“My feeling is, that it is cool f or the people to share ourmusic - as long as no one is making money from the process. We tell the people who come to our concerts that they can tape the show if they want. I think, it is cool that people are so passionate about our music.”
-Bono on bootlegs .
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2ND NIGHT IN ROTTERDAM
Manufacturer: Optimum
Catalog Number(s): 10/11
Matrix Disc 1: OPTIMUM 10
Matrix Disc 2: OPTIMUM 11
Barcode: 3 199710 101101
Complete Show: Yes
Format: 2CD
Released: 1997
Disc 1: (70:01)
Disc 2: (69:46)
Disc 1:
1. Pop Muzik Intro - 3:04
2. Mofo - 4:26
3. I Will Follow - 2:54
4. Gone - 4:45
5. Even Better Than The Real Thing - 4:05
6. Last Night On Earth - 6:52
7. Until The End Of The World - 4:45
8. New Year's Day - 5:08
9. Pride (In The Name Of Love) - 4:07
10. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - 5:38
11. Stand By Me - 2:28
12. Staring At The Sun - 6:02
13. Radar Love (Edge Karaoke) - 3:37
14. Miami - 5:29
15. Bullet The Blue Sky - 6:32
Disc 2:
1. Please - 7:22
2. Where The Streets Have No Name - 8:54
3. Lemon (Perfecto Mix) Intermission - 5:35
4. Discotheque - 5:52
5. Whole Lotta Love - 2:15
6. If You Wear That Velvet Dress - 2:28
7. With Or Without You - 7:01
8. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - 5:46
9. Mysterious Ways - 6:38
10. One - 6:06
11. Unchained Meldoy - 1:40
12. All I Want Is You - 2:26
13. MLK - 1:08
14. I Love You Love - 3:23
15. Rain - 3:05
Source:
Disc 1, Disc 2 (1-11) July 19, 1997. Rotterdam, Netherlands. Feyenoord Stadium
Disc 2 (12-13) July 25, 1997. Werchter, Belgium. Festival Grounds
Disc 2 (14-15) July 18, 1997. Rotterdam, Netherlands. Feyenoord Stadium
Sound Quality:
Audience Recording
Sound and Performance Ratings:
Overall Sound: 8.8
Crispness: 7.7
Alive: 9.9
Ambience: 8.8
Performance: 8.7
Artificial: 1.1
Comments:
Disc 1, Track 12 is The Edge singling Golden Earring's "Radar Love." You can hear the instruments and the vocals very clearly. You can only hear the audience between certain songs and also during the melody of some of the "softer-sounding" songs. Keep an eye out for this one! Disc 1 is yellow with black letters. Disc 2 is black with yellow letters. The front cover features a head shot of Bono smoking a cigarette. The booklet features four pages of Adam, Bono, Larry, The Edge, and a complete tracklist. The inside back cover features the complete PopMart tour dates. Overall, a very good CD with good sound quality, yet compared to other better bootlegs, it is rather soft in terms of loudness. The cover folds out and one side has the four guys, each in photo by themselves. Adam's and Bono's have the tracklisting printed over the photo. These four photos also appear in the '98 PopMart Australian Tour Program - whether it's the same elsewhere is beyond me. Upon opening the case, the inside bottom of the CD case lists the tour dates up through September 1997. The songs themselves are their usual greatness, yet for "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," Bono begins by singing alternative lyrics really softly. He then begins saying, "Seems like a long time, from the paradiso and milky way, there's the milky way. Look. Turn off all the lights will you if you can, turn off all the lights if you can. Same band, same four fuckers. Still in love with what we do. Are you in love with what you do? Then you're blessed people. And thank you for sticking it out with us people over the years. Thank you." [The ?Paradiso? is a famous concert venue in Holland (see the alhabetical list on October 30, 1981). The 'Milky way' is actually the Melkweg (=milky way in dutch), which is also a famous venue. He refers to these places to indicate that they have made a long trip to make it so far. On July 18 he also says this.] Pretty emotionally-charged stuff heh? On "Stand By Me," the crowd sings along. Most don't know the lyrics and half way through the song they all start laughing. Happens everywhere. Here's another quote from Bono after he swore, "Don't you hate it when pop stars swear on stage. I hate them."