Vertigo Anaheim 2 IEM
Vertigo Anaheim, California
02 April 2005
(75:53)
(15:37)

Disc 1:
1. Beautiful Day (fades in) [includes 8 secs from audience source]
2. Miracle Drug
3. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own [includes 18 secs from audience source]
4. New Years Day
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday
6. Bullet The Blue Sky [includes 29 secs from audience source]
7. Running To Stand Still
8. Zoo Station
9. The Fly
10. Mysterious Ways
11. Pride( In The Name Of Love)
12. Where The Streets Have No Name
13. One [includes approximately 5 minutes from audience source]

Disc 2:
1. All Becuase Of You
2. Yahweh
3. 40

Taper: MarkP
Transfer: Master > CDR > EAC > Soundforge > Flac with SBA level 8 > Wav > CDR
Remastered by: BogusPomp

NOTE (by Boguspomp, distributed with .flac files): BD, SYCMIOYO and BTBS had very bad dropouts up to 4 secs long , 6 in a row, so that I replaced these portions with the available audience recording, to give you a smoother listening experience.  After the audience screams for about 50 secs the following 5 mins were missing at the beginning of "One".  Again, to make this whole thing more smooth, I added the audience recording in place to complete the song.  As before, I applied some equalization to the files, as the original sound was rather flat (IEM's never have "real Bass" i.e.)  I was able to create a Harmonic Balance, that gives you a sound, that is as good as it gets.  The sound is now very good to excellent and as the first IEM of this tour very welcome.

NOTE: As is the case with virtually every IEM recording, there are numerous short periods of static during this recoring.  On most occasins, the static does not overwhelm the recording.  Rather, it sounds like the static that you hear when you turn the tuning dial on a radio and the signal is strong but not quite perfect.  There are also a few brief bursts of diginoise, but nothing to worry about.

I think the coolest thing about this recording is that you get to hear Bono's guitar loud and clear.  Listen to the end of "The Fly" and you'll get a good idea of his skill set.  Trust me, his playing is far from perfect.  But its very interesting to hear how he makes things up as he goes along.  Also notice that he does little more than strum a few notes while he's singing the lyrics.