- Show started off very strong with SBS and then into NYD. Outstanding.
- Great to hear ASOH although the synth treatment was less than riveting. Still fantastic to hear it, a first for me (can't recall if they played it when I saw them in 87)
- Bad. Oh fuck. Wow. And so early. Amazing.
- Pride. Meh.
- Streets - OK. I liked the intro and the red screen was visually stunning. And the video was incredible. Performance was good but not electric.
- Rest of the JT set was a bit disappointing. RHMT in particular sounded mailed in. Video was also oddly disconnected from the song. I am sure there was some grand storyline that just went over my head.
- Eddie Vedder. Oh my - does every band need to trot him out as the local Seattle superstar/curiosity? Peter Gabriel and Sting did this at the Key recently. But OK, kinda fun. And great to hear Mothers of course.
- Encore - a disaster. BD was flat and the sound terrible. Video was a mishmash that seemed thrown together at the last minute, as if they ran out of ideas.
- UV sounded better. Interesting theme but seemed more of a distraction. One of the more cringe-worthy moments was seeing Melinda Gates' name on the screen. Come on Bono, we know the Gates' money is important to you, but do you really need to kowtow every Seattle visit to them?
- New Song - went over like a lead balloon. Sounded promising towards the end but I prefer to hear songs live after I have digested them on an album first.
- IWF - a nice recovery to close. OOC would have been much better, but that's nitpicking.
- Crowd overall - pretty strong for the most part but the JT dragged on and energy was fading. Not even Beautiful Day could really save it. But they flubbed that one as mentioned.
Overall - 4/10 for me. Now I do not like stadiums and that was part of it. Also, too many camera phone drones in the GA made it very, very annoying. But of course, that is every show nowadays it seems.