Roger Waters
The Center at
Chicago, Illinois
September 23, 2010

Source: Audio Technica AT-899 omnis => Edirol R-09 (24/48)
Transfer: R-09 => WAV => Audition 1.5 (dither to 16-bit) => WAV => Magix Audio Cleaning Lab => WAV => FLAC (level 8)

Location: 8th row, club level, side stage

Track listing:

Disc one (57:00):
(1) Outside the Wall intro (1:25)
(2) In The Flesh? (3:25)
(3) The Thin Ice (2:43)
(4) Another Brick In The Wall Pt. I (4:03)
(5) Happiest Days of Our Lives (1:38)
(6) Another Brick In The Wall Pt. II (6:49)
(7) Roger speaks (1:15)
(8) Mother (8:01)
(9) Goodbye Blue Sky (3:30)
(10) Empty Spaces (4:20)
(11) Young Lust (5:32)
(12) One Of My Turns (3:35)
(13) Don't Leave Me Now (4:31)
(14) Another Brick In The Wall Pt. III (4:28)
(15) Goodbye Cruel World (1:29)

Disc two (52:26):
(1) Hey You (4:43)
(2) Is There Anybody Out There? (3:00)
(3) Nobody Home (3:27)
(4) Vera (1:09)
(5) Bring The Boys Back Home (2:16)
(6) Comfortably Numb (7:26)
(7) The Show Must Go On (2:32)
(8) In The Flesh? (4:37)
(9) Roger speaks (0:27)
(10) Run Like Hell (6:38)
(11) Waiting For The Worms (3:57)
(12) Stop (0:31)
(13) The Trial (7:16)
(14) Outside The Wall (4:19)

Md5 signature file is included. Sorry, no artwork (feel free to make some)

Comments:

Third night of four at Chicago's United Center, the fifth date of "The Wall" tour. I'm not sure I can add anything that hasn't already been written; the show was visually and sonically spectacular, and the musicianship impeccable. I went in with relatively low expectations, with visions of the 1990 Berlin Wall debacle in my mind, and was astounded. To put it mildly, this show was worth the 30-year wait.

Truthfully, I am pretty sure I haven't listened to this album since about 1986; I played it endlessly throughout my adolescence and really burned myself out on it. It turns out that it's actually pretty good!

I haven't listened to the other sources posted from Chicago; I suspect mine is a bit inferior simply due to my equipment (valued at roughly $2000 less than the rigs used to tape nights 1 and 2). That said, it's a very listenable recording, with good fidelity (the sound was better than anything I've heard at United Center since it opened in 1994) and minimal crowd noise -- save for a couple outbursts in the first set. If you don't try to compare it to the audiophile sources posted for the other nights, this is probably a keeper.

I held off on posting this for a week or so under the assumption that a phenomenal source would appear; since it hasn't, and there are obviously many Pink Floyd out there dying to hear everything from this tour, I thought this would fill in a gap until (if and when) a superior recording appears. I'd probably rank this a 7 or 8 on a 10-scale overall.

Hope you enjoy it! Mp3 samples are included in the comments.