Courtesy of ijwthstd.

Elton John
The Dog Park
San Diego, CA (USA)
May 9, 2025

This is the CD compatible 16/44 version.

Source (presumed): Audience recording > Audio Technica SP-CMC-4U Cardioid Stereo Microphones > Sony PCM-A10 Digital Recorder (24/48) > usb > WAV (untracked)

I received the concert as an untracked WAV file (24/48) so I tracked everything with CD Wave, downsampled the tracks to 16/44 with Adobe Audition 1.5 & converted everything to FLAC (level 6) with TLH.

CD 1:
01. Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
02. Bennie and the Jets
03. I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
04. Philadelphia Freedom
05. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
06. Tiny Dancer
07. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
08. Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)
09. Levon
10. Candle in the Wind
11. Someone Saved My Life Tonight
12. Sad Songs (Say So Much)
13. (band introduction)

CD 2:
14. Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
15. The Bitch Is Back
16. I'm Still Standing
17. (encore pause)
18. Cold Heart (Duo Lipa on screen)
19. Your Song
20. (fireworks)

Total time = 103:06

Personnel:
Elton John - vocals & piano
John Mahon - percussion
Kim Bullard - keyboards
Matt Bissonette - bass
Ray Cooper - drums, percussion, & backing vocals
Nigel Olsson - drums & backing vocals
Davey Johnstone - guitars, backing vocals, & band director

Notes from the taper: "This was a slow burn. Only floor tables and really expensive lower level tickets at first but gradually opening sections with the whole upper deck going on sale a few sections at a time and selling out immediately for $42.70

Meanwhile the night before I find out the Metrolink isn't running to Oceanside where I prefer to transfer to the Coaster the rest of the way. A friend decides to drive down. First the plan is me and another friend split his ticket and I grab him like the last $42 ticket. Friend bows out, afraid he won't get a ticket. A little irked about being on the hook for the whole ticket but it all kinda worked out in the end as I spent like $100 total on everything.

So we go down there with 1 ticket, find cheap metered parking a mile away from the stadium. So my friend has a ticket and I don't. Same guy who drove me to Vegas. Offered to give the ticket back because he is happy to just hang out in the Gaslamp. I refuse.

There are loads of people looking for tickets but they just stand there but I gotta really work for it. Finally get one for $45 an hour after doors. A little nervous about getting outbid because he can't get logged into TM and people are lingering around and watching. I tell him it's OK to just walk me in and let me take a picture of the seat location.

When I had a lead on a ticket near the trolley station and someone else follows me I tell him dude I WILL FIGHT YOU FOR THE TICKET, but then kinda walk that back and say go ahead and try to outbid me. Get to the station, nothing there and I actually warn the guy not to follow anyone into any dark corners. I think that's how that guy got killed outside the Stones in Largo 981

Pretty good show but if you have ever seen a stage setlist with the dreaded sharpie marks, this was the whole bottle of ink spilled on the page. Same band but everybody is so ancient now compared to the last tour. It's almost like he exited at just the right time. Still glad to see him and I am not sure I or most of the people around me could handle 2.5 hours at this point. I also slept a huge chunk of the way home so no way I could pull an all nighter roughing it anymore."