Rock and Roll Nigger
Vertigo Detroit, Michigan
24 October 2005
(69:35)
(63:16)

Disc 1:
1. Wake Up (PA)/Everyone (PA)/City of Blinding Lights
2. Vertigo/Rock and Roll Nigger
3. Elevation
4. I Will Follow
5. The Electric Co.
6. The Ocean
7. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For/In A Little While
8. Bono Speaks
9. Miracle Drug
10. Sometimes You Cant Make It On Your Own
11. Love and Peace or Else
12. Sunday Bloody Sunday
13. Bullet the Blue Sky/When Johnny Comes Marching Home/Please/The Hands That Built America

Disc 2:
1. Miss Sarajevo/Human Rights Video
2. Pride (In the Name of Love)
3. Where the Streets Have No Name
4. One
5. Ol’ Man River
6. Walk On
7. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
8. With or Without You
9. All Because of You
10. Yahweh
11. 40

Transfer: Unknown > CDR > EAC > WAV > dBpower AMP > FLAC (Level 6) > WAV > CDR
 

NOTE: An excellent recording featuring a nice overall mix of instruments and vocals and very little crowd noise.  Unlike many other Vertigo Tour recordings, virtually no individual voices in the vicinity of the taper are audible on this recording.

On Disc 1, Track 8, as The Edge plays the opening notes of “Miracle Drug” over and over again, Bono gives the following impromptu speech:

“For some reason those four notes give this band a lot of faith in the future.  Maybe that's because The Edge is from the future.  You saw Conan O'Brien.  He looked totally comfortable in that space suit, didn't he?  That's because The Edge is a space man…And The Edge actually arrived on the north side of Dublin, Ireland some years back in a spaceship and was playing that tune as the spaceship landed.  When the spaceship landed the door came down like that and he walked out.  So Larry walks up to him and says ‘Who are you?’  He said ‘I am The Edge’.  Then Adam said ‘Where are you from?’  He said ‘I’m from the future?’  And I said ‘What's that like?’  The Edge said ‘It’s better.’”

The reference to Conan O'Brien alludes to the band's appearance on NBC's “Late Night With Conan O'Brien” on October 6, 2005.  During the show O'Brien, The Edge, and Bono performed a skit called “In the Year 2000”, which made futuristic jokes at the band members’ expense.

Before “Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own”, Bono explains the meaning of the song by saying the following:

“This is complicated.  This next one's very complicated…a complicated story.  Maybe not so complicated.  Maybe its an Irish male kind of a story.  Two males knockin’ heads.  In this case, one is my father.  A working-class man who loved the opera.  The other, a man…little boy…suffering delusions of grandeur (who) went and became an opera.”

The last line of that quote will surely have generated a chuckle, as it once again drives home the fact that Bono is fully aware of his own megalomaniacal ways and is not afraid to poke fun at them.

“Walk On” and “Stuck In A Moment You Cant Get Out Of” are performed acoustically.   Bono has trouble starting the latter – after experiencing a similar problem during “Miss Sarajevo” – as he begins singing out of key and stops abruptly.  He tries to play it off as being intentional by chanting a few other words before starting the song anew.