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U2 Go Home: Live From Slane Castle
IRELAND 2001
U2: Live At Red Rocks, Denver, Colorado
USA 1983
Popmart: Live From Mexico City
MEXICO 1997
iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE: Live in Paris
FRANCE 2015
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An emotional one for Bono too as his dad had just passed away a couple of weeks before. A magical night for sure.
I think Slane edges it (no pun intended) overall, but the versions of The Fly and Stay (Faraway, so close) on Boston makes that essential as well.
That Mexico Popmart show is excellent though. Towards the end of the run after they'd really got inside the songs and it's well worth a watch if anyone hasn't already.
If I had a time machine I'd spend years going to old U2 shows before I thought about anything else...
Wow! Very jealous! Wasn’t aware of the other Slane show either.
They changed the chords round - in the album version, the whole song is a-g-c-g until the final chorus, where it switches to c-g-a-g. In the live version they do it like the final chorus 3 times which kinda misses the point - it subverts that payoff. Honestly I don't think it's a great song, but I do like the guitar sound in the live version - recently built a clone of the Sobbat DB-1 inspired by it.
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A bit like this. That's not fun for me:
I did meet Edge briefly though at the hotel as were staying in the same hotel, the Lowry.
The venue staff also screwed up in letting people into the inner bit near the stage - they should have given passes to get into that area to the first X-thousand people through the doors, but they didn't and as it approached showtime, that inner bit was very sparsely populated, with massive crowds and pressure built up outside that. So... they just opened the gates. I seem to remember reading that one person's arm was broken in the stampede.
I was really trying to have a good time, but the choice was either get crushed to bits (and still not be close enough to see anything) or move back a bit and just be surrounded by people who paid £60 to stand with a shit warm beer talking over the music - and you're right, it was easy to just talk over because it wasn't that loud.
When I saw them at the indoor arena in Manchester, 2001, that was much better. And in 2009 in Sheffield, that was outdoors in a stadium but somehow had more atmosphere than the 2005 Manchester show. I think it might just have been a shit night.
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The two Manchester arena shows on the Elevation show were very special indeed.
That was a decent enough atmosphere...
I was at the last show of the Joshua Tree show in Mumbai just before the world shut down and it was mind-blowing. I was honestly in bits during Streets - just an absolute dream to hear that intro with that energy and the full red screen etc etc. That crowd was mixed, but the show was spectacular from start to finish.
And having seen half the crew wandering around the hotel (man-nod with chief of sound Joe O'Herlihy in the lift), we were at the table next to Adam Clayton for breakfast in the morning. Didn't chat as he was with his family, but seemed a lovely chap.
Met the band a bunch of times and they are extremely generous and humble blokes.