Jan's Birthday Party

Amsterdam Arena

Amsterdam, Holland.

16 - July - 2005.

Attendance: 55.172 (sellout) - Support: Athlete, Snow Patrol

Disc 1 (78:09)

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. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

10. City of Blinding Lights

11. Miracle Drug

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

13. Love and Peace or Else

14. Sunday Bloody Sunday

15. Bullet the Blue Sky

Disc 2 (68:20)

01. Miss Sarajevo

02. Pride (In the Name of Love)

03. Where the Streets Have No Name

04. One / Unchained Melody

05. Zoo Station

06. The Fly

07. With or Without You

08. All Because of You

09. Original of the Species

10. Yahweh

11. "40"

Recording Equipment - History

OKMIIR > A3 > M1 

Lineage: M1 > Sony 7-pin > Terratec DMX 6fire 2496 > Wavelab > Wave > Cool Edit (normalizing to 98%) > CDWave (tracking) > mkwACT > SHN

Taper: Wilatw

Comments

A pretty good sounding recording of a fantastic show, the third and last night in Amsterdam. Setlist is slightly different compared to the standard one in Europe (call it third-night syndrome). Overall sound is powerful and very clean, with all instruments well audible, but it just lacks more punch. Crowd noise is also audible, but never overwhelming. Miss Sarajevo makes its Vertigo début, played by the full band for the second time ever (the first one was in Sarajevo during the second leg of the PopMart tour, back in 1997, with Brian Eno onstage). This time Bono sings the opera part (with huge applause from the crowd), so the band don't use a pre-recorded sample with Pavarotti's voice. Original of the Species features The Edge on guitar, and not with the piano, as he did during the first leg in Northamerica. Therefore, the piano was played onstage by Terry Lawless, a guy from the crew that helps the band with keyboards. Bono sings a bit of All You Need is Love after Where the Streets Have No Name. A brief version of "40", with incredible response from the crowd, closes a great concert.

The only minor to remark is that there are some spots of weak diginoise here and there, that also were on the original SHN files. The most noticeable occurs in the last part of Electric Co. It is like something touching the mics, or maybe it comes from the DAT-to-PC transfer. It seems to be a standard drawback, as other traders also got it.