Free Ray Bourque!
June 9, 2001
Boston, MA
Fleet Center.

Disc 1:
1. Trippy Elevation Intro/Elevation
2. Pride (In the Name of Love)
3. Until the End of the World
4. The Fly
5. Even Better Than The Real Thing
6. Mysterious Ways
7. In My Life
8. Stuck In A Moment
9. Kite
10. Gone
11. New York
12. Out Of Control
13. Sunday Bloody Sunday

Disc 2:
1. Desire
2. Party Girl
3. Stay (Faraway, So Close)
4. Bad
5. Where the Streets Have No Name
6. Beautiful Day
7. Bullet the Blue Sky
8. With Or Without You
9. One
10. She's A Mystery To Me
11. Walk On

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

Mastered to SHN by the following method: Minidisc masters > Sony MDS - JE510 > Toslink Digital Optical Cable > Pioneer PDR-609RW > CD-R > EAC (Secure and tested) > WAV > Soundforge 5.0 > mkw 0.96f > SHN

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

The following comments are by Michael Albequerque:
Remastering/editing Notes: 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.

*** Please respect the taper's wishes ***
*** DO NOT ENCODE TO MP3 ***

Recording Quality:  9.5 out of 10 (One of the best audience recordings ever, especially disc 2!)
Band Performance: 10 out of 10 (Last night in Boston, U2's home away from home.)

 

NOTE:  This is a very nice recording of one of the best concerts on the first leg of the tour.  Sound quality is a bit better than the Mellow Recordings release.  The last of four concerts in U2's home away from home, the band pull out all the stops.  There is a lot of energy in the building, as is always the case at a U2 gig in Boston, and the band feeds off of that.  "Party Girl" is played for the first time since 1993.

Review taken from [www.justinscdrtrading.com]

 

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