I don't think you can't see anything on One, since it was not even included on the DVD hehehe
You're right, it's literally been years since I watched the dvd. I watched a bit of it tonight. They did do the "hole" during One and in one of the dark crowd shots before they play "Wake Up Dead Man" is when you can catch a glimpse.
I did a quick look on my old archived posts from the Wire mailing lists and among the many comments about this show, I found this really long post from someone who was there, who probably had a little to much emotionally vested in this band, not to mention was probably a bit deluded about "their" impact on the band and their performance that night:
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Ok obviously the word is getting out about what happened last night. The
FACTS are this:
The Fleet Center staff were incredibly helpful, caring, and genuinely
looking out for the fans, so please understand that what happened had
nothing to do with the Fleet Center staff. Anyway.
Many of the biggest U2 fans from across the continent were there for the
show last night. A group of girls even flew in from LA the night before,
missed the first show so that they could line up for the 2nd show. Many of
us were there by midnight, some people were in line for over 20 hours. I
got in line at 11:30pm, immediately after the end of the first Boston show,
and I was already 18th in line.
Shortly before it was time to let the GA line in, U2's top security people
went to the BACK of the GA line (ie the people who had just arrived) and
selected 60 or more people and brought them into the arena. We all saw this
of course, and we immediately asked U2's head of security what it's all
about, who are those people and why were they taken from the back of the
line and brought inside? He told us, to our faces, that they will NOT be
brought to the floor, that they will be held somewhere inside, and that we
(the ones at the front of the GA line) will be the first people on the
floor.
Half an hour later, the first 100 or so people from the GA line were brought
inside in an orderly fashion, and lined up in an area right before the
enterance to the arena. There, rumors started to fly around that there were
already 60 people on the floor. The security people there assured us that
it is only a rumor, and they basically told us to shut up, and that anybody
who makes any trouble will be ejected from the arena. A few minutes later,
they brought us somebody from U2's team, who tried to get us in a good mood
by explaining to us that tonight is the "big night", it's being taped for
HBO and broadcast live to the NBA finals. Then they let us into the arena,
and right away we saw what we had feared: the front of the stage inside the
heart was filled up, maybe 3 rows deep, and the tip of the heart was full of
people. These people had been hand-picked from the back of the GA line, at
5:30pm or so.
At this point, we didn't know what to do. We were shocked, angry, and felt
personally hurt. Most of us went into the heart, and we let the people who
were alread there know what had happened to us, and we asked them that, if
they truly care about the band and its fans, they would step back and let us
to the front. Of course, they didn't give a shit, and told us to fuck off.
We were trying not to be mad at them, because it really wasn't their fault,
and we weren't going to try to force them to move away - most of us would
never use force or violence at a U2 concert, or elsewhere in life.
Soon the scene in the heart was apparent. Many of us were heartbroken that
the band would intentionally screw us over like that. A group of us simply
sat down at the back of the heart and started crying. It was just awful.
These are people who are the BIGGEST u2 fans, who had sacrificed so much to
be there, who hadn't slept in 2 days, and who had just spent 25 hours on the
sidewalk in order to see the band they love, and here they are totally
heartbroken before the show.
At this point, the impact of what had happened started to dawn on many of
the people there, even if they hadn't been at the front of the GA line to
experience all that we did. It was almost surreal. Looking around I was
seeing 25 of the biggest U2 fans in the country, and some from around the
world, and they were all extremely upset about what had happened. These are
people, myself included, who have been to the last 10, 20, or more shows on
this tour, who have made huge personal sacrifices to do so - leaving their
family, friends, jobs, school, disrupting their lives for months at a time
so that they could follow the band that they love on this special tour, to
see them night after night, to cheer the band on through good shows and bad,
to tell Bono how amazing he sounds even when he's on the vurge of losing his
voice, to give the band all they've got at each and every show and never
tire of it. And after all this, they are lied to, deceived, and screwed
over, on the biggest and most important night of the tour.
Previously, in the GA line, we had joked about sitting down during Beautiful
Day if we get screwed over. But now, things were getting serious... people
were crying, everybody was very distressed and upset. The last thing we
wanted to do was stage a protest in the middle of the concert, because we
know how much this show, how much each show, means to the band, and we
didn't want to ruin that for them. But something needed to be done. So we
tried everything we could. We tried talking to U2's security again. Their
head of security personally apologized to us for lying to our faces. He
said that he was sincerely sorry for lying to us, and it was a very
heartfelt apology, but he said that he was instructed to do so by his
bosses, and there was nothing else he could do. We even talked to Paul
McGuinness, but unfortunately this was during PJ Harvey's set, and the
conversation consisted of us yelling into each others' ears trying to get
our message across over the loudness of PJ and her band, and eventually, Mr.
McGuinness said that he's sorry but there's nothing that he can do, and then
he left.
What happened next was one of the hardest things that many of us had ever
done. The openning music for Elevation came on, and we all gathered to a
position about two-thirds of the way towards the back of the heart. We
chose to be away from the front of the stage because in our minds we
invisioned the band seeing the protest right in front of them, and they
would be forced to stop mid-song... it would have destroyed them, and we
didn't want to do that. By doing it farther back in the heart, the band
would still see the protest, but they would be able to continue the show
dispite it.
When the band took the stage, with the house lights on, one at a time, we
sat down. And most of us, as soon as we hit the floor, we started to cry.
It was uncontrollable, the flow of emotions running through us at that
moment. 20,000 screaming, cheering fans on their feet for their favorite
band, and in the center of it all, us in the heart, the fans who love the
band SO MUCH, sitting down on the floor as the openning notes of Elevation
hit us. We stayed sitting down through all of Elevation and the next song,
Beautiful Day, many of us crying our eyes out through all of it.
The band must have noticed it right away, and soon (still during Elevation)
Bono came out on the catwalk and looked straight at us, and started jumping
up and down so that he could get a better look at the people sitting down.
We could feel the whole vibe of the show going downhill... we remained
sitting during Beautiful Day, and the band was obviously distressed... Edge
lost concentration and didn't catch the que to end the song...
After Beautiful Day, we couldn't bare to sit down any longer. People were
hugging and comforting each other, we were all a complete mess. And from
that point on, we decided that the protest would not end. For the rest of
the show, the group of us did not cheer, clap, smile, or move during the
songs. During several songs, many of us stood with our backs to the band,
which they also noticed, further to their distress. Bono botched up Kite
pretty badly... During Desire, with the entire band at the tip of the
heart, they were very close to us. Larry looked right at us with one of the
most angry expressions i've ever seen on his face, and he shook his head
right at us, and then refused to look our way for the rest of the
performance. By this time in the set, all of the band knew that something
was very wrong, it was apparent on their faces and in their performance.
Even Adam was having trouble smiling. During Sunday Bloody Sunday, Bono
rapped / mumbled something like "For the first time in 25 years, a gig
doesn't feel right".
During One, everyone who had participated in the protest formed a big
circle, effectively creating a big hole in the heart. And the real shocker,
after One, Bono walked over to Edge, and they talked (off mic) for about 45
seconds, and then Bono walked back to the mic and he and Edge did Wake Up
Dead Man. It was obviously inpromptu, and the only explanation we could
think of is that singing that song was Bono's way of dealing with what was
happenning at the show.
These are the facts as they happened at the show. I'm sure that many
different opinions will be formed about what happened. The important thing
to keep in mind is WHY we did the protest. It was NOT because we were a
bunch of whining fans who were upset that they didn't get to the front row.
The shows are amazing no matter where you are standing. We were protesting
because after all that we have gone through for this band, we were lied to,
and because we feel that whoever is making the decisions, be it the band
themselves or their management, have an agenda that we do not agree with.
If HBO says they want young, attractive, ethnically diverse people at the
front of the stage, and that putting them there would mean screwing over 20
of the biggest u2 fans in the country, U2 should say NO. We know how much
the fans mean to U2. The band has always taken as much time as they can to
meet the fans, at their hotel, outside of the shows, and around town. But
it seems like at this stage of their career they have become so far removed
from even their most hardcore fans, that something like what happened last
night could occur, and the only way that we could show them how much it hurt
us was to protest in the heart, during the show. Their security and their
management simply would not listen to us.
I'm sure I'm leaving many things unsaid, and I hope that I'm speaking for
most of us who were there and participated in the protest. It was a very
complicated and emotionally draining night, and I still feel drained,
frustrated, sad, and hurt, for what happened. I had planned for last night
to be my last show on this tour. But I know that I cannot just leave with
this feeling in me. I can't attend the show tomorrow because of a serious
committment I have made, but I will do my best to get into the Saturday
show, and I hope that by then this situation has been resolved, though I'm
afraid that nothing short of a personal apology from the band would satisfy
the hearts of many of the fans who were wronged last night.
-Dave ****