How Is Your Mother For Sugar?

Mellon Arena

Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), USA.

06 - May - 2001.

Attendance: 17.000 (sellout) - Support: PJ Harvey

Disc 1 (72:24)

01. Elevation Influx Intro (PA) / Elevation

02. Beautiful Day

03. Until the End of the World

04. New Year's Day

05. - Bono's speech -

06. Stuck in a Moment

07. Gone

08. Kite

09. New York

10. I Will Follow

11. Sunday Bloody Sunday

12. The Sweetest Thing

13. - Band Intros  -

14. In a Little While

15. Angel of Harlem

Disc 2 (70:34)

01. Stay (Faraway, so Close!)

02. Bad

03. Where the Streets Have No Name

04. Mysterious Ways

05. The Fly

06. - Intermission -

07. Bullet the Blue Sky

08. With or Without You

09. Pride (In the Name of Love)

10. - Intermission -

11. One

12. Walk On

13. - Crowd noise -

Recording Equipment - History

Core Sound Binaurals > Bass Roll-Off Filter > Sony TCD-D8

Taper: Dave Zidek

Location: Center floor, midway between soundboard and point of heart

Media: HP DDS-2 120m Data Cartridge
          D8 Settings-AVLS Off
          Record Speed-LP
          Record Mode-Manual
          Line in - Recorded whole show at around -12db, record level dial around 4 or 5

            Sound Card - M-Audio Delta 66 sound card w/ digital I/O

Boosted WAV by 10db before splitting to tracks (Cool Edit Pro)  (no weird volume changes!)
Split WAV Tracks on sector boundaries with CD-WAVE software (no clicks!)
Used MKW Audio Compression Tool to create SHNs

Comments

Stunning recording with great clarity and sharpness. This item contains a great live feeling, and you have to add a fantastic performance by the band. I would remark that this is a very clean recording, too, with absolutely no background noise, and the music coming through quite well and pretty powerful. Audience noise is not an issue, although some people screaming near the taper can be heard from time to time.

This is one of the best shows of the tour, and the recording quality is just amazing. Bono added a few lines of The Beatles' Drive My Car, and Twist And Shout in Elevation. Bono also played "rock, paper, scissors" with a fan during New York. A girl from the audience held a banner that said: "Adam, can I touch your instrument?". Before Stay, Adam lowered the bass and the girl could touch it.