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My Thoughts On Opening Night
I wasn't there, but I've listened to the whole bootleg.
1.I really felt like there was a great freshness to this show. They dropped a lot of things - and I don't mean songs - from past tours. I mean they dropped signature PARTS of songs. The SBS Coda - no more, the drum beat starts over but goes straight into Bullet. The One Coda - no more, but it is replaced by CATHARTIC, BEAUTIFUL vocal duet of Bono and Edge(WA AH AH OH OH OH OH OH WA AH OH OH OH OH OH OH). Bullet lost the spoken dialog at the end, replaced by a Hands snippet. The end of Streets was a little different, not the normal 'oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh's. Just stuff like that, not to mention the inclusions of FOUR songs most of us thought were out of the live set FOREVER: The Electric Co., An Cat Dubh, Into The Heart, and Zoo Station, and also one most of us didn't think we'd hear in its entirety again, "40". Just a great freshness.
2.Bono's voice is 50 times better now than it was last tour. If you weren't convinced by the album, listen to this boot. Listen to a few specific places. Listen to BD, the last 'touch me/take me to that other place/teach me/I know I'm not a hopeless case'. His voice cracked all over the place on those lines EVERY time last tour. Last night, not one crack. He SOARED over those lines. The last 'teach' was heavenly. Listen to NYD, 'newspaper says that true, say that's true that's true and we can break through/though torn in two/we can be one'. Again, cracking all over the place on Popmart and Elevation. Nearly flawless last night. The entirety of Sometimes. Bono hit everything at the end of it. Miracle Drug - the last chorus, the last long 'miracle', he holds it for three or four seconds easy, and it sounds great. And listen to Elevation, last tour the 'woo hoo's were pre-recorded partially, this time Bono is singing them himself and there are no cracks at all. It's just AMAZING how much better his voice is now.
3.The new songs are brilliant live. Miracle Drug is just amazing - Edge nailed the solo and his vocals and everything perfectly, and those last 'MIRACLE's both Bono and Edge held were spine-tingling. They played the best live performance of Vertigo I've heard yet, easily, and SFB in it was awesome. Yahweh....Yahweh. Yahweh acoustic live is 500x the album version. I can't get enough of it. It is a great crowd sing-a-long song. And Edge storming in at the end with the vocal climax...Superbly done. COBL as the opener was the perfect choice. Very reminescent of Streets as an opener in the late 80s. That riff is really a great one to start a show on. LAPOE rocks VERY FUCKING HARD. Bono nailed 'Sometimes', and we know that that really is Bono's song. They even improved ABOY by having Edge sing in a higher octave during the chorus - although I'm a tad disappointed at Bono's scream being omitted, but that's a very minor gripe. These songs sound AMAZING and the scary thing is I think they can still get better.
4."40" - Sometimes I would wonder if U2 even remembered what they did in the 80s, with one member leaving the stage at a time and all that. Obviously they haven't. The song still sounds as good as it did then.
I wasn't there, but I've listened to the whole bootleg.
1.I really felt like there was a great freshness to this show. They dropped a lot of things - and I don't mean songs - from past tours. I mean they dropped signature PARTS of songs. The SBS Coda - no more, the drum beat starts over but goes straight into Bullet. The One Coda - no more, but it is replaced by CATHARTIC, BEAUTIFUL vocal duet of Bono and Edge(WA AH AH OH OH OH OH OH WA AH OH OH OH OH OH OH). Bullet lost the spoken dialog at the end, replaced by a Hands snippet. The end of Streets was a little different, not the normal 'oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh's. Just stuff like that, not to mention the inclusions of FOUR songs most of us thought were out of the live set FOREVER: The Electric Co., An Cat Dubh, Into The Heart, and Zoo Station, and also one most of us didn't think we'd hear in its entirety again, "40". Just a great freshness.
2.Bono's voice is 50 times better now than it was last tour. If you weren't convinced by the album, listen to this boot. Listen to a few specific places. Listen to BD, the last 'touch me/take me to that other place/teach me/I know I'm not a hopeless case'. His voice cracked all over the place on those lines EVERY time last tour. Last night, not one crack. He SOARED over those lines. The last 'teach' was heavenly. Listen to NYD, 'newspaper says that true, say that's true that's true and we can break through/though torn in two/we can be one'. Again, cracking all over the place on Popmart and Elevation. Nearly flawless last night. The entirety of Sometimes. Bono hit everything at the end of it. Miracle Drug - the last chorus, the last long 'miracle', he holds it for three or four seconds easy, and it sounds great. And listen to Elevation, last tour the 'woo hoo's were pre-recorded partially, this time Bono is singing them himself and there are no cracks at all. It's just AMAZING how much better his voice is now.
3.The new songs are brilliant live. Miracle Drug is just amazing - Edge nailed the solo and his vocals and everything perfectly, and those last 'MIRACLE's both Bono and Edge held were spine-tingling. They played the best live performance of Vertigo I've heard yet, easily, and SFB in it was awesome. Yahweh....Yahweh. Yahweh acoustic live is 500x the album version. I can't get enough of it. It is a great crowd sing-a-long song. And Edge storming in at the end with the vocal climax...Superbly done. COBL as the opener was the perfect choice. Very reminescent of Streets as an opener in the late 80s. That riff is really a great one to start a show on. LAPOE rocks VERY FUCKING HARD. Bono nailed 'Sometimes', and we know that that really is Bono's song. They even improved ABOY by having Edge sing in a higher octave during the chorus - although I'm a tad disappointed at Bono's scream being omitted, but that's a very minor gripe. These songs sound AMAZING and the scary thing is I think they can still get better.
4."40" - Sometimes I would wonder if U2 even remembered what they did in the 80s, with one member leaving the stage at a time and all that. Obviously they haven't. The song still sounds as good as it did then.
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