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2005-05-18 - East Rutherford, New Jersey - Continental Airlines Arena

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songs per album

  1. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (7)
  2. The Joshua Tree (4)
  3. Achtung Baby (4)
  4. All That You Can't Leave Behind (2)
  5. The Unforgettable Fire (2)
  6. October (1)
  7. Boy (1)
  8. War (1)

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DavePoptart, U2Moklus2009, bikeridingfish, brian71, jerseyshorefan, minimalist, oddjob102

7 from New York:
DProfesa, Goofyclowndog, darkeststar29, missmarymoon, tommypri, tsnafus, u2met86

3 from California: nuzzer1, tadfirmedia, zoobonneau
2 from Connecticut: Mila17, bono9904
1 from Germany: ZOOTVTOURist
1 from District of Columbia: Clancy3434
1 from New Hampshire: teambud33
1 from Virginia: MirrorballMan1991
1 from Portugal: TozeTP
1 from Maine: smbonneau
1 from Sweden: Zoolov

review by drewhiggins

16 years ago

Performance

Always putting on a ripper of a show in East Rutherford.

In the early part of the Vertigo '05 tour, U2 were at the top of their game (well, as much as they can be). All the songs were played really well - Bad is always a surprise in any recent show, as is a snippet of Please. But seven songs from one album and none from others is kind of a let down; but you gotta flog your wares somehow. ; )

An excellent performance of Gloria is featured here and the little Zoo segment is always a nice surprise - Zoo Station, The Fly, Mysterious Ways...about Gloria, it's kinda funny how Bono says it's from the Boy album, then quickly corrects himself that it's from the second album (October), not played for around 15 years or so, and The Ocean to compliment that, another track not played for many years, possibly since the Boy Tour.

It just goes to show elaborate stage setups can't distract from well-performed songs. They certainly rocked the house.

Sound

For an audience recording, it's excellent. No skips, jumps or stutters in the recording at all, and all instruments, lead and backing vocals and whatever else is prominent enough on the MP3 recording.

Apart from maybe seven or eight other audience recordings from this particular leg of the tour, this is one of the best (two are from Chicago).
Recording: Audience microphone - 4 stars

Audience

An unusually quiet audience, even for somewhere like East Rutherford. Maybe it's where the taper was situated, but apart from that, you don't have any annoying whistlers or very personal conversations like about hot dogs - there's more than enough of those on other recordings.

The quiet audience factor is great, because you get a better recording. Naturally, you can't capture a reaction of the audience through a taping, but what's here is excellent. If they'd done what they did the previous night at the end of the show, the reaction would have blown the floor apart (Larry drumming from ''40'' seguing into Vertigo, gradually getting faster).

Overall

Worth a download and a decent listen. This show and the Glendale (April 15) show were my first two Vertigo shows, and even over two-and-a-half years later, I remain impressed by the enthusiasm U2 shows to impressing an audience.

A job well done.

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Audience microphone

  • Origins: Audience microphone
  • Credits: baker1023 (Audio Taper)
  • Equipment: core sound binaurals (Microphone), Sony DAT D8 (Audio recording device)
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