Bruce
The Fly
So basically Joshua Tree/ Zoo Tv tour flip a coin and you have your answer? I'll agree.
From what I've read/seen regarding the tour, I'm setting myself to be slightly underwhelmed. (I think disappointed would be far too strong a word.) I'm going in thinking it won't be the best tour yet.
But you know what? I'm totally okay with that. I'm still seeing my favorite band play a buttload of great songs, getting to experience it with friends ... it's going to be great!
And if the shows are better than my slightly-lowered expectations, then that's just even better.
This.
Any tour of theirs is a good tour.
this is def the best tour since the last one.
I agreeThe longer I'm a U2 fan, the more I realize just how much the tour DVD affects the impression and overall rating of a U2 tour.
I think its safe enuff for me to make an educated guess, having been at UF, JT, Zoo Tv, Popmart, Elevation and Vertigo tours, that this will NOT be u2's defining moment. there seems to be a lot of people creaming themselves over the technology/stage on this tour. A gig is supposed to be about the music? Maybe, thats why 2 of my 3 fave tours, were basic shows (JT and Elevation)
As a footnote, YES, i do think u2s quality went down after JT album, but only because they pulled the once in a generation album out of the bag with the Joshua Tree.
Addicted To Bad;6271890 Hope to be wrong when I saw them again.[/QUOTE said:Edit: when I see them again .
I agree and outwith the fanbase it's getting mixed reviews and some bad ones too.
The spectacle does nothing for me, I enjoy a little live 'theatre' in a rock show lke The Flaming Lips have done for years or the NIN With Teeth and Lights In The Sky tours but not this where it just seems big for the sake of it.
I like the album, it's superb in places but this time just haven't warmed to the actual Live show, and it is a show, with little room for the radical song changes per night, sure... you get one or two changes, but some acts do up to 8 or 9 set changes a night and U2 used to epitomise that, alas no more... and where Bono used to speak much more spontaneously regarding ah.... "events" it seems now more part of the show, ie every night we get tada! 'the speech' as opposed to the real visceral bile of the Denver 1987 diatribe...
The JT > Lovetown & ZOOTV tours were great, because of the contrast factor, but POP to me was just another big show and I don't particularly enjoy stadia concerts to start with let alone where there is such a static 'show' aspect.
So far I've watched enough good quality video and the band look slightly dwarfed, they haven't quite got the intro right either, that awful flat lull before Breathe in Barcelona still stands out for me... yeah the setlist is okay, lacks the cop and change of old and funny thing is it resembles an iTunes playlist I compiled back in April prior to the tour, just me thinking what will they play! ahem my lawyers are on the case.. though my Another Time, Another Place / The Ocean - Unnown Caller segment is missing... that and I opened with Fez/Being Born... and MOS is not the closer [AIWIYStreets/MLK was]
It's subjectve really ie "is this the best tour" personally I think no.
Can I pre-emptively beg that we not turn this thread into yet another setlist thread?
the one version i heard of walk on was not that good.
I totally agree with that. IMO...it sounded rushed. am hoping its because they have yet to back in the swing of playing it live, as its one of my faves!
oh...and no hallelujahs at the end is unforgivable
you do realize that ZooTV featured one of the most static setlists in the band's entire history?