Vertigo Leg 2 Rehearsals - Afternoon Session
Vertigo Brussels, Belgium
08 June 2005
(34:12)

1. Vertigo (instrumental) [fades in at end of song]
2. Until the End of the World (instrumental)
3. Out of Control (instrumental)
4. Elevation (limited lyrics by The Edge?)
5. Beautiful Day (instrumental)
6. Love and Peace or Else (guitar riffs only)
7. Love and Peace or Else (instrumental)
8. Crumbs From Your Table (instrumental) [fades in]
9. Guitar Riffs (mostly based on Electrical Storm)
10. Fan Conversations
11. Electrical Storm (acoustic instrumental, one verse only)

Source: Sony ECM-MS907 Mics > JMC XM-R70BK
Location: Bottom of the stadium, directly against the fence of field entrance, left side of the stage
Taper: Tintin
Remastered by Yauckt
    MD TDK MD-RXG 80 (normal mode) (master)
    MD PLAYER SONY MZ MZ-R35
    MARANTZ EQ315
    SB Live!
    Nero Wav Editor
    Groove Mechanic
    Ejay Music Cleaning Studio
    CDWav Editor
    Monkey's Audio 3.99
 

NOTE (by yauckt, distributed with .flac files): Tintin wasn't able to start the recording since the very beginning of vertigo, that's why it only starts during the stories for boys snippet, as we weren't near our taping position (actually, we were wandering outside the stadium, waiting for stuffs i don't recall, or just drinking a beer at 'the corner' pub...).  A great run followed to reach the fences where these rehearsals were taped.  There's a one second dead air at the end of vertigo.  During UTEOTW, you can hear a quite old drunk guy that enjoyed us a large part of the afternoon...  There's some GSM interfences during intro of LAPOE.  The beginning of Crumbs is missing : there's was a long time of inactivity, we waited a little bit then decided to move to another location as nothing was going on.  Rehearsals started back around 2 minutes after we left our taping location.  Another big run and tintin was able to resume the recording. (It's a pitty : it was crumbs that suffers :-( )  After Crumbs, for the riff track, PA system was reduced so the sound is not as powerful as the rest of these rehearsals.

Remastering notes:

Originally, recording was full of cracks and pops (around 9250), it was caused imo by the HEAVY bass the PA of the vertigo tour gives to our ears.  i fixed this as best as i can but some cracks remains when the volume was very loud.  Used Ejay music Cleaning studio to give better definition to every instruments and the most important, try to reach the wonderfull level of bass present on sousous's recording of the brussels show.  I removed silent parts here and there, adjusted volume for the quiet parts to be able to hear conversation.  A slight hiss is sometime hearable during these quite parts.  In overall, sound quality is very good for a soundcheck.  Hopefully, our tape position was full of other tapers, so everyone was trying not to shout and clap and all that.  I saw 2 other guys taping the audience rehearsals and at least 2 earpiece tapers.  So there's a possibility that one day, this rehearsal will appears as a complete recording.

NOTE: Bono was not present for the afternoon rehearsals.