U2
September 9, 1997
Estadio Vincente Calderon
Madrid, Spain
Attendance: 46,385 (sellout)
Support: Placebo
Disc 1 (70:01)
1. Pop Muzik
2. Mofo
3. I Will Follow
4. Gone
5. Even Better than the Real Thing
6. Last Night on Earth
7. Until the End of the World
8. New Year's Day
9. Pride
10. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
11. All I Want is You
12. Staring at the Sun
13. Karaoke: Sugar, Sugar
14. Miami
15. Bullet the Blue Sky
Disc 2 (58:38)
1. Please
2. Where the Streets Have No Name
3. Lemon (PA) Intermission
4. Discotheque
5. If You Wear that Velvet Dress
6. With or Without You
7. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
8. Mysterious Ways
9. MLK
10. Wake Up Dead Man
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Per Pimm:
"It's one of the hottest nights of the summer in Madrid. The organisation hoses down the crowd with water during the show. Hot, wet or not, they sing along to every song for two hours. 'Viva Espana, viva Madrid, viva Bono...viva Bono!' Bono shouts during Even Better -- getting a wild response from the audience. Before I Still Haven't Found Bono declares: "Estar en Espana es estar enamorado' ('Being in Spain is being in love'), which goes down well with the audience who begin to chant "torero, torero.' They did the same in '87 in Madrid. Back then Bono answered: 'No soy eltorero, so el toro' ('I'm not the bullfighter, I'm the bull.') This time he's a little less poetic: 'D'you like this shit? Well, you've paid for it.'
"After With or Without You, the chant for 'One, One, One' starts very loud, faster all the time -- then it evolves into football chants. Later on, the crowd begs for more, "otra, otra, otra' while at the end of the concert, as they start filing out of the stadium, the 50,000 fans begin to sing 'Que bote el Calderon, que bote el Calderon...' asking everyone inside the stadium to jump."
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This torrent is dedicated to two people...first of all, Scarlet, who asked me to seed this, and who has uploaded what seems like several hundred reseeds over the past few weeks. Also, to stadtfelder, whose amazing generosity in sharing a world's record number of shows from what is without question one of the best U2 bootleg collections in the world.
This story on this...I obtained this in trade some years ago...unknown taper, unknown generation, the only thing known is that I got it in trade...and of course, it is lossless. Unfortunately, despite rather rich and deep sound, it is marred by intermittent sound blips which for all the world sound to me like a loose plug in the recorded. Others evidently have this same show with the same problems. Per the forum posts about this show, stadtfelder may be sharing his as well, directly from tape, but he indicates the sound on his is distant...except for the above issues on this version, it is very nice.
I guess this show is rare...Justin makes no comments about his version, and achtungbootlegs.com only shows a DVD from this date.
cdr (obtained in trade, unknown source, lineage) > EAC to wav > TLH to FLAC level 8
Enjoy!
petergoode