toscano;6723894 I don't believe in god said:That would be great if they released official versions of the Stockholm and Adelaide Zoo TV shows on DVD.
My mom bought this for me in 1995 sometime. It was at this point that:
A: I became the diehard U2 fan that I still am
B: I became interested in music in general, and asked for my 1st guitar later that Christmas.
That DVD changed my life. I watched it so often in the following years that I literally wore out the tape. I went years without watching it until it came out on DVD... still great, but the whole ZOO TV concept is very dated now. The emotion of Red Rocks, for example, is timeless in a way Zoo TV will never be.
And Basel has this beautiful gem, which always makes me go insane when people say that MacP couldn't sing WOWY:
YouTube - U2 - With Or Without You (Live from Basel, Switzerland 1993)
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Ok, either play WOWY like that or DO NOT PLAY IT. I didn't know they were playing it that way so late in the ZOO tour. Compliments to Edge for working 'The Fly's" guitar solo in there. The version on the Sydney DVD really does the song no justice. Ever since Popmart, it's like all 4 band members put absolutely no effort into that song (except maybe Adam, since his part never changes).
And Basel has this beautiful gem, which always makes me go insane when people say that MacP couldn't sing WOWY:
Adelaide is functionally identical to Sydney. It was a rehearsal for Sydney. There's no way they'd release it.
I wouldn't ever say that Mac couldn't sing WOWY, I just think he was the beginning of the end for that song.
I remember watching the DVD(back then VHS) for the first time, and getting to that song and going, "what the hell that was terrible". And looking back I don't dislike that performance as much as I used to, but compared to the JT performances and even the earlier ZooTV performances(I had seen the first leg of the outdoor shows) it suffered in comparison. He was still singing that song similar to the JT days at the beginning of ZooTV and then I saw this Mac character perform it, and it was tired and he talked his way through the verses. Which is part of the character, but I think the problem is, Bono got used to performing it that way and it has gone downhill since then, each tour getting even more tired and more talked through.
There's definitely a bit of bias here, but overall I honestly prefer that show to Sydney. The band was just having a lot more fun, and you can see and hear that. There isn't the sense of doom that you get with the Sydney, which some consider to be one of the show's strengths, but it also comes off as quite static. I'd say most of the performances in Adelaide are on par with Sydney, and some, particularly Dirty Day, are better. It may be pretty much the same, but it'd be great to see it in a Zooropa or AB remaster, or in a super special DVD boxset of extras that they couldn't fit anywhere else.
I do really love the Basel show too, the MW in particular is fantastic. Would love to see that cleaned up with Zooropa.
Though you argue well, I don't agree with your line of thinking. Firstly, I wouldn't say Bono talked the verses in '93, at least not to the same degree as in subsequent years.
Ok, either play WOWY like that or DO NOT PLAY IT. I didn't know they were playing it that way so late in the ZOO tour. Compliments to Edge for working 'The Fly's" guitar solo in there. The version on the Sydney DVD really does the song no justice. Ever since Popmart, it's like all 4 band members put absolutely no effort into that song (except maybe Adam, since his part never changes).
One good thing I have to say about ZooTV Sydney is that it made me like Zooropa. When I was first becoming a U2 fan, before I was an Inteference member, I assumed that popular opinion was correct, and that Zooropa and Pop sucked. However, I, like everyone else in the world, loved Achtung Baby. So I bought ZooTV Sydney on DVD. I was a little disappointed when I first bought it when I realized that it was one of the ZooTV shows that included Zooropa songs. But then I watched it. And I thought to myself while I was watching it, "hey, this show is awesome, and the Zooropa songs are some of the best performances on here." So I bought Zooropa, and I've adored it ever since.
Almost the same exact thing happened to me
For awhile I "didn't bother" with Zooropa (aside from Stay) or Pop, because I'd heard that they were "wierd" and a general fail for U2. But I loved AB, which I viewed as being their only acceptable 90s work. After watching ZooTV (and Popmart), I felt that I may have gotten it wrong, so I went and listened to both albums. I had gotten it wrong...way wrong. Which was nice to discover. They're both incredible albums, and Zooropa and Stay are two of my top favorite U2 songs. I only wish I'd realized sooner!
I don't think the problem with WOWY was Macphisto or Bono, he sang it fine, I think the real problem was that Edge used a different guitar so that he wouldn't have to change right after Lemon, which made the sound of that usually great chiming guitar... just a lot worse IMO
yeah. i'd kill a man to go in time and experience that.