VT East Rutherford - 2nd Night

Continental Airlines Arena

East Rutherford (New Jersey), USA.

18 - May - 2005.

Attendance: 20.174 (sellout) - Support: Kings of Leon

Disc 1 (75:55)

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

02. City of Blinding Lights

03. Vertigo / Stories for Boys

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. Pride (In the Name of Love)

15. Where the Streets Have No Name

Disc 2 (56:12)

01. One

02. Zoo Station

03. The Fly

04. Mysterious Ways

05. All Because of You

06. Yahweh

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

08. Bad / "40"

Recording Equipment - History

Sonic Studios DSM6s/l > PA6-LC2 (85khz) > Sony D100

Taper; A. Tobin

Location: sec. 103, row 13

Comments

Another nice sounding recording from the Vertigo Tour. This one sounds really strong and solid, but sometimes it sounds slightly harsh, although there's nothing to worry about. Clarity is pretty good throughout the show, and audience noise, is not very distracting (although a woman is well audible near the taper in just a pair of occasions, which is a little irritating). All in all, this item keeps the excellent sound quality that the Vertigo Tour recordings are offering. A pair of fading processes are noticeable throughout the recording, affecting only to crowd noise during encore breaks. Volume adjustements are noticeable to set up the equipment properly at the beginning of City of Blinding Lights, as the introduction sounds a bit low. 

The highlight of the show is I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. A local band called 'The Bank Robbers' join U2 onstage to play the song, with extra guitar and drums. Around the middle part, the song becomes uptempo for the crowd's delight. As Elvis Costello was in the venue, Bono made some references to him during the concert, and added some lines of Pump it Up to Vertigo.