1997-09-20 - Reggio Emilia, Italy

Mofo
I Will Follow
Gone
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Last Night On Earth
Until The End Of The World
New Year's Day
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
All I Want Is You
Staring At The Sun
Volare (Edge Karaoke)
Miami / My Mammy (snippet) / Cuba (snippet)
Bullet The Blue Sky
Please
Where The Streets Have No Name

encore(s):
Discothèque / Love To Love You Baby (snippet) / Black Betty (snippet) / Take Your Partner By The Hand (snippet)
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
With Or Without You
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Into The Groove (snippet) / Mysterious Ways
One
MLK

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members at this show: 27

Fausto74 (Italy)
JohnnySwallow (French Guiana)
OCTOBERGULL (Italy)
POPMARTin (Germany)
Tramp78 (Italy)
VALE69 (Italy)
Worf73 (Croatia)
ancatdubh99 (Italy)
basovox (Italy)
giambaone (Italy)
giugi (Italy)
guizz (Italy)
ipop76 (Italy)
lorenz (Italy)
lucau2 (Italy)
maidosa (Switzerland)
paolo1964 (Italy)
paolo_tamburi (Italy)
rislo007 (Italy)
roby (Italy)
romrom (Russian Federation)
superaga71 (Italy)
thejoshua (Italy)
u2ciao (Italy)
valerio1975 (Italy)
voxmar (Italy)
willbutlyeats (Italy)

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Italy (22)
Russian Federation (1)
Germany (1)
Switzerland (1)
French Guiana (1)
Croatia (1)

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Reviewed by: patou2
Reviewed 1 year ago

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Overall:

Good show , great crowd ( 150000).Something happened during One Highlights: Gone, Last night on earth, please and Discoteque

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author	performance	audience	sound	overall
haytrain
Performance: Let me start by saying that the intros at the Popmart shows are, in my opinion, the best beginning to a show the band has ever done. I get chills every time I hear "Pop Muzik" on a bootleg, especially that part where the vocals drop out and it's just the drum loop playing that high-hat heavy dance beat. When the crowd realizes for the first time that the band is walking to the stage from the back of the stadium and let out that primal shrill, the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. This is what going to a Popmart show was about. Absolutely my favorite part of every Popmart bootleg. "Mofo" sounded exceptional on this bootleg. I don't know if it's my new Sennheiser CX300s or what, but this particular mix blew me away. I heard every single detail of the looped drumbeat like I've never heard before, especially at the part right when Edge holds those high notes (2:25 into the song). Amazing. Am I the only one that thought that "Last Night On Earth" was dragging? Probably the fact that the master tape is over 10 years old now, but there were times where I thought the tempo was really dragging. Dear U2: Please drop "Until the End of The World" from the setlist for your next tour. The song was cool and fresh in 1992, but perhaps its time to put that song away and dream it up again. Loved the beginning of "Pride", where it's a couple bars of just Larry on the drums before Edge chirps in with those famous harmonics. Anything they can do to this song to make it different or stand out is good by me. Perhaps this one should be dreamed up again too. I loved how the band dropped out in the middle of "One" so Bono could sing with the crowd for a bit. 150,001 people singing in unison = AMAZING. Also, Edge really nails the solo on this version, which leads to another moment in this show: Edge's ringing guitar right before the "Here Us Coming" snippet gets me every time. (4:15 into the song) Audience: This part is only rated, not commented on. Sound: Sound quality was pretty good, although I was hoping that we'd hear a little bit more of the audience. I guess what I'm trying to say is, it's hard to get a sense that this was U2's biggest show ever. 150,000 people sure sounds like 20,000 on this bootleg... Overall: This part is only rated, not commented on.
Remy
Performance: + Even Better Than The Real Thing, does he say: viva Bono? I love it! + All the Discotheque snippets, the more, the better! + With Or Without You, awesome, great interaction with the crowd + Ending of Mysterious Ways, they keep on rolling + One, little a-capella piece there? Sounds chilling. Quotes: "I met a girl in the supermarkt, she says, I want your soul, to get your shoes (?)" Audience: Crowd, from what I could hear (not much) was decent, I love the crowd after All I Want Is You. They kept on going with "a hee ooh ooh". Sound: First of all, the recording which is not my favorite. It sounds very distant, and you can't really hear the thousands of people in the crowd. Which is a shame, this is not a bootleg that can represent such a historic show. Overall: This part is only rated, not commented on.
djrlewis
Performance: Liked it. Not fantastic, but good, solid. I'm a fan of Popmart anyway so I will always like most shows. Highlights:- EBTTRT - "Ciao Reggio. Viva Italia...., viva Popmart, ... viva..... Bono!" B-Man on top form Mofo - very good and I agree with Jeremy entirely about the hairs on back of neck thing. Discotheque - excellent performance One - very good performance. None of the extended guitar from early ZooTV, but everything else. Please/Streets - as normal this was amazing. Bono's voice was generally very good, especially compared to the next show (Sarajevo) Poor bits:- LNOE dragged and I will never like Miami, ever. Not keen on the karoake either. Otherwise, nothing. Audience: This part is only rated, not commented on. Sound: Right, first and foremost let me make a recommendation. Do not, repeat do not listen to this show through a cassette adapter in your car from your iPod. I did this and could barely listen; sucked, a lot. So I gave it another go whilst walking the dogs with my Sennheisers - bloody fantastic by comparison. Not 5 star by any means, needs changing to 3 or 3.5 in my opinion. No bass, poor drums and fuzzy occasionally. As others have said, no real impression of 150000 screaming Italians either. But it's not bad Overall: Good listen. Just listen to it in the right circumstances. There are better (Leeds, Santiago, Mexico, Sarajevo), but this is a solid, recommended 3.5 star listen
U2starter
Performance: When you got 150 000 people, the biggest concert of single band ever you expect something special you expect the band to give everything into performance, but it seemed to me as they didn't. It hasn't filled up my expectations.I'd say the performance was average.Maybe they'd been with their minds in Sarajevo yet, maybe my opinion on this gig was partly infulenced by not so good sound, I don't know. A song which, in my opinion,stood out from average was One. Really nice and unusuall version.I'd go as far as saying that it was one of the best live renditions of this song. Audience: This part is only rated, not commented on. Sound: Band sounds quite distant, but clear. Shame that it isn't clear that you're listening to concert with 150 000 people... Overall: This part is only rated, not commented on.
LikeASong
Performance: quite liked it. Very good mood, both from band and audience, and almost every song has good performance. A few of them are absolutely nailed. This are Mofo, Please, WTStreetsHNN and of course One. The complete highlight of the night. I liked the kareoke also (the audience loved it! Famous and "stereotipycal" italian song). Audience: This part is only rated, not commented on. Sound: As pointed out before, it's not 5-stars-worth, even though it sounds good. As a nice and remarkable point, I have to say that I had this one rated as Good>Very Good Soundboard on my old Hard Disk That shows that the show actually sounds very good. But not 5 stars. The completely worst point for me is that, with the biggest crowd ever seen on a U2 concert, most of that audience sound is lost. It could have be great. Anyway, 4 stars is more cappropiate Overall: Even though there are better Popmart concerts (Sarajevo, Santiago, Leeds, Miami), this is worth Grey-Monday-Evening listening. Did you catch me? It's a good upbeat concert, both audience and band are having a good time and they want us to spend it with them.
easports43
Performance: Ups - Mofo was completely nailed - One was decent. Missed the extended guitar from ZOO TV as Dan stated earlier. - HMTMKMKM is one of the best live song from this era. They always seemed to nail it and this show was no exception. - EBTTRT was good as always. I think this song gets better with every tour. - I was surprised that Bono's voice was as strong as it was. One of the rare Popmart shows where his voice didn't drag. - Miami continues to grow on me. Me and Gerard always used to say that we hated it. I'm sorry Gerard, I've crossed to the dark side. - Please/Streets is a lethal combination. Only one could top it, and that would be Bad/Streets. - Great crowd participation during WOWY. - Love the rare, Popmart versions of MLK. Downs - Disappointed with Last Night On Earth. It was quite boring, which is rare for me to say, as I love this song. - Edge's karaoke was slow and a little sluggish. Audience: This part is only rated, not commented on. Sound: I agree with Sergio, it's not really 5 stars. I Would say it's a 4 or 4.5. I was disappointed because the crowd was lost. Some of the early 1st leg Vertigo shows (Anaheim, San Diego, etc.) seemed to have a bigger crowd. As Gerard said, it sounds more like 20, 000. This was one of those shows that sounded like it was recorded from the very back of the Stadium, and had a very similar quality as our first round table show (UF Tour - Phoenix). Overall: Pretty good show, but there are plenty of others that I prefer. (Mexico, Leeds, Sarajevo, Miami, Tel-Aviv, Santiago, just to name a few.) That might just be a matter of personal preference, but I think others will agree that while this show is decent, it's not one of the top notch Popmart shows. If you can get past the sound, then by all means, grab it.

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I Will Follow

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Please

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