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Aha! THERE you are! (sorry folks for the intrusion--longtime lurker, first-time meeting of an actual Interferencer at a U2 show, or actually, before it.) Dazzled By Light--sorry I had to leave you in the lurch Monday! I had to catch my train! I hope you didn't wander around too long looking...

Not sure if this is the right thread for this, but atU2 is reporting that Larry's former bodyguard David Guyer has been sentenced to 10 yrs in prison after a series of bank heists. Apparently he was on the lam for 2 yrs and his arrest was a surreal scene. Bizarre but true. Link to article in...

Or maybe a lot of the folks in the lower half not real fans, but the "rich folk" who could really care less about u2 and more that they're got those big expensive "bragging rights seats." (Beating that dead horse again, I know...) Do you realize that if U2 were an up-and-coming band in this...

There's that pic from "U2 by U2" book, I think, of the "band shot" of the U2 dads, dressed in suits, holding their sons' instruments. I LOVE that pic. You can see the amazing resemblance between Bono and Bob, and Edge and Garvin Evans, especially. Larry seems to look like his dad too. Hope...

Taytay--that graduated business model is based on an economy with a strong middle class, with people whose incomes were also graduated: fans who moved up the ladder in their chosen profession and had slowly increasing income over a lifetime that gave them more disposable income, so older fans...

I don't think this was THE real Anonymous. They generally tend to fry much, much bigger fish than entertainers. Like someone else said in another thread, there are a lot of folks out there pretending to be THE Anonymous. I grew suspicious when the relevant part of the video started--about 5:30...

Haha! Love that Headache! So true. On a general note, I just think it's painful to speak of U2 "deteriorating" and suchlike. You'd think they'd have lived a Stones- like life of debauchery and planeloads of drugs, you know, a "rock star" lifestyle. Well, they have a little, over the yrs....but...

My God? Madonna tix even more than U2?? So I guess we can put the "greedy u2" argument to rest, that this is probably a Live Nation/Oseary thing? I actually shudder to think how they're going to handle the stadium/SOE NA shows. Let's hope they take a reckless gamble that you know, some parts...

Drowningman, I was referring to the specific moment when the audience sees/hears Bono for the first time. If the band do nothing public before then it really will be dramatic. And I agree opening nights are bumpy usually. They have to take a few shows to hit their stride. But considering what...

Seriously...any TV appearances would just steal the drama of Bono walking out onstage in Vancouver, "ready to rumble" as he put it. I've been imagining the audience response when the lights first shine on him walking out there, or just....wow, wouldn't it be great if just for sake of having a...

Ugh, no. I don't happen to think we're all [bleeping] idiots. Only when we start to joke about stuff like this, in a totally tasteless way. Yes, I said it. :reject:

^Now you're the one jesting, right? Like Paul M needs a "career boost":lol: Irvine, excellent post as usual. I agree. Guy O is her longtime manager so he knows how to handle her...even if there's not much to handle...But I wonder if all the little things U2 have been doing are going to be part...

Today a poster in the @U2 forums wrote the following, and I quote: "a station that airs the Grammys here in AUS, just announced that there would be a 'surprise performance' at the Grammys. Ahem..." Take that or leave it, but it would fit with Bono and Edge being in Malibu. It might also...

CK--what you said. I agree on all counts (resists urge to reply to last part of post in more detail.) And it's a paradox isn't it--they sign any old flavor of the month (One *cough* Direction *cough*) and yet they expect the concert industry to take over from album sales, and become the new...

Light, that's just the Rolling Stone article rehashed. Shame on the Independent for not referencing it.

France is suddenly concerned about its Jews, just b/c there was a violent attack on them? How hypocritical. I can't help wondering what the response to the kosher shop attack would have been had it occurred in the white-hot political heat of last August. I'll bet a large swath of French society...

Someone sent me a link to these articles today, shocked that it isn't getting more Western media attention. Egypt's president al-Sisi calling for major reform, or "a revolution" in Islam. Take this with a huge grain of salt--the writers are calling this a "95 Thesis" moment for Islam, but...

O...M...G. This is a *strange* place. I crashed the party in 2005 b/c for about 24 hrs I thought Fake Edge was real. Then I copped on. I think before I make another post I need to spend a week hopping down Memory Lane. The strip club link....I was choking on my tea from laughter. And that's...

Last Unicorn...LOL. Or they should hang a bicycle over the main stage, with headlights on handlebars:) Come to think of it....it'll be interesting to see the signs/posters etc at the shows. Could be a lot of fun for GA people.

To me there's only one chart that matters: Billboard's Hot 100. All those other niche charts are superfluous. Tell me that EBW has cracked the Top 40 there, and I'll tell you it has a chance to become a hit. "Pride" only got to #36 or #39, but then sank without a trace. But of course due to...

Bravo, Diemen.....well-said...or rather, well-quoted.

Oops. I just saw footage of the same show I was at, on Matt McGee's site. Yes, I guess that *was* my show, I went to, "Live in Boston!" So it was the whole show being filmed, not just One. But the poor guy. He's had a lot on his plate last month, and sad to say, I know the feeling from...

Awww...I know, wasn't that just..*SNIFFLE*. Now if they had a kid or two... Okay, after all the brouhaha, here's my pathetic little excuse for an Adam story. This is Elevation era...April 2001. I'd never been much for meeting the band, or any act, even though I'd been a fan since '82. Going...

Never seen Garth. But tell me he's as good as '80's-era Springsteen live, and I might consider going to see him. Is the audience participation the same as at a Bruce or U2 show? I hate country, or at least most country made after 1990. The reason? Sick of it. My grandma used to be the Origonal...

God, this is heartbreaking. It means all of Principle's employees: gone. Keryn Kaplan, etc. Did Paul know that LN would liquidate his company when he agreed (was forced) to hand it over to LN? Or did he really do it himself, b/c he didn't want to watch it fill up with LN people? I always thought...