2005-07-21 - Milan, Italy - San Siro


setlist

  1. Vertigo
  2. I Will Follow
  3. The Electric Co. / People I Don't Know Are Trying To Kill Me (snippet) / See Me, Feel Me (snippet)
  4. Elevation
  5. New Year's Day
  6. Beautiful Day
  7. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
  8. All I Want Is You
  9. City Of Blinding Lights
  10. Miracle Drug
  11. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own / Torna A Surriento (snippet)
  12. Love And Peace Or Else
  13. Sunday Bloody Sunday
  14. Bullet The Blue Sky / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet) / Please (snippet) / The Hands That Built America (snippet)
  15. Miss Sarajevo
  16. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
  17. Where The Streets Have No Name
  18. One

    19. encore(s):
  19. Zoo Station
  20. The Fly
  21. With Or Without You
  22. Original Of The Species
  23. All Because Of You
  24. Yahweh
  25. The Ballroom Blitz (snippet) / Vertigo / It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (snippet)
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songs per album

  1. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (9)
  2. The Joshua Tree (4)
  3. Achtung Baby (3)
  4. Boy (2)
  5. All That You Can't Leave Behind (2)
  6. War (2)
  7. Rattle and Hum (1)
  8. Passengers (1)
  9. The Unforgettable Fire (1)

best song performances

  1. All I Want Is You (5 votes)
  2. Elevation (4 votes)
  3. I Will Follow (3 votes)
  4. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (3 votes)

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review by MattG

14 years ago

Performance

I went into this bootleg expecting it to be amazing. And for many reasons, it was. But perhaps being at the show would have explained some of the...eh...lackluster performance goofs.

For example- the coolest moment in the whole show for me was Beautiful Day. The intro of the song, specifically. (This is probably the ONLY time I'll ever say BD was the ultimate highlight of a show, for the record)...Anyway, what MADE it so cool was that the intro chimes through, and instead of Bono coming in against Edge's chords, Edge just starts churning them out against Larry's tambourine. It's a really cool effect, similar to the first leg or two of 360's performances, where it's not such an immediate start to the song...it's a slowly building effect. Really neat. The only problem is...Edge makes it through the progression once...twice...three times...and Bono is nowhere to be found.

Could he have been doing something with the audience? Sure. I'm sure if you were AT the show, it would have made some sort of sense, why he just wasn't singing. It just didn't come in at a sensible time at all, listening to the show, and it got a little old...Edge would sort of stop and start again randomly since he didn't seem to be sure where Bono was really going.

A similar thing happens in Zoo Station...Bono just sort of goes his own way and the performance sort of suffers- but not as majorly.

Sound

Not quite a 4-star show, but also not really a 3. It's an average audience source recording that captures both the band's sound and the energy of the crowd nicely. Nothing that my ears couldn't get along with.
Recording: Audience microphone - 3.5 stars

Audience

Fantastic crowd. Italian crowds are my favorites of the Europeans, if I'm being honest- the boom of the singalong is really incredible. Check out New Years Day...they sing along with the guitar part before Bono even comes in. They're enchanted, excited, and energetic throughout the entire evening. They deserve as much credit as the band does for making this show great.

Overall

This marks my 140th show listened to, and I'd say its in the upper half. Probably Definitely Top-10 Vertigo show...but I don't know about Top 5. I enjoyed it a lot, and I've marked several songs to go back to when I'm in the mood for some Vertigo Tour performances. Specifically...

-Vertigo
-The Electric Co
-Elevation
-New Years Day
-BD for the interesting intro
-All I Want is You
-One has a great "Hear Us Coming" at the end
-The Fly

The middle suffers the average-ness of pretty much every Vertigo show, but the beginning of the show (Vertigo even all the way through City) really rocks. This show is worth your time.

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