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Starting this tour's shows with Sunday Bloody Sunday, tuned farther down to compensate bono's voice- may I add, is the laziest idea they've ever pursued.
IT'S THE JT TOUR! Start the show with Where the Streets Have No Name with the guys rising above the stage (zoo tv style). It's a stadium show; it's logical, gets the crowd excited, and move those songs to the middle of the JT album set so they don't bore non-hardcores with Exit and Trip.
This might possibly be the most uncreative thing the guys have ever done on tour.
There, I said it.
And yes I'll still be attending
This is one of the dumbest posts I've seen on this forum.
Some people here need to get a life. I feel more positive and happy about U2 after LA1 and LA2 than I have in many years.
Don't criticize other members on this forum for forming their own subjective opinions; The purpose of Interference is for fans to write their thoughts based on what they've seen, heard and/or experienced; more-so specifically based on their current setlist.
I'd be more than happy to hear what you liked and didn't like from the setlist from the shows you've seen, but there's no room for name calling.
This tour has got a troubling sense of laziness to it so far. It's almost as if they are pacing themselves, playing it ultra safe and not wanting to give it everything on a sold out stadium tour.
I like how some of the most vocal critics in here, who you know have actually seen the show, and historic fact disagree with both of you.
This tour has got a troubling sense of laziness to it so far. It's almost as if they are pacing themselves, playing it ultra safe and not wanting to give it everything on a sold out stadium tour.
Honestly I think we should start accepting the fact that we aren't going to be getting any shows longer than 22/23 songs during this tour. They've settled in nicely to their routine of songs all of which, they have been rehearsing.
It does still baffle me why they keep changing up the set list for the worse. Each show I am expecting them to rip into something different and give us a surprise but no, they go with cutting songs out!
The most realistic thing we can hope for is that they bring back ASOH, anything else at this stage is just unrealistic, as sad as it is to say.
there's no room for name calling.
Nobody likes to admit they wasted their money. You tell me, where will this tour sit in the U2 hall of fame?
Nobody likes to admit they wasted their money. I am sure the JT set is great. It'd probably move me to tears if I was there. But the rest of the show has all the hallmarks of a band with little interest in the whole exercise.
You tell me, where will this tour sit in the U2 hall of fame?
There have been reports from people who thought the show was just okay. I didn't think the Vancouver show was a particularly good U2 show. But wasted money? Come on.
As for the tour overall, it's not going to go near the top of my list, but so what? There's no need for hand-wringing over it.
Them doing this tour is not a sign of anything, and it's making a lot of fans very happy.
I don't know, I haven't seen it yet.
BUT, full album, new song, solid classics, stunning visuals? Probably pretty high for some.
There have been reports from people who thought the show was just okay. I didn't think the Vancouver show was a particularly good U2 show. But wasted money? Come on.
As for the tour overall, it's not going to go near the top of my list, but so what? There's no need for hand-wringing over it.
Them doing this tour is not a sign of anything, and it's making a lot of fans very happy.
I think the biggest underlying problem is that in their previous tours, their concerts would really pick up once they launched into their older material. Since this tour is JUST the classics, so I expected the entire show to be one of their best tours.
Which previous tours?
And no one ever said anything about this tour being JUST the classics, I think the underlying problem is you went in with the wrong premise.
I'm sure the set lists would be longer if there was no opening band.
40 deserves to get an airing.
The crowd still sings the chorus even when they don't play it, you'd think the lads would get a hint.
Somebody beside me in Pasadena was whispering it but it was faintly audible.What shows have you been going to? I've never heard a spontaneous 40.
But hell, they certainly don't take any hints from signs requesting stuff from Pop, so ...
If they closed with 40 all the time, we'd just bitch about how they never change it up anyway.
What shows have you been going to? I've never heard a spontaneous 40.
But hell, they certainly don't take any hints from signs requesting stuff from Pop, so ...
If they closed with 40 all the time, we'd just bitch about how they never change it up anyway.
Starting with Popmart and on.
In The Edge's interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, he stated "It's funny, sometimes great songs ... Think of a live show as an ecosystem. You've got niches to fill. There are uptempo, fast, dramatic songs and those are crucial. Then there are sort of more medium-tempo songs and no matter how great they are, sometimes you just can't find a place for them."
The point I originally made, and still stick by, is that SBS is a horrible choice to start with, Streets shouldn't be shoved to the 4th song, and putting WOWY in the middle just doesn't make sense. The JT tour is really about celebrating the classics and therefore, they should have had a much stronger way of starting and ending the show without boring the audience. Sure, the whole "playing an album straight' is a cool concept, but in reality it just doesn't work. NOW that we have enough footage of different concerts, I can confidently say they don't look old or bored, but they look like they're trying to make this concept work and failing miserably at it.
Think I'm wrong? Using their setlist (with the exception of their concert killer Miss S.) , this makes more sense when considering the "tempo" of the concert:
1. I Will Follow
2. Exit
3. Trip Through Wires
4. Elevation
5. Beautiful Day
6. New Years Day
7. SBS
8. Still Haven't Found
9. Red Hill
10. God's Country
11. One Tree Hill
12. Bad
13. Bullet
14. Running
15. Streets
16. Pride
17. With Or Without You
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18. Ultra Violet
19. One
20. Mothers of The Disappeared
21. 40
Here you have a mixup of everything, with the right tempo and you don't slow you concert down with an entire slew of B-tracks in the middle/end of the set.
I've previously made all of these points, so I really don't understand how I went in with the wrong premise.