Hey Ax, Bruce hit 30 songs at a show the other day btw, Has U2 ever even come close to that mark (especially) while they were young?
Not while they were young - I actually feel U2's sets in the eighties were disappointingly short. Shows were often closer to 90 minutes than 2 hours.
The longest U2 gig ever, both in terms of songs played and length of performance, is 27 June 2005, Dublin. 25-26 songs; depends on whether you count An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart as one song or two. And it has Vertigo x2 too. But still a killer set; only Gloria and Bad of the second leg.