Vertigo Milwaukee
Vertigo Milwaukee, Wisconsin
25 September 2005
(64:24)
(64:39)

Disc 1:
1. Everyone (PA)/City of Blinding Lights
2. Vertigo
3. Elevation
4. The Electric Co./People I Don't Know Are Trying To Kill Me/See Me, Feel Me
5. The Ocean
6. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For/In A Little While
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/When Johnny Comes Marching Home

Disc 2:
1. Miss Sarajevo/Human Rights Video
2. Pride (In the Name of Love)
3. Where the Streets Have No Name
4. Bono Speaks
5. One
6. Ol’ Man River
7. The First Time
8. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
9. With or Without You
10. All Because of You
11. Yahweh
12. 40

Source: CSC > MD
Transfer: MD > CEP > WAV > FLAC Frontend (level 8, AOSB) > FLAC > WAV > CDR
Taper: Bkyle

NOTE: A strong recording with excellent sound clarity.  The overall mix definitely favors the high end, as very little bass is audible.

Several times during the concert Bono makes note of the fact that today is the band's 29th “birthday”.  His impromptu lyrics for “The Ocean” are as follows:

“Picture in Grey.  Dorian Gray.  Just me (in) Milwaukee.  Me and three boys, tired of things for toys.  And it started on this very day.  Happy birthday.  (Seems like?) twenty-nine years ago.”

He then explains the lyrics, saying “Twenty-nine years on this day, this group met for the first time as children on the north side of Dublin.  Little boys, big ideas.  Probably just big heads.  Anyway, (we're) happy to spend our birthday with you.”  Before “I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For”, Bono says “Twenty-nine years ago, in Larry Mullen’s kitchen, this very day.  We're just getting started.”

Harkening back to days gone by, someone throws an Irish flag on stage during “Sunday Bloody Sunday”.  Bono picks it up, holds it, and tells the crowd about the most recent positive development in the decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland:

“There was a time when I didn't feel comfortable to pick up the flag of my own country and wave it around.  It was a flag that represented so much conflict.  So I used to cut off the green bit, cut off the orange bit, and just hold the white piece in the middle up.  But tomorrow, I will feel proud to hold this flag.  Because tomorrow sees the end of what is known as The Troubles in Ireland.  You will see on your evening news that the Provisional IRA have decided to destroy all their weapons.  This is a brave and courageous decision. And we want to salute the men and women who took that.”

The taper produced two versions of "Bullet the Blue Sky" and "Miss Sarajevo" -- with and without fades.  This recording features the versions with fades.