San Jose 09-04-2005 / Schoeps MK4s

HP Pavilion

San Jose (California), USA.

09 - April - 2005.

Attendance: 18.070 (sellout) - Support: Kings of Leon

Disc 1 (66:08)

01. Wake Up (PA) / Everyone (PA)

02. City of Blinding Lights

03. Vertigo / Stories for Boys

04. Elevation

05. Cry / The Electric Co.

06. The Ocean

07. New Year's Day

08. Beautiful Day

09. Miracle Drug

10. Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own

11. Love and Peace or Else

12. Sunday Bloody Sunday

13. Bullet the Blue Sky / The Hands That Built America / Johnny Comes Marching Home

Disc 2 (57:55)

01. Running to Stand Still

02. Zoo Station

03. The Fly

04. Mysterious Ways / Young Americans

05. Pride (In the Name of Love)

06. Where the Streets Have No Name

07. One

08. All Because of You

09. Yahweh

10. "40"

Recording Equipment - History

Schoeps MK4s > active cables > Nbox > SBM-1 > PCM-M1

Transfer: Fostex D5 > S/PDIF > DIO2448 > Soundforge 7.0b > shntool 3.0.2 > flac 1.1.1

Comments

In my opinion, a great but bass-dominated recording. I don't know if bass levels were enhanced before converting this one into FLAC, but the bass is pretty prominent throughout the show, and incredibly loud at some concrete moments. On the other hand, clarity is very good, and the recording brings an overall powerful and solid sound. Again, audience noise is audible, but located between songs, so it is not too distracting.

The band put on a solid performance, and some songs now sound more developed. Bono is very "into-the-show", being talkative throughout the concert. There's a small hiccup at 03:47 in One, which seems to be standard.