World in White and Red

 

Slaski Stadion

Chorzow, Poland.

05 - July - 2005.

Attendance: 64.711 (sellout) - Support: The Magic Numbers, The Killers

 

 

Disc 1 (72:29)

 

01. Wake Up (PA)

02. Vertigo

03. I Will Follow

04. The Electric Co.

05. Elevation

06. New Year's Day

07. Beautiful Day

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

09. All I Want is You

10. City of Blinding Lights

11. - Bono's speech / girl translating -

12. Miracle Drug

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

14. Love and Peace or Else

15. Sunday Bloody Sunday

 

 

Disc 2 (60:11)

 

01. Bullet the Blue Sky

02. Running to Stand Still

03. Pride (In the Name of Love)

04. Where the Streets Have No Name

05. One

06. - encore break -

07. - Zooropa jackpot -

08. Zoo Station

09. The Fly

10. With or Without You

11. - encore break -

12. All Because of You

13. Yahweh

14. Vertigo

 

 

Recording Equipment - History

Vivanco EM35 with battery pack > Sony MZ-RH910 in PCM mode (settings for mic: 'for loud music' and 'low sensivity') > SONY Hi-MD 'for loud music' 

 

Taper: Waldi

Location: by the left catwalk

Transfer: Sony MZ-RH910 > USB cable > Sonic Stage 3.0 (wave file) > CD Wave Editor ver. 1.93.3 (slitting wave file) > Cool Edit Pro 2.1 (fades in and fades out) > FLAC Frontend 1.7.1 (flac files)

 

Comments

A decent recording that features good sound quality. All instruments have been nicely captured, with music and vocals well audible. But this item lacks more brightness and cleaness, as there is a noticeable saturation in the sound throughout the concert. Moreover, crowd noise is pretty audible, too, with individual voices and hard clapping near the taper. This source is missing a huge portion of Pride, that cuts in halfway the song, as taper had problems with the battery box. There is an edit before One, that affects to Bono's speech before the song. Anyway, clarity is really good, which makes this item very listenable.

 

The audience waved white and red flags during New Year's Day to make with them the flag of Poland, as this song is inspired in Lech Walesa.