Hewson
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Wonder if Bono will be cycling during the break between legs...
Boooooooooooooo.
“The philosophy of the first album is probably best contained in a line from our second album October in a song called Rejoice. And the line is, ‘I can’t change the world, but I can change the world in me.’ That was the position that I think we felt when we were in our younger times,” he explained. “For Songs of Experience, it’s a different line — it’s in [the song] Lucifer’s Hands, which is an outtake that really has both innocence and experience in it – and it has the line, ‘I can change the world, but I can’t change the world in me.’
Bono continued: “So the thing is, when we were younger, we were fighting very much with the physical world and trying to make it a better place, trying to fight when we would see injustice wherever it raised its head. Whereas in the ‘90s we made a kind of a change, and we started fighting perhaps more interesting enemies, the ones that you find in your own life, in your own heart — the hypocrisy of the human heart is great material — and just finding those kinds of enemies, you know, it’s the world in you rather than the exterior world.”
I think it's fairly obvious the second half of the main set and encore need serious work, but I'm sceptical whether the band will see that. I at least hope the awful fucking Hands/Pride thing falls by the wayside, but I've become increasingly cynical about any change at all.
So they're not doing it live because Larry has trouble with 6/8?
Though it can be better, I can't say that it's 'obvious' that the second half needs serious work. I thought that the sequence they had for most of the Boston and the first four of the New York shows was very good (EBW --> (Bad) --> WOWY --> COBL --> BTBS --> Pride), certainly better than the EBW --> BTBS sequence.
Having seen/heard it myself I of course want different songs now (The Troubles!), but on itself it's a very good sequence. And yes, I'm enjoying Pride on this tour.
I find it interesting that on every tour from Vertigo onwards there seemed to be a Interference consensus that Pride sounds better. I think it's the same slog every single time. But the audience participation negates that point anyway. Let them revel in mediocrity I say.
I have a weird relationship with COBL (the song, not the Donko): it was my favorite song off The Bomb right from the beginning, and (not including Mercy) probably still is. I think it's done well live. But I really don't have a desire to see it again and I just don't think it's good enough to be a permanent staple. Vertigo, on the other hand, is a barnburner and I don't have a problem with it being played at every show, because it delivers and gets the crowd going.