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For such a short tour Lovetown was pretty eventful wasn't it? Playing with BB King and his band, Bono losing his voice, shows being cancelled, Bomb scare in Sydney, director Richard Lowenstein filming three nights which still haven't seen the light of day the legendary Point Depot gigs, the New Years Eve Nights radio broadcast and finally Bono's 'dream it all up again' speech. Coming before the multi-media extravaganza of Zoo Tv its easy to forget just how important it was.
You can see the development of Bono's voice throughout the eighties, every tour his voice was becoming better and better, but it's also constantly changing, always evolving into something else, finally reaching it's natural peak with Lovetown. It had real warmth, richness and depth, clear as a bell, there's so much clarity to it, something he has never completely recaptured. He was such an explosive singer during this tour, so much raw power and emotion, he could have blown the audience out the stadium, a microphone was virtually optional for him his voice was so loud. The band seem better musicians too, they seem tighter than they did on JT, more in sync, one unit gelling.
Nowadays the band appear uncertain what to think about this tour, I think they feel it was a bit of a dead end, a cul-de-sac they went down they came back right out of a minute later. In U2 By U2 they devote only a half a page to it and don't even refer to it by name.
The 4 Dublin gigs plus the 4 Rotterdam gigs in early 1990 may be the best series of bootlegs in the U2 canon, they're incredible. Anyway I just thought I'd post some thoughts about it as it can get a bit overlooked.
You can see the development of Bono's voice throughout the eighties, every tour his voice was becoming better and better, but it's also constantly changing, always evolving into something else, finally reaching it's natural peak with Lovetown. It had real warmth, richness and depth, clear as a bell, there's so much clarity to it, something he has never completely recaptured. He was such an explosive singer during this tour, so much raw power and emotion, he could have blown the audience out the stadium, a microphone was virtually optional for him his voice was so loud. The band seem better musicians too, they seem tighter than they did on JT, more in sync, one unit gelling.
Nowadays the band appear uncertain what to think about this tour, I think they feel it was a bit of a dead end, a cul-de-sac they went down they came back right out of a minute later. In U2 By U2 they devote only a half a page to it and don't even refer to it by name.
The 4 Dublin gigs plus the 4 Rotterdam gigs in early 1990 may be the best series of bootlegs in the U2 canon, they're incredible. Anyway I just thought I'd post some thoughts about it as it can get a bit overlooked.