Vertigo Tour Buffalo

HSBC Arena

Buffalo (New York), USA.

09 - December - 2005.

Attendance: 18.826 (sellout) - Support: Institute

Disc 1 (68:12)

01. Wake Up (PA) / Everyone (PA)

02. City of Blinding Lights

03. Vertigo

04. Elevation

05. Gloria / The Ocean

06. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / In a Little While

07. Beautiful Day

08. Original of the Species

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

10. Love and Peace or Else

11. Sunday Bloody Sunday

12. Bullet the Blue Sky

Disc 2 (72:35)

01. Miss Sarajevo

02. Pride (In the Name of Love)

03. Where the Streets Have No Name

04. One

05. Help

06. - encore break -

07. Until the End of the World

08. Mysterious Ways

09. With or Without You

10. - encore break -

11. Stuck in a Moment

12. Instant Karma

13. Yahweh

14. "40"

Recording Equipment - History

Schoeps MK4 > KCY I > Schoeps VMS 05 > Sound Devices 722

Taper: Izaak Micah

Location: DFC FOB, about 15' in front of board, in the hat XY

Conversion: Soundforge 8.0.53 (normalize and some minor fixes of volume, Dither, Resample) > CDWav 1.94.5 > 
FLAC 1.7.1

Comments

A very strong set, and an emotional concert. U2 also played in Buffalo 25 years ago, but December 8th, just the night John Lennon was murdered. At that time, it was the band's third concert ever in the United States (second leg of the Boy Tour). So there are a lot of references to John Lennon throughout the show, and some snippets here and there from The Beatles.

About sound quality, the recording features a very full and crisp sound. Music and vocals come through pretty clean and powerful. Crowd noise is audible, but never too distracting, although some stray voices appear from time to time. A really solid tape.