Kansas City 19-05-1997

Arrowhead Stadium

Kansas City (Missouri), USA.

19 - May - 1997.

Attendance: 23.709 (capacity: 38.500) - Support: Fun Lovin' Criminals

Disc 1 (68:18)

01. Pop Muzik (PA)

02. Mofo

03. I Will Follow

04. Even Better than the Real Thing

05. Gone

06. Pride (In the Name of Love)

07. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Stand by Me

08. Last Night On Earth

09. Until the End of the World

10. If God Will Send His Angels

11. Staring at the Sun

12. - Sweet Caroline  (karaoke) -

13. Miami

14. Bullet the Blue Sky

Disc 2 (51:45)

01. Please

02. Where the Streets Have No Name

03. - Lemon Intermission (PA) -

04. Discothèque

05. If You Wear That Velvet Dress

06. With or Without You

07. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

08. Mysterious Ways

09. One

Recording Equipment - History

Core Sound Cardioids + Sony TCD-D7 > DAT Master > DAT Clone-1 (32 kHz) > wt2496 > CDWav > FLAC

Taper: C.P.

Transfer (from DAT Clone-1): Scott Z.

Additional notes (by Scott Z.): Evidently I am one of the few that have clones of CPs Popmart shows. As old DAT tapers know, a DAT tape can be more temperamental that a high maintenance girlfriend. One year they will play fine, the next not at all, then two years later for some mystical reason they are okay again. Long story short, tapers that wouldn't play a couple years ago for some reason are playing fine in my setup now, this is why you never throw out a DAT tape, cause you never know when it will work again.

Here is the bad news, I listened to this show today to make sure it did play correctly, and my god this is probably the worst U2 show I have ever heard them play, and one of the ones that must have been the back in their mind when they say they were garbage at the beggining of Popmart. Nearly every song they completely miss the intro cues, even songs like Pride, Mofo, Follow, Starting at the Sun, Miami, Bullet are a mess. I am sure somebody will say this was the greatest show they ever saw, but they were caught up in the moment.

Sounds is ok, not great, as it was not taped from right up front, and it was that big old mono-pod PA on that tour.

Comments

Pretty good audience tape with very nice sound quality. Really strong output (although a little harsh) with a clear capture of the music, that comes through well upfront. Vocals are slightly lost in the mix. The main drawback is that crowd noise is certainly audible, with hard clapping and talking on occasion near the taper. And just add Mysterious Ways to the list of messed songs mentioned above by Scott Z.