1997-04-25 - Las Vegas, Nevada - Sam Boyd Stadium


setlist

Performance notes: U2 botch Staring At The Sun the first time around and perform it again. At the end of Please, Larry plays a snippet of Sunday Bloody Sunday's distinctive drumming. This show features the live debuts of Mofo, Do You Feel Loved, Last Night On Earth, Gone, If God Will Send His Angels (only time a full band version is played), Staring At The Sun, Miami, Please, Discotheque, If You Wear That Velvet Dress, and Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me.
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songs per album

  1. Pop (11)
  2. Achtung Baby (4)
  3. The Joshua Tree (4)
  4. Boy (1)
  5. The Unforgettable Fire (1)

best song performances

  1. Do You Feel Loved (10 votes)
  2. If You Wear That Velvet Dress (8 votes)
  3. If God Will Send His Angels (7 votes)
  4. Miami (5 votes)

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show attendees: 39

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California
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Argentina
14 users from California:
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6 from Texas:
TDarby719, U2Rthtown, corvettemike, darlingnikki44, roybal99, rtask

2 from Arizona: beckertime, malamute
2 from Canada: Achinery, CrazyCanuck007
2 from New York: DProfesa, Goofyclowndog
1 from Nevada: ToeZoo
1 from Illinois: AkashaLin
1 from Utah: estebono
1 from Germany: ZOOTVTOURist
1 from Minnesota: moneyman2u
1 from Italy: Unforire
1 from Michigan: brianlouwers
1 from Argentina: ferbono
1 from Arkansas: eddyc
1 from Colombia: felcheve
1 from Alabama: logan2u2
1 from Kansas: seanedwards
1 from Austria: wegotit

review by robotsandmonkeys

14 years ago

Performance

I was at this show, and sadly, I remember how shocked I was at the terrible performance of the entire band. Bono's voice was shot, Larry and the Edge botched Staring At The Sun. Lyrics were forgotten, snippets badly used, etc etc. The band and Bono mess up just about every song they played that night. If you want to listen to one of the most embarrassing performances U2 has ever given, here it is.

Sound

This is a great quality sound of an awful performance.
Recording: Soundboard - 5 stars

Audience

Again, as one of the audience members, I remember everyone starting off losing their minds with excitement. As the night went on, everyone slowly began literally looking around at each other. A kind of collective "WTF?" hit everyone around the time of the utterly disastrous performances of Miami & Bullet.

Overall

Pure schadenfreude. Thankfully I've seen them many times since, and feel a strange sense of history being there at this awful opening night.

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