New "U2 Live: A Concert Documentary"?

[Blue Room]

Originally posted by ZOOTVTOURist


Hopefully, you're wrong - though you may be right - because VERTIGO is a long, long tour with a lot of stuff to be written about and a lot of pictures to be inserted. On the other hand the book gets thicker and thicker, but that's the way it should be, I guess. By the way, it is not quite correct, what you write about the volumes, because there weren't only issues dealing until ZOO TV or the last one including POPmart and ELEVATION. Inbetween, versus '98/'99, there actually was another volume published: with No-hair-Bono on the cover front and dealing with the very first POPmart shows, too. Though apart from many critics I have and that I do very much like the books, this "half-step" didn't convince me at all.

Well, they did a little insert of about 10 more pages and put some Popmart Pictures in there and covered the first couple of shows. I believe the publisher did it to try to sell more calling it an update. It really wasnt to me at all. There was more information contained in the Zooropean Magazine (which took over for Collectormania during Popmart) than was in that minor update. Really there was the original that went through Zoomerang and then the latest update that covered all of Popmart and Elevation. I dont really count the other one, I never even bought it. If they do that again I wont buy it either. I will wait for a real update.

[Blue Room]

Originally posted by bono_man
I LOVED the original author. He wrote up to Zoo TV. I still read it to this day. Its definately my favourite U2 book.

When I saw a new edition was out I was so excited! However, the new author just doesnt do it for me at all. Soooo over-critical! He/She sounds like someone from Interference!!

Im sorry...I was at the show in London just after Bono's dad died in 2001. I, and everyone else there knows how AMAZING that show was. I couldnt believe they slammed it and said it was poor cause the band werent 'on'.

I think she did fine continuing it. The only question I have about what she did is what she chose to put in the book. She had alot more inside information about the behind the scenes of Elevation that she didnt put in there. I'm not sure why. But its splitting hairs really. Still a great book, and I'm sure its alot of work to put together a new major update. So I will cut here some slack on it.

[ZOOTVTOURist]

Yes, that's what I said - Even with all the critics one may have regarding the update version, it still is the best book dealing with U2's gigs. So I really do hope, that there will be a new, perhaps in the "old" chapters even revised version. "U2 Live: A Concert Documentary" even would work now, at least for me...

[ZOOTVTOURist]

Originally posted by ZOOTVTOURist
Yes, that's what I said - Even with all the critics one may have regarding the update version, it still is the best book dealing with U2's gigs. So I really do hope, that there will be a new, perhaps in the "old" chapters even revised version. "U2 Live: A Concert Documentary" even would work now, at least for me...

Do we have any updates here regarding an updated version? Thanx for letting us know ...

[ZOOTVTOURist]

.. any update on this project, friends?

[irish mick]

Dug this old thread up again.

Any plans on an update ?

Since Caroline's updated version, we've had the Vertigo and 360 jaunts around the world, plus lots inbetween. An essential new version would be fantastic.