Chicago 21-09-2005

United Center

Chicago (Illinois), USA.

21 - September - 2005.

Attendance: 19.407 (sellout) - Support: Dashboard Confessional

Disc 1 (73:45)

01. Wake Up (PA)

02. Everyone (PA)

03. City of Blinding Lights

04. Vertigo

05. Elevation

06. The Electric Co.

07. The Ocean

08. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

09. Beautiful Day

10. Miracle Drug / In a Little While

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

12. Yahweh

13. Love and Peace or Else

14. Sunday Bloody Sunday

15. Bullet the Blue Sky

Disc 2 (66:40)

01. Miss Sarajevo

02. Pride (In the Name of Love)

03. Where the Streets Have No Name

04. - 'One Campaign' speech -

05. One

06. Ol' Man River

07. Bad / The First Time

08. Original of the Species

09. With or Without You

10. Fast Cars

11. All Because of You

12. "40"

Recording Equipment - History

Schoeps MK4s > KC5 > Lunatec V3 (16-bit/44.1kHz) > Sony PCM-M1

Taper: ACE Recordings
Location: Gold Circle on Edge's side

Transfer: DAT Master > Sony R-500 > optical toslink > DAL CardDeluxe > Soundforge > CDWave > FLAC

Comments

Second night in Chicago during the third leg of the tour, and last of six concerts in the city during the Vertigo Tour. It's a fantastic show with the band mixing the setlist up a little bit. Yahweh is played this time in the middle of the show, and not in the bises, and Bad is not performed as the closing song. Original of the Species features The Edge on piano again, as he did in the first leg (during the European leg, U2 staff member Terry Lawless was on piano, and The Edge on electric guitar).

The recording is placed among the topping tapes of the tour, a very powerful and sharp one with excellent sound quality and minimal crowd interference. Music and vocals come through well upfront, and it makes this concert very enjoyable to listen to.