Bono
New York City, NY
April 26, 2023
Beacon Theater
entire show here
Lineage:
1. Multiple IEM Receivers > Multitrack Recorder (24/44.1)
Taper: Sharebear/hoserama
2. AT943 > Battery Box > Tascam DR-2D (24/48)
Taper: Tapehead2
Mixed by sharebear/hoserama
Dithered using Izotope MBIT+
Flac'ed using Trader's Little Helper
Mix version 20230508
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00. Off-Stage Banter
01. Intro
02. City of Blinding Lights
03. Vertigo
04. (On Tour With Me Book)
05. With Or Without You
06. (Show Intro)
07. (I Was Born With an Eccentric Heart)
08. (My Father, The Tenor)
09. (My Mother, Iris)
10. (The Ramones)
11. Out of Control
12. (Geomoetry and Geography of the Irish Mind)
13. (Drummer Seeks Musician)
14. (Larry Mullen Jr.)
15. (The Edge)
16. (Adam Clayton)
17. Stories for Boys
18. (U2's Rehearsal Room)
19. I Will Follow
20. Iris
21. (Back in the Sorrento Lounge)
22. (Mt. Temple Comprehensive School)
23. (Paul McGuinness)
24. (Business of Pumped Up Personalities)
25. Sunday Bloody Sunday
26. (Two Tenors in Search of a Third)
27. Pride
28. (A Bigger Brain)
29. Where the Streets Have No Name
30. (After the Joshua Tree)
31. Desire
32. (Love Makes the World Go Around)
33. (Back in the Sorrento Lounge Again)
34. Beautiful Day
35. (Unscientific Theory)
36. Torna a Surriento
37. Outro
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Show Notes:
Bono decided to try his hand at a Broadway residency show. Not quite the number that Springsteen did, but 12 is a lot for our irish friend Bono. Plus the extra show they added in Italy.
I had seen the San Francisco show back in November 2022, and was interested in going again. Originally was planning on doing two shows (4/28 + 4/29) and taking my mother to go see NYC. Then had a bit of clarity that maybe I should expand the trip to actually see NYC, as opposed to a hit and run show. IEM taping isn't very conducive to tourism in general. So we expanded the trip for over a week, and ended up doing a total of five shows.
This Wednesday show on 4/26 was the show #3 out of 5 for me. Bono and the band had done some extra rehearsing the night before, and extended soundcheck in the afternoon. It paid off. The last three shows I saw were significantly better than 4/21 + 4/22, just in terms of energy and accuracy. Much less random moments of disorientation on stage (I think he learned to leave his mic stand in front of the center stage teleprompter so he could see it in the dark). Also much less moments where I felt he was reading off the teleprompter, and more natural storytelling. Things you notice when you see five shows in a row! Anyways, 4/26 was probably my favorite of the five shows (although I did like his impersonations of GW Bush he started doing the next show).
Recording Notes:
As I mentioned for the SF release, the PA for this show was on the low side, and the dynamics were very wide. Bono goes from a faint whisper to a loud yell of a rock star. Then since the PA volume is low, crowd noise can overpower the music easily. Thankfully the wireless recordings help greatly in that regard, putting a direct line from Bono's microphone(s) to your ears. That said, the wireless cames with a bunch of extra sauce. All four folks on stage to a high level of click track and verbal cues during the musical sections of the show. In particular, several songs have a "one" cue on every downbeat of the song. Very annoying for the outside listener (can't blame them though--not meant for outside listening). I've spent a lot of time scrubbing those counts and clicks. Sometimes you'll hear a little left over, or some artifacts when the cue overlapped with a spoken word. Can't be perfect, but much better than the original source in my opinion.
In the end, I think it's a very nice listen to the show. His spoken word sections and the musical numbers should be leveled so you're not riding the volume knob. There's just enough audience noise but shouldn't be overpowering. I always like a nice stereo mix, and there's a lot of cool stereo effects plus panning of the cello + harp.
Also, the wireless feeds caught some off-stage chatter before start of the show. Left that in as a bonus.
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