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California

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California

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Arizona

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review by djrlewis

15 years ago

Performance

At times, there were some good bits. Best for me was the performance of Miami. Bizarre choice, as regular readers may know this is one of my least favourite songs. But this is the first time ever I haven't skipped the song and it wasn't because I was listening to it for the round table.

A lot of the songs were average. They just seemed to lack bounce and vitality. Not bad, but not good either for the bar that this band sets themselves. Bono seemed to keep needing to reassure himself that they were doing ok ("I like San Diego", "Are we doing alright?", "Can you hear us ok" etc). This has probably got a lot to do with the car crash that was Las Vegas the gig before (he even says at one point "Did you see what we brought you from Las Vegas?! This is like our first real show"). I couldn't work out if they genuinely felt it went ok or were just trying to convince the audience and themselves.
I liked the drums for Sunday Bloody Sunday at the end of Please too, but wasn't sure if this was intentional on Larry's part or a mistake? It didn't flow with the transition to Streets particularly well.

Bad points

Mofo - much prefer the arrangement used later in the tour,this was a weak start.
I Will Follow - Did Bono remember any of the words except I, Will & Follow?!
Do You Feel Loved? - A poor live song; love it on the album, glad they dropped it here
If God Will Send His Angels - Ditto
Staring At The Sun - worked better acoustic I think (but at least they performed it ok).

Generally Bono seemed to forget the words to nearly everything. His ad libbing was good occasionally and just poor at other times. The Edge made a couple of mistakes, missed vital riffs in Please certainly that I noticed but overall the rest of the band seemed solid.

Sound

was on an iPod again and found the sound to range from very good to really quite poor. Some bits were very quiet (Do You Feel Loved, Mofo), other bits much better (later in the show).

Audience were intrusive at times and flat as a pancake a lot of the time (compare to the European and South American crowds)

I would personally rate it as 3.5 stars, not the 4 it gets here.
Recording: Audience microphone - 2.5 stars

Audience

This part is only rated, not commented on

Overall

It wasn't as bad as I was expecting. Not as good, by a long way, as they can and should be but not the total failure that other members of this forum and the U2 fanbase at large have written it off as. They still knock the socks off most other live acts even with an average gig like this. Trouble is they set the bar so high for themselves and us as fans that these sorts of things become more obvious and therefore less accepted. I can guarantee that had I been there and you add in the visuals etc that I would have been happy. Happier at other gigs later in the tour, but happy non the less.
That not with-standing, it will be a one time listen on my iPod and will be coming off. But it will stay on my iTunes library.

I hope the rest of you didn't completely hate it and got some value from it. Bring on the Joshua Tree next week.

all reviews

show	performance	audience	sound	overall
djrlewis
Ali709
fenderman
germcevoy
ReclinerMan
dynamotour
KieranU2
patou2
udoi
cesar_garza01
aintmybeef
iTim