About half of this recording is incredible, and a special event during Mysterious
Ways makes this a recording that every collector must have.
 
The recording opens with a sizzling, bass-heavy recording of Elevation, and the
sound quality really blossoms after a few songs; so much so that U2log.com
featured the MP3's of this recording as "the first soundboard recording of the
tour." Sunday Bloody Sunday, Kite, Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of, In
A little While (with an excellent Bono falsette), Desire, The Fly, Stay (Faraway,
So Close), and Bullet The Blue Sky are incredible. Unfortunately, a few songs,
like Beautiful Day, do not share the same amazing sound/performance quality.
Sunday Bloody Sunday is the second or third best recording I have ever heard
of that song. This Minneapolis recording really has some special songs.
 
Then you can hear Bono climb up into the audience at the side of the stage
during Mysterious Ways and get into a nasty scuffle with a strange, big,
and dangerous man. The strange man claimed that he was mad at the band for
not paying him for writing the Joshua Tree, according to a friend who witnessed
the whole fiasco. When Bono climbed right up the strange man's seat, he
grabbed Bono's head repeatedly. Bono fended off the attack with an open-hand
strike to his face, knocking his glasses off. You can see a picture of Bono and
the man staring at each other eye-to-eye during the scuffle on the cover art
for A Stormy Night In Minneapolis, widely available on the Internet for free. You
can hear the scuffle on the recording and hear Bono keeping the song moving,
singing, as a true professional. A little later you hear Bono apologize from the
stage to the dangerous man, bowing twice. "I'm Sorry. My apologies. My
apologies."
 
The outstanding sound/performance quality of half the recording and
the special events of Mysterious Ways make A Stormy Night In Minneapolis a
"must have."