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U2
New York 2015 [no label, 2CD]
Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY; July 18, 2015. Fairly to very good audience recording.
U2 wrapped the North American leg of the Innocence + Experience tour in stunning fashion with an eight-night, sold-out stand at Madison Square Garden in New York City [July 18, 19, 22, 23, 26, 27, 30, 31] that grossed nearly $20 million from the attendance of almost 150,000 fans. Marked by special guests on stage and VIP attendees in the audience, the critically acclaimed shows put up a final tally of 149,942 tickets sold, with a gross of $19,474,285, according to Billboard Boxscore. That takes the total of the tour’s opening leg to 650,582 attendance and $76,166,563 gross from 36 shows, all sellouts. - Billboard
As for the music… posted at u2.com:
The first of U2’s eight night return to Madison Square Garden started with a truly magical moment: the first performance of The Miracle of Joey Ramone in the birthplace of its inspiration and the immortal Ramones. The Electric Co took things even higher, the crowd reaction shaking the foundation of the Garden with an intensity of a ’70s punk show. (Later a transcendent Beautiful Day segued into ‘I Remember You’ dedicated to Joey Ramone and his bandmates, those ‘Kings from Queens.’)
‘When we first played a club called The Ritz in this great city, another century ago, we thought of ourselves as a punk band… and, you know what? In all the ways that matter, we still do.
‘Still getting into trouble for doing things different. A band of equals… with an audience of equals… an audience of betters.’
nypost.com:
During the first of eight nights at the Garden (running until the end of July), the quartet managed to not only push themselves into new realms as performers, but also to raise the bar for arena concerts in general.
The centerpiece of the current “Innocence and Experience” tour is a giant suspended screen and walkway, running through the middle of the venue (with stages at each end). For the first half of the set, it was used to project memories and images of the life that Bono, guitarist The Edge, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr all lived as boys in 1970s Dublin…
U2 are also playing like a band with something to prove. The stilted production of “Songs of Innocence” was blown apart by the band’s aggression, particularly on “Raised by Wolves” which roared out of the speakers with an aptly feral feel. While the U2 haters snickered obnoxiously at the news that Bono can no longer play the guitar following last year’s biking accident in Central Park, the front man is getting the last (and loudest) word by singing songs like “With or Without You” and “Pride (In the Name of Love)” with more precision than ever.
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Thanks to Tapehead2 who recorded and shared the show at Dime.
Lineage:
Source: Schoeps MK4 > actives > tinybox > Sony M-10
Transfer: wav file > Sound Studio > xACT > FLAC [level 8]
Recording location: Section 213 row 1
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Disc 1
Track 101. The Miracle (of Joey Ramone) 5:05 (8.5MB)
Track 102. The Electric Co 5:59 (10.0MB)
Track 103. Vertigo 3:43 (6.2MB)
Track 104. I Will Follow 4:59 (8.4MB)
Track 105. banter 2:57 (5.0MB)
Track 106. Iris (Hold Me Close) 6:44 (11.3MB)
Track 107. Cedarwood Road 4:39 (7.8MB)
Track 108. Song for Someone 4:16 (7.2MB)
Track 109. Sunday Bloody Sunday 5:33 (9.3MB)
Track 110. Raised by Wolves 4:40 (7.8MB)
Track 111. Until the End of the World 5:39 (9.5MB)
Track 112. intermission (The Fly remix) 4:15 (7.2MB)
Track 113. Invisible 4:24 (7.4MB)
Track 114. Even Better Than the Real Thing 4:28 (7.5MB)
Track 115. Mysterious Ways 4:32 (7.6MB)
72 mins
Disc 2
Track 201. banter 2:10 (3.6MB)
Track 202. Elevation 3:44 (6.3MB)
Track 203. banter 1:32 (2.6MB)
Track 204. Ordinary Love 3:59 (6.7MB)
Track 205. October 2:22 (4.0MB)
Track 206. Every Breaking Wave 4:38 (7.8MB)
Track 207. With or Without You 6:47 (11.4MB)
Track 208. City of Blinding Lights 5:28 (9.2MB)
Track 209. Bullet the Blue Sky 7:08 (12.0MB)
Track 210. The Hands That Built America 1:37 (2.7MB)
Track 211. Pride (In the Name of Love) 5:41 (9.6MB)
Track 212. encore applause 3:34 (6.0MB)
Track 213. Beautiful Day 4:53 (8.2MB)
Track 214. banter 2:48 (4.7MB)
Track 215. Mother and Child Reunion 1:07 (1.9MB)
Track 216. Where the Streets Have No Name 6:50 (11.5MB)
Track 217. One 5:56 (10.0MB)
71 mins
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