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I think U2 is far too detail-oriented about the choreography and stage direction to make a mixed venue approach in the same leg possible. (Bono being severely out of breath during "Running to Stand Still" on JT30 seemed like a weird failure of their usual standards.) This also pertains to the...

Apropos obscure tour stops: Madison, Wisconsin was packed for ZooTV Outside Broadcast and half-full for PopMart. Ames, Iowa was a stop on Zoo TV outdoors.

I hear this an embryonic version of "Walk On", maybe with a little bit of "Kite" mixed in. Around 2:20 it clearly sounds like "Walk On" to me. I can almost hear the "When your heart it breaks..." (or something like that) being sung over it. Cheers, Mike

I'll probably catch hell for this, but Coldplay has become my backup U2, ready to be hot-swapped in at any time. (Mostly due to my chronic lack of time and/or energy to be aware of newer music.) As one of the possibly few with a favorable view of the younger band's current album, maybe this is...

Apropos of nothing in particular, I'm really glad I saw that tour in both Madison and Chicago (Saturday night show), because the tour really came to life in Chicago. It was still a "Lemon" in the half-empty Madison stadium. (Sorry...couldn't help myself.) I still have my inflatable lemon and...

Apropos concert artefacts, I still have my inflatable PopMart lemon. I just don't know what to blow it up with--a bike pump doesn't seem to work. Give it some Viagra perhaps? :cute:

Ironically, the very phenomenon you mention has been a boon for me as someone with fairly severe social anxiety. At 44 I was on the field for JT30, about fifteen feet from the B-stage. There was no pushing or fighting to get or maintain that spot. My first rock concert, at sixteen, was Simple...

I just feel like their production doesn't scale well. Even the largest arena is too small. My first I+E concert was up behind the stage at the United Center and I was basically looking right at one of the flown subwoofers. I was wearing earplugs AND headphones, but decided to go "bareback"...

Am I the only one here who likes YSSML? I guess so... I'm grateful for whatever they choose to give us at this point. If anyone has earned retirement at 60, it's U2.

Also, doesn't he go out for a pint or six of Guinness on the regular when at home in Dublin? That's the impression I got from social media, at least before COVID. I would just ask around with the locals. I mean, even if he doesn't show, you're not going to have a "Bad" time. :lol:

I did a little bit of the Deadhead thing for the Elevation tour (having, for the first time in my life, a decent amount of spending money) and flew from my Milwaukee home to the gigs in Florida and Arizona. At the Phoenix show I chanced to walk around the venue in the afternoon to catch the...

I'd rather they experimented with the arrangement than not play it at all (as in 2018). The intro has evolved, becoming a segue from another song with a phat keyboard wash instead of the church organ sound. It's been condensed, which makes sense to me. I mean, how many angles can you present it...

My Saturday has begun with reading the NYT feature on ABBA's comeback and the many comments. It occurred to me that a current megatrend is adjusting to aging musicians' physical being in the world and how that contrasts with their younger selves. My take: How *TF* (shouting a little here) do I...

Sunglasses are taking on political connotations and that's the sort of detail that doesn't escape the notice of the U2 organization. The Lennon/Gandhi sunglasses may be the only safe choice.

Here's my $0.02: After 32 years as a U2 fan, I feel like I have a sense of how their PR machine works. Rolling Stone magazine is their unofficial press release/puff piece dumpster. The Zoo TV revisit was mentioned in the subheader. The article was pushed to my phone today via Google News. The...