Elevation 2001: Live from Boston

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Elevation 2001: U2 Live from Boston
Elevation 2001: U2 Live from Boston cover
Video by U2
Released November 26, 2001
Recorded June 5, 6, and 9 2001, Fleet Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Genre Rock
Length 1:47:58 (107 minutes, 58 seconds)
Label Island / Interscope
Director Hamish Hamilton
Producer Ned O'Hanlon
U2 video chronology
The Best of 1980-1990
(1999)		 Elevation 2001: Live from Boston
(2001)		 The Best of 1990-2000
(2003)

Elevation 2001: Live from Boston is a video release by rock band U2 from the first American leg of their Elevation Tour. Recorded on June 5, 6, and 9,[1] 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. The DVD was certified Gold in Mexico on imports alone (Region 1 from the United States).[2]

Contents

[edit] Footage

Elevation 2001: 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

  1. "Elevation"
  2. "Beautiful Day"
  3. "Until the End of the World"
  4. "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"
  5. "Kite"
  6. "Gone"
  7. "New York"
  8. "I Will Follow"
  9. "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
  10. "In a Little While"
  11. "Desire"
  12. "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)"
  13. "Bad" / "40" (snippet)
  14. "Where the Streets Have No Name"
  15. "Bullet the Blue Sky"
  16. "With or Without You"
  17. "The Fly"
  18. "Wake Up Dead Man"
  19. "Walk On"

[edit] Bonus features

[edit] Equipment

Guitars used:

[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.[3]

  1. "Beautiful Day" – 4:56
  2. "Gone" – 5:05
  3. "I Will Follow" – 5:34

[edit] References

  1. ^ U2: U2faqs.com - Videography FAQ
  2. ^ Mexican Certification
  3. ^ :: U2 Discography - Three Tracks Live from Boston Promo Single - U2 Wanderer.org ::
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