Free Ray Bourque

Fleet Center

Boston (Massachusetts), USA.

09 - June - 2001.

Attendance: 17.035 (sellout) - Support: PJ Harvey

Disc 1 (69:02)

01. Elevation Influx Intro (PA) / Elevation

02. Pride (In the Name of Love)

03. Until the End of the World

04. The Fly

05. Even Better than the Real Thing

06. Mysterious Ways

07. In My Life

08. Stuck in a Moment

09. Kite

10. Gone

11. New York

12. Out of Control

13. Sunday Bloody Sunday

Disc 2 (64:38)

01. Desire

02. Party Girl

03. Stay (Faraway, so Close!)

04. Bad

05. Where the Streets Have No Name

06. Beautiful Day

07. Bullet the Blue Sky

08. With or Without You

09. One

10. She's a Mystery to Me

11. Walk On

Recording Equipment - History

Sony MZ-R70 + Core Sound Stealth Cardioids with Low Sensitivity option

Conversion: Minidisc masters > Sony MDS - JE510 > Toslink Digital Optical Cable > Pioneer PDR-609RW > CDR >   EAC (Secure and tested) > WAV > Soundforge 5.0 > mkw > SHN > CDR

Taper: daveydave
Location: General Admission (20 feet from the tip of the heart, slightly to the left on The Edge's side)

Digital mastering and remastering/editing by: Michael Albuquerque. Michael's comments here:

Due to a possible short in the taper's mic cables, there were small, periodic gaps of silence at the beginning and end of each of the 3 master minidiscs (caused by moving the MD recorder before and after disc insertion). Edits were performed using Soundforge 5.0 in the following locations: (1) used fade in during intro on disc 1 to merely eliminate these gaps (as well as most of the PA song "Sgt. Pepper's", (2) used a loop-type effect near the end of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" to mask a 1 second drop out during a vocal part and faded out the audience after the end of the song, (3) used a loop-type effect again extensively for the intro of "Desire" which had most of the opening chords missing (thank God for the repetitive chord progression), (4) used another loop-type effect to mask a ~ 1 second drop out near the end of Beautiful Day, and (5) eliminated gaps in the crowd noise before the encores. Enhanced bass and treble, normalized volume levels, and manually reduced volume levels in millisecond increments as necessary to eliminate clipping (i.e., from occasional loud hand claps nearby). Used fade in and out at beginning and end of each CD.

Note: Band Introductions were not recorded due to changing of the minidiscs.

Comments

One of the best concerts of the whole tour. Fantastic and solid recording with great crispness and clarity. Audience is noisy, but not an issue here. Setlist is outstanding with a lot of order changes.