NOPE. This has more to do not with the "lottery", but because--REMEMBER PEOPLE??--SO FEW fans got ticket in the first place. We know where U2 screwed up with this, but the fault, far more, has consistently been with Ticketmaster, who funneled off so many hundreds and thousands of tickets to corporate types and seasonal ticketholders. If the "dead" people (ie who didn't know the words) were teens, that's understandable, the more "Vertigo" fans the better! But if they looked older, and chatted on the phone a lot, and talked to their girlfriends, and just in general looked like they were at the "hot" show of the moment and nothing more..well, this is what happened, and I was expecting it. The shows will get better as the tour goes on, becuase so many more of the fans got tix for the fall. I just HOPE the band knows what is going on here, and does not change the setlist as a result of the TicketBastards infltrating our shows.
This is the first "review" I have read, and I hope it wasn't as bad as this. I hope the fans are getting to the band on the street, and telling them what is really happening here. If it was this bad, I feel sorry for them....I hope they are not bewildered and remember that the fans did NOT get in, just the Clear Channel VIP corporate types. "Boy" material and the GA does not go nuts. They must be thinking WTF? I wish I could call them up right now and tell them it;s not OUR fault, if WE were there, it would be everything they wanted. I hope they're not getting worried about this as well as discouraged....