Less Stars in the Sky

Philips Arena

Atlanta (Georgia), USA.

30 - November - 2001.

Attendance: 18.535 - Support: Garbage

Disc 1 (62:57)

01. PA intros: Higher Ground / All You Need is Love / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

02. Elevation Influx Intro (PA) / Elevation

03. Beautiful Day

04. Until the End of the World

05. New Year's Day

06. Out of Control

07. Sunday Bloody Sunday

08. Stuck in a Moment

09. Kite

10. My Sweet Lord

11. Angel of Harlem

12. People Get Ready

Disc 2 (62:08)

01. Please

02. Bad

03. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

04. Where the Streets Have No Name

05. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

06. Pride (In the Name of Love)

07. Bullet the Blue Sky

08. What's Going On

09. New York

10. One

11. Peace On Earth

12. Walk On

Recording Equipment - History

Core Sound Stealth Cardioid mics (with low sensitivity option) > Sony MZ-R700

Taper: Michael Albuquerque

Location: 10 feet from the left tip of the heart (The Edge's side)

Mastered to SHN by the following method: MD master > Sony MDS-JB940 > Toslink Digital Optical Cable > Sony RCD/W1 > CD-R master > EAC (Secure and tested) > WAV > Soundforge 5.0 > mkw 0.96f > SHN

Comments by Michael Albuquerque:

About remastering-> Increased the bass and some of the mid- to high-range treble to enhance the sound of the recording. Normalized volume levels and also manually reduced volume levels in millisecond increments as necessary to eliminate clipping (i.e., occasional loud hand claps nearby). Used fade in and out at beginning and end of each CD.

Other remarks-> The show was plagued by sporadic drop outs in the PA rig on The Edge's side of the stage throughout the concert. As a result, you hear an occasional change in the ambience of the recording as a result of loss in the high-end frequencies. However, this doesn't significantly detract from the recording.

Comments

The recording sounds powerful, with a great capture of all instruments and really good clarity overall. Just to mention that audience noise is pretty audible, which can be distracting at times. As Justin Cook (webmaster of Justin's U2 CDR Trading Page) reported "The only drawbacks are the dropouts that occur in the left channel (a bit annoying at times) and a few individual voices in the crowd that are audible from time to time".

Nice full-band rendition of My Sweet Lord, dedicated to George Harrison, who died two days earlier to the show.  Also note the cover of People Get Ready, with a fan onstage playing guitar and singing with Bono.