Boston - 08-06-2001

Fleet Center

Boston (Massachusetts), USA.

08 - June - 2001.

Attendance: 17.035 (sellout) - Support: PJ Harvey

Disc 1 (60:13)

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. - Bono's intro to Kite -

08. Kite

09. Gone

10. New York

11. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

12. Sunday Bloody Sunday

13. The Sweetest Thing

Disc 2 (67:35)

01. Angel of Harlem

02. The Ground Beneath Her Feet

03. All I Want is You

04. Where the Streets Have No Name

05. Mysterious Ways

06. The Fly

07. Bullet the Blue Sky

08. With or Without You

09. One / Walk On

Recording Equipment - History

Sony TCD-D7 + (2x) Nakamichi 700s > DAT Master > Phillips audio burner > CDR-Master > EAC (Secure) > WAV > Flac

Taper: R. Senicola

Location: Floor, 20 feet from tip of the heart - long mics tied to the back under the sweater

Comments

Phenomenal recording, one of the topping tapes of the first leg of the tour for sure. The band put on a strong performance. Sound is quite crisp, very clean and full. Music and vocals sound absolutely upfront and have a pretty good mix. Only minors are a few screams here and there close to the taper (probably when Bono gets near the taping location), and little clipping on a few occasions. One and Walk On have been indexed together. Bono adds a snippet of More Than a Feeling of the band Boston at the end of Elevation. Great renditions of Gone, Mysterious Ways and The Fly in this show.

In my opinion, this is an upgrade to 'Send Them Watches' or other sources in circulation. I rated this one exc+, as sound is crystal clear and powerful, with music and vocals coming through so close that there is no background noise, although some may downgrade this tape because of the screaming girl, who can be somewhat annoying.