[..]Yeh, matter of taste. Maybe I've been unfairly put off the live version because I could never stand the album version (it's the only U2 song deleted from my iPod) and in fairness I've never even actually listened to it live. Given U2's usual ability to improve / change everything live perhaps I should.
Would you say it's any different to the album version?
Well, it's quite different.
First, the intro is amazing. Some Opera screams precede to the album intro, and then Larry comes with a different drum-beat. I love it. Edge sounds powerful and Bono.. Wow... Bono is great. The voice is more agressive, and the falsetto is fantastic. The performance of Daddys includes Bono dressing up as MacPhisto in his camerino...
My favourite moment of Daddys is when Bono goes out of the camerino and screams "Daddy's gonna paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy YEAH!!!" and then Edge comes with an industrial solo... Just before the "You've got a head full of traffic...you're a siren's song" part, which by the way is sung like some kind of Rap or so...
An the end of the song is amazing. The music stops and the Bono sings quietly "Daddy's gonna paaaay...For your... Crashed... Caaaar..." [and he applades himself ]
[..]Well, it's quite different.
First, the intro is amazing. Some Opera screams precede to the album intro, and then Larry comes with a different drum-beat. I love it. Edge sounds powerful and Bono.. Wow... Bono is great. The voice is more agressive, and the falsetto is fantastic. The performance of Daddys includes Bono dressing up as MacPhisto in his camerino...
My favourite moment of Daddys is when Bono goes out of the camerino and screams "Daddy's gonna paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy YEAH!!!" and then Edge comes with an industrial solo... Just before the "You've got a head full of traffic...you're a siren's song" part, which by the way is sung like some kind of Rap or so...
An the end of the song is amazing. The music stops and the Bono sings quietly "Daddy's gonna paaaay...For your... Crashed... Caaaar..." [and he applades himself ]
I love it.
You've made it sound so cool I'm going to have it a try and broaden my mind. I'll try and catch a look today...
[..]Well, it's quite different.
First, the intro is amazing. Some Opera screams precede to the album intro, and then Larry comes with a different drum-beat. I love it. Edge sounds powerful and Bono.. Wow... Bono is great. The voice is more agressive, and the falsetto is fantastic. The performance of Daddys includes Bono dressing up as MacPhisto in his camerino...
My favourite moment of Daddys is when Bono goes out of the camerino and screams "Daddy's gonna paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy YEAH!!!" and then Edge comes with an industrial solo... Just before the "You've got a head full of traffic...you're a siren's song" part, which by the way is sung like some kind of Rap or so...
An the end of the song is amazing. The music stops and the Bono sings quietly "Daddy's gonna paaaay...For your... Crashed... Caaaar..." [and he applades himself ]
I love it.
Perfect description of one of the clear highlights of the ZooTV tour. When I saw the DVD first, this moment was one of the most astonishing moments I ever had with a U2 song, it's simply great! Especially the part with the that confetti bombs Wooooooooow! And indeed that solo is great!
What a incredible performance this is!
Perfect description of one of the clear highlights of the ZooTV tour. When I saw the DVD first, this moment was one of the most astonishing moments I ever had with a U2 song, it's simply great! Especially the part with the that confetti bombs Wooooooooow! And indeed that solo is great!
What a incredible performance this is!
Once again we agree, man...
Originally posted by djrlewis:
You've made it sound so cool I'm going to have it a try and broaden my mind. I'll try and catch a look today...
Thanks for the info
You're absolutely welcome!! Glad to see you have an open-mind!! Great!!!
Are concerts ever played in Central Park, like Hyde Park in London? That would be an awesome setting for a u2 concert I reckon. The big space and the buildings in the background. It would be awesome if they played City of blinding lights in the middle of the city of blinding lights.
I remember they did a gig or a few songs under Brooklyn Bridge if I'm not mistaken. I'll have to download that if it's on here.
Are concerts ever played in Central Park, like Hyde Park in London? That would be an awesome setting for a u2 concert I reckon. The big space and the buildings in the background. It would be awesome if they played City of blinding lights in the middle of the city of blinding lights.
I remember they did a gig or a few songs under Brooklyn Bridge if I'm not mistaken. I'll have to download that if it's on here.
Yes, Central Park has had some very historical, famous concerts, usually FREE, including...
-Simon and Garfunkel reunited on 1981-09-19. Now on DVD (I think)
-Diana Ross 1983-07-22. The concert began on 1983-07-21 as a benefit concert, but a storm cut it short, so she decided, against the Mayor's wishes, to do it the next day for FREE. He complained about the costs to the city, so she wrote him a personal check for $250,000 to cover the cost.
-Garth Brooks 1997-08-07. HUGE concert aired live on HBO, estimated crowd 750.000. I remember watching very vividly.
-Dave Matthews Band 2003-09-24. I didn't go but many of my friends did. GREAT show on CD / DVD as "The Central Park Concert."
I agree, a U2 show would be very appropriate there, especially for something on the scale of PopMart.
But Brooklyn Bridge 2004-11-22. Great show! I was lucky to be there, home from university for Thanksgiving (huge traditional American holiday), and I heard about it in the same afternoon. The day before HTDAAB was released in the US. Here's the link, 8 songs are TV broadcast rips, 3 are good audience:
Memorable moments:
-Speech at the beginning of City of Blinding Lights, like you said, in the city of blinding lights. He mentions the first time U2 and Paul McGuinness came to the states. (This is not included, but I believe that during that experience, they got picked up in a limousine b/c Paul wanted that. I also think it was in that limo that they turned on the BLS radio station and heard Billie Holliday for the first time, the Angel of Harlem... "a cold and wet December day, when we touched the ground at JFK [JFK is an NYC airport], snow was melting on the ground, on BLS I heard the sound of an angel")
-Bono introduces "Original of the Species" and the crowd cheers. Bono says, "How do you know this shit? Edge, I think I know who found the CD."
-"Out of Control" was, well... out of control.
-"She's a Mystery to Me"
-If you have the video copy from either the MTV or DirecTV broadcast, you can see the back of my orange hat for 2 seconds during I Will Follow!!!
But Brooklyn Bridge 2004-11-22. Great show! I was lucky to be there, home from university for Thanksgiving (huge traditional American holiday), and I heard about it in the same afternoon. The day before HTDAAB was released in the US. Here's the link, 8 songs are TV broadcast rips, 3 are good audience:
-If you have the video copy from either the MTV or DirecTV broadcast, you can see the back of my orange hat for 2 seconds during I Will Follow!!!
Ah right, Never heared of concerts being played there before, perhaps u2 should consider it. Really? captured by the camera- that's awesome!.
Was that concert free and a relatively spontaneous gig?
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Was that concert free and a relatively spontaneous gig?
Free? Yes.
Relatively spontaneous? Yes... relatively.
The concert was held on a Monday night. As early as the previous Friday, I began to hear rumors by word of mouth, on local radio, on the Internet (atu2.com), that U2 was planning on doing a free "spontaneous" concert. The location was unclear, but the guess was Washington Square Park, an area in Manhattan about 20 minutes away from Brooklyn Bridge.
Monday morning on U2.com (does anybody remember the "new," primitive U2.com that was just a countdown to HTDAAB? followed by the image of Edge from the international Vertigo single?), they confirmed this rumor except it was Brooklyn Bridge instead. This was the same day they shot the All Because of You video on a flatbed truck running throughout Manhattan. Edge said, "This truck is like a mobile roof. We seem to do roofs very well."
Oh yeah, they announced the free gig for 3 pm... like typical fashion they didn't show up until way later, like 7pm or so , if I remember correctly? By the end it was definitely nightfall. Great, memorable experience though.
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Boston 2005-05-28 - best Vertigo encore. End of. If it's possible for someone to give this a remaster and bump it up from a 3 to a 4 star, would be brilliant
Great version of The Fly, BEST version of UTEOTW on the whole tour (including Bono putting on an Arny voice for "you know I love ze element of surprize" - absolutely classic), then into WGRYWH just like the days of ZooTV (even if Edge does some odd impro. on the solo, but nonetheless, the fact they gave a great song a great solo is good enough for me!), ABOY rocks the place, great versions of Yahweh and Party Girl and then to really kick everyone out with a hole in the head, a rip-roaring rendition of Vertigo.
What would've been nice on the Vertigo tour is rather than just the 'Achtung Baby' style encore they did (Zoo station/The Fly/Mysterious Ways) would've been to alternate it as and when they felt with a Pop Mart style encore say something like Mofo/Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me/Discotheque (I'd've put Please in there but I'm not sure if it'd fit at that point in the show. Particularly being so close to One)
Vertigo tour gets my vote as well generally, as they always seem to be quite varied and interesting.
Wooooooooow!
And indeed that solo is great!
, if I remember correctly? By the end it was definitely nightfall. Great, memorable experience though. 
