1997-07-19 2nd Night In Rotterdam

2nd NIGHT IN ROTTERDAM

July 19, 1997
Rotterdam, Holland - Feyenoord Stadium

DISC 1 - [70:01]

1. Pop Muzik
2. Mofo
3. I Will Follow
4. Gone
5. Even Better Than The Real Thing
6. Last Night On Earth
7. Until The End Of The World
8. New Year's Day
9. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
10. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
11. Stand By Me
12. Staring At The Sun
13. Karaoke: Radar Love
14. Miami
15. Bullet The Blue Sky

DISC 2 - [69:46]

1. Please
2. Where The Streets Have No Name
3. Lemon (Perfecto Mix) Intermission
4. Discotheque
5. Whole Lotta Love
6. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
7. With Or Without You
8. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
9. Mysterious Ways
10. One
11. Unchained Melody
12. All I Want Is You
13. MLK
14. Karaoke: I Love You Love
15. Rain

Bonus tracks:
Disc 2 (12-13) - July 25, 1997. Werchter, Belgium - Festival Grounds.
Disc 2 (14-15) - July 18, 1997. Rotterdam, Holland - Feyenoord Stadium.

Sound Quality:
Disc 1, Disc 2 (1-11) - Excellent audience.
Disc 2 (12-13) - Very good audience.
Disc 2 (14-15) - Very good audience.

Comments:
� "FLOM - A Guide To U2 Bootleg CDs" / Sascha Kremer:
[ Rob de Vree, The Paul, Sunny Lee, Joost Boschhuizen ] : 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."

[ Joel Heersink ] : The gig was great; the band looked as if they were really enjoying it, and so they should've since it was only their second gig after a month or so off and they did probably the most spontaneous act of the entire tour - playing a Whole Lotta Love by Led Zepllin. It was Bono's idea, as he started the thing by whispering with Edge, and the other memebrs followed suit later. Another highlight was when the ole football chant started after Unchained Melody, Bono mimed a free kick - much to our amusement! The show was and is excellent - on of the best quality-wise, as well as having the only perfomances of Whole Lotta Love and Radar Love (originally by Golden Earring - a dutch band).