Toronto 17-09-2005 IEM

Air Canada Centre

Toronto, Canada.

17 - September - 2005.

Attendance: 20.643 (sellout) - Support: Dashboard Confessional

Disc 1 (63:20)

01. City of Blinding Lights

02. Vertigo

03. Elevation

04. The Electric Co.

05. The Ocean

06. Beautiful Day

07. Miracle Drug

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

09. Love and Peace or Else

10. Sunday Bloody Sunday

11. Bullet the Blue Sky

12. Miss Sarajevo

Disc 2 (64:54)

01. Pride (In the Name of Love)

02. Where the Streets Have No Name

03. One

04. Ol' Man River

05. Pop Muzik (PA) / Discothèque

06. The Fly

07. With or Without You

08. All Because of You

09. Fast Cars

10. Yahweh

11. "40"

Recording Equipment - History

Icom R7 + Sony 707 MD recorder > Master minidisc > Denon stand-alone MD player > optical cable > Adobe Audition 1.5 > CDR-M > WAV > SHN

Taper: D.C.

Additional comments: Taper came in a little late, as the first minute of "City of Blinding Lights" is missing. Overall a great IEM recording from Bono's earfeed. There is more static on disc one, and very little on disc 2. Flaws to note:

D1T4 - 3 beeps early, some static
D1T6&7 - some static
D1T9 - last 30 seconds or so missing... disc switch?
D1T10 - some static & short dropouts
D1T11 - blips about halfway in for a brief time
D2T4 - series of beeps and 7 second dropout
D2T8 - a few minor static bursts

Comments

Fantastic concert, with some nice surprises on the set and lots of snippets here and there. Daniel Lanois appears again onstage, this time to play One and Ol' Man River with the band. Moreover, Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam also appears to sing Ol' Man River. The big surprise of the night is the inclusion of Discothèque in the set, as the first song after the first encore break. During the encore break, right before Discothèque, Pop Muzik is played over the PA, to remember the 'PopMart days'. Discothèque includes a little snippet of Relax (the song by 'Frankie Goes to Hollywood').

Sound quality is very good for a mono IEM, but the tape brings some minors, described above, such as some bleeps, IEM typical static bursts (mostly on CD1), a few large dropouts and some clipping here and there. Note a good portion of Love and Peace or Else missing, probably due to a mini-disc change. The output is clear but somewhat flat.