut in the middle, due to a tape flip.

The sound quality of both versions is fairly comparable to each other, give or take varying degrees of whatever unique sonics each taper was able to capture from their different positions in the venue.

The "Mr. Smith" version has a generally even/flat frequency response, whereas the low end on the "J-dot" version verges on being nearly overbearing at times, combined with a sharper high-end. Neither version has a really balanced mid-range, which is what it really needs, but both sources are a pretty fair representation of what that venue sounded like, which is exactly what it was - a big box-shaped convention center. I saw a lot of great shows in that building, but it wasn't the greatest sounding room.

lineage:
original master cassette [2-channel stereo] > Nakamichi DR-3 cassette deck [Azimuth adjustment applied to playback head] > Edirol R-04 [RCA/analog in; 24-bit/96kHz transfer (.wav)] > PC [via USB] > CD Wave Editor [Version 1.98; Windows Build Number: 0000.23F0] (sector boundary tracking) > Trader's Little Helper [Version 2.7.0; Build 172] (Level 8 .wav > .flac conversion)

The “Mr. Smith” Tapes.
Made available to the world through the collaborative resources of these people:
Recorded in 1985 by “Mr. Smith”.
Digitized in 2016; and technical notes by J. Free [sonicarchives.com]
Uploaded in 2016; any additional notes: 01001010

Dimeadozen.org: Torrent 579632 (by 01001010)