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Seems I'm here a little early, well, here it goes...

1992-08-23 - Foxboro, Massachusetts
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The Recording:

>> Pros:
* The music is recorded pretty well, you can hear all the instruments quite well, specially you get a good listen of Larry's work
which makes it amazing (It's always great when you get more of the drums in a bootleg, makes it sound great!).
* You get pretty good audience reactions without it becoming extra noise!

>> Cons:
* The vocals, it seemed to me that at some points where the music gets a bit louder, specially in the first
few songs (and maybe NYD), you can't get what Bono is singing (which isn't normal for the "bit" of loudness I'm talking about). But it's not that
much and you forget about it after a couple of songs.
* It also has this problem again, the sound just keeps jumping from Left to Right and then to Left again, which can
get pretty annoying at a lot of parts. You are totally enjoying the music and suddenly the sound starts jumping around!

The Show:
What can you say? It's ZooTV Y'all! It doesn't get bad. The boys are great, Bono sounds wonderful, it's all great!
I haven't heard many ZooTV bootlegs, but this one surely got to me. I enjoyed every bit of it.
Let's get some detail here >>

>>Pros:
* Great setlist! Of course, it's not the dream setlist (doesn't include stuff like I Will Follow) but if you look
at it in a realistic way, it's one of the best! You get 9 out of the 12 achtung songs, you get the good oldies
(REALLY GREAT stuff from JT and R&H, you don't see them together all the time! + NYD, Pride, and an awesome Bad!),
and you get 3 great covers (Unchained Melody,Satellite of Love and Can't Help Falling In Love).
* A great performance of One, makes you go all dreamy!
* Larry singing Dirty Old Town which is always a joy!
* We have TTTYAATW (loooong song names :S!) in the setlist, it's a nice live song.
* A Good Bad!
* A weird version of Desire, which in spite of the sound jumping from speaker to speaker (again!), it's still interesting!
* The closing of the show, (and by that I mean the last four songs) is just amazing. I'm gonna have to say that ZooTV had the best endings for shows,
UV, WOWY, LIB and the Can't Help..., all great, rather calm songs which are great to end the show

... You also get a bit of Elvis in the end, which is cool!

>> Cons:
Not many, as I said it's a good performance. Just a few things...
* In Bad, Bono starts singing right when Edge's guitar starts, I don't know if it's a mistake (as it's not usually done that way) or not but I don't like it.
But this is too much detail, the rest of it is great.
* NYD could have been better, I don't know what wrong with it, but there is something!
* The electronica like start for WOWY...not good!

Overall:
I totally loved the show, the show is great almost flawless, the recording could have been better, but it isn't that bad, it gets you enough of what you need.
This could give you an 'overall' idea: I'm not taking it off my iPod for now (I did take Gelsenkirchen off right away

).

haytrain

17 years

August 23, 1992 - Foxboro

Here's my thoughts....Hope you enjoy! Feel free to answer any of my questions if you know the answers!!

GOOD:

EBTTRT- Adam’s bass was ON FIRE. He rocks that thing from the very beginning. This song was perfection, up until the last note of the song (4:59). Sounds like Edge missed it by a fret or two, which is a shame. If not for that, could be the best performance I’ve ever heard of this one. I wish they’d bring this song back.

I really enjoyed the acoustic-style version of “I Still Haven’t Found…” I’m fairly inexperienced when it comes to early ZooTV shows, so this was a pleasant surprise.

Bono’s improvised lyrics at the beginning of “Pride.” I’d love to see video footage of this. I’m assuming some fan jumped up on the stage?

“Love is Blindness” continues to be one of the most underrated and haunting live songs ever performed. I’m speechless.

BAD:

I found it annoying that the audio shifts from right channel to left channel with no apparent rhyme or reason. The overall quality of this bootleg was shifty at best. Sometimes it sounded great, other times it seemed muddled or distorted.

“Trying To Throw…” - Pretty brutal. Anyone know what guitar Edge is playing here?

UGLY:

Bono’s channeling of Elvis Presley during “When Love Comes To Town.” Instrumentally, it’s great….Bono’s vocals were horrible.

GENERAL NOTES
Zoo Station: 2:52-3:02 – I heard some clean guitar scales I’ve never noticed on this song before. Was that Edge?!

It’s weird to hear One without any sort of lead in by Bono (i.e. talking about the One campaign). I found it really abrupt that they went from him saying “Sure is hot up here…” into such a beautiful, touching song. Might this have been served better a little later in the set?

Who’s Mick Cunningham? This guy? http://www.wwu.edu/soc/Mick_biog.htm

Am I the only one that heard a little bit of “Holy Joe” during UTEOTW? (4:43)

I’m embarrassed to say that this is my first exposure to “Dirty Old Town.” I remember reading about it in U2 by U2…what was the reasoning for putting this in the setlist? Did Bono just need a minute to catch his breath? Was there a costume change here?

Was that Edge singing the last verse of “When Love Comes To Town?”

Ali709

17 years

Nice review! I don't know your show specific questions (cause I listened to the boot early last week and I can't remember the details now). But the one about Dirty Old Town, here is Larry in U2 by U2:

It was awful. Bono had to do a costume change. The question arose, 'What are we going to do?' I said, 'I don't know. Why are you looking at me?' Bono said,
- 'Well, somebody's got to do something. How about you getting out and doing an Irish traditional song?',
-'I can do that'
- 'Oh go on, give it a try.'
- 'There is no way!'
Bono said, 'Look, I'm stuck, there's nothing else to fill it. This'll help me out.' I did it for him because he already had his arse so far out the window that I felt it was only fair to do something to help him out. It was excruciating. It is part of that tour that I don't particularly like to be reminded of.

Go see some videos of it on Youtube if you haven't, Larry's cool

germcevoy

17 years

yes Haytrain that was the Edge singing the last verse of When Love Comes To Town.

germcevoy

17 years

1992-08-23 - Foxboro

Sound

- I loved the sound quality of this show. Definitely worthy of its 4 star status. As good as an
American stadium recording can get.
- I didnt experience any of the sound swithching from left to right on my ipod. On just a few
occasions the sound dipped in volume a tiny bit. I'm guessing that someone walked by the
mic
- All instruments and Bono's vocals vere very clear.
- Great recording.

Performance

Pros :

- Pretty excellent performance I thought. Not the most polished performance you are ever gna
here but a nice relaxed performance.
- Standard setlist but always good to hear Larry on vocals and how many bootlegs to do you
know off that have the crowd chanting 'Larry Larry Larry' ? Awesome moment
- Adam was absolutely outstanding at this show. Bass isnt always of importance to me but
I have to say that Mr Clayton was the stand out of this show.
- I didn't pick up on Bono's vocal problems that some of you guys talked about. Again they
wern't stunning but I found them hard to fault.
- WOWY was excellent, as was Bad (Bono sang all the really old snippets which was
great and I Still Haven't Found. Everything else was just plain old ZooTV (ie : excellent)
- Have to make a seperate point for Angel Of Harlem. The My Girl snippet is perhaps my
favorite snippet out of them all and I loved the inclusion in this show. Fantastic.
- Bono had a go at improvising Pride. Whether it worked or not I;m not sure but its sure as
hell good to here some variation in a song that bores me to tears these days.

Cons :

- Slow start. Takes a few songs for the show to get going
- Ultraviolet would not play on my ipod!!!!! Hardly the bands fault but that annoyed me shit
loads.
- Tryin To Throw Your Arms Around The World sounded pretty muddled up.
- Nothing else to add here really.

# I have yo make a special not for the crowd. They were really into this show, more into it
than any other American stadium show i've heard so that surprised me in a very good way.

To Sum Up. . .

A very enjoyable listen. Its great to hear U2 so relaxed and without worry and just enjoying their music and enjoying their time on stage. For those who haven't downloaded yet it will be a worthy addition to your collection. An on form band, great crowd, great audio quality, ZooTV. . . . . 7/10

Thts just my 2 cents though. . . .

fenderman

17 years

Here we go.

ZooTV Foxboro,Mass 1992-08-23

My sister-in-law was at this show! So it was cool to hear it. Overall this show feels very relaxed. They seem like they are in the groove. This show gets better with each song. It really grows on you.

Sound:
At first is sounded a little flat but by mid show I came to the conclusion that this is a solid recording. Audience in minimal but enough to know they are there. Overall its clean.

Pros:
Dirty Old Town w/Larry singing - great shit!
Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World
My Girl snipppet
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - great acoustic version
Satellite Of Love - I just love this, perfect song for ZooTV!
Bad - well... its just... Bad!
Love is Blindness - good god this is such a brilliant closer

Cons:
To me the opening wan't as great as other shows I heard. Just seemed like Zoo Station didn't have that punch.
New Years Day - just not that great
All I Want Is You snippet - just never liked this as a snippet, especially right in front of BUllet

Rating: 3 1/2 stars, recording is clean but the volume dips occasionally. In the car, it doesn't have that kick like some other 4 star rating shows do.

I would consider this show a deep cut of the tour. Great show but I think there are other shows that would be better as a ZooTV starter. Now I'm going to burn it for my sister-in-law. She'll be happy!

See you guys next show!

djrlewis

17 years

Right then - Foxboro 1992-08-23

Sound

Good, deserves the 4-star rating given here. Clean for all 4 players, faded a little for me on Zoo Station but after that no probs (this was on an iPod too)

Performance

I'm going against the grain here and saying that really this show left me cold. Don't get me wrong, no ZooTV show is bad in my opinion (at least none I've heard). This one just lacked a little something for me - it was solid but not spectacular. There are many better boots available (although my knowledge of the American stadium section of the tour is limited, admittedly).
TTTYAATW was weak, AOH was messy and the start of the show was lethargic. They sounded relaxed and pleased to be in Boston, but I felt they were maybe a little too relaxed.

Caveat to this - I haven't listened to the whole show. I only downloaded part 1 and was so unimpressed that I didn't bother with part 2. Having read all your comments, I will go ahead and listen to the rest of the show and give a revised opinion in the week.

djrlewis

17 years

OK, that makes us just Fenderman to go...

Edit[:- Good spot! I was just testing you!! Obviously I mean Reclinerman

germcevoy

17 years

Originally posted by djrlewisI only downloaded part 1 and was so unimpressed that I didn't bother with part 2. Having read all your comments, I will go ahead and listen to the rest of the show and give a revised opinion in the week.

worth the second part

Ali709

17 years

Originally posted by djrlewisOK, that makes us just Fenderman to go...

Actually, Fenderman did post, you probably mean Reclinerman

And Gerard...how come didn't UV play on your iPod?! Works fine here :-\ ....

germcevoy

17 years

Originally posted by Ali709[..]

Actually, Fenderman did post, your probably mean Reclinerman
And Gerard...how come didn't UV play on your iPod?! Works fine here :-\ ....

good observation. Just ReclinerMan again to go. About UV, I haven't got a clue. When Desire ended it just didn't make the transition into UV. Just silence. Must be a corrupt file or something. Annoying none the less

Ali709

17 years

Originally posted by germcevoy[..]

good observation. Just ReclinerMan again to go. About UV, I haven't got a clue. When Desire ended it just didn't make the transition into UV. Just silence. Must be a corrupt file or something. Annoying none the less

Yea...lovely song to miss :-\

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