Originally posted by blueeyedboy:I think it's impossible to even reach a happy medium with the extensive catalog they have... Keeping diehards and casuals both happy is hard enough... but as diehards it might be just as tough. For this tour, the die hard and purist in me wants to be like TJT87. Boy through Joshua Tree. Like it's all that you have. Just as it was then... That would be the ultimate i/e tour - immaculate/experience.
Originally posted by dogpole:[..]
I keep coming back to 'who is this tour really aimed at'. I think more for the diehards than the casuals, so hoping for the rarities rather than Elevation or Vertigo.
I saw it first time round so looking forward to it all.
Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
I don't know I think this tour is probably more aimed at the casuals than any tour they've ever done. It's a celebration of there highest selling album. If it was a zooropa or pop tour then yeah that would be for the die hard fans only but I don't know about this one. That's not a complaint though, I think ultimately no matter who it's aimed at we'll still get a fair balance in the setlist of 'album tracks' as I like to call them (some of u2's best work), and singles. I'd rather hear zoo station over elevation or the fly instead of vertigo or heartland instead of beautiful day but I can accept that they've got a job to do to entertain everyone.
Originally posted by Soundwall:[..]
Me too, they have to entertain everyone. And i think they always did a decent job. Ask 100 fans, they all would give a different answer for a song that would bring the set list alive. Personaly i would love to hear Heartland. I think even if they play it a little different, fans will be totaly cool with this. Or maybe spotlight on Edge for "Running to stand still"?
But they can stand on a wooden box and wear PY's: "And i will always love U2"..........
Originally posted by Soundwall:[..]
Me too, they have to entertain everyone. And i think they always did a decent job. Ask 100 fans, they all would give a different answer for a song that would bring the set list alive. Personaly i would love to hear Heartland. I think even if they play it a little different, fans will be totaly cool with this. Or maybe spotlight on Edge for "Running to stand still"?
But they can stand on a wooden box and wear PY's: "And i will always love U2"..........
Originally posted by blueeyedboy:[..]
It'll be like always. Diehards have the GA and hold the floor. Casuals and those there to be seen pay for seats.
Originally posted by dougman23:It's a show for both, but a show that is, by nature, more geared to the diehards just in the fact that they are playing a 2nd side (remember those?) of songs that they would NEVER play in another circumstance. The casuals might be "Wooo...Joshua Tree. Remember that night at Jenny's house? I love that album", but they are really talking about the big 3 songs. They will be a bit confused when One Tree Hill kicks in. But they are also used to that "huh?" feeling at every show they go to because they always only know the hits.
I am in a small, small minority of U2 die hards I guess in that I don't like Zooropa at all. I feel like it was a bad B side throwaway, so there is my Bono breaking wind example. I loved AB, and I loved Pop. But Zooropa was the equivalent of the band breaking wind to me. To each their own...
Originally posted by dougman23:[..]
being 5'8", I have only done GA twice. Elevation, right on the ring, and Vertigo Phoenix (I had seats for Vertigo Vegas). And, to be fair, I was on the floor for Zoo TV, but there were seats for that.
I like seats. Because I like to see. But I do miss the energy of the floor. I am just afraid of an experience like Vertigo Phoenix, where I paid for floor (and the floor is getting more expensive every tour) and wound up never getting a really solid view. My wife is 5'4" on a good day, so we both have the problem. Went to see Frank Turner at a club with my daughter (5'0") this last winter and it was a joke with me being the "tall" one leading the way
Originally posted by dougman23:It's a show for both, but a show that is, by nature, more geared to the diehards just in the fact that they are playing a 2nd side (remember those?) of songs that they would NEVER play in another circumstance. The casuals might be "Wooo...Joshua Tree. Remember that night at Jenny's house? I love that album", but they are really talking about the big 3 songs. They will be a bit confused when One Tree Hill kicks in. But they are also used to that "huh?" feeling at every show they go to because they always only know the hits.
I am in a small, small minority of U2 die hards I guess in that I don't like Zooropa at all. I feel like it was a bad B side throwaway, so there is my Bono breaking wind example. I loved AB, and I loved Pop. But Zooropa was the equivalent of the band breaking wind to me. To each their own...