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Hey girls!! Boy do I miss being in here!
Velvetdress and I are here and on our way to Philly in a few minutes. We posted this last night in EYKIW and wanted to share the night w/ you too!! There's a TON more (if you can believe it) which we will add later.
Last night was Providence 2- Stunning, just an incredible show, both of our favorites of every show we've seen.
By now you've seen the setlist and it was every bit as amazing in person as it was on paper. party girl, slow dancing, wild honey, and larry's awesome speech...
the band just came out rocking in a different fashion than prov 1. Bono ended Elevation with "celebration, celebration" over and over, and that just set the tone for the evening.
we're just gonna give brief highlights before we try to write it all out...
Until- instead of interacting with a girl, Bono took a helium 40th bday balloon from the heart and sang to the balloon then at the end of the 2nd verse he bit the string of the balloon, and released it. Then when he got to the tip, he pulled a photographer from the pit, but the guy seemed to be a fan who had happened to get press passes, not a news journalist. Instead of the bullfight! - he beckoned the nervous photographer towards him, as Bono embraced Edge, putting his arm around his neck as edge played and they both posed for the photographer until the end of the song.
After SBS, Bono said (from what we remember) "when i asked larry what he wanted for his 40th birthday, he said he wanted to play a gig in rhode island." Larry laughed and said something we couldn't hear, then stood up and waved. Then he walked around the kit to the front stage, where Bono presented him with a cake. Larry took the (chocolate) cake and pretended to throw it into the heart, laughing. Then Larry took the mic and -well the crowd went NUTS! we KNEW what a treat this was!!- "em, hello." and "i've waited 40 years to get up here at the front of the stage." at this point, bono is looking like a mischiveous boy on Larry's drumset. Then Larry says "and I really quite like it up here!" crowd goes wild. then he said something about feeling safe b/c "at least Bono can't play the drums" !!
Larry said next: "There's no way I'd rather spend my birthday than with 18,000 of my closest friends. I feel so close to you that I could borrow money from you." then he gave bono the mic back.
Bono said laughing "yeah and you'll never see it again."
AFter the speech Bono consulted Edge for a second, and the band started Party Girl. We flipped out!!!!! A large portion of the audience seemed to know it and they played the entire song, excluding just the line about "when i was three". It was a very solid version, unlike boston 4 with only Edge and Bono playing there.
After party Girl, again Bono paused and then started playing SLOW DANCING. by this time, we weren't sure if we had died and gone to U2 heaven. or if we were just home with the b-sides blaring. At some point Edge joined Bono on guitar, and then eventually Larry and Adam BOTH joined in as well. They played the whollle damnnn songggg it wwassss awessommme!!!!! AND BONO KNEW ALL THE LYRICS!!! AFter they repeated the chorus THREE times in a row, it became obvious that they didn't know how to end the song. Bono then started alittle speech about how "in Ireland we have a thing called the ballroom" and something about how they never got into it and that's why they became a rock and roll band, and he motioned to stop with his hands and the band complete ended the song w/o an ending. Edge was laughing and Bono was cracking up. It was hilarious, and such a treat!!!
After that a bottle of champagne magically appeared. Bono shook it and sprayed it all over the crowd, then on Larry, and then Larry took the bottle and took a healthy swig! He set it on his drumkit, smiling away and waving at the crowd's hysteria, and Edge casually ambled over for a swig of his own! When the crowd saw that they cracked up even more.
After a very solid Kite, SUDDENLY OMG here comes Wild Honey. AFter Bono performed CPR to rescuitate us he kindly finished the song. It was not another goof version. He jumped up on the ramp and walked to the tip where Edge met him and they sang the song together. It was fun and beautiful and again Bono sang all the right words.
Please acoustic with piano was next. It was beautiful.
Bad and they put the house lights up during the latter part of the song. It was great!
Streets- he recited part of the Psalm again, which he hasn't been doing on this leg.
Found- another good performance which kept the momentum going
PRIDE. These is from two girls, who btw, are a bit tired of Pride. BUT, tonight was a different story entirely. Somewhere in the middle of the song, Bono produced three beautiful girls wearing identical outfits- jeans with long sleeve shirt with the flag imprint. They followed him onstage behind Adam, onto the heart ramp behind Edge, and were dancing and clapping their hands to the song. Bono paused midway and offered his arms to escort the girls to the tip. At the tip, he said "i brought these girls up from the back of the arena, and i'm putting them in the front row." He helped them climb on each of the three platforms at the tip where Bono sometimes uses to step into the crowd. He left them there dancing and grooving and smiling and singing for the rest of the song. They were incredible. MLK speech was also included at the end of Pride.
We realize this is no longer a brief post!!
I had made a sign for Larry's birthday. It was basically the symbol for the Harley Davidson motorcycles, but instead of saying "Harly Davidson" I wrote "Happy Birthday" and where Motor Cycles was, I wrote Larry Mullen. Anyway. As the band was leaving the stage I threw the sign up in the air- we were near the back, inside tip of the heart. Bono IMMEDIATELY saw it and smiled and pointed at my sign and showed it to Larry. Larry smiled and said something- i *thought* it was "I know" but i'm not sure, either way he was loving it and once I realized they saw the sign i started jumping up and down and they looked at it for several seconds!
After the show I gave the sign to Dallas, who told me he would give it to Larry. Then Dallas went and got me the setlist Larry used to read during the show.
The rest of the show was solid and gorgeous, though no other heart attack inducing set list changes! Bono had us in the palm of his hand throughout the show and it was a much different atmosophere from the somber performance the night before.
From the setlist that Olive got, Wild Honey is on the setlist but Party Girl and Slow Dancing are not. Also, the setlist has POE, but they substituted it with When Will I See You Again.
Forgot to mention the stunning I Will Follow. "Ring those bells Edge" over and over was reintroduced. As well, Bono sang the words "You've changed....you've changed me. Thank you." It took our breath away. He was incredibly gracious and humble and you could tell it was a special night and special moment, and this lyric change was not pre-rehearsed or done for effect. He also changed the lyrics "Your eyes make a circle we see you when we go in here," while gesturing at the heart.
Between us we've seen almost 30 shows and tonight was possibly the most thrilling of all of them. The atmoshere in that arena was so joyful we thought our hearts might explode.
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Also for all the Adam fans- that guy was just blissful up on stage! I don't think ONCE did we look at him and not see a smile on his face! And during Beautiful Day Bono changed the lyrics to "see Adam Clayton right in front of you"
The night before we were in front of Edge so we had some terrific thrilling Edge moments and wonderful opportunities to watch him. They were just in fine form last night and SO happy and in love with their audiences and fans.
Talk to everyone soon!!
Olive & VelvetDress
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She's gonna make you cry
She's gonna make you whisper and moan
* U2TakeMeHigher *
Last night was Providence 2- Stunning, just an incredible show, both of our favorites of every show we've seen.
By now you've seen the setlist and it was every bit as amazing in person as it was on paper. party girl, slow dancing, wild honey, and larry's awesome speech...
the band just came out rocking in a different fashion than prov 1. Bono ended Elevation with "celebration, celebration" over and over, and that just set the tone for the evening.
we're just gonna give brief highlights before we try to write it all out...
Until- instead of interacting with a girl, Bono took a helium 40th bday balloon from the heart and sang to the balloon then at the end of the 2nd verse he bit the string of the balloon, and released it. Then when he got to the tip, he pulled a photographer from the pit, but the guy seemed to be a fan who had happened to get press passes, not a news journalist. Instead of the bullfight! - he beckoned the nervous photographer towards him, as Bono embraced Edge, putting his arm around his neck as edge played and they both posed for the photographer until the end of the song.
After SBS, Bono said (from what we remember) "when i asked larry what he wanted for his 40th birthday, he said he wanted to play a gig in rhode island." Larry laughed and said something we couldn't hear, then stood up and waved. Then he walked around the kit to the front stage, where Bono presented him with a cake. Larry took the (chocolate) cake and pretended to throw it into the heart, laughing. Then Larry took the mic and -well the crowd went NUTS! we KNEW what a treat this was!!- "em, hello." and "i've waited 40 years to get up here at the front of the stage." at this point, bono is looking like a mischiveous boy on Larry's drumset. Then Larry says "and I really quite like it up here!" crowd goes wild. then he said something about feeling safe b/c "at least Bono can't play the drums" !!
Larry said next: "There's no way I'd rather spend my birthday than with 18,000 of my closest friends. I feel so close to you that I could borrow money from you." then he gave bono the mic back.
Bono said laughing "yeah and you'll never see it again."
AFter the speech Bono consulted Edge for a second, and the band started Party Girl. We flipped out!!!!! A large portion of the audience seemed to know it and they played the entire song, excluding just the line about "when i was three". It was a very solid version, unlike boston 4 with only Edge and Bono playing there.
After party Girl, again Bono paused and then started playing SLOW DANCING. by this time, we weren't sure if we had died and gone to U2 heaven. or if we were just home with the b-sides blaring. At some point Edge joined Bono on guitar, and then eventually Larry and Adam BOTH joined in as well. They played the whollle damnnn songggg it wwassss awessommme!!!!! AND BONO KNEW ALL THE LYRICS!!! AFter they repeated the chorus THREE times in a row, it became obvious that they didn't know how to end the song. Bono then started alittle speech about how "in Ireland we have a thing called the ballroom" and something about how they never got into it and that's why they became a rock and roll band, and he motioned to stop with his hands and the band complete ended the song w/o an ending. Edge was laughing and Bono was cracking up. It was hilarious, and such a treat!!!
After that a bottle of champagne magically appeared. Bono shook it and sprayed it all over the crowd, then on Larry, and then Larry took the bottle and took a healthy swig! He set it on his drumkit, smiling away and waving at the crowd's hysteria, and Edge casually ambled over for a swig of his own! When the crowd saw that they cracked up even more.
After a very solid Kite, SUDDENLY OMG here comes Wild Honey. AFter Bono performed CPR to rescuitate us he kindly finished the song. It was not another goof version. He jumped up on the ramp and walked to the tip where Edge met him and they sang the song together. It was fun and beautiful and again Bono sang all the right words.
Please acoustic with piano was next. It was beautiful.
Bad and they put the house lights up during the latter part of the song. It was great!
Streets- he recited part of the Psalm again, which he hasn't been doing on this leg.
Found- another good performance which kept the momentum going
PRIDE. These is from two girls, who btw, are a bit tired of Pride. BUT, tonight was a different story entirely. Somewhere in the middle of the song, Bono produced three beautiful girls wearing identical outfits- jeans with long sleeve shirt with the flag imprint. They followed him onstage behind Adam, onto the heart ramp behind Edge, and were dancing and clapping their hands to the song. Bono paused midway and offered his arms to escort the girls to the tip. At the tip, he said "i brought these girls up from the back of the arena, and i'm putting them in the front row." He helped them climb on each of the three platforms at the tip where Bono sometimes uses to step into the crowd. He left them there dancing and grooving and smiling and singing for the rest of the song. They were incredible. MLK speech was also included at the end of Pride.
We realize this is no longer a brief post!!
I had made a sign for Larry's birthday. It was basically the symbol for the Harley Davidson motorcycles, but instead of saying "Harly Davidson" I wrote "Happy Birthday" and where Motor Cycles was, I wrote Larry Mullen. Anyway. As the band was leaving the stage I threw the sign up in the air- we were near the back, inside tip of the heart. Bono IMMEDIATELY saw it and smiled and pointed at my sign and showed it to Larry. Larry smiled and said something- i *thought* it was "I know" but i'm not sure, either way he was loving it and once I realized they saw the sign i started jumping up and down and they looked at it for several seconds!
After the show I gave the sign to Dallas, who told me he would give it to Larry. Then Dallas went and got me the setlist Larry used to read during the show.
The rest of the show was solid and gorgeous, though no other heart attack inducing set list changes! Bono had us in the palm of his hand throughout the show and it was a much different atmosophere from the somber performance the night before.
From the setlist that Olive got, Wild Honey is on the setlist but Party Girl and Slow Dancing are not. Also, the setlist has POE, but they substituted it with When Will I See You Again.
Forgot to mention the stunning I Will Follow. "Ring those bells Edge" over and over was reintroduced. As well, Bono sang the words "You've changed....you've changed me. Thank you." It took our breath away. He was incredibly gracious and humble and you could tell it was a special night and special moment, and this lyric change was not pre-rehearsed or done for effect. He also changed the lyrics "Your eyes make a circle we see you when we go in here," while gesturing at the heart.
Between us we've seen almost 30 shows and tonight was possibly the most thrilling of all of them. The atmoshere in that arena was so joyful we thought our hearts might explode.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Also for all the Adam fans- that guy was just blissful up on stage! I don't think ONCE did we look at him and not see a smile on his face! And during Beautiful Day Bono changed the lyrics to "see Adam Clayton right in front of you"
Talk to everyone soon!!
Olive & VelvetDress
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She's gonna make you cry
She's gonna make you whisper and moan
* U2TakeMeHigher *