2001-11-18 - Las Vegas, Nevada - Thomas And Mack Arena

setlist

Performance notes: No Doubt's Gwen Stefani joins U2 for What's Going On.
Setlist and comment provided by U2gigs.com.

songs per album

  1. All That You Can't Leave Behind (7)
  2. The Joshua Tree (3)
  3. Achtung Baby (2)
  4. War (2)
  5. The Unforgettable Fire (2)
  6. Boy (1)
  7. Pop (1)

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review by ayr861

15 years ago

Performance

Back to Las Vegas, four years later after the 1997 screw-up (one of the best U2 screw-ups, mind you). Like aussie has already pointed out, Bono's voice was not too great towards the end of the tour, but it was decent enough, and he seemed tired. I find Please to be a great song, but an acoustic version just does not do it justice. I won't even bother with tracks 1-11, I can't be stuffed writing about them.

Larry, Edge and Adam, however, are on fire in Las Vegas and it only got better for them towards the end of the tour. Maybe they were looking forward to a holiday!

Why they bothered with Gwen Stefani is beyond me - she might be a special guest, but Bruce would have been better on I Still Haven't Found. Probably starting from Bad through to Walk On, the show picked up a bit of pace with some real good tunes - New York is one of my favourite songs from the whole album and they were on this one real well. Kite was truly painful and not in a good way. I Will Follow is always a great track to stick in anywhere, and this was one of the only good performances at this show. Even Walk On, which live sounds like the 7EP mix, was a bit lacklustre.

Sadly, you get a standard set-list here, which is a bit of a disappointment.


Sound

As I've pointed out numerous times, a recording obviously cannot capture the true sound of a show, but it was a decent recording. No audible clicks, pops, stutters or anything else await you - but it was only a small venue, so the recording should have been more than decent, which it was.

Audience

It's Las Vegas, the most energetic crowds in the whole US of A - and nothing can be too strange there. They're loud enough to give U2 a real applause after almost every show, but not so loud to ruin the recording, which is always a good thing.

Overall

Overall, I'd have to give it a combined rating of three stars. Not too low, not too high but about right on average. No U2 show is absolute crap, but they can be lacklustre, and this is one of the perfect examples of being lacklustre and unexciting. But then, the supporting album is not exactly the most exciting thing to hit me in the last few years.

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