Final Born This Way Ball (Montreal) Caught On Tape, In Full (Audio)

[ChicaSkas 21,065]

Discovered on popular torrent website www.dimeadozen.org, a complete recording of the very last Born This Way Ball, on February 11th, 2013 in Montreal, Canada, has been made available to the public.

You can download this directly from Dimeadozen by clicking here:

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=439352

(keep in mind you must join before you can DL the torrent)

if that fails, you can try this temporary link for the torrent instead:

http://ge.tt/3mYjnlY/v/0?c

Special Update, 2-19-2013!

The staff of GagaFrontRow has kindly uploaded this show for all of you in 2 parts, and blogged about this show on the site!

Enjoy!

http://www.gagafront...llmontreal.html

Be sure and hit up the awesome GagaFrontRow Archives for more BTWB audio:

http://www.gagafront...p3archives.html

Special Thanks to RetroSound, you can download all of the tracks in FLAC

here:

DISC 1 : http://www.mediafire.com/?qqkxip6176x7a

DISC 2 : http://www.mediafire.com/?s482546v1ia6l

(Additional formats will be posted as they are received.)

If you have trouble with Flac files, please consider downloading a free Flac converter.

The Dime uploader writes about the recording as follows:

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Lady Gaga - 2013-02-11 - Bell Centre - Montréal, Québec, Canada. [Master Recording]

Bell Centre,

Montréal, Québec, Canada - February 11, 2012.

Source: Sony Electret Condensor [Plug-In] Type ECM-DS70P Mic. > Roland R-05.

Transfer: SD/SDHC Memory Card 2GB > USB Cable [Mini B Type] > .Wav 44.1kHz/16bits > CD Wave Split > cd-r.

Location: White Level, Section 330, Row CC, Seat 5 - About 175' @ 15° Aligned with the Left Stack of Speakers.

Quality: Exc., 9/10 Rating.

Taper & Transfer: PBelle.

Set List:

Disc 1: 74:36 Minutes.

[Act I]

01.Space [intro] 1:42

02.Highway Unicorn (Road to Love) 3:36

03.Operation: Kill the Bitch [interlude] 0:54

04.Government Hooker 3:26

05.Birth [interlude] 2:15

06.Born this Way 4:46

07.Black Jesus † Amen Fashion 4:00

08.Emerging [interlude] 1:22

09.Bloody Mary 4:03

10.Mother G.O.A.T. Manifesto I [interlude] 0:56

11.Bad Romance 6:42

12.G.O.A.T. Briefing [interlude] 2:58

13.Judas 4:31

[Act II]

14.Fashion of His Love 1:28

15.Just Dance 3:59

16.LoveGame 3:15

17.Gaga Stage Banter [Practices her French] 4:01

18.Telephone [Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé cover] 3:48

[Act III]

19.Mother G.O.A.T. Manifesto II [interlude] 1:31

20.Heavy Metal Lover 4:44

21.Gaga Stage Banter ['I Don't Give a ****!'] 4:25

22.Bad Kids 1:47

23.Hair 4:20

Disc 2: 70:38 Minutes.

01.Gaga Stage Banter [Gaga calls Jeremy in the Arena] 6:24

02.Born this Way [Piano version] 4:08

03.Yoü & I 5:16

04.Electric Chapel 3:28

[Act VI]

05.Americano 7:07

06.Poker Face 2:25

07.Alejandro 4:32

08.Paparazzi 4:57

09.Gaga Stage Banter 0:41

10.Scheiße 5:09

11.Encore Break 9:37

12.The Edge of Glory 6:53

13.Gaga Stage Banter 1:08

14.Marry the Night 8:46

145:14 Minutes.

NOTE: Photographers were not allowed into the Bell Centre, at the performer’s request.

Below article quoted by the Dime Uploader of Montreal Newspaper Review:

The quintessential moment in Lady Gaga’s nearly sold-out concert at the Bell Centre Monday night might have happened while she wasn’t even on stage.

It came at the beginning of Paparazzi, as the first verse was being sung by a hologram head and the video screens showed shots of fans, thrilled to see themselves on screen. That, in effect, was the show in microcosm – an event that had everything to do with spectacle, artifice, effects and communal bonding, but very little to do with music.

Like Madonna, her spiritual godmother, Lady Gaga, quite undeniably, delivers in a live setting – perhaps with a bit less smugness and a lot more emotion. But the idea is the same: the whole thing is more akin to a Cirque du Soleil show than a rock concert. We can now imagine a future where some performers don’t have to show up at their own shows.

The Born This Way Ball, as Gaga’s current tour is called, has a storyline of sorts, but the awful sound made it difficult to follow. The stage is mostly filled by a giant castle with towers and moveable parts. There’s something about Mother G.O.A.T. (government-owned alien territory), who is after Gaga, an alien fugitive. Gaga kills a dancer, after which a giant belly and legs – which look rather more like a turkey than a woman giving birth – appear. The singer emerges through the unzipped womb. She pontificates and is taken away by guards.

Gaga escapes and then … well, who’s still trying to follow the story anymore? It’s all lights blasting everywhere, motion throughout the castle and along the catwalk, props that include a Gaga/ motorcycle hybrid and a mechanical horse, outfit changes (fourteen of them), meat skirts and a meat couch, dancers groping each other, a generous barrage of f-bombs and even simulated oral s-x in the charming Government Hooker (some kids spotted in the crowd looked about 8 or 9 years old, so kudos for great parenting to the moms and dads who brought them.).

In spite of the elaborate staging and choreography, Gaga took time to connect with her fans. During the evening closer, Marry the Night, she brought some of them up to work the stage with her. One sobbing girl was clearly overwhelmed, and all were visibly ecstatic to be in the Gaga aura.

In another part of the show, at each concert stop, she phones an audience member. The lucky recipient Monday night was 20-year-old Jeremy. The exchange triggered one of Gaga’s many self-help pep talks. “May this next generation suffer from less teen suicides and less sadness,†she said, adding that when she makes a political or social statement, it comes from her soul.

We got the message several times. There was, in fact, a bit too much talking. Not that Gaga’s mission of inclusion, tolerance, love and empowerment is anything but positive and necessary – but a drawn-out monologue repeatedly making the point that no one should give a f–k in the face of criticism only restated what is already in the lyrics. Much of the motivational speaking with `tude – she is the same as us, apparently – was overkill.

In the end, Gaga’s 2 and ½-hour performance, which started 35 minutes later than scheduled and ended at only 11:35, was about an hour too long. And it’s hard to remember any performer who made an audience work so hard and so long for an encore.

Ah yes … the songs? Mostly the same whomping carpet of dance floor synth-rock you already know by heart. At its best, it produces world-class, ABBA-like hooks like the ones in Bad Romance, Judas or You and I. It can also rock pretty hard, as in Electric Chapel or Black Jesus/ Amen Fashion. Mostly, it’s Gaga singing over a harmless, pulsating Eurodisco thump.

The overall package has captured hearts. Just ask almost 14,000 delirious fans who could have stayed all night – many of them to keep getting their feelings validated and find their future looking brighter than it did Monday morning.

- Bernard Perusse [The Montreal Gazette]

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Cover art featuring images taken at the show has not surfaced yet, if anyone went to the show and took shots, they are encouraged to make some cover art for this historic gem and submit it here in this thread where it can be shared.

Some images from the show were captured:

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Born This Way Ball, 2-11-2013, Montreal, Canada

Enjoy this last treat off the Born This Way Ball tour.

-- ChicaSkas for GagaDaily.com

[Grizzlybear2 457]

Downloading!

Thanks for this! :) (If people would seed it)...

Just glad to have a bootleg for my show.

[Necca 166]

downloading

[VersaceHooker13 6]

thanks for sharing

[ChicaSkas 21,065]

no problem! Let me know if any of you manage to DL it in full, my Utorrent is acting up on me.

[U-GO-BOY 1,589]

could someone please upload a little preview on Zippyshare or Soundcloud?

[ChicaSkas 21,065]

could someone please upload a little preview on Zippyshare or Soundcloud?

the Original Uploader on Dime had a preview I believe. Click the link in the OP for dimeadozen's site.

[Mix 1]

It's error for me :/

[AmenTheNight 1,071]

Could you upload this link in another format ? I don't really want to download bittorrent only for this :/

[ARTPOPART 241]

I'm uploading it on mediafire ;)

[yes 561]

is this worth downloading?

[ARTPOPART 241]

DISC 1 : http://www.mediafire.com/?qqkxip6176x7a

DISC 2 : http://www.mediafire.com/?s482546v1ia6l

I'm still uploading the files so keep checking the links :)

[wiltedbliss 914]

Omg thank you! I have really slow internet so I have a question- what it professionally filmed :sweat:

[TraeumereiLPB 192]

is this worth downloading?

The quality isn't that great. I recommend not listening to it with headphones (screaming fans alert!).

[ALX 170]

Someone's gonna have to download it and upload the files.

Using the torrent would take too long

Edit: nvm :sweat: