Elevation San Diego (DVD)

San Diego, CA

04/17/01

- Elevation trippy intro

- Elevation

- Beautiful Day

- Until The End Of The World

- New Year's Day

- Stuck In A Moment

- Gone

- Even Better Than The Real Thing

- New York

- I Will Follow

- Sunday Bloody Sunday

- Sweetest Thing

- In A Little While

- Desire

- The Ground Beneath Her Feet

- Bad

- Where The Streets Have No Name

- Mysterious Ways

The first songs of this show were taped from the lower ranks off Adam's side, approximately at the middle of the heart. Clarity and crispness of the picture are fantastic during these songs, especially because of the proximity to the stage. Only drawback are the heads and hands of the people in front of the camera which obstruct the view at least partly most of the time. But things get worse during "Stuck" when the view gets obstructed almost completely by an audience member. "Gone" is perfect again but during "Even Better..." the camera gets stumbled over. During "New York" the taper leaves his position and relocates to the ranks at the back of the arena, providing a dark picture for the rest of this song. During "I Will Follow" the taper adjusts focus from his new position but due to the great distance from the stage the picture is clearly inferior to the shots from the side since the shapes appear now a lot more blurry.

Also, the camera captures the video screens above the stage quite frequently, which is a drawback in my opinion.

The DVD only includes part of the concert until "Mysterious Ways".

The audio quality is good to very good. The instruments and the vocals come through clearly but an audible is lies in the background. The track divisions are not adjusted to the beginning and the end of the songs.