1983
Voices: U2 Volume II
good / exc. Aud/Broadcast

01. 25th March 1983 / Radio City Interview with Bono and Edge [8:52]
02. 30th April 1983 / Providence, Interview with Bono and Adam [8:13]
03. 30th May 1983 / US-Festival, Interview with Bono [4:58]
04. 03th July 1983 / Werchter Festival, Interview with Bono and Jim Kerr Part I [4:23]
05. 03th July 1983 / Werchter Festival, Interview with Bono and Jim Kerr Part II [3:48]
06. 11th August 1983 / Dave Fanning Interview with the group [42:28]

Total Running Time: [1:12:44]

Quality:
Track 02: good
Track 01, 05: very good
Track 03, 04, 06: excellent

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Notes:
Track 01: 
Lineage:
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Notes:
Bono and Edge were interviewed by a journalist named Phil.

They talked about:
- making names for bands ("Bono says that he invented the name 'Kajagoogoo'),
- meeting Echo & The Bunnymen in Phoenix,
- the song "The Refugee",
- the song "Two Hearts Beat As One" ('there is nothing more radical than love'),
- touring and the difficulties playing eight new songs,
- difficult third LP.

The interview is incomplete. The quality is better than many radio broadcasts.

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Track 02:
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They talked about:
- U2's beginning ("built around a spark"),
- theme of the LP "War",
- impressions of America,
- "U2 won't mellow their sound for commercial success",
- "U2 hasn't been born yet".

Notes:
The interview is probably incomplete. The interviewer can only be heard once.

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Track 03:
Lineage:
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They talked about:
- the importance of the crowd in a festival,
- the John Lennon statue on stage,
- white flags thrown in the crowd,
- that music can change people.

The sound is excellent.

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Track 04 & 05:
Lineage:
tv broadcast (first part) and fm broadcast (second part) (unknown analog generation) > Yamaha KX-500 deck > 
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They talked about:
part 1 (4:23)
- Dutch speaker (overdubbing Simple Minds's live version of "New Gold Dream"),
- Jim Kerr,
- "Two Hearts Beat As One" (excerpt, live),
- Bono joking: will marry Jim Kerr in Belgium tomorrow,
- playing to a festival crowd of 50.000.

part 2 (3:48)
- dangerous to stop improvisations on stage,
- avoiding cliches.

Notes:
The first is taken from a festival documentary (probably broadcasted later) but the second part sounds like a 
simultaneous live transmission (you can hear Peter Gabriel's "Biko" live in the background; Peter Gabriel played
after U2 on the bill).

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Track 06:
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They talked about:
- differences between the "War" album and the two previous LPs,
- new experiments with guitars,
- references to songs "Surrender" and "Like A Song",
- first records more inwards, third one more outwards,
- policy of booking US tour,
- LP not a war between nations but the struggle inside human beings,
- "black and white" look at the Northern Ireland,
- lyrics more specific than on the "October" album,
- short reference to Scottish group "Big Country",
- movie "Atomic Cafe",
- song "Seconds",
- coming back to Dublin,
- story meeting some Irish in Stockholm,
- 4th album will not be produced by Steve Lillywhite,
- Jim Kerr.

An interview with Dave Fanning is always entertaining. It might be incomplete.

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