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  2. These are seriously good reviews guys. Brilliant to read.

    Are you sure it deserves this much praise though. I'll have to force myself to have another listen.
  3. Originally posted by djrlewis:These are seriously good reviews guys. Brilliant to read.

    Are you sure it deserves this much praise though. I'll have to force myself to have another listen.



    It does it does it does. Just compare it with any other JT show, or even Lovetown for that matter. Streets, UF, SBS, Electric Co., Bad, Running, WOWY. All standout performances.
  4. review coming to a forum near you

    2008.10.16
  5. Don't wanna spoil the fun here, but Lovetown still wins for me.


  6. It usually is for me to but sometimes you just click with a show and nothing surpasses it. This is that show for me.


  7. Can understand that, it is a very good show afterall, also love the somewhat up-tempo Bad, compared to more slower JT-ones. But I have a crush on Lovetown, War and Tuf, so forgive me..lol
  8. Originally posted by MWSAH:[..]

    Can understand that, it is a very good show afterall, also love the somewhat up-tempo Bad, compared to more slower JT-ones. But I have a crush on Lovetown, War and Tuf, so forgive me..lol


    i'm in a War phase at the moment to but this show reigns no matter which tour i'm hooked on


  10. looks that way......

    Anyhoo.....

    Brussels JT "AKA The Best Show ever"

    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.....).

    5 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.

    5 stars

    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)

    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.
  11. Note:-

    Please remember to add your reviews to the bootleg pages.

    Ta
  12. Nice going Dan. The 'wrong note' in I Will Follow was a string break and all those cuts were made by the taper so that the whole show would fit on one tape. If somebody got the master tapes a fresh transfer would solve this.
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