Vertigo Chicago - Night Four
Vertigo Chicago, Illinois
12 May 2005
(65:48)
(63:10)

Disc 1:
1. Intro/Everyone (PA)
2. Vertigo
3. All Because of You
4. Elevation
5. Gloria
6. The Ocean
7. Beautiful Day
8. Miracle Drug
9. Sometimes You Can’t Make it on Your Own
10. Love and Peace or Else
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday
12. Bullet the Blue Sky/The Hands That Built America (snippet)
13. Running To Stand Still
14. Human Rights Video
15. City of Blinding Lights

Disc 2:
1. Crowd Noise
2. Original of the Species
3. Pride (In the Name of Love)
4. Where the Streets Have No Name
5. Bono Speaks
6. One
7. Intermission
8. Until the End of the World
9. The Fly
10. Mysterious Ways
11. With or Without You
12. Intermission
13. Yahweh
14. Bad

Source: AT831's > batt box (w/bass rolloff set at 107 mHz) > Nomad JB3
Location: Unknown
Transfer: JB3 > USB > Screenblast Sound Forge 7.0 > CDWave > shntool > shorten > SHN
Taper: JustAGirl
 

NOTE: An excellent recording of the band's fourth night in Chicago.  Some listeners claim to have detected clipping -- or "hot" levels that cause minor distortion -- on this recording.  Perhaps my hearing just isn't up to par with theirs, but I find this bootleg to be virtually flawless.  It features an excellent overall mix with top shelf clarity.  About the only drawback is the repeated yelling of "I love you, Bono!" between songs by a male fan in the vicinity of the taper who was, we can only hope, intoxicated.

After the video cameras that had been brought in to film the previous Vertigo Tour shows at this venue had been sent packing, the band obviously felt liberated.  The result is a more energetic performance.  Making this recording even more appealing is the somewhat random setlist that was played on this night.  "Until the End of the World" makes its Vertigo Tour debut and "With Or Without You" is played for only the second time on the tour and includes a very cool snippet of "Strangers in the Night" (Frank Sinatra).  Bono mentions Elvis Presley several times during the concert, apparently drawing inspiration from a fan behind dressed as Presley.