dal975
The Fly
to the best of my knowledge, acrobat has only been rehearsed/practiced/played live/released on one occasion outside the studio, the closed Hershey Stadium outside broadcast rehearsal on 8/6/92. The resulting two takes can be found on the jesus was a cool guy acoustic compilation. It's pretty basic, just bono and edge on acoustic guitar, but then it leads into some pretty heavy industrial noise out of which the opening effects of Zoo Station emerge.
Based on that, and my sense that it's a relatively hard song to reproduce fully on stage, my feeling is that if god willing it is ever played live, it would be a half-assed acoustical version where bono forgets 60% of the lyrics and both larry's hypnotic drumming and edge's brilliant solo towards the end would be pretty much eliminated. I can see it as part of the mid-show mini-acoustic set which they are enamored with. Unfortunately, I can also see it as a bathroom and beer break kind of song for the masses...where do others see it fitting in and in what format? I guess for the sake of argument lets assume they play it on the horizon tour.
Based on that, and my sense that it's a relatively hard song to reproduce fully on stage, my feeling is that if god willing it is ever played live, it would be a half-assed acoustical version where bono forgets 60% of the lyrics and both larry's hypnotic drumming and edge's brilliant solo towards the end would be pretty much eliminated. I can see it as part of the mid-show mini-acoustic set which they are enamored with. Unfortunately, I can also see it as a bathroom and beer break kind of song for the masses...where do others see it fitting in and in what format? I guess for the sake of argument lets assume they play it on the horizon tour.