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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review by ric

14 years ago

Performance

to put it nicely - deeply flawed performance by the band here... the show actually starts quite well up until do you feel loved? and then it's pretty much downhill from there... not only are the band on terrible form but songs like mofo and gone still need time to develop into the monsters they became later on the tour and so feel quite unsatisfying to listen to in their underdeveloped form here. probably the only two songs that stand out for me are please with its drum sample ending and velvet dress which is performed pretty much as the album version.

Sound

very good sound - perfect for hearing all the cringeworthy mistakes !
Recording: Soundboard - 5 stars

Audience

the audience (unlike the band) are pretty much on top form here

Overall

the now legendary (among U2 fans) first night of the popmart tour makes for a very uncomfortable listening experience...! if you put yourself in the position of the band its hard to imagine how awful they must have felt on this night.
a few mistakes are to be expected and totally acceptable on the first night of a tour but this is something else... NOTHING seems to go right for them at this concert and then when you consider the fact that they are performing in front of the world's press, trying to sell their new tour to the world, it's quite embarassing to hear them sound like they simply don't know how, or have forgotten how to play their songs!
most people consider staring at the sun to be the lowest point of this gig but for me its discotheque... even when they get the chance to leave the stage after streets and regroup and most likely have a crisis talk. they have been given a chance to redeem themselves after the pretty awful main set with a killer encore, they come out of their lemon to play discotheque and edges guitar completely breaks down... they must have to literally wanted to be anywhere else on earth but in that stadium at that point...
it's easy to look back, knowing what we know now about how the tour was booked before the album was completed and they had no time to get up to an acceptable standard but i still find this show very uncomfortable to listen to and my heart goes out to the band here.

after listening to this you will need a heavy dose of popmart leeds to cheer you up and remind you just HOW amazing this tour became once they got their heads around how it all worked...!



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