Yes?Does anyone want them spending what precious little time they have left playing old albums in sequence?
Yes?Does anyone want them spending what precious little time they have left playing old albums in sequence?
On U2's final tour, whenever that is, they will celebrate their entire career, and I bet we'll get all the deep cuts you could ever want.
The guys are almost 60.
Meaning what? The Rolling Stones are almost 80 and they are still playing shows. Bottom line, there is no reason to stop doing what you love to do just because you've reached some age. Yes, they could stop now, or soon, but that would be like pulling an R.E.M.
To me, the band live sound just as good now as they have ever been and I have seen them 21 times. Although not certain, it is potentially possible they will still be a band well beyond age 70. B.B. King continued to travel and tour with more than 100 dates a year well into his late 80s.
In fact, you could argue that the band retired in 1990 because since that time, they record and tour at a pace that they prefer, that they set for themselves. Plus they have all been independently very wealthy since at least 1990 if not earlier. They do this because they want to, not because they have to.
I want to be left wanting more.
Would an Achtung Baby/ZOO TV 30th anniversary tour work?
I think it would feel strange to have a retro tour for a tour that was about the future. Achtung Baby is also heavily linked with the tour for it, ZOO TV. So to do some dry performance of just the album, would seem strange and not a fit either.
I agree with this. Achtung Baby and Zoo TV are pretty hand in hand. It might not be 100% satisfactory to play through the entirety of Achtung Baby without inserting it properly into the ZooTV context.
At this point, many of us are counting on it.
I'd be disappointed if they don't.
People finally getting to hear Acrobat and So Cruel live would make the reception to Red Hill Mining Town and Exit look like Vertigo x2 or In A Little While.
NNnnnoooooooo!They'll just end up playing Acrobat on the piano, with canned horns in the background.
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Great observaion, AxverI think it fits even better now than JT does.
as Ax says, they were right. You promote the "we were fucking right all along" angle in interviews and then play up the staging again for the digital age.
I'd rather have that than nothing!Some valid points there.
It's also possible that instead of a full anniversary tour, the band just does one special multimedia event, a single concert (in Berlin?) to paying fans that is also broadcast live on the internet.
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*wakes up*
Damn.
People finally getting to hear Acrobat and So Cruel live would make the reception to Red Hill Mining Town and Exit look like Vertigo x2 or In A Little While.
There's no way they'll do it. I would love to see it, but there's no way.
Joshua Tree was very independent of everything... decade, technology and frankly band's ability to perform.
ZooTV was the opposite of all of that. It was highly dependent on all of those things. It was the perfect storm of a technological boom combined with a very youthful and physical band. And highly dependent on a then-new idea of over consumerism.
All of that is played out now. Those themes are exhausted, the band is exhausted and the technology aspect is a naive nostalgia at best.
The JT anniversary tour worked because of the ability for the songs to work independent of anything. It's just good shit.
An AB/ZooTV anniversary tour would just seem so out of touch given how anchored their ideas were in a certain time and place.
ThisYes please. WGRYWH is easily in my top 5 songs I want to hear live but haven't yet.
We're already worried about altering songs on a make believe tour?
In a make-believe thread with people typing words about a make-believe event on a message board?
Why the hell not?
I'm not sure how JT is more independent of decade than AB?
I also don't think ZooTV was about consumerism as much as it was over-saturation, PopMart fit that mold a little more.
But what did you mean by one being independent on ability to play and the other not?
Not that I'm hungering for it, but I think ZooV2.0 could easily fit into today's society. Easily. And many in here have had some good suggestions.