Milan 20-07-2005
Stadio San Siro
Milan, Italy.
20 - July - 2005.
Attendance: 68.714 (sellout) - Support: Feeder, Ash
Disc 1 (77:09)
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. All I Want is You
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 (68:03)
01. Miss Sarajevo
02. - Declaration of Human Rights -
03. Pride (In the Name of Love)
04. Where the Streets Have No Name
05. - 'One Campaign' speech -
06. One
07. Zoo Station
08. The Fly
09. With or Without You
10. Original of the Species
11. All Because of You
12. Yahweh
13. Vertigo
Recording Equipment - History
Danish Pro Audio 4061 + MPS6030 battery box + Sony PCM-M1
Taper: Luigi B.
Location: extreme left side main stack (inside wristband area), mics mounted on glasses
Lineage: DAT Master (48Khz, Line In) > Sony DTC-Ze700 dat deck > Philips CDR770 Audio Recorder (optical transfer & automatic downsample) > Wave single track on 2 Cdrw > EAC secure > Wave (fade in/out, bass reduction, normalize to 0db) > Track splitting with Wavelab 5.0 > lossless conversion Flac (using DbPowerAmp)
Comments
Bright audience recording that documents the first of two shows at the beautiful Stadio San Siro. I was lucky enough to travel to Milano and to attend both shows, so this is a nice gift for me. It seems both concerts were videotaped for an upcoming DVD release (the same occured with the Chicago gigs during the first leg of the Vertigo Tour). The band were somewhat quiet on this first concert. They seemed to be concentrated in doing a good show without mistakes for the future DVD. Not many improvisations, as they preferred to adjust theirselves to the right script. However, the usual snippets appeared here and there, including REM's Everybody Hurts after Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band at the end of Beautiful Day, as Michael Stipe was attending the gig. The Symphony Orchestra of Coccia Theatre in Novara came onstage to join the band to play Original of the Species, adding a nice string section, and again the U2 crew member Terry Lawless on piano. During Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own, the second ring of the stadium, opposite the stage, made a nice visual composition with cardboards in which appeared the Italian flag and a big legend that said "Hi Bob", referring to Bono's father, Bob Hewson, who passed away back in 2001. The show was pretty hot with a wild audience and a fantastic live feeling, a great atmosphere inside the stadium. You can check it on Pride, or when the crowd sing With or Without You for a pair minutes during the encore break while waiting for the band to return for the bises.
Overall sound is slightly distant, but the recording is a big upgrade to the other versions in circulation for sure. Instruments and vocals are well audible, although bass is lower in the mix. However, sound is clean and more balanced and polished. Crowd noise is minimal, and this also represents another good point compared to the other versions around of this concert. The live feeling is awesome.