U2
5.31.01
'Free Your Ass, The Rest Will Follow'
HSBC Arena, Buffalo
Source: 1st Gen VHS -> Pioneer Component CDR Deck to .wav -> FLAC

transfer by: u2wedge (sharingthegroove@gmail.com)


NOTE RE: Performance - Buffalo can, arguably, be considered one of the strongest performances on Leg 1 of Elevation,
if not the entire tour, without an 'A' level recording to its name. Two shows before the Boston DVD (and the show 
immediately before Albany where Bono was visibly ill), the band was as tight as ever, and Bono puts forth one of his strongest 
performances to date at this point of the tour. The setlist is a classic, with a full band rendition of Desire, and 
there is hardly a moment where the audience has a chance to catch their breath. Bono makes reference to Buffalo being
the third date on their first ever tour of the United States which happened to be the night John Lennon was assassinated. 
In tribute, Bono performs a snippet of 'In My Life' by Lennon. While this is a VHS sourced recording, 
it is of high enough quality that you can hear Bono ask the person in the front row to repeat their request, and then
proceed to play 'She's a Mystery to Me' between 'One' and 'Walk On'.


NOTE RE: Recording - There is only one other source of this show that I know of which is an ALD source (Assisted Listening Device), which is incomplete
and has some static. The ALD source is also not a complete recording, thus shortly after I received this video in 2001 I ripped the 
audio from it to ensure to secure a complete recording. I would rate this recording with a 'very good audience' label.



***The Goal is Soul! Please do not sell this recording on eBay, ***




DISC 1

1. Elevation
2. Beautiful Day
3. Until the End of the World
4. Even Better Than the Real Thing
5. Mysterious Ways
6. In My Life
7. Stuck In a Moment
8. Kite
9. Gone
10. New York
11. I Will Follow
12. Sunday Bloody Sunday/Get Up Stand Up snippet
13. In A Little While
14. Desire/Gloria snippet

DISC 2

1. Stay (Far Away, So Close!)
2. Bad/40
3. Where the Streets Have No Name
4. Pride 
5. Charlton Heston Thingy
6. Bullet the Blue Sky
7. With or Without You
8. The Fly
9. One
10. She's a Mystery to Me
11. Walk On