LuckyNumber7
Blue Crack Addict
Didnt realize GAF was prince andrew
U2: Virtual Road to launch on YouTube Wednesday
- Thread starter Headache in a Suitcase
- Start date
The friendliest place on the web for anyone that follows U2.
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.
OP
OP
Wait, these shows begin at set times?
https://media2.giphy.com/media/TlK6...mpddluj6kh25zr7bffzxam949zlygv6&rid=giphy.gif
https://media2.giphy.com/media/TlK6...mpddluj6kh25zr7bffzxam949zlygv6&rid=giphy.gif
mikal
Blue Crack Addict
Imagine U2 releasing official videos from the Unforgettable Fire Tour, early ZooTV, early Popmart, and the last leg of 360.
They are champion in selling the same stuff again and again. Very lame releases.
OP
OP
I mean... they're free and remastered.
Can't please anyone, sheesh
Can't please anyone, sheesh
LuckyNumber7
Blue Crack Addict
Yeah I mean I see this more as the band saying “remember all these goodies?” No harm no foul, just nostalgia.
mikal
Blue Crack Addict
I'll be the first to download an audio rip of these of course. But just would love it if the band had it in them to say "Hey, it's been a long year. Let's see if we can find a good show to treat our diehards with".
DaveC
Blue Crack Addict
it's great that these shows are now going to be available online, for free, officially and in remastered high quality.
it's also kinda lame that this is being marketed as some sort of special event, considering it's a rerelease of stuff we've all seen many times before.
though i doubt a bunch of old people on a mostly-dead U2 message board is the target audience for this anyways.
it's also kinda lame that this is being marketed as some sort of special event, considering it's a rerelease of stuff we've all seen many times before.
though i doubt a bunch of old people on a mostly-dead U2 message board is the target audience for this anyways.
Last edited:
lazarus
Blue Crack Supplier
OP
OP
They put out a few social posts and a press release.
That... that's not a huge marketing push. Like, at all.
DaveC
Blue Crack Addict
do other bands issue press releases and get "opening acts" when they put old previously-released concerts on youtube?
i guess pink floyd sorta did something similar when they uploaded PULSE, but that was done to launch the series of weekly uploads, and most of those uploads are rarities or performances that were never released on home media.
i guess pink floyd sorta did something similar when they uploaded PULSE, but that was done to launch the series of weekly uploads, and most of those uploads are rarities or performances that were never released on home media.
Last edited:
Yes, that's great, but it's for only 48 hours..... Would 've been nice to get it on U2.com for free forever. I would even pay for a blu-ray of the concert series. Nice for my collection. Is not too much to ask I think.
OP
OP
i didn't really get a chance to watch yesterday - other than a brief moment on my phone without my speakers attached.
did anyone who did notice a difference in the audio quality? it looked great, that's for sure.
also anyone grab a rip? or are these things that interference doesn't care about anymore?
did anyone who did notice a difference in the audio quality? it looked great, that's for sure.
also anyone grab a rip? or are these things that interference doesn't care about anymore?
OP
OP
Fuck I'm still using Kazaa
Hewson
Blue Crack Supplier
You two (out of any two on this site) really should be on the same page, being twins and all.
OP
OP
I never would have predicted that by the 2020s the main options for discussion of U2 would be a board that thinks everything they do is dumb or a place full of white nationalist conspiracy theorists.
What a world, what a world
What a world, what a world
lazarus
Blue Crack Supplier
LuckyNumber7
Blue Crack Addict
I haven’t heard the name Kazaa in forever.
the tourist
Blue Crack Addict
- Joined
- Dec 25, 2003
- Messages
- 27,919
I wish they’d release the audio from these shows onto Spotify, Apple Music, etc.
mikal
Blue Crack Addict
At least with Apple Music you can download a rip (on a computer) if it becomes available and add it to your library.
david
ONE love, blood, life
Kazaa.. that’s a blast from the past. An old internet friend I was talking to the other day dropped ICQ in convo. Remember that messaging service?
I think it’s still around.
I think it’s still around.
OP
OP
Headed out. I have my sidekick with me though so hit me up on AIM if you need anything
Hollow Island
New Yorker
- Joined
- Jan 16, 2011
- Messages
- 2,947
Radiohead put out a press release when they uploaded shows last year. Why wouldn't a band put out a press release and let as many as possible know that there will be live shows on youtube?
I think it's cool that they're adding opening acts to these things. Makes it more like a real show.
david
ONE love, blood, life
I was fairly happy to read this because it means a 4K or, at least, Blu Ray release is around the corner, which I'll happily buy for $40 each. I really hope they don't try to resell the albums for us to be able to get it, but I doubt they'll do that.
Mastered unreleased stuff from the late '80s and '90s would be amazing, though.
OP
OP
I also said that before realizing that they were taking them down in 48 hours... which has turned my opinion on this while thing just a tad
Yeah, I was about to get excited when I saw the headline and first sentence... and then it's just shows I've owned for almost 20 years now and could watch literally any time I wanted to.
Now this would've delivered on that brief surge of "ooh this could be cool" I felt on seeing the headline. They're not exactly short on filmed shows either.
And I'd have absolutely lost my mind if it was finally the Lovetown doco. The director himself would be pleased to see it get a proper release of any kind!
