San Jose 19-04-2001

Compaq Center

San Jose (California), USA.

19 - April - 2001.

Attendance: 17.775 (sellout) - Support: PJ Harvey

Disc 1 (65:37)

01. Elevation Influx Intro (PA)

02. Elevation

03. Beautiful Day

04. Until the End of the World

05. New Year's Day

06. Stuck in a Moment

07. Gone

08. Even Better than the Real Thing

09. New York

10. I Will Follow

11. Sunday Bloody Sunday

12. The Sweetest Thing

13. - Band introductions -

14. In a Little While

15. Desire

Disc 2 (61:03)

01. The Ground Beneath Her Feet

02. Bad / "40"

03. Where the Streets Have No Name

04. Mysterious Ways

05. The Fly

06. - NRA Message -

07. Bullet the Blue Sky

08. With or Without You

09. Pride (In the Name of Love)

10. One

11. I Remember You

12. Walk On

Recording Equipment - History

Schoeps MK5 + RMOD + SBM-1 + Sony PCM-M1 > DAT-M > CDR-M > CDR-3 > EAC Secure > WAV > Cooledit [fixing] > CDWave [reindexing] > MKW > SHNv3

Taper: B.W.

Location: floor

Fixing: J.D.

Additional comments (by J.D.): In the original discs the audio signal was abruptly cut after the end of disc 1, so I added a fade out to that. Disc 2 was already faded in, so nothing could be done to prevent a gap happening between both discs. Also, I added one second of silence at the beginning of both discs and removed extra silence at the end.

The taper seems to have increased the levels of his deck in the middle of the Elevation intro, and also at the beginning of the real Elevation, which caused the signal to be 250% bigger and much stronger. I fixed those volume inconsistencies by carefully amplifying the first 2 segments to put them at the same level as the rest of the show, which I left untouched (unnormalized). Those volume changes now are unnoticeable, but a bit of tweaking seems to keep happening in the middle of Elevation (but not sure if that was due to the taper and is not very annoying, so I did not attempt to fix that). Some diginoise happening at the encore break because of the DAT being stopped and then resumed was also carefully cut out.

The discs were poorly reindexed as tracks were placed in most cases 1-2 seconds into the song, which reflects that the DAT master was most likely put on CD with a standalone burner. I reindexed both disc using CDWave to correct this.

Comments

Stunning recording that documents the first night in San Jose (CA, USA) at the Compaq Center. Sound is really solid and full, with a pretty clear capture of music and vocals, which come through very close. Crowd noise is minimal. I'd say this is an upgrade to the so-called 'Elevation San Jose: 1st Night' (my other source of this gig).