Originally posted by INCA:[..]
Disagree, It was played every night on the Elevation tour unless All I want Is You was played. That never got dull.
Originally posted by INCA:[..]
Disagree, It was played every night on the Elevation tour unless All I want Is You was played. That never got dull.
Originally posted by Bloodraven:amazing write-ups Paul!
One thing though, SBS and RBW are not about the same event, although they've adapted SBS in this tour to it for narrative purposes. Either way your point is still equally valid.
Originally posted by AllBecauseOfU2:[..]
Paul - where were you sitting? I sat next to a gentleman last night who fits your description and who videotaped a lot - we spoke, but I never got his name.
Originally posted by pllsaph:[..]
I was in Loge 14, Row 11, Seats 11 & 12. I didn't video anything, but took a ton of pictures. It was a GREAT section. Two women behind me were long-time die-hard fans, one of them flew up from D.C. In the row in front of me, a few seats over was another guy who was pretty crazy, maybe even as crazy as me. Kept High-5ing me every time they started into a new song
If you were behind me, I was the guy who knew the set list inside and out and sat down right at intermission, because I knew it was intermission
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Paul
Originally posted by AllBecauseOfU2:Unbelievable show last night. I’m still recovering. I’ll remember last night for both the show itself and the atmosphere. Here’s some of the more interesting things I can remember:
The first few songs made me wish I had seen them when they were just starting out, or had seen them in an intimate club gig. I’ve never seen Electric Co. live until last night, and it was the one song I really hoped the played. I can see why Bono used to climb things during it – it just makes you want to jump or crowd surf or something.
In my dreamsI was drowning my sorrows, I want to stand by myself in an empty arena and have Edge play just the chorus to Cedarwood Road over and over again to me.
I fell asleep standing up during Snooze for SomeoneSong for Someone has…a nice little Edge solo.
EBTTRT remix is a stomper and so. Much. Fun.
Edge did this deep back bend while he played on the E stage at some point, I think during Elevation.
Ordinary Love is beautiful.Too bad they didn’t play Stuck.
My section went nuts for Bullet.
There was a huge close up on the screen of just Edge’s guitar, all in black and white, while he did the solo.
Bad. Holy shit. Bono did the Moment of Surrender snippet and my heart stopped. Then the backing track started and I went nuts. I don’t care if it was the worst or best version of it – it’s so powerful live, more powerful than Streets for me last night.
We booed Bono when he thanked the big companies like Starbucks. They showed his reaction on the screen: he grinned and shrugged, and I think he said something like, “Well, you guys are honest.”
The One sing-a-long was nice – but 40 was the kicker. A huge part of the crowd kept singing “How long to sing this song” as we walked out of the Garden into the street. Unbelievable.
There were a lot of longtime fans – I saw a lot of vintage UF and JT Tour t-shirts.
There were other little things that were great, but I can’t remember right now. It was just a really fun and energetic atmosphere all around – and an amazing show. I’m still having withdrawals.