OK, This Show was Stunning!!!! I mean seriously so. This was the last of my three shows on the vertigo tour, starting with NJ2 may 18th, Oct 10th at MSG sandwitched in that five show stretch in NY, and now this one. All were really excellent in different ways. I was also extremely fortunate to get BAD at all the shows.
So Jersey was a great show, they were in really good form and there was that spontaneous ISHFWILF w/ the bank robbers. October 10th, Bono seemed to have some minor vocal trouble for a lot of the show but by the encores (the fly
and BAD w/ that amazing pple have the power snippet
) that had virtually vanished.
But Boston Dec. 4th was the best one I've ever seen. The band was in top form, bono's voice sounded insanely strong and amazing for the entire show. Maybe it was the nearly week off they had, but I've never experienced the band sounding that good and refreshed and I think that eventual recordings will bear out that fact. The show clocked in at nearly 2 hours and 30 minutes, possibly the longest of the whole tour, and they were having a blast. From what I've been reading about pple who went to the 4th and last night's, so far it sounds like the 4th even topped the second night's. I don't know, I wasn't there, but that's what I've read.
There were a ton of highlights but I'll just mention that I loved how bono did the "woo woo!" falsetto thing at the BEGINNING of BAD a bunch of times before the lyrics began, that was so freakin cool and I've never heard that before. And of course it was great how they spontaneously came out and did 2 more songs after it, ending on fast cars. On an audio recording, ONE is gonna sound really really long and drawn out because it took a good couple of minutes to bring up the one campaigners onto the stage so be aware of that. Until the End of the World sounded AWESOME! I was hoping for the "two tribes" snippet at the end, that would have made it perfect, but even without that it came pretty damn close. Stuck in a Moment and Original were both gorgeous. All in all, the perfect ending to my vertigo tour shows.