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I went and took a leak during Sometimes.
WOW do you have some anger issues??
everyone is still missing the point.......
Is Bono okay????
hmm.. Yeah, he did say that, no overdubbing or anything...there were all these people on youtube who didn't believe that the original video was real because the video/audio timing was way off so it appeared fake, until another guy made a video with two different camera angles and better synch, pretty much proving to the naysayers that it was in fact real...
I'm not quite sure what Bono was thinking...even if someone does have there phone out, and they're talking on it, who cares? What if it's a once in a lifetime experience for a fan and they want to share the moment with a friend and have them on the phone during their favorite song or whatever...or for any reason in the world haha...it shouldn't make any difference to Bono. There are many other fans at U2 shows that have their phones out at some point in the show, but Bono just can't see them I dunno...but I think Bono reeeally overreacted here. And the girl was just taking pictures of him with her phone...Bono couldn't see that? It was a very odd thing to do and you would never expect it from him...very uncharacteristic.
Great impression of a phone conversation! LOL
I was just trying to put myself in his shoes. Maybe he was in the wrong, but if I'd been in that situation (or in Tori's, who I love too) I might have done the same thing.Agree.
All this bullshit 'oh he's only human' 'he was in the moment' 'Axl Rose and Tori Amos are worse.' The guy was being a prick. It shouldn't be harped on about but it should be so quickly dismissed with these excuses either
everyone is still missing the point.......
Is Bono okay????
I'm here speak for him-he wants to say:everyone is still missing the point.......
Is Bono okay????
he's human people, even Bono can make mistakes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpR9t4ZZfAo
I understand that it's Sunday Bloody Sunday and Bono really gets into it during the bridge but to me this very unlike Bono.
Is this fake or dubbed or something?
Way to go, Bono! I actually am in full agreement with him there. I have had the burden of being behind people obsessed with filming and taking pictures and it's really hard to see. These same people also don't tend to care about the music. They usually wander off during songs they don't like or whatever and show no concern for those behind them. It's the really ugly side of technology.
That crap about Al Qaeda attacking New York because it's a place of coexistence is bull, though. They picked a major target not to fight against coexistence but because American foreign policy is obstructing the freedoms Americans enjoy from ever being enjoyed by brutal dictatorships the US government backs in the middle East and a democratic Israel's brutality toward Palestinians.
However colonial their ambitions and wrong they were to target innocents, there was a logic to attacking the nation that is making it impossible to rebel against oppression. Whether they wanted to replace that elitist repression with a wrongheaded religious fundamentalism is a different matter, but Bono is hardly talking down to Christian and Jewish fundamentalists for using American foreign policy to bully and kill innocent citizens throughout the Middle East -- and the death toll is far higher than 3,000 people and has been going on for far longer.
he's a mean old bastard at times (as he freely admits), not the nice, soft saintly figure some people make him out to be.
He dissed the local stage managers onstage when Edge's rig blew up in SF during the War Tour, calling them a bunch of "hippies". Not cool, but hilarious nonetheless. Those guys probably hate Bono ever since.
I haven't posted in ages, I lurk -- but I am on Bono's side, here. The last time I was at a concert, the people around me totally blocked my view and ruined the mood by yapping on their phones and holding them up. Nice to share with a friend not there, yes.
But this song especially, I can't imagine not letting yourself be in the moment and the emotion of it. The last few concerts I've been to, I didn't even take my camera. On the Elevation tour, I realized I had spent an entire concert looking through a lens to get crap pics instead of just enjoying and being into the concert. Since then... well, "no more, NO more" camera or cell phone for me at a U2 concert.
Plus, it's almost like having a camera or phone in church, since concerts are a near-religious experience for me.
I was a bit shocked at first, then thought, why would you want to distract yourself even a second from being right THERE at that moment, so close and such an emotional song?
Good for him, and good for him for apologizing, as well.
Cell phones are really starting to irritate me, they're obnoxious when you're trying to pay attention, and if you're the one at home, you know very well you can't hear much of anything but distorted NOISE anyway. I doubt he/she was "only" taking photos. Looks like Bono saw exactly what they were doing. Great impression of a phone conversation! LOL
Just listen and BE present, put your phone in your pocket -- you're living a moment you can remember in your soul, if you just let yourself.
I wouldn't have wanted to be standing near someone talking on their bloody cell during a concert!
I've heard other stories from his personal life in Ireland that aren't very flattering.
This reminds me, I saw an October tour video of Bono getting annoyed with the audience for not really being into it. I think he said something like "You know, where we come from, it's customary to clap at a concert."Breaking news... Bono can be an asshole sometimes.
I've seen him yell at fans a few times over the years, mostly for "fighting". I think it's his way of getting the crowd fired up. As someone earlier said, Axl Rose does this at every GnR show, and it works, the crowd always loves it.
I remember Bono cussed out some poor sap during the free concert in SF during the JT Tour, accusing him of holding up an IRA sign (the sign said "SF Loves U2", and Bono apparently thought SF meant Sinn Fein instead of San Francisco).
He dissed the local stage managers onstage when Edge's rig blew up in SF during the War Tour, calling them a bunch of "hippies". Not cool, but hilarious nonetheless. Those guys probably hate Bono ever since.
That time when someone threw water on him was in Oakland Vertigo, I think, he was really pissed off, which I thought was an overreaction. During the same show, he got pissed at my friend for handing him an Irish flag during SBS instead of a US flag. He gave her a dirty look and made some snide remark into the mic for everyone to hear. Made her feel like shit, but I thought it was kind of cool, good theatre. I've heard other stories from his personal life in Ireland that aren't very flattering.
If you worship Bono, do yourself a favor and don't examine him too closely. Just enjoy his music and words, and realize that he's a mean old bastard at times (as he freely admits), not the nice, soft saintly figure some people make him out to be.
I've heard other stories from his personal life in Ireland that aren't very flattering.
If you worship Bono, do yourself a favor and don't examine him too closely. Just enjoy his music and words, and realize that he's a mean old bastard at times (as he freely admits), not the nice, soft saintly figure some people make him out to be.
Can we just get this right. They were not talking on the phone they were taking pictures with it like many of the other thousands at the concert that night
This reminds me, I saw an October tour video of Bono getting annoyed with the audience for not really being into it. I think he said something like "You know, where we come from, it's customary to clap at a concert."
It could always be worse, he could be Tori Amos :
YouTube - Tori Amos Code Red Live
Start at 2:25
"Get the fuck out of my show. It's a privilege to be in the front row. These are my seats and I give them to people that deserve them. Get the fuck out."
Your lack of humour sense just ruins this thread.Yeah, because you just stop loving someone if he's making mistakes.