Vibrations
Elevation Chicago, Illinois
16 May 2001
(71:36)
(56:15)

Disc 1:
1. Introduction/Elevation
2. The Fly
3. Even Better Than The Real Thing
4. Mysterious Ways
5. One
6. Wake Up Dead Man
7. Until the End of the World
8. New Year's Day
9. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
10. Kite
11. New York
12. I Will Follow
13. Sunday Bloody Sunday
14. Sweetest Thing

Disc 2:
1. Band Introduction
2. Angel of Harlem
3. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
4. All I Want Is You
5. Where the Streets Have No Name
6. Pride (In the Name of Love)
7. Bullet the Blue Sky
8. With Or Without You
9. Beautiful Day
10. I Remember You
11. Walk On

Source:
    *Audience
        Taper: F.W. (actually J.W.)
        Title: "This Is Not Goodbye"

    *Earpiece
        Taper: Unknown
        Title: "Chicago 4 IEM"
 

NOTE (distributed with .flac files): This excellent recording is a mix of a very good audience tape by f.w. and a before rarely circulated IEM recording of that night. The sound quality is excellent, but has also some weak points caused by the typical IEM clicking. A lot of it has been removed or reduced with a slight lost of quality. This is for example notable during the beginning of WTSHNN and WOWY.  But still, without clicking it might be more enjoyable than with it. And without questioning it is very enjoyable recording to listen to. It is perhaps one of the best recordings from the Elevation tour. This recording is close to the quality of Birdman's ALD/AUD Mix from the night before and the famous 'Cleveland Tea Party' recording. You can clearly hear Bono's voice and Larry's drumming. Unfortunately Edge's guitar is sometimes a little bit hard to hear. Crowd noise is almost not present or at least in no way disturbing. It only comes in at the right time.  The packaging is black/white which might sound a bit chaste. This is unusual but makes it somehow special. The discs come in a standard double disc jewel case. Overall very nice and noble packaging.  The concert itself meaning U2's performance is great but not outstanding. Still, if you like the Elevation tour, you might consider getting this one.

NOTE: The audience recording sounds a bit more prominent in this recording than in other matrix recordings from the Elevation Tour.  Perhaps this is because there is a bit more audience noise on the audience source for this bootleg than on the audience source for "Cleveland Tea Party" (aka "Cleveland Matrix"), "Toronto 2 Matrix",  etc.  Overall, the sound is very pleasing.  In my opinion, the recording certainly merits an "Excellent" rating.

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