Well, the setlist hasn't yet appeared on u2tours.com, so I will discharge my responsibility as a loyal Interferencer from St. Louis:
Elevation
Beautiful Day
Until the End . . .
New Years Day
I Will Follow
Sunday
Stuck in a Moment
Kite
Angel of Harlem
Knocking on Heaven's Door
Please
Bad
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Where the Streets . . .
I Still Haven't Found . . .
Pride
Bullet
What's Going On
New York
One
Peace On Earth
Walk On
A few notes:
1. Knocking was accompanied by an audience guitarist and an audience piano player. The audience ate it up, as usual. For all the aspiring U2 members here, both guys were picked out from the 4th or 5th row near the tip, as far as I could tell.
2. Wild Horses was one verse and chorus at the end of Bad.
3. Peace On Earth was nearly a complete version (call it 75%), only missing the second verse "where I grew up . . .".
My Impressions: It was a very good show with a more "intimate" feel rather than the "party" feel. The slow songs, especially Please, Wild Horses, and Peace On Earth, were truly incredible - Bono's voice for these songs was magnificent (although it is showing strain during the more fast-paced and vocally challenging songs) - I still can't believe (after seeing more than 30 U2 shows over the years) how beautiful that voice was during Please. Bono was not at his topnotch energy level (my perception) but was still excellent of course. The audience was at the mid-to-lower part of my U2 concert scale as far as I could tell in terms of apparent familiarity with some of the music (for instance, I think many didn't know I Will Follow and even Sunday), but really picked up towards the middle of the show.
Bono spent more time at the tip (very gratifying to me after waiting outside in the freezing rain!) than in most other shows I've seen. I was yelling for In God's Country and When I Look At the World, but unfortunately I was outvoted! Maybe in Tampa or Miami . . . It is funny (and a sign of U2's excellence) how different people are in terms of what U2 music moves them the most - one friend I was with was yelling for Lemon (of course I was laughing - an appalled laugh - at the very idea). I was pleased to see one fan at the tip with a Running to Stand Still sign - that one is realistic and would be a treat - but it was not in the cards for St. Louis.
At any rate, my friends now think I'm slightly less insane than they did a day ago for a couple reasons: 1) they now appreciate just how different a U2 concert experience is compared with concerts in general (in fact a couple have told me they will travel with me for future U2 shows if the opportunity arises - I would say that's vindication for me); 2) they had a chance to meet other U2 maniacs and now I'm judged to be a "moderate" lunatic. (Kind of like the Northern Alliance, I guess - it's all relative and it depends if you can get something you want from them)
OK, see you all (or at least many of you) in Tampa/Miami.
