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ONE love, blood, life
Having been to both more than once, I will speak only briefly on this topic. A Dave Matthews Band concert is fun, laid-back, sweet, lots of hippies smoking weed and dancing around with the occasional stupid teenager puking (almost) all over your seats. (Happened to me, DMB Philly 2000.)
But a U2 concert...well, my friend described ZooTV as a "religious experience." And that's how I felt when I saw them. Like it was something much bigger, more intense. Bono definitely possesses an intensity that Dave doesn't. (As I am fond of telling people, "Bono invented intensity.")
But much as everyone raves about both of these bands being great live (and they are!), they're not great the same way. Expansion on this? I'm insomniacal again and just posting whatever the hell comes to my head.
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If you cannot live together in here, you cannot live together out there, let me tell ya. --Bono
You've got to cry without weeping, talk without speaking, scream without raising your voice... --Bono
But a U2 concert...well, my friend described ZooTV as a "religious experience." And that's how I felt when I saw them. Like it was something much bigger, more intense. Bono definitely possesses an intensity that Dave doesn't. (As I am fond of telling people, "Bono invented intensity.")
But much as everyone raves about both of these bands being great live (and they are!), they're not great the same way. Expansion on this? I'm insomniacal again and just posting whatever the hell comes to my head.
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If you cannot live together in here, you cannot live together out there, let me tell ya. --Bono
You've got to cry without weeping, talk without speaking, scream without raising your voice... --Bono