Staring at the Sun in Miami

Pro Player Stadium

Miami (Florida), USA.

14 - November - 1997.

Attendance: 42.778 (capacity: 44.500) - Support: Smash Mouth

Disc 1 (59:06)

01. Pop Muzik (PA)

02. Mofo

03. I Will Follow

04. Gone

05. Even Better than the Real Thing

06. Last Night on Earth

07. Until the End of the World

08. New Year's Day

09. Pride (In the Name of Love)

10. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

11. All I Want is You

12. Staring at the Sun

13. Sunday Bloody Sunday

Disc 2 (64:22)

01. Miami

02. Bullet the Blue Sky

03. Please

04. Where the Streets Have No Name

05. - Lemon Intermission (PA) -

06. Discothèque

07. If You Wear That Velvet Dress

08. With or Without You

09. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

10. Mysterious Ways

11. One

Recording Equipment - History

1st Gen DAT > CDR(u)

Comments

Brilliant sound quality in this recording. The output is strong and offers a quite clear and very crisp sound. However, it is tiny distant. Audience noise is not an issue, softly audible between songs, and never being annoying. Wake Up Dead Man is missing in this recording.

The recording is not flawless. I have traded this concert twice, and both versions have the same flaws. I detected a high number of very slight ticks between tracks in both CDs (mostly on CD1). Skips during songs occur a few times, too.

Let's begin with CD1. Pop Muzik contains a skip at 0:34 that cuts out a few seconds of the song. Another skip was found at 04:16 in Gone, that also cuts out a couple of seconds, just at the end. More skipping can be heard at the first few seconds of Even Better, that speeds-up the song for a moment. The most nasty skipping occurs in Until the End of the World, from 03:01 to 03:11 (speeds-up the song), 03:48, 03:50, 03:56 and from 04:01 to 04:04. The song finishes with a very noticeable click with New Year's Day. One more skip at 0:25 in Sunday Bloody Sunday that cuts off the first verse.

In CD2, Please has a tiny tick at 03:42, and another skip at 04:08 that also cuts off a few seconds of the song. It seems to be a slight edit just during the transition between tracks 4 and 5. Another noticeable edit happens between tracks 8 and 9.