livehead said:That's one heck of a zoom lense.
My thoughts, exactly! Great photo!
livehead said:That's one heck of a zoom lense.
Joshua_Tree_Hugger said:
What?
cmb737 said:
This is how Larry is performing for Yahweh. Playing, poorly, a midi controller with the notes for the song pasted to the keyboard stand. The four times I saw him do it, he was passable once. It is really embarassing actually, would rather he go get a bottle of water back stage or something during this song. During Denver 1, he got there late, his timing was off all song...he was laughing about it. He left the foot of the ellipse early..but on the way past Adam he pinched his ass. No joke, I was 3 feet away.
Larry is not a piano player. A for effort and wanting to be involved, D for exectution.
diamond said:but arent bono's fuck ups..
sexybonofuckups?
db9
faithingrace said:Hey I completely understand it. I teach and half the time I forget to tell a class something that I told another class. Or I forget and miss a step or instruction, etc. I imagine it is similar to Bono on stage, lots of thing running through his head. Not that I am comparing myself to a rock star, but I do play sage on the stage sometimes.
alexvilagosh said:Teleprompter? Ooo. I don't like that at all.
New Order used one after Get Ready. 10,000 people singing Blue Monday and the guys looking at a prompter.
retro said:
glad you weren't my teacher
Reggie Thee Dog said:
Hello...TELEPROMPTERS USED IN U2 SHOWS SINCE 1992.
It's true.
retro said:
You have proof?
(besides what some dude might have posted on a forum 4 years ago...or what you thought you saw from 100 yards away)
While this might be true, I have never seen any evidence of this. Not in any offical video or unofficial bootleg have I seen such a device used until the Vertigo tour.
If you have any photographic or video evidence please share it with us.
Thanks..
Reggie Thee Dog said:
Find someone with a copy of "Zoo TV: Live From Sydney" and forward to the MacPhisto speech you can see the text running down the monitor in front of Bono. Clear and plain as day. I think I have a picture from Q Magazine in '92 with a picture of Bono in front of one too, if I can track it down I'll scan it. It was not a big secret even back then. I think that the book "At The End Of World" mentions them too.
What's the big deal anyhow? It was a new concert technology 15 years ago and a lot of artist use them now. Does it make Bono less a singer/performer because he has one for use now and then?
CheshireCat said:ppl have said in this thread that they, as dedicated u2 fans, could sing the u2 songs of this tour without a teleprompter. I would disagree. I am a huge fan and when i began covering u2 I thought that it would be a simple matter to sing the lyrics. But singing along to the cds is completely different to singing without backup. Id ask anyone who thinks bono is a wuss for using a teleprompter to sing the entire lyrics of an cat dubh without prompting. it is much harder than you think