Soundcheck Vancouver 13-04-2001

General Motors Place

Vancouver, Canada.

13 - April - 2001.

Soundcheck

Disc 1 (55:29)

01. New Year's Day

02. New Year's Day

03. - dead air -

04. Even Better than the Real Thing

05. Unreleased Song #1

06. Unreleased Song #2

07. Unreleased Song #3  (aka "Coffee Shop")

08. The Fly

09. - jamming / talking -

10. New York

11. New Year's Day

12. New Year's Day

13. Elevation / I Will Follow

Recording Equipment - History

Icom R10 + Watson antenna boxes + Sony PCM-M1 > DAT Master > wt2496 > CDWAV > FLAC

Additional comments (by S. Zumsteg): Amazing what you get over the radio sitting on a bench out on a nice day. Usually "new songs" are just kind of jams where each guy plays on top of each other doing their own thing and not much interesting comes out of them... in fact the first two with no names appeared many times that first month of 'Elevation Tour' in roughly the same form. And with words like 'Scat bat Flap Jack Scooby Snap Rat Tat' (Bono Scat Singing) they are hard to listen to.

Now I must say though I loved "Coffee Shop", one Bono actually gave a name to after the song, and it came out of nowhere and then never again was repeated as far as we can tell. It was really cool and faded to oblivion (or at least was never played again in an arena setting). It was some kind of a Mercy, Unforgettable Fire type sounding thing.

Sometimes you wonder what we would fall in love with if we ever actually heard it. Do they deny us more due to their own insecurities or bad outside influences (Howie B, guys can that it doesn't sound Pet Shop Boys enough) than they actually give us in the end.

Comments

Very interesting soundcheck with awesome sound quality. There are a few interferences, but nothing really annoying. The band played three unreleased songs, the third one being pretty good, as remarked above by S.Z. in his comments.