REC
Active topics
  1. 2001-10-10 - South Bend, Indiana - Joyce Center

    Set List:

    1. Beautiful Day
    Summary: A great performance of this song with a special opening. Usually Elevation is the song to kick-off the show, but I’d prefer Beautiful Day. Bono’s voice is quite good here and the performance is good, but nothing really special.
    Rate: 8/10

    2. Until The End Of The World / Two Tribes (snippet)
    Summary: Powerful version. Full of energy, the way I like this song to be played. Also a strong performance, with a nice snippet (Two Tribes) at the end.
    Rate: 8/10

    3. New Year's Day
    Summary: Also a good performance with Bono struggling a bit with his voice, I think. Also powerful, a typical ‘Elevation’ version of NYD. But like BD, not a special one. I miss the Lovetown-versions.
    Rate: 7.5/10

    4. When Will I See You Again (snippet) / Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
    Summary: A good snippet before the start playing Stuck. Nicely sung by Bono and it fits with Stuck. Stuck In A Moment is well performed here. It doesn’t really differ from other Elevation-tour performances. I love the lyrics…
    Rate: 8/10

    5. What's Going On
    Summary: I haven’t heard this song so often, but I surely love it. Great performance from the lads. Good drumming and well sung by Bono.
    Rate: 8.5/10

    6. New York
    Summary: I don’t really like the studio version but it rocks live. Very good performance with Edge on fire. Bono messes with the lyrics, it seems.
    Rate: 9/10

    7. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
    Summary: Played slowly, like all Pride’s since Zoo TV. A decent performance, this one. Nothing special. Bono struggles a bit with his voice. He still can’t reach it…Quite a difference with his voice during Vertigo 5th leg. I still prefer the Zoo TV ones.
    Rate: 6.5/10

    8. Sunday Bloody Sunday
    Summary: Strong performance, but I miss the snippet in the middle of the song. A ‘Johnny Comes Marching Home’ would have been great, like on the Boston DVD. Nevertheless, a great song with some nice drumming from Larry. I like the ‘State of Heart’ lyrics from Bono at the end.
    Rate: 8/10

    9. Kite
    Summary: One of my favourite songs. I still see Slane’s one as the best, but Kite is a song U2 can’t play crap. I love the lyrics, the melody, the idea behind the song…It’s Kite and I love it! You can compare this one with Kite from Boston. Powerful and well performed.
    Rate: 8/10

    10. Angel Of Harlem
    Summary: Angel of Indiana…again a good performance. I love the way it was played during Elevation. Nice crowd singing at the end.
    Rate: 8/10

    11. Staring At The Sun
    Summary: A pearl from Pop. I adore the PopMart versions, the Elevation ones were a bit softer, at least in my opinion. But it’s a lovely song with Edge on the acoustic guitar. This one is also one of them. Well sung, well performed, but it could be better.
    Rate: 7.5/10

    12. Bad / Molly Malone (snippet)
    Summary: A special one, this. It’s Bad, so I can’t be crap. Bono sings quite good here, Larry drums well with a good amount of energy. And I adore the Molly Malone snippet. It would have been nice to continue the song afterwards, like they usually do, but still…it’s great.
    Rate: 8.5/10

    13. Where The Streets Have No Name
    Summary: Lovely as always. Bono uses the Psalm 116 snippet, which was quite common during Elevation. Just a strong performance, but not as good as Boston or Slane.
    Rate: 8/10

    14. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
    Summary: Love this one. Bono starts out of melody it seems, but it could be done on purpose. This song wasn’t performed that often during Elevation, so it’s also a special one. ‘Oh no…we’re in a church’
    Rate: 8.5/10

    15. With Or Without You
    Summary: Decent…Bono’s voice could be better, but it’s good nevertheless. I like the JT ones more, of course. Also a good Shine Like Stars snippet.
    Rate: 7.5/10

    encore(s):

    16. Elevation / Creep (snippet)
    Summary: Awesome..Elevation as encore. Just brilliant. I think the crowd went mad when the first notes where played.
    Rate: 8.5/10

    17. Mysterious Ways / Sexual Healing (snippet)
    Summary: A very strong performance. Not that energetic as during Zoo TV, but just very good. Love Edge’s well known solo at the end, gives me goose bumps all the time.
    Rate: 8.5/10

    18. One / Peace On Earth (snippet)
    Summary: Good speech(maybe a bit too long) and a lovely performance. Good vocals.
    The snippet is also great, fits very well.
    Rate: 8/10

    19. Walk On
    Summary: Good performance, very spiritual, as usual after the 9/11 attacks. Also special with the Police and Fire Departements on stage.
    Rate: 8/10

    Sound:
    Just brilliant. Together with RDS Arena, Zoo TV, this is the best sounding bootleg, methinks..
    Rate: 9/10

    Overall:
    A great performance, not the best, but just great. Bono's voice is quite good sometimes, but also powerless during some songs(could be the recording too). I like the setlist and there aren't any weak songs played.

    Overall rate:8.2
  2. Originally posted by LikeASong2001-10-10 South Bend (Indiana, USA)[/b]

    The first concert after the 9/11 massacre. Anything else to say?

    Sound
    The sound is perfect. Perfect. The upgrade made by Hodel_05 a few months ago sounds absolutely like heaven to my ears. Period.


    Sweetlist
    The setlist on this concert is one of the bests of the Elevation Tour in my opinion. It features the only night of the tour not-opened by Elevation (only that is remarkable), but Beautiful Day is sooo good as opener... People goes crazy when hear that Edge's guitar. Amazing. Until The End Of The World and New Year's Day stay on their usual positions, after Beautiful Day, but since they were one song earlier than usual, they get a tremendous response from the young audience.
    Pride was played the 7th song. Played earlier than the usual, also get a nice response from the audience. It was followed by Sunday Bloody Sunday and a more or less common setlist (Kite, Angel, Desire, Staring, Bad, Streets and Haven't Found). Another nice surprise was With Or Without You, as the closer of the main set.
    And the ENCORE. Wow, wow, wow. Awesomely opened by Elevation and awesomely followed by Mysterious Ways. One and Walk On finish the show, which ends only with 19 songs.


    Venue&Audience&Performance
    The South Bend' Joyce Arena is small. That0s the first point. It can hold about 7000-10000 people. And since it's near (near? I really don't know it sure) a university, most of the tickets were sold to students, young people. That meant an extra-point to the audience usual energy and reactions, etc. The stage's heart, as we have all seen on Slane and Boston DVDs, is huge. And the venue was small. Therefore, there was almost no space betwween the heart tip and the rear seats. That meant an unusual proximity between the band and the audience. Some people has even reported like being in an unplugged show. Those of you who have seen the DVD of this show know what I mean.

    The performance is very strong throughout all the concert. The band felt in a great shape, confident and quite happy. The audience, which as said before was formed mostly by young, upbeat people, carried them. Virtually all the songs were performed greatly. The energy and the special emotion of the show made it very special, so the band wanted to play a unique gig.

    Even though Bono's voice was not 100% (was it anytime on the Elev Tour??), he makes a remarkable effort to sing good, and in my opinion, he achieves it...



    I don't want to nor bored and make you feel bored, so I won't be writing much more. I cannot write more... I have to study some Maths for tomorrow's test


    Conclussions

    -Sound: 10/10
    -Performance: 8/10
    -Audience: 9,5/10


    -Overall: 9/10


    Thought I'd bring forward Sergio's post see we all see it
  3. Nice posts so far lads

    2001-10-10 - South Bend, Indiana - Joyce Center

    Sound

    I still had the old version on my iPod so I listened to that to start.It's good but has some horrible jumps during Kite, Angel of Harlem and Bad.
    I wouldn't recommend that version, but you can't get it anymore from this site at least as the links have been replaced with:-

    Hodel05's upgrade. Wow. Fuck me. Stunning sound. Up there with the best boots, broadcast quality. 4.5 or 5 stars easily.

    Performance

    Very good, but slightly short of great for me. I think they'd lost a little energy after the break and Bono was obviously still ravaged by his father's death. He struggles occasionally.

    All performances are good. No weak songs. I've just heard them more inspired on other occasions; the little things that lift a concert to the greats (like the Zoo Milan show last week).

    UTTEOTW was very strong. Two Tribes is a great snippet at the end.
    Beautiful Day makes a great opener but I do prefer Elevation, especially a la Slane. Shakes it up a bit though which is good.

    Overall

    You should definitely have this boot in your collection. It's now one of the best sounding for all tours and has a very good show in it. Just short of great as I've said but an excellent addition to any collection none-the-less

    The historical aspect of this show cannot be ignored. Most bands cancelled their shows. U2 helped pull America back off it's knees just by being a rock 'n' roll band who cared.

    I personally still prefer the three MSG shows and the 25th certainly sounds just as good as this but has a more inspired feel to it. So for that part of the tour I would recommend this show after those. And Slane is my favourite show of the whole tour but was outdoors so is not quite representative as a whole. Still places this show as my 5th favourite Elevation Tour recording though, which says a lot I think.
  4. 2001-10-10 - South Bend, Indiana - Joyce Center

    Sound

    First things first, the sound was sensational. Hodels upgrade makes this one of the best sounding bootlegs out there. It sounds like the best audience recording ever (and rarely a soundboard can do this). Exceptional. If you've still got the old version the upgrade now.

    Performance

    I'll mirror Dan when I say very good but not wow. I couldn't complain about any of the performances, everything was par with the odd song here and there being pretty darn good. I refer specifically to Beautiful Day, UTEOTW (Two Tribes oh yea) and that lovely Molly Malone snippet at the end of Bad. Sunday Bloody Sunday was a bit flat for me. Other notables performances were New York, What's Going On and With Or Without You wasn't too shabby. Pretty decent One speech also if I may so. Everything was correct and extremely relevant. For a soundboard/American crowd, the audience noise and enthusiasm filtered through quite well which is always a huge plus for me.

    8/10

    Overall Summary

    Definitely one to add to your collection if you haven't already done so. Pretty spot on souvenir of the Elevation Tour but I don't think this gig captured all that was great about those post 9/11 gigs, for that you need 2001-10-24 - New York. Although we may say that this show was not 'great' lets give credit to the band for giving that crowd of people the chance to live again for those 2 hours before they got back to the reality of what just happened 1 month previously and extra special credit to Bono for not turning this into a memorial service.
  5. 2001-10-10 - South Bend, Indiana - Joyce Center
    -----------------------------------

    The Recording: 5/5
    What can I say? It’s the best! To me it sounds the same as any of my official DVD rips. Perfect balance between the audience’s and the band’s sound, every detail of every song is heard pretty well, Adam’s bass is heard perfectly which shows what a great recording it is!


    The Show: 5/5
    Yes, I’m giving them both 5/5. It’s a great show as well. Pretty good setlist, songs performed very well, although Bono’s voice does fail him sometimes, but nothing new about that! The band is in top form, energetic and happy they seem.
    I was gonna do a song by song review, but it would get too long, so I describe only (IMHO) the highlights.
    - Beautiful Day, I like the weird way they start it, Bono singing the “the heart is a bloom” a few times.

    - NYD… (Bono’s voice starting to fail tho)

    - What’s Going On, one of my favorite songs, covered by my favorite band, I know not many people like U2’s cover, but I just love it, and it’s performed completely and with great power here, the crowd following them, it’s amazing!

    - Bad, a highlight of the show, great quality again, great performance, great audience.

    - Streets, every little detail of it recorded, amazing audience power again, another highlight of the show (been relistening Bad – Streets all week ). Again, -

    - ISHFWILF, the bass’s sound recorded so well + the great audience make this a great performance!

    - Walk On, with the heroes on stage and the people's USA shouts after the song, a very emotional performance.

    Some interesting notes…
    - Bono’s little talk before Kite (on the end of the SBS file) makes the song more beautiful.

    - I had to say this one: Angel of Harlem, Bono goes :”Laaaawrence!!” nice moment!

    - About Bad, …does that girl scream out “Thank youuu….thaaank you!!” in the beginning?! .. ow, and I don’t really like the Molly Malone snippet.

    - Streets… Bono’s religious talk in the beginning and that distant yell he does, add a lot to the song (much better than the chant on the the vertigo tour!).

    - Bono doesn’t start in the right moment on ISHFWILF (or maybe It’s the edge playing wrong), Edge fixes the issue right away tho.

    - One...Bono does a 4-5 minute speech!! It's a good speech tho, but I felt sorry for the Edge, he plays the little guitar bit over and over again for 4 minutes (on the vertigo tour they only had the intro track and no guitar till the end of the speech!)


    Overall:
    I haven’t heard many Elevation shows, but this one was awesome. Reasons to get this boot:

    - Amazing sound quality, crowd and band both recorded perfectly.
    - First show after 9/11, thus, an amazing crowd, a great band, and also a historical show.

    It was a great experience listening to this show, I enjoyed every second of it. It became a favorite of mine right after listening to the first 20 seconds of it. Go and get it right now, you’ll love it!
  6. I'll have to write my review later. I'm busy right now.
  7. Originally posted by easports43I'll have to write my review later. I'm busy right now.


    There's still Jeremy, Patrick and iTim too.
  8. You bugger's are giving me bloody long reviews to summarise!!

    Seems a popular show at present...
  9. Anyway, while I'm at a lose end;

    Next week's show:-

    (Chosen by Sergio)

    1987-07-15 - Madrid, Spain - Estadio Santiago Bernabeu

    Info:-

    The Joshua Tree 2nd leg: Europe
    Although U2 had extensively toured Europe in the past, this was their first Spanish gig. It appropriately featured the first ever performance of Spanish Eyes.
    Rated 3/5 for sound here currently (audience recording)

    Setlist

    Where The Streets Have No Name
    I Will Follow
    I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Exodus (snippet)
    MLK
    The Unforgettable Fire
    Bullet The Blue Sky / The Battle Hymn Of The Republic (snippet)
    Running To Stand Still
    Sunday Bloody Sunday
    Exit
    In God's Country
    The Electric Co. / Break On Through (snippet)
    Help
    Bad / Walk On The Wild Side (snippet)
    October
    New Year's Day
    Pride (In The Name Of Love)

    encore(s):
    Party Girl
    Spanish Eyes
    With Or Without You / Shine Like Stars (snippet) / Love Will Tear Us Apart (snippet)
    40

    Active Members this week (Confirmed)

    Dan
    Gerard
    Sergio
    Casper
    Ali

    Active Members this week (Suspected)
    ( *Give me the nod and I'll move you to the list above or the list below* )

    Nate
    Drew
    iTim
    Jeremy
    Patrick

    Unconfirmed Inactive Members

    Reclinerman
    Chris (jean_pasquerel)
    Chris (fenderman)

    + anyone new who'd like to join us

    Casper will be chosing the show after this. Reports on 10th Feb please

  10. Originally posted by djrlewis[..]

    There's still Jeremy, Patrick and iTim too.


    I'm just listening to The Unforgettable Fire album, then I'll listen to this bootleg again and review whilst listening.

  11. Originally posted by iTim[..]

    I'm just listening to The Unforgettable Fire album, then I'll listen to this bootleg again and review whilst listening.




    Good man
  12. Add me for the coming show, Dan!
U2start is run by fans for fans. Help us reduce personal costs. Consider to make a donation to support us.
U2start is run by fans for fans. Help us reduce personal costs. Consider to make a donation to support us.
U2start is run by fans for fans. Help us reduce personal costs. Consider to make a donation to support us.
U2start is run by fans for fans. Help us reduce personal costs. Consider to make a donation to support us.