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  1. Originally posted by germcevoyBrussels 87 is a damn near perfect audience recording and hearing both your preferences it would be worth downloading (not plugging it again z z but its just a great recording)


    i downloaded this show , and from the first listen , it's everything you want from U2 gig , great Songs , Great Playing and Great Crowd ,really a hidden GEM
  2. Originally posted by kisho8[..]

    i downloaded this show , and from the first listen , it's everything you want from U2 gig , great Songs , Great Playing and Great Crowd ,really a hidden GEM


    my plugging has resulted in someone seeing the light. Finally.
  3. Originally posted by germcevoy[..]

    my plugging has resulted in someone seeing the light. Finally.


    Are you gonna choose that show for your next turn in BRT?
  4. Originally posted by kisho8[..]

    Are you gonna choose that show for your next turn in BRT?


    that is the plan indeed. Unless something else pops out or i burn out on JT
  5. Brussels is very good indeed. Anyway..it will take a while before I post my Glasgow-review, because I will be away for 3 good days tomorrow.
  6. The hiss here is unreal
  7. my review will come shortly....i wanna give this a listen before i dont get the chance to
  8. I'm gonna give it one more listen before my review..... It'll be coming (most likely) tommorrow
  9. aussiemofo's review of

    2005-06-21 - Glasgow, Scotland - Hampden Park

    Sound

    The more I listened to this bootleg the more I despised the sound. Still a genuine 3 star rating but I guess if it didn't have that constant hiss that endured throughout the whole recording it could have pushed for a 3.5 maybe. That hiss sure was annoying. On top of that the audience sounded funny. They were quite muffled, like they were outside the stadium. All band members were audible enough for an adequate listening although I found Edge's back-up vocals strangely distant. Also worth noting were a few bouts of sound fluctuations that occurred in various parts. The sound certainly affected my enjoyment of the whole recording.

    Performance

    A solid, yet unexceptional, second leg performance from the boys. They kicked off with a bang and some variation which I always appreciate by opening with a rare combo in Vertigo and All Because Of You, before ripping out an ace - the evergreen Electric Co to get the crowd really started. What followed was a decent, adequately performed set. The trio of I Still Haven't Found, Wild Horses and City of Blinding Lights was impressive enough, although you can always tell when Bono's brought his A-Game vocally by listening to how he hits that last powerful "C'mon now love, don't you look baaaaaaccccckkkkk!" during Wild Horses. This time he didn't even attempt it. Wild Horses, although a great addition to the set, just wasn't happening for me although I'd enjoy it any day over Sometimes... As always it was the stinker of the show. Miracle Drug again showed why it suffered a premature death during the tour - another powerful rendition here.

    Love and Peace to One were performed well but things picked up during the first encore. I'm always up for a Zoo Station-The Fly combo and this one didn't disappoint. Was there an extended solo during Zoo Station? Even With or Without You was suprisingly alright although nowhere near the heights of earlier tours. And then a dissapointing finish... (See lowlights).


    Highlights
    Really no stand outs to speak of.

    Lowlights
    What a pissy finish. Just two songs? Yahweh was alright but someone please explain to me the meaning behind Vertigo x2 during the second leg. Why play a song again at the expense of another song? One of the worst concert ideas U2 has ever come up with.

    Overall

    Nothing special, a standard Vertigo performance here. I'm sure there are several other second leg shows such as Milan out there that piss all over this.
    6/10
  10. Originally posted by aussiemofo

    [review]


    Nice review there Aussie

    Re. the Vertigo encore, perhaps it was trying to look back to the old days of playing IWF or 11 O'Clock twice in a show? Who knows lol.
  11. Originally posted by WojBhoy[..]
    Nice review there Aussie

    Re. the Vertigo encore, perhaps it was trying to look back to the old days of playing IWF or 11 O'Clock twice in a show? Who knows lol.


    Thanks. I'm aware they did this when they were like 18,19 when they didn't have any other songs to play but they have a whole universe of material now. Their back catalogue is enormous and they play a song twice. Piss poor effort.
  12. They probably played Vertigo twice as it was summer and as it was bright during the opener the screens didnt add effect. At night and in the dark tho it looks much better and is more of a spectacle. I didnt like the idea but how else would they have opened a daylight stadium concert? Vertigo was there biggest hitter.
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