Vertigo Chicago - Night One
Vertigo Chicago, Illinois
07 May 2005
(68:43)
(64:58)

 Disc 1:
1. Everyone (PA)
2. Love and Peace or Else
3. Vertigo
4. Elevation
5. An Cat Dubh
6. Into the Heart
7. City of Blinding Lights
8. Beautiful Day
9. Miracle Drug
10. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
11. New Year's Day
12. Sunday Bloody Sunday
13. Bullet the Blue Sky/The Hands That Built America (snippet)
14. Running To Stand Still/Human Rights Video

Disc 2:
1. Bad
2. Pride (In the Name of Love)
3. Where the Streets Have No Names
4. One
5. Zoo Station
6. The Fly
7. Mysterious Ways
8. All Because of You
9. Yahweh
10. 40

Source: DSM6 > PA-6LC3 > M1
Location: GA, about 15 feet in front of the soundboard
Transfer: M1 > Digi coax > delta Dio 2496 > Wave-Cool Edit Pro > Flac Front End > FLAC > WAV > CDR
Taper: J. Parkin
 

NOTE: Another top shelf audience recording from the Vertigo Tour.  The sound quality on this recording is excellent.  It features a great mix of music and vocals.  All of the instruments sound crisp, although I am especially impressed by the clarity of Larry's drums.  Audience noise is minimal...I only heard individual voices on one occasion during my scan of this recording.  A girl near the taper can be heard during "An Cat Dubh".

The taper felt that this one not one of the band's best performances.  I agree.  Bono starts songs late on occasion, reverting to his bad habit of half-heartedly speaking lyrics a couple of times to catch up.   The "Stories For Boys" snippet is left out of "Vertigo" as Bono essentially says nothing during this portion of the song until introducing Larry on the drums.  Overall, the band seems to be a bit off.  Nonetheless, the quality of the recording is excellent.