Your favourite live intro to Where The Streets Have No Name?

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Rest assured, it had nothing to do with our chat. It was because if I did it in every thread it would cease to be funny. It was funny for a while but you've got to leave 'em wanting more.

Of course. :wink:

Though I do have to wonder when it ever was "funny". Maybe you should just switch to jerk-store jokes. :)
 
Surprised no one mentioned the transition from "all I want is you" to "where the streets have no name" with Bono's tribute to his father in between during the "U2 goes home live from slane castle" performance. Thats gotta be my favourite one
 
Surprised no one mentioned the transition from "all I want is you" to "where the streets have no name" with Bono's tribute to his father in between during the "U2 goes home live from slane castle" performance. Thats gotta be my favourite one
Read again....
 
My top three are the ZOOTV transition from RTTS, 360 Hallelujah intro and, by far the best, Slane All I Want Is You transition.
 
The worst has got to be the cringeworthy Jerusalem leading into streets at Glastonbury. I remember standing in the rain thinking "what the hell is this"
 
It's a poem by William Blake. And a good one at that.

I know what Jerusalem is. I am from England it is our rugby song aswell. What I meant by saying " what the hell is this " is what's bono singing this for it was just awful.
 
This one was mentioned in passing, but how does New Year's Eve Lovetown not land very, very high on this list? Point Depot, a crowd that was absolutely bonkers, the new year striking at the start of the show, Auld Lang Syne, and balloons and confetti. Hard to beat that.

U2 new years eve.the point depot dublin 1989 - YouTube
That one's great too. Still doesn't top the 26/12/1989 version, but they were definitely on that tour.
 
This one was mentioned in passing, but how does New Year's Eve Lovetown not land very, very high on this list? Point Depot, a crowd that was absolutely bonkers, the new year striking at the start of the show, Auld Lang Syne, and balloons and confetti. Hard to beat that.

U2 new years eve.the point depot dublin 1989 - YouTube

I didnt know that what-looks-to-be a proshot video was filmed (and non-officially released somewhere). Anyone know if a proshot bootleg video exists of this entire concert? Or maybe this opening song was just shown on some tv special?
 
As you can see in this video, presented by Pat Kenny, Streets and I Will Follow were broadcasted live by RTE. So we have, at least on the internet, only these two songs in proshot.
But we all know that pro-shot tapes of many of the Lovetown shows, and of course of the new year's eve gig, are lying underneath meters of dust in some vault around Dublin. In fact we had small sequences of the new year's show filmed in proshot on From The Sky Down, which means that the pro-shot recordings exist somehow and somewhere.
Let's just pray all toghether for a R&H deluxe edition with the best show ever by U2 featured in it as a special DVD.
Too good to be true.

U2 @ Point Depot, Dublin 1989/1990 Where The Streets Have No Name, I Will Follow - YouTube
 
This one was mentioned in passing, but how does New Year's Eve Lovetown not land very, very high on this list? Point Depot, a crowd that was absolutely bonkers, the new year striking at the start of the show, Auld Lang Syne, and balloons and confetti. Hard to beat that.

U2 new years eve.the point depot dublin 1989 - YouTube

Whats all that racket in the background from about 1:30 to 2:10ish? Sounds like some random piano plunking.

That's not on my bootleg, pretty sure on my bootleg it just goes straight from the one go round of Auld Lang Syne into the Streets count-in. Weird.
 
Imagine how awesome this transition could have been on 360:

Fez - Being Porn - Where The Shreets Have No Name

:drool:
 
Imagine how awesome this transition could have been on 360:

Fez - Being Porn - Where The Shreets Have No Name

:drool:

Another "clever" post changing the name of a great U2 song to something juvenile. Real impressive, mikal. I'm sure the band would laugh.

God forbid we discuss U2's music like adults.
 
Whats all that racket in the background from about 1:30 to 2:10ish? Sounds like some random piano plunking.

That's not on my bootleg, pretty sure on my bootleg it just goes straight from the one go round of Auld Lang Syne into the Streets count-in. Weird.

My boot certainly doesnt have that random piano playing either.

This has probably been discussed before- but what was the stage set-up at these Point shows? Instead of the typical stage at one end (hockey goalie net side) playing towards the long way back (think length of hockey ice), it almost looks in this video that they set the stage on long side (where the hockey team bench would be) and played towards the seats right in front of them.

Also, anyone know what the attendence was these night at Point Depot?
 
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My boot certainly doesnt have that random piano playing either.

I can't get at my copy of this show right now, it's in a box due to renos.

But I don't remember that part being like that.

Here's a theory: they had a tape of Auld Lang Syne, and went thru the first part of it into the Streets count-in. The count-in started, but the tape wasn't turned off. Indeed it sounds like that, because Bono is no longer singing along, in other words he was intending to give his "forget about the past" bit over the Streets intro, not Auld Lang Syne.

So why isn't it on our bootlegs?

I'm thinking that this is (yet another? lol) instance of where the broadcast, in this case, the BBC radio broadcast, which is the source of our bootlegs if I'm not mistaken, doesn't totally match what happened at the venue. Maybe the radio had a different feed, and they had turned down the channel with Auld Lang Syne after Bono ended his singing of it.

What doesn't make sense is that this video appears to be a direct taping that was aired on BBC TV, and it's feed definitely has it. So was there two different feeds, one for TV and one for radio?

If I recall correctly, this video was only recently made available, so for all intents and purposes up until recently, we are used to the radio version.

And further, was this broadcast over the house PA also? In other words, did the audience hear what we have on our BBC radio bootlegs, or did they hear what is being displayed on the video?

If there were a "true" audio or video bootleg, ie, a fan shot/recorded with the audio coming from a condenser mic just located in the audience, that would certainly tell alot. Does such a bootleg exist?

This is actually perplexing me a bit, as you can tell. lol
 
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