Come On Atlanta, Give Us A Kiss

Georgia Dome

Atlanta (Georgia), USA.

26 - November - 1997.

Attendance: 30.000 - Support: Smash Mouth

Disc 1 (61:59)

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 (67:36)

01. Bullet the Blue Sky

02. Please

03. Where the Streets Have No Name

04. - Lemon Intermission (PA) -

05. Discothèque

06. If You Wear That Velvet Dress

07. With or Without You

08. - encore break -

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

10. Mysterious Ways

11. One 

12. "40"

Recording Equipment - History

Audio Technica 831b + Sony TCD-D8 > DAT master

Taper: Steve Hendrix

Location: Edge's side of the Dome, about 1/3 of the way back

Recording info: Mics set to flat response instead of bass roll-off. DAT set to minus 20dbs in SP mode.

Lineage: DAT master > Sony 600 > Optical cable > Pioneer stand-alone CD burner > CDR master > EAC secure (WAV) > Soundforge 8 (edits) > CD Wave (tracking) > Trader's Little Helper (FLAC)

Mastering: Jason Engel

Mastering info: 

- Each master CD contained one half of the concert as a single track, used EAC in secure mode to pull WAV files off the CDs.
- Joined the two WAV files into one (required some splicing as there was overlap, you won't notice where).
- Adjusted EQ of file to gently increase high frequencies making them clearer
- Increased volume throughout
- Fade-in start, fade-out end.

Additional notes (by Jason Engel): Michael Hutchence passed away four days before this concert, and Bono hints at this in the beginning of the performance, and talks about him more at the beginning of One. At the very end of the recording, during the last two seconds, you hear a person comment that "40" hadn't been played in ten years. This intrigued me so I did some research and found that "40" was played in its entirety in Rotterdam on January 10th, 1990, as it was during most of the Lovetown tour. It then made a very brief appearance as a snippet during a performance in Mexico City on November 25th, 1992. So, in essence, "40" made its return during this Atlanta concert after nearly eight years of no play. Sunday Bloody Sunday was rarely played as anything more than a snippet attached to Please during the first leg of the Popmart tour, and wasn't played in full until their gig in Sarajevo on September 23rd, 1997, when Edge played it solo, as he does at each concert thereafter for the rest of the tour. It is a hauntingly quiet, disturbingly plaintive performance of SBS.

Like Steve's Elevation and Vertigo recordings, this one is quiet, but if you turn up the volume of your player it will sound very good. It is clear. There is no hiss. Unlike the other two recordings, the volume on this one was generally uniform, allowing me to increase it via EQ without having to resort to broader manipulations. I also found that by gently increasing the higher frequencies via EQ that Bono's vocals, the Edge's guitar, piano, and other high sounds came through much clearer, so I saved that adjustment into this recording.

Comments

Not much to add. I liked a lot this tape when I first listened to it. To me, it's a bright audience recording, with excellent clarity and sharpness, despite of the venue's acoustics. It sounds quite solid and close. Audience noise is minimal, placed between songs. Still Haven't Found is dedicated to the members of REM.