This was an awesome show. GA in the pit, slightly right of center on Adam's side. Had 5 other people with me so we cleared out some room and made friends with the rest of the crowd surrounding, so we weren't sardines at all. Got to the parking lot around 4pm or a bit earlier. Smooth ride in over the Verrazano, Goethals and Tpke. It was very sunny, not too humid though but 4 of us went through a 24 pack pretty quickly. Cranked out a few drunken posts from the parking lot then at 5:30 we started the walk from J6 to the doors. The moment of truth- were the 4 tickets I bought from the shady guy on Craiglist legit? We get to the scanning people and all 4 of us got an X that said invalid on the scanner. I was the last one to go. The scanning guy says you need to go over to the ticket booth and get them validated. SHIT. Right next to us, another person not in our party got the same X, but a manager type guy comes over, scans it and says let her through. I hop right on and make it as if we're with her and he lets us in. I'm guessing the scumbag who sold the tickets to me must have got a refund.
We grab some more beer, head into the pit and met a group of real cool people. Hung out drinking, talking and my cousin shows up at around 7/7:30. I was thinking there's no way he's gonna get into the pit so late, but they walked right in. Show finally starts at 9:20 with our whole crew going apeshit for the first 5 or 6 songs. (They slightly died out when the new stuff came on). Much better opening than the 2009 shows!
Loved seeing Zooropa live finally. Great performance. A couple of times through the night Bono had heat problems. The first I think was introducing Stay. He looked like he was about to vomit and said Edge, finish explaining I gotta do something and ran off the back of the stage. Edge talked for a bit then Bono came back to finish by explaining the song was first called Sinatra. Edge then accidently starts Stuck in a Moment. Everyone laughs and Bono corrects him. The next problem he had was right after Pride. he wanted a break and started walking to the bakc of the stage but Edge started Miss Sarajevo already so Bono came back and gave Edge some sarcastic shit about being a good buddy and bandmate and he needed a break. lol
He seemed a bit more subdued for some songs later- skipping some singing in spots but nothing too bad. He looked zonked through during Batman. he didn't move much at all. The smoke guy just deluged him for 90% of the song, then he finally got up on the wheel and gave a nice swing. I like Batman and was nice seeing it live again, but it doesn't have the energy of UV- crowdwise or performance wise. Wish we could have gotten both.
MOS predictably had people walking out, taking pictures with eachother as if the lights had already gone up. At the end I thought he'd do the rap but he took some paper out of his pocket, put it on the stage and read/ sang whatever was on it. I couldn't hear what though.
I thought they were done, I hadn't looked at the spoiler. The OOC. That got the pit going apeshit one more time. Very long show- glad I got The Fly and Magnificent instead of either/ or. Probably my best 360 show. I was pumped early and didn't pace myself. Voice was gone by Zooropa, felt like I got hit by a truck by With or Without You. Overall great show. Looking forward to the 2013 rumors!
. For me it would be fair to say from the beginning he kinda took this concert over.
. He only lasted two songs then security jumped the rail and escorted him out. 
I wound up with my friend at the front rail with U2fanatic4ever and Skjuls and I'm glad I did as I had a great time with good friends despite the heat..Bono sang the end of Beautiful Day and threw his water on us which made up for all that was endured...Coincidentially we wound up meeting JCoster and her husband who happened to be standing next to us as it took awhile to put 2 +2 together 
you had a much different experience than I did I guess. I took the train, chilled on the floor taking pictures for 15 minutes or so, and was in my apartment on the upper east side in a little over an hour. Not sure what you were expecting.
