Ok. If anyone still cares, here's my little review:
My night of faux Elevation began when I walked into Joe's bar and the first person I saw was a girl I met at the St. Louis show. A good sign. She led me up to where the band was getting ready (somewhere, we subsequently found out, we were not supposed to be) and I said hi to Danno and "Larry Lynn Jr." Danno recognized me from the Chicago and St. Louis shows, which was oddly thrilling, and then we went to wait for them to come on stage.
I must say, I was quite impressed with how good the band sounded. They started out, of course, with Elevation and did a very U2-ey entrance with the band walking on to the sounds of the Influx remix. Of course, Danno totally looked the part and "The Edge" (who's real name is Dave, BTW. heh heh) was impeccably dressed with a sparkled numbered shirt, jeans, tennis shoes and a black beanie. "Adam" looked about as much as he could like the real thing considering he doesn't look like he's 40 years old, but he did a great Adam-stance and wore cool camouflage pants. He was also like Adam in that he played the bass well.
In the first set they played a lot of early stuff, like Out of Control, Gloria and Stories for Boys, which I really enjoyed because I'll probably never hear the real U2 play them. They also did good renditions of Stuck, Gone and With or Without You. Bad was an early highlight, with Danno leaping off the stage and singing a snippet of Wild Horses to a female fan (me!) before climbing back onstage and leading the audience in a chant of the chorus from "40".
Let's see, what else. "ZooTV Danno" returned with the band during the second set (there was about an hour gap between the sets, which was odd) and launced into the Bullet/Running to Stand Still one-two punch, complete with a flashlight he shined on the audience during Bullet and the desperate Hallelujahs at the end of RTSS. Discotheque was great. So was Streets, with the mounting intro that U2 always uses. During the encore, Danno came onstage in full Mirrorball Man garb (which was simultaneously hilarious and cool) and did a kickin' version of Desire. To be honest, I don't remember what they closed with (I think the beer and Long Island Ice Tea may have had something to do with that...) but by the end of the show, the floor was crammed with a cheering mass of people. The only songs I felt were really missing were Until the End of the World (a bullfight would have been great) and Kite. And, of course, Acrobat
, but that is mere quibbling.
To sum up: drinks, music and a Bono impersonator. Overall, a fun night. I'd definitely recommend going to see them if you have the chance. They're nice guys and they put on a good show. Yeah.
So much for my "little review".
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[This message has been edited by Hallelujah Here She Comes (edited 02-23-2002).]