Performance notes: Bad is dedicated to Greg Carroll, who had been buried exactly a year ago. At this stage, U2 had not yet played One Tree Hill live. Setlist and comment provided by U2gigs.com.
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I first listened to this boot months ago, upon the recommendation of you know who.....I remember thinking "that's quite good, I must listen to it again at some point. However, I didn't remember having my socks blown off as I was promised.
So when it came to this review, I was of a like mind to Harry. "It can't be that good, really. I'm going to be a picky little bastard and find every single flaw, dissect and destroy it",
So the first lines of each section of review will contain my picky little bastard notes.
Performance
Edge makes a wrong note during I Will Follow and one other song. Bono slightly forgets the words to I Still Haven't Found.
Really, that's it. This is quite simply the best band in the world on top of their game doing one of their very best gigs. It's not as well known (until now lol) as some other shows (Rock's Hottest Ticket, Sun Devil, LA, Paris), so it hasn't received the hype(until now lol....). It's better than all of those.
Quite honestly, it's hard to pin down why. Again, as with Harry, there are, individually, better performances of nearly all these songs, for me. But as a whole, it just works. I really didn't want to stop listening the three times I've listened for this BRT. I even put it on when I was awake at 1.30am this morning (long story...). Then the battery on my iPod ran out (I was playing Connect 4 as well.....).
Sound
Dips a bit during beginning of RTSS. Cuts off suddenly at end of a couple of songs (noticeably TUF)
It's a 5 star audience recording, among the very best. The crowd don't piss you off with interfering talk etc and all 4 band members are clear. Stellar work from the recorder.
4 stars (to fit with rating guidelines here) Recording: Audience microphone - 4 stars
Audience
insert picky bastard comments here............ummm...........I have none......
Best audience (audibly) in a bootleg I've listened to. And that's from a guy that was at the Cardiff Vertigo gig.
Overall
I must have been in quite a bad place when I listened to this those months ago. Even my picky deliberations fell short. I listened to it twice more just because I wanted to.
Get this bootleg now. Stop reading the review and click on the download provider of your choice. Convert it as soon as the download is complete, get it on your portable device/burn to CD, find about 3 hours and listen (time allows for second listen that you will want to do, for sure).
Up there with the well known favourite shows of your choice. Entered my top 10 for sure (of any tour) and is now my number one JT boot.
As I've said, individually there are better performances of most of these songs for me (exceptions would be MLK, possibly TUF and probably SBS, which are going to replace their respective counterparts on my 'Best Of Live' compilations {previously from R&H, Paris JT and R&H respectively}. I will also note that WOWY is beautiful and probably, in agreement with Gerard, the best pure rendition I've heard.).
However, the sum is greater than it's parts, for sure. This is perfect U2 listening. You won't be disappointed.
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