20.09.2005 USA, Chicago, United Center Chicago – Sonics good / vg Aud. Disc 1: [1:18:18] 01. City Of Blinding Lights [6:16] 02. Vertigo [4:41] 03. Elevation [5:09] 04. The Electric Co./ The Ocean [8:27] 05. Walk On [6:14] 06. Beautiful Day [5:30] 07. Miracle Drug [5:37] 08. Bono talks [1:13] 09. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own [5:32] 10. Yahweh [3:39] 11. Love And Peace Or Else [5:04] 12. Sunday Bloody Sunday [7:38] 13. Bullet The Blue Sky [5:14] 14. Miss Sarajevo [8:04] Disc 2: [1:00:07] 01. Pride (In The Name Of Love) [4:14] 02. Where The Streets Have No Name [6:17] 03. One Intro [3:35] 04. One [5:16] 05. Old Man River [1:10] 06. Encore break [2:52] 07. Discotheque [6:25] 08. The Fly [5:43] 09. With Or Without You [5:08] 10. Encore break [2:08] 11. All Because Of You [3:46] 12. The First Time [4:16] 13. Bad [9:17] Equipment used: Sonic Studios DSM-6> Sony D7 Transfer: Master 90m DAT> Stand-alone Pioneer CD burner> EAC> Magix Audio Cleaning Lab> WAV> FLAC Front-end (level 8) Comments: Decent audience recording from the band's first Chicago show in September. I debated about posting this, but since no source has appeared online for the first night, I thought I would put this up for the completists. It was recorded front-row of the 300-level (the uppermost level, right in front of the speaker stack) so crowd noise is minimal; the fidelity of the recording is pretty good. I was a little disappointed with the sound given where I was sitting - I would probably conservatively give it a 7 on a 10-scale. Please note: There are two ugly warts in this recording: * My deck was partly unplugged during the first minute or two of "City of Blinding Lights," which caused several loud pops as I went to plug it back in. I tried to minimize the effect (which was really loud before I adjusted it) but it's still noticeable. * There is about 10 seconds of diginoise on the master during "One." I found this on three separate DAT decks, so there's no way around it. If anyone has a better source, by all means post. In the meantime, this is as certainly listenable as anything else posted from the second leg. This show contains the first-ever performance of "The First Time," I believe, and also the first (perhaps only, so far?) acoustic performance of "Walk On."