1983-05-30 - Devore, California - Glen Helen Regional Park


setlist

  1. Gloria
  2. I Threw A Brick Through A Window
  3. A Day Without Me / Dear Prudence (snippet)
  4. An Cat Dubh
  5. Into The Heart
  6. New Year's Day
  7. Surrender
  8. Two Hearts Beat As One / Let's Twist Again (snippet)
  9. Sunday Bloody Sunday
  10. The Cry
  11. The Electric Co. / Send In The Clowns (snippet) / California, Here I Come (snippet)

  12. encore(s):
  13. I Will Follow
  14. 40 / Give Peace A Chance (snippet)
Performance notes: 'US Festival' - Line up includes Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul, Berlin, Quarterflash, Missing Persons, The Pretenders, Joe Walsh, Stevie Nicks, and David Bowie
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songs per album

  1. War (5)
  2. Boy (5)
  3. October (2)

best song performances

  1. A Day Without Me (8 votes)
  2. An Cat Dubh (4 votes)
  3. The Electric Co. (4 votes)

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review by clover68

10 years ago

Performance

2 3 4 and lets go for a breathless ride. Since the first notes, the first shout of Gloria the boys give it all to you .. impressive load of energy since the start of the concert .. no time for rescue a bit that Larry threw a brick through a window .. of course the rhythm goes down a bit but not the intensity .. Larry and Adam incessant in covering Edge phrasings.
Again no time to breathe A Day Without Me is launched to the faces .. nice Bono strumming while doing what he does best .. and he does he does .. wonderful little insert of Dear Prudence.
Just the time for Bono to say they're not the usual British fashion band they're Irish and come to stay for long time .. maybe forever .. oh Bono how right you was, and the sinous black cat comes out in the form of the singer accompanied by the other all very well doing their duty. As usual An Cat Dubh leads to the sweet Into the Heart where we love to stay a while
Thank you and the unmistakable pressing bass announce New Years Day .. wonderful lines by Edge on the powerful carpet laid by the rhytmic section .. awesome interpretation .. they play “U2 music” and the crowd can’t do anything else but Surrender to them at this point.
Great Bono in keeping on drawing people along every time he can .. impressive considering what he’s doing on vocals since time 0 of the show .. considerable Edge backing him.
Two Hearts Beat As One on Larry's beat .. Bono can't stop to dance and the crowd too i take it for sure … how they can't .. the song flows engaging towards one of the funniest snippet with Bono joking with not knowing the words of Let's Twist Again.
Things become serious now for Sunday Bloody Sunday .. flawless one with all the feelings that it carries along .. emozional .. well it's Sunday .. nothing less.
The cry to a very pulled and extended The Electric Co. With the band doing somersaults to permit Bono to climb the stage structure carrying the white flag with him .. from up there the snippets … awesome!!!
That took a sure wash head by McGuinnes i guess before sending the boys for the encore.
They still have it all for a rocking rousing I Will Follow .. nobody want to walk away everybody to follow.
Usual instruments Exchange for the closer '40' leading people to the end .. with an almost without breath snippet of Give Peace a Chance.


Sound

Great soundboard even for the period; all instruments perfectly clear; maybe guitar sometimes a bit distant but it's irrelevant

Audience

Being a soundboard there's not much to say about .. barely listenable .. not crowd fault though

Overall

An impressive breathless ride. The boys didn’t have too much time and they didn't waste a second. They put more than what they had (and we know how much it is) in this short festival set. Great set great perfomance great energy great mood .. everything great .. U2 at the top!
One concert that plot the history of the band.

Highlights: from Gloria to '40'


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