Cologne 12-07-2001 / TCD-D7

Kölnarena

Cologne, Germany.

12 - July - 2001.

Attendance: 18.000 (sellout) - Support: Söhne Mannheims

Total Running Time - 129:11

01. Elevation Influx Intro (PA) / Elevation

02. Beautiful Day

03. Until the End of the World

04. New Year's Day

05. Kite

06. New York

07. I Will Follow

08. Sunday Bloody Sunday

09. In My Life

10. Stuck in a Moment

11. In a Little While

12. - Band Introductions -

13. Hawkmoon 269 / Desire / Running to Stand Still

14. Stay (Faraway, so Close!)

15. Bad / Wild Horses / "40"

16. Where the Streets Have No Name

17. Mysterious Ways

18. The Fly

19. - encore break -

20. Bullet the Blue Sky

21. With or Without You

22. - encore break -

23. One

24. Walk On

25. - Grace (PA outro) -

Recording Equipment - History

OKM II Rock microphones + Sony TCD-D7 > DAT Master (@ 32khz) > Sony DTC-ZE700 (digital transfer) > optical cable Terratec EWX 2496 >
Soundforge 9.0 > CDWave Editor > WAV > FLAC

Taper: Stadtfelder

Location: third/fourth row on the floor under the left p.a. stack. There is some crowd noise on the recording.

Comments

In my opinion, this is the best source of the first night in Cologne. Sound quality is excellent, and this one sounds stronger and very solid compared to the others. It offers a pretty full output. Note there is some crowd interference although nothing too distracting.

* Comments by Justin Cook: The awesome 'Hawkmoon 269 / Desire / Running to Stand Still' medley alone is enough to convince almost any U2 fan to acquire this bootleg. "Hawkmoon" hadn't been played since the Lovetown tour over a decade ago. To be honest, it's not really played during this show, but Bono sings the 90 seconds worth of the lyrics with The Edge playing the opening notes of "Desire" softly in the background. The band then launches into "Desire", at the end of which Bono starts singing "Running To Stand Still" virtually unaccompanied seemingly on a whim. Again, the song is not played in its entirety, but almost two minutes are included. At the end, The Edge segues back into the closing notes of "Desire" and Bono plays his bit on the harmonica. It is truly an incredible performance. Even with the band changing the setlist a bit on the Elevation tour, U2 hasn't displayed this type of spontaneity for many, many years.

The medley track that Justin mentioned, was read by Bono from a sheet that a fan held in the audience.