spanisheyes
Forum Moderator, The Goal Is Soul
For all of us in here who have had the awesome privilege of seeing U2 in their element: The stage...I'm reminded of four childhood friends who have grown together on stage from Boy to All That You Can't Leave Behind, with their instruments that neither could hardly play when they were formed...and yet are respected by all musicians for their innovative and complex styles, with the greatest songs ever written...songs written from the soul, destined for the world's stage, with a soul singer, who every night wears his heart on his sleeve with all the emotion and passion to fill up a stadium, and yet feel as if you are the only one he is singing to, simply in their own words with three chords and the truth...U2 have always transformed themselves and their songs on stage, in front of 150 or 150,000...U2 concerts are the stuff of legends...shows that are communal, energetic, and emotional...memories that will last with me personally for a lifetime.
Here is what I would like to suggest... click here, http://www.u2tours.com/ , then find your favorite concert you have been to under Search All Tours (I know this will be impossible for some of you) but go ahead anyways...then post the information and share with all of us what was most memorable about this show for you, highlights that still give you goosebumps when you think about that night, a particular moment in asong that the guys did or said on stage, maybe even a string of songs that touched you deeply, or just the fact that you were there at one of those concerts that is the stuff of legend.
For me...it would have to be my very first...
Date: December 16, 1984
Where: Long Beach, California
Tour: Unforgettable Fire - 2nd leg
Venue: Long Beach Arena
Opening Act(s): The Waterboys
Main Set: 11 O'Clock Tick Tock, I Will Follow, Seconds, MLK, The Unforgettable Fire, Wire, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Electric Co., A Sort Of Homecoming, Bad, October, New Year's Day, Pride
Encore(s): Party Girl, Gloria, 40
For me it would have to be the combination of A Sort of Homecoming and Bad being played together that night...Bono sang Bad as if he was the one who had the drug addiction, and reaching out to us fans as if we were either his next fix, or a savior to the darkness of his addiction...I remember being so moved by Bad that I was overcome with tears, and on a December evening outside, where it is cold outside, it got so hot in there, where the hearts and souls of boys and girls collided for me for the first time of this feeling of being a part of the U2community, of never wanting for this moment to end...when I experienced for the very first time the raw emotion and passion that is a part of every U2 show that I have attended since 1984 to now. I look forward to reading all of your responses.
Chris
[This message has been edited by spanisheyes (edited 10-14-2001).]
Here is what I would like to suggest... click here, http://www.u2tours.com/ , then find your favorite concert you have been to under Search All Tours (I know this will be impossible for some of you) but go ahead anyways...then post the information and share with all of us what was most memorable about this show for you, highlights that still give you goosebumps when you think about that night, a particular moment in asong that the guys did or said on stage, maybe even a string of songs that touched you deeply, or just the fact that you were there at one of those concerts that is the stuff of legend.
For me...it would have to be my very first...
Date: December 16, 1984
Where: Long Beach, California
Tour: Unforgettable Fire - 2nd leg
Venue: Long Beach Arena
Opening Act(s): The Waterboys
Main Set: 11 O'Clock Tick Tock, I Will Follow, Seconds, MLK, The Unforgettable Fire, Wire, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Electric Co., A Sort Of Homecoming, Bad, October, New Year's Day, Pride
Encore(s): Party Girl, Gloria, 40
For me it would have to be the combination of A Sort of Homecoming and Bad being played together that night...Bono sang Bad as if he was the one who had the drug addiction, and reaching out to us fans as if we were either his next fix, or a savior to the darkness of his addiction...I remember being so moved by Bad that I was overcome with tears, and on a December evening outside, where it is cold outside, it got so hot in there, where the hearts and souls of boys and girls collided for me for the first time of this feeling of being a part of the U2community, of never wanting for this moment to end...when I experienced for the very first time the raw emotion and passion that is a part of every U2 show that I have attended since 1984 to now. I look forward to reading all of your responses.
Chris
[This message has been edited by spanisheyes (edited 10-14-2001).]