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1997-07-02 - Foxboro, Massachusetts - Foxboro Stadium

setlist

  1. Mofo
  2. I Will Follow
  3. Gone
  4. Even Better Than The Real Thing
  5. Last Night On Earth
  6. Until The End Of The World / Break On Through (snippet)
  7. New Year's Day
  8. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
  9. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Stand By Me (snippet)
  10. All I Want Is You
  11. Staring At The Sun
  12. Suspicious Minds
  13. Miami / My Mammy (snippet) / Cuba (snippet)
  14. Bullet The Blue Sky / The Message (snippet) / America (snippet) / The Minstrel Boy (snippet)
  15. Please / Sunday Bloody Sunday (snippet)
  16. Where The Streets Have No Name / Playboy Mansion (snippet)

    17. encore(s):
  17. Lemon (Perfecto Mix)
  18. Discothèque / That's The Way (I Like It) (snippet) / Discothèque Howie B Hairy B Mix (snippet)
  19. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
  20. With Or Without You / Shine Like Stars (snippet)
  21. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
  22. Mysterious Ways
  23. One / Hear Us Coming (snippet)
  24. MLK
  25. Rain
Performance notes: Suspicious Minds is performed by Edge with the Fun Lovin' Criminals.
Setlist and comment provided by U2gigs.com.

songs per album

  1. Pop (8)
  2. Achtung Baby (4)
  3. The Joshua Tree (4)
  4. The Unforgettable Fire (2)
  5. Boy (1)
  6. War (1)
  7. Rattle and Hum (1)

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review by WojBhoy

15 years ago

Performance

Well, first thing to be said is that when you think that only a couple of months earlier, the guys went arse over tit with infamous showings at Las Vegas and San Diego, there is a marked improvement in the delivery of what was the PopMart spectacle. However, I can't say I was blown away. The band give it everything, but it doesn't quite click - it doesn't hit the heights of Sarajevo, Santiago or Mexico City, but as mentioned previously, it beats the crap out of the dismal way that the tour kicked off; on a PopMart scale of 1-10, it's a comfortable 6.5 in my books. For the most part, I felt that there was a fairly formulaic feel (reflecting the nature of the generic PopMart setlist) to the way the band went about their business. The show kicks off in fairly boisterous fashion, but doesn't really go anywhere other than keeping on the straight and narrow. There were a couple of moments that caught my attention, e.g. great version of Last Night On Earth with Bono's singing during the middle 8 ("Would you believe in someone?" etc.), pretty frenetic version of BTBS (Edge had the riff nailed to a T during PopMart) and I always like the snippet of Playboy Mansion on the end of Streets. That said, nothing else really bushwhacked me. I was left rather cold by a lot of it, e.g. UTEOTW and Please weren't a patch on what they could have been this time around, and I can't agree with some of the others about the encore, it wasn't much better than any other encore (although big thumbs up to Shine Like Stars, even if Bono's voice was suspect...). Mysterious Ways was pretty good for a post-ZooTV performance - Edge's improvised slide solo was pretty nifty, improvised in so far as it was different from the basic solo lol. However, he forces Bono into some spontaneously lyric writing when he buggers up the intro. to One...not to mention one of his strings goes AWOL and forces him to alter the solo...but in fairness, you can't blame Edge for that, but perhaps someone should play it to Dallas and ask what he did to the bridge. MLK didn't really work for me in a low key, and Rain, well, you'll hear much better versions...although Bono does end the show memorably;

"Good night, fuck off!"

Sound

Pretty good overall, solid 4-star but nothing more, 3.5 if one were feeling harsh. Everyone can be heard clearly, crowd are at a level where they complement the show without taking over, but the actual recording has its moments when it jumps about, and sometimes fluctuates to and fro, which can be an irritance at times...
Recording: Soundboard - 4.5 stars

Audience

Best part of this boot - they're jumping from start to finish which adds to the atmosphere. Sure, Fun Lovin' Criminals left a damaging impression on me, but the crowd made Suspicious Minds enjoyable fare, as they did for the rest of the show - even if the band weren't completely on form, the crowd were there to make the most of it and sure did. Not the best crowd for a U2 show, but definitely getting there.

Overall

One of the better 1st leg shows, but nothing extraordinarily - a fairly unremarkable gig, but not bad by any stretch of the imagination, just nothing particularly remarkable in my book.

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