Elevation: Live from Boston
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| Elevation 2001: U2 Live from Boston | ||
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| Live DVD by U2 | ||
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| Released | November 26/December 4, 2001 | |
| Recorded | June 5/6, 2001, Fleet Center, Boston, Massachusetts | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Region | 1, 2 | |
| Length | 107 mins | |
| Label | Interscope / Island | |
| Director(s) | Hamish Hamilton | |
| Producer(s) | Ned O'Hanlon | |
| U2 video chronology | ||
| The Best of 1980-1990 (1999) |
Elevation: Live from Boston (2001) |
The Best of 1990-2000 (2003) |
Elevation: Live from Boston is a video release by rock band U2 from the first American leg of their Elevation Tour. Recorded on June 6, 2001 at the Fleet Center (now TD Banknorth Garden) on the band's featured stop in Boston, Massachusetts, it was released on DVD late that year. Directed by Hamish Hamilton, the film features alternate camera feeds from a small recorder in Bono's trademark glasses, showing unique footage from the band while on and off stage.
The film was the first of two video releases recorded on the tour; the second was 2003's U2 Go Home: Live From Slane Castle.
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[edit] Footage
Elevation: Live From Boston captures the band's return to performing to indoor venues, making for a more intimate experience. The band had played mostly large outdoor stadiums over the previous decade on their Zoo TV and Popmart Tours. The film also showcases a more simplified, strip-downed stage design, free of the elaborate technologies of the previous two tours.
On "Until the End of the World", a song about a conversation between Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot, Bono and The Edge play the roles of the men on stage in the song's closing moments. "Sunday Bloody Sunday" features Bono snippeting the well-known Bob Marley song, "Get Up, Stand Up" and "In a Little While" is introduced by Bono as the last song Joey Ramone heard on his deathbed before he passed, saying he consequently turned it from a song about a hangover into a gospel song. Bono and Edge later perform a memorable acoustic version of "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)". Only moments later, Bono sprints around the heart-shaped stage several times during the performance "Where the Streets Have No Name". As the show draws to a close, the crowd is treated to blistering versions of "Bullet the Blue Sky" (reinterpreted by the band as a rant on gun control and John Lennon's assassination) and "The Fly".
The DVD features the concert in the PCM Stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio formats.
[edit] Track listing
- "Elevation"
- "Beautiful Day"
- "Until the End of the World"
- "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"
- "Kite"
- "Gone"
- "New York"
- "I Will Follow"
- "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
- "In a Little While"
- "Desire"
- "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)"
- "Bad" / "40" (snippet)
- "Where the Streets Have No Name"
- "Bullet the Blue Sky"
- "With or Without You"
- "The Fly"
- "Wake Up Dead Man"
- "Walk On"
[edit] Bonus features
- Disc 1:
- The Making of the Filming of Elevation 2001: U2 Live from Boston
- Disc 2:
- Another Perspective - The Concert with Alternative Angles: Fan Cam, Director Cam
- Road Movie - Timelapse of a day on the road
- Additional Tracks
- "Beautiful Day" live from Dublin, September 2000
- "Elevation" live from Miami, 1st show souvenir, March 2001
- "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" live from Hanover, Dublin, and France, July 2000
- Trailers
[edit] Equipment
Guitars used:
- The Edge — Gibson SG, Gibson Explorer, Gibson Les Paul Standard, Fender Stratocaster, Gibson Les Paul Custom, Rickenbacker 360, Fender Telecaster, Taylor acoustic, Fernandes Decade.
- Bono — Gibson Hummingbird, Gretsch Country Club, Gibson ES-137.
[edit] Best Buy promo CD
On Black Friday in 2001, Best Buy distributed a free exclusive promo CD entitled 3 Live Tracks from Boston. It features three songs from the Elevation: Live from Boston DVD. The CD lists all performances from June 6, 2001, however, "Gone" was actually recorded on June 5. [1]
- "Beautiful Day" — 4:56
- "Gone" — 5:05
- "I Will Follow" — 5:34
