Chicago 12-05-2005

United Center

Chicago (Illinois), USA.

12 - May - 2005.

Attendance: 19.293 (sellout) - Support: Kings of Leon

Disc 1 (65:48)

01. Everyone (PA)

02. Vertigo

03. All Because of You

04. Elevation

05. Gloria

06. The Ocean

07. Beautiful Day

08. Miracle Drug

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

10. Love and Peace or Else

11. Sunday Bloody Sunday

12. Bullet the Blue Sky

13. Running to Stand Still

14. - Declaration of Human Rights -

15. City of Blinding Lights

Disc 2 (63:10)

01. - Bono's speech -

02. Original of the Species

03. Pride (In the Name of Love)

04. Where the Streets Have No Name

05. - 'One Campaign' speech -

06. One

07. - encore break -

08. Until the End of the World

09. The Fly

10. Mysterious Ways

11. With or Without You

12. - encore break -

13. Yahweh

14. Bad / Norwegian Wood / Sexual Healing / "40"

Recording Equipment - History

AT831's + batt. box (w/bass rolloff set at 107 mHz) + Nomad JB3

Taper: JustAGirl

Transfer: JB3 > USB > Screenblast Sound Forge 7.0 > CDWave > shntool > shorten > SHN

Comments

Very powerful and crisp recording overall. It sounds excellent and brings a great capture of all instruments. Music and vocals come through very clear and well upfront. Moreover, audience noise is minimal, just audible between songs. In the borderline "exc / exc+" rating. The outstanding setlist was mixed up a little bit that night, so the band performance was very interesting compared to other Vertigo Tour concerts.

Bono began the song Vertigo with "uno, dos, tres, quince (15)" and not "catorce (14)", as he suggested during the evening to a spanish interviewer another number to begin with. Edge played a rare guitar solo during The Fly. Great rendition of With or Without You, superior to the versions played during Zooropa'93, PopMart or Elevation tours. A strong performance of Bad, full of snippets, ended an excellent show.