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The Good:
Hawkmoon - I must confess, this is my first time hearing this live. I've been meaning to get a boot with this on it but just never got around to it. I enjoyed hearing it
Desire - good version i thought
Bullet - Good version. Not as good as the later versions but you can feel this song starting to take on its character. Love Bono's speech thru the middle.
Streets - great opening
Angel Of Harlem - with the horns its just great
When Love Comes To Town - I just love some BB King! A master!
Love Rescue Me - Bono sounds great on this one
God Part II - Kickass
The Bad:
Gloria - just not really getting into this version as much. I love the song though. Just not able to match the Dec 31, 1989 performance. That version kicks
All I Want Is You - uninspired
Audience:
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Sound:
Not too bad, definitely better than 2.5 stars. It could just be my ears, learning how to adapt to the differences in bootlegs. But overall this a pretty decent sounding boot. Great audience sound.
Overall:
Indeed this boot should be rated higher. Good decent all around sound. Considering this was the last of 7 nights, the boys sound great. I feel an energy coming from them
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Note: I was unable to listen to WOWY and the rest of the show (i.e. till the end of 40). This review is based on the pre-WOWY part. Unless something huge happens in that part, I think the overall review would be quite the same >>
Ow yea, it’s a great show despite the quality. Actually, the recording made me very sad, this show deserves a much better recording. After my ears got used to the quality, I really enjoyed the show itself!
>> Positive…
* It’s the Lovetown tour, it was an amazing tour after all! Bono is very much in form and does a great performance in my opinion…the voice is there, and the man himself is very much there!
Some highlights (all the songs are done wonderfully and memorable, but these still stand out):
*All Along A Watchtower, very good performance, it’s also got the Like A Hurricane snippet which goes great with it.
* Bullet The Blue Sky, Bono says some stuff about the American president talking to him, it does get a bit cheesy, but makes it cool, specially the ending “and I look at the Edge, he looks into my eyes and he says: ”Bono, I can see them fighter planes!”
* Running To Stand Still has got this guitar in the ending, I believe it’s Bono playing, very nice, the audience are amazing during this song, also near the ending suddenly Larry starts hitting the drums, very cool!
* The audience is still amazing during ISHFWILF, what’s with the doctor backstage and the fever… is he serious? ‘Cuase that would make this a cool moment. Also, “You’ve got a great country, great city, don’t fuck it up, alright?” …and then…Exodus
* Angel of Harlem with the B.B. King orchestra…long time since I had listened to this version The audience is again very well heard during When Love Comes To Town :”that was the day before love came to town!!” (note, BB’s guitar becomes annoying during this song, again, quality issues!)
>> Negative:
If we’re really talking about the show, I didn’t come across anything wrong with it…you could say that some of Bono’s comments sound cheesy and out of place…but not really, surely they matched the situation!
Audience:
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Sound:
>> Positive…
* With all the quality issues, still the audience can be heard very well, especially at the parts where they have to be heard, when they make the songs special!
* The drums are quite loud and clear which makes it all sound very cool!
>> Negative…
* Everyone’s said it through the week…the quality isn’t good, though it’s not 2.5 either in my opinion…I would give it 3 myself. There are many parts where it just goes out of your hands, you’re hearing all this noise and wondering what’s going on!
* Edge’s guitar sometimes gets even annoying, during Streets, you almost can’t hear the guitar intro and then in the middle parts of the song, the guitar just becomes annoying! The Heartland snippet in the beginning is hardly noticeable because of the quality, if I didn’t know it was Heartland I would’ve thought that it’s just Bono talking nonsense!
* Small point, but All I Want Is You isn’t recorded right, in the beginning:”…your story to remain untold” and then suddenly a small *bam* and “…you’ll give me, a highway…”
Overall:
This is an amazing show, a blow-away, they are well in form, people follow them perfectly and everything seems to go as planned.
But the recording clearly fails the show here, It’s a 3 star recording for a 5+ star show.
If you’re used to bootlegs and are as die-hard a fan as we are here, I think you will enjoy it despite the whole recording quality issues.
The show won’t stay on my iPod (only because of the recording), but it’s not leaving my collection
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Pros
The SETLIST!!!. That setlist kicked ass!!!! Incredible. First of all, opened with Hawkmoon!! Moreover, it was a very good version. Second, the middle part is awesome. Desire-Watchtower-Bullet-Running-Streets-IWF-Gloria-ISHFWILF-AIWIY-PGR-AOH... And so on. After that, comes WOWY (amazing version IMO) and... God Part II!!!!! Amazing opsition (16th song), and followed by NYD and Pride!! Also the finishing is great, with Party and 40 (both great renditions).
The audience is great. The overall ambient is very good, and the bad seems to be on a great mood. Also BBKings band is fantastic (as usual, to be sincere).
Cons
The SOUND. Sometimes the audience sound and the hiss drowns out the band. Other times, the recording itself is so bad that you can barely hear The Edge or so
Audience:
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Sound:
Terrible. I've listened to lots of shows; good, bad, averages and fair audiences. But this one is BAD. Although it has good mooments (God Part II, etc), the overall quality is bad. 6/10
Overall:
Originally posted by since I agree with all you said::
"A top band on top form, clearly enjoying themselves. Excellent tour and this is a fun boot. I've not heard a bad Lovetown boot yet and this didn't disappoint."
Anything else to add.
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As this was the last night of a 7-night run, the band wanted to make it a special night, and we can say they succeeded in it, the show is flawless, the setlist is near to perfect, I was very happy to see 'Bad' and 'SBS' dropped to make way for rare tracks like 'Hawkmoon 269' or 'God Part II.'
Bono is in a very talkative mood this evening, he changes the middle part of 'Bullet The Blue Sky', talks all over the intro for 'WTSHNN', he's really into it, the band also enjoys every single minute of the concert. I noticed only one weak moment, the snippet of Marvin Gaye's 'Sexual Healing' is really really unnecessary during AIWIY, especially when sang before the third verse.
Ups: Hawkmoon 269 (fantastic song live, get it back, please!), Running To Stand Still (one of the best live renditions of this song), Angel Of Harlem (horns!, horns!), God Part II. (it's a killer live tune)
Downs: Sexual Healing snippet
Audience:
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Sound:
The quality was way better than I expected, the first couple of minutes were hissy and too loud, but the taper found a better position, so the overall result was way better than a 3 star quality, I would give it a 3,5. There's only one major glitch, during the first verse of AIWIY, for the rest of the recording, there are no big mistakes.
Overall:
All in all, this bootleg was a very pleasant experience, a little reminder of how extraordinary was the Lovetown tour
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Edge's guitar in "Streets" was barely audible. What a shame.
Heartland? Really?! Oh...just speaking the lyrics over the Streets intro....oh well.
Bono arguably does the worst impression of George Bush I've ever heard. Bono may be a bit of a renaissance man, but he should steer clear of trying to pull off the Texas accent
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Sound:
This week there doesn't seem to be general agreement with the audio quality. Some thought it was great, others thought it was terrible. Personally, I'm siding more with the "terrible" people than the "great" people. I personally found the audio really bad and distracting, which really made it hard for me to enjoy the show.
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