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This week's show:-

( *largely Casper's post to be honest...* )

1990-01-06 - Rotterdam, Netherlands - Sportpaleis Ahoy

Info:-

Lovetown Tour 2nd leg: Europe
New Year's Day is in the original setlist before Pride but is not played
4-star audience recording here at the moment
Last ever performance of The Unforgettable Fire.

Setlist:
-Where The Streets Have No Name
-I Will Follow
-I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
-MLK
-The Unforgettable Fire
-God Part II
-Desire
-All Along The Watchtower / Like A Hurricane (snippet)
-All I Want Is You
-Van Diemen's Land
-Bullet The Blue Sky / (I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden (snippet) / Don't Worry, Be Happy (snippet)
-Running To Stand Still
-She's A Mystery To Me
-Angel Of Harlem
-When Love Comes To Town
-Love Rescue Me

encore(s):

-With Or Without You
-Pride (In The Name Of Love)
-40

Active Members this week:-

- Sergio (LikeASong)
- Tim (iTim)
- Drew (DrewHiggins)
- Dan (djrlewis)
- Ali (Ali709)
- Casper (MWSAH)
- Gerard (germcevoy)
- Nate (easports43)
- Patrick (U2Starter)
- Chris (fenderman) (welcome back!)

Unconfirmed Members

Jeremy
Reclinerman
Chris (jean_pasquerel)

Posts on Sunday please; if your new give me a shout and I'll add you!!

germcevoy

17 years

back in business then dan?

djrlewis

17 years

Originally posted by germcevoyback in business then dan?

oh yes

I can feel a summary coming on...

Ali709

17 years

And what's up with Reclinerman? He's not showing up

djrlewis

17 years

Drum roll please...........

djrlewis

17 years

Summary for:-

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

Reviewed by Drew, Casper, Sergio, Dan, Gerard, Ali, Patrick, Tim, and Jeremy

Notes

- Elevation Tour's first US show in four months (previous show June 22 in New Jersey) and first show since the infamous and superb 2nd Slane Castle gig (2001-09-01).
- Elevation Tour 3rd leg: North America
- A shorter show at only 19 songs; the average length of previous and later shows is 20 songs.

Sound

This was previously a soundboard from the satelite webcast that went out live on the night of the show but it suffered from some major skips and lack of clarity. If this sounds like the version you have then upgrade.
If you are new to this bootleg then the version now available on this site is an upgrade by hodel_05 from the pre-satelite feed that is superb. Easily 4.5 star and actually rated 5-star ; it is one of the very best soundboard recordings available on the site. Sounds like a soundboard but with all the benefit of an audience recording.

Sensational

Performance

The set opens with Beautiful Day – a unique event in the Elevation Tour. This makes for a good change – some reviewers prefered this to the more traditional Elevation opener; some were in favour of the standard opening and found it to be an amusing distraction.
The band are in good form, although Bono’s voice does suffer in places, especially New Years Day and Pride. He’s strong on other songs though, such as Stuck… and Kite.
UTEOTW is very powerful (ever not?) and has an excellent ‘Two Tribes’ snippet at the end.
Bad has an unusual snippet (‘Molly Malone’) which nearly all reviewers singled out.
Other songs warranting a mention are New York (so much better than the album version and really finding it’s feet on this leg), With or Without You (mainly because it wasn’t commonly played on this tour) and an excellent cover of What’s Going On.

The encore deserves special mention – opens with Elevation and the Police and Fire Departments of New York on stage during Walk On. Excellent

A couple of reviewers noted an error at the beginning of ISHFWILF – either Edge or Bono are out of key; but it’s quickly corrected by Edge and doesn’t affect your listening enjoyment.

Everyone enjoyed listening to this boot, although Patrick I think wishes he hadn’t changed his rule of not listening to Elevation boots. Most thought the gig was superb. Gerard and I both felt that the gig fell slightly short of greatness – just a certain ‘something’ that you can’t define missing; that little spark that you get at some U2 gigs that make them the ones we talk about forever. It’s nearly there (especially during the encore) but not quite for us.

Audience

Sergio made special mention of the dynamics of the venue and the audience that I feel bares quoting:-

Originally posted by SergioThe South Bend' Joyce Arena is small. That’s the first point. It can hold about 7000-10000 people. And since it's near 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 between the heart tip and the rear seats. That meant an unusual proximity between the band and the audience. Some people have even reported like being in an unplugged show. Those of you who have seen the DVD of this show know what I mean.

Overall

Download and listen to this gig and you will not be disappointed. It’s up amongst the very best Elevation bootlegs. Few can deny that 2001-10-25, New York MSG and 2001-09-01 (Slane, DVD rip) are even better, but you should have it in your collection.

Originally posted by TimCompared to some shows a very 'quiet performance’. Not in terms of loudness, but in terms of the songs. No Bullet the Blue Sky, no Fly, no Zoo Station, no Gone etc. Some melodic tracks chosen instead, which makes it a good show in it's own right.

The historical aspect of this show cannot be ignored. Most bands cancelled their shows. U2 helped pull America back off its knees just by being a rock 'n' roll band who cared and gave that crowd of people the chance to live again for 2 hours before they got back to the reality of what just happened 1 month previously.

Originally posted by GerardExtra special credit to Bono for not turning this into a memorial service.

I can’t close this without one last quote from our American reviewer:-

Originally posted by JeremyPost 9/11, the band does a brilliant job in helping a wounded nation heal. Normally I would criticize a band for taking the bold stance and saying "let our music help you heal" but when you listen to these songs, you can make the case that each and every one is directly related/in response to the tragedy one month earlier. The boys pulled it off with grace. (but thankfully not the song "Grace," because that would have put everyone to sleep...)

germcevoy

17 years

did you not want to post this in the other topic? Great job as ever.

Note Correction : This was previously a soundboard from the satelite webcast that went out live on the night of the show but it was pretty crap. This new version is a pre-satelite feed.

djrlewis

17 years

Originally posted by germcevoydid you not want to post this in the other topic? Great job as ever.

Note Correction : This was previously a soundboard from the satelite webcast that went out live on the night of the show but it was pretty crap. This new version is a pre-satelite feed.

yes please

and edited, ta