U2 in Boston - May 26, 2005
Vertigo Boston, Massachusetts
26 May 2005
(62:04)
(63:25)

Disc 1:
1. Everyone (PA)/City of Blinding Lights
2. Vertigo/Walk This Way (snippet)
3. Elevation
4. Gloria
5. The Ocean
6. Beautiful Day
7. Miracle Drug
8. Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own
9. Love and Peace or Else
10. Sunday Bloody Sunday
11. Bullet the Blue Sky/Please (snippet)/The Hands That Built America (snippet)/ When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet)
12. Running To Stand Still/Human Rights Video

Disc 2:
1. Pride (In the Name of Love)
2. Where the Streets Have No Name
3. One
4. Zoo Slot Machine/The Fly
5. Until the End of the World
6. Out of Control
7. With or Without You
8. All Because of You
9. Original of the Species
10. Bad/40 (snippet)

Source: MM-LHSC01 > MM-EBM-1 > D8
Taper: Cherico
 

***PER TAPER'S REQUEST, DO NOT TORRENT***

NOTE: Another strong recording with excellent sound clarity.  Bono’s vocals come through loud and clear.  The overall mix is decent, although a little more bass would have been nice.  This bootleg has a slightly warmer feel to it than the same taper’s recording from the two other nights in Boston (“U2 in Boston – May 24, 2005 and "U2 in Boston - May 28, 2005").  However, the relatively weak low end results in a sound that is a bit thin.  Audience noise is a bit more prominent on this recording than on the others, but it is mostly limited to applause in the vicinity the taper.

The taper makes a couple of volume adjustments during "City of Blinding Lights" and during the first minute or so of this song after the full band kicks in there is some very soft static presumably resulting from hot recording levels.

Before “Miracle Drug” Bono says the following about the band’s love of Boston:

“There are a few reasons why this band loves this city, this state.  It’s mostly because this city, this state, loves this band.  It’s not just because it’s an Irish city, it’s an Irish state.  The Irish recon Massachusetts is a colony of the Ireland Republic.  It’s not just that this is the city of Aerosmith or The Cars or people who turned us on to music.  It’s great people, smart people working here.  Smart people dreaming of the future living around the corner here.  Smart people who believe in the future living around the corner here.  Who have faith in the future.  And I often wonder why people who have faith in God don’t have faith in the people who believe in science.  We like to think that God inspires scientists, doctors, nurses.  We know there are people working on a cure for cancer around the corner here.  This is our prayer for them.”