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Originally posted by germcevoyI might have to sit it out tomorrow. I've been dying with a hughe temperature and a vomiting bug and have literally no energy. I'll leave my feedback during the week hopefully if I can't manage tomorrow

Sorry about that. Hope you get better.

Originally posted by germcevoyput this forward to Remy so I did. He hasn't said no which is good but he is busy at the moment so patience is in order. We might incorporate a new 'featured bootleg' feature with the bootleg round table in a new version of the site. Nothing confirmed though.

No word immediately is better than immediate shoot-down.

Ali709

17 years

Originally posted by germcevoyI might have to sit it out tomorrow. I've been dying with a hughe temperature and a vomiting bug and have literally no energy. I'll leave my feedback during the week hopefully if I can't manage tomorrow

umm...are you sharing again?! I woke up this morning running to the toilet to throw up...and I've had fever since this morning

germcevoy

17 years

Originally posted by Ali709[..]

umm...are you sharing again?! I woke up this morning running to the toilet to throw up...and I've had fever since this morning

I had 5 runs to the toilet to throw up last night. Enced up sleeping on the bathroom floor. Not pretty

Ali709

17 years

Originally posted by germcevoy[..]

I had 5 runs to the toilet to throw up last night. Enced up sleeping on the bathroom floor. Not pretty

not pretty at all...hope you get better, my fever's stopped and I'm much better!

ReclinerMan

17 years

I used to get just as sick more constantly when I was younger, thankfully my body became stronger over time. Still is a massive pain to get sick, though.

germcevoy

17 years

Originally posted by ReclinerManI used to get just as sick more constantly when I was younger, thankfully my body became stronger over time. Still is a massive pain to get sick, though.

its an inconveniance indeed.

djrlewis

17 years

Originally posted by germcevoy[..]

I had 5 runs to the toilet to throw up last night. Enced up sleeping on the bathroom floor. Not pretty

Jeez, sounds horrible. Hope it's starting to settle for you mate. Glad you're better too Ali. Nothing worse.

drewhiggins

17 years

Hope you get a bit better Gerard.

easports43

17 years

Originally posted by germcevoy[..]

I had 5 runs to the toilet to throw up last night. Enced up sleeping on the bathroom floor. Not pretty

Hope you get better Gerard. Sounds awful.

germcevoy

17 years

Originally posted by easports43[..]

Hope you get better Gerard. Sounds awful.

cheers Nate. You guys are leaving it late toite. Painfil ears have prevented me from listening but I still plan to leave feedback next week some time.

Ali709

17 years

Is Tehran the only place where today's a Sunday?! Where are you people?! Ok, here I go...[beware: it's looong and nonsense!]

1985-03-21 - Chicago, Illinois - University Of Illinois Pavillion
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The Recording: 4.5/5

>> Positive…
* Pretty awesome, it doesn’t switch between left and right, you get enough music enough audience. The Vocals and the music are both pretty clear. It IS a 4.5 star recording!

>> Negative…
* Not a surprise really, but we don’t have as much bass as I would like, but hey, that would definitely make it 5 stars! It IS still more in there than many other bootlegs (listen A Sort of Homecoming as an example).

The Show: 5/5
To tell you the truth…I’ve been digging hard trying to find problems with it, but it’s just great! Let’s see what I got in the end…

>> Positive…
* TOTALLY AWESOME!

* It’s the unforgettable fire tour; it really was only about the music back then. It’s weird that except for a few exceptions, the only thing that Bono says before a song starts, is the song’s name!
* The setlist is amazing now...as I (or maybe we) miss these old songs and want to see them played! There is A Sort of Homecoming, Seconds, TUF, October, Wire…
* All the songs are very well performed, there is no poor performance in my opinion, and they’re all done great! If I wanted to make a highlights list, it would have to be the whole setlist! Here are some standouts anyways! >>

- Almost 11 minutes long version of Bad

!
- Electric Co. … 8 minutes long, with snippets and long jam-like thing in the middle!
- October>> NYD

!
- As less heard songs live: TUF ,ASOH and 11 O’clock. Also, MLK blew me away!
- The made-up lyrics to Knockin’ on Heaven’s door are funny

- 9 minutes long ‘40’ + snippets, performed with the support band!

>> Negative:
There really wasn’t much, I had to dig hard for these:
* At some points, when Edge is doing backing vocals…he gets over Bono! I mean you hear more of him than Bono, which doesn’t really sound good, as Bono is singing in the actual melody whereas Edge’s is a bit different, not good to become main.
* Wire is not a favorite song of mine really, I did enjoy it anyways but the ending is awful really!

Overall:
Amazing! It was the first ever Unforgettable Fire tour bootleg I listened to. It exceeded my expectations. It’s a very good recording if you’re looking for the same thing as I was. I might suggest this other show as well, it’s got a longer and a bit better setlist (includes Indian Summer Sky, Surrender, Two Hearts Beat As One,...): 1984-10-23 - Nantes, France - St. Herblain (I found it right after having posted Chicago as this week’s bootleg!).

The whole bootleg and show are just great (talking about this week's show, not Nantes mentioned in the last paragraph!!)! Also, it’s interesting to hear them when they weren’t as big as they are now. The ego hadn’t done its work yet, they are a band who has just become famous and big…you can hear Bono’s comments that reflect this (telling the CBS people: “you want some people? Come up here!” or the comments before Knockin’… there is another part where he says they used to have 500 people watching them and that he’s glad there are so many watching now).

**Comments: Just wanted to point this out…it’s interesting how similar this show sounds to Joshua Tree Tour shows (particularly Paris 87, as I was listening to it at the same time). Of course, JT had new songs and a more confident band…but the (very short) speeches/comments (such as “for a very special man…” or “this is a big place but we’re bigger than this place”) and performances are very similar, which shows they didn’t spend as much time as they do now on how the tours should be, it REALLY was only about the music (though maybe we’re lucky that they changed their manners, or all the shows would be the same, up till now!

)

djrlewis

17 years

1985-03-21 - Chicago, Illinois - University Of Illinois Pavillion

Info

The Unforgettable Fire 5th leg: North America
Some of the show was filmed by CBS news and Wire was broadcast
1st of two nights at Illinois Pavilion
Rate 4.5/5 for sound on this site

Sound

Good boot this one, especially for the era. I thought during 11 o'clock it was bit ropey but it settled (that often seems to be the case?)
I did notice there wasn't much bass, had to boost that up a bit.
Audience very muted too; not sure if they were just quiet or not much was picked up by the taper.

Performance
Bono's voice ranged from shit (The UF) to pretty good (Amazing Grace snippet during Electric Co.). Couldn't work that one out. He acknowledges after The UF that it's not working and struggles with Pride too, but didn't seem to struggle so much on other songs.

General band performance was good.

One of the better boots of recent weeks for me. I was pretty tired when I listened and it kept me awake which is a good sign.
It didn't blow me away though either - just very solid.

Nice to hear some songs we don't hear much done well - Wire for example. I thought Electric Co was very good as was '40'.
Nothing else has stuck in my mind though.

Summary

I think this boot is a good UF boot, solid performances, except Bono's voice is poor on several songs. Personally would rate it 4 stars, not 4.5.

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