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― 29 facepalms, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 13:05 (eight years ago) link
^ They have extra musicians under the stage generally.
― 29 facepalms, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 13:06 (eight years ago) link
i think it's just an extra keyboardist on some few songs and mostly triggered loops and samples
― ufo, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 13:13 (eight years ago) link
Pretty sure I saw a documentary with an extra guitarist too, cant find it on youtube.
― 29 facepalms, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 13:17 (eight years ago) link
I listened to an in-ear-monitor intecept bootleg of one of their shows once, it was the Edge's headset and it was full of count in's and other directions, if those guys need all that just to be able to remember their boring music they must be dummies.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:09 (eight years ago) link
dunno if I'd say U2 are the dummies in that scenario
― Number None, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:15 (eight years ago) link
Not remembering U2 songs feels like a p good survival strategy for being in U2 for 30 odd years
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:15 (eight years ago) link
This is Bono's in-ear monitor from a 2010 show:https://youtu.be/1KWgayvG52c
I don't really understand it. He wrote the song, he sings the song frequently; is it really necessary to have someone saying "verse...1,2,3,4" to come in at the right time?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:21 (eight years ago) link
Zoo TV live broadcast showed a bunch of guitarists and a keyboardist or two under the stage.
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:22 (eight years ago) link
Here's one from Edge's iem:https://youtu.be/vYt0LKuL2Po
I'd think it would be insanely distracting to hear "EDGE 2, 3, 4" and "SOLO 2, 3, 4." Maybe everything is so tightly cued to the visuals that even the slightest deviation (or a spontaneous "Hey guys, let's drag this intro out another 4 bars so Bono can prattle on about something") could throw everything off?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:24 (eight years ago) link
The drummer plays to a tight click, what else is required? (is kinda my point, I guess)
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link
Can't find an IEM feed of Adam's, perhaps it's just the cash register loop from Money
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:33 (eight years ago) link
Ha.
I imagine all the guitar delay alone makes in-ear count-offs and the like pretty important. Factor in visual cues and running around and it could be a disaster without guidance. Playing arenas is probably the least ideal set-up for any band, let alone one defined by the sound of guitars echoing around.
Anyway, those in-ear monitors intercepts are cool. Here's one I just found with the Red Hot Shitty Peppers, from John's in-ear, which is funny, because it basically sounds like the band minus Kiedis and plus extra guitar and John vox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCKtaKmg6fs
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:48 (eight years ago) link
If they are playing to a click the delays on the guitar will be simply tempo synched to the pulse, with Dallas Schoo or whoever under the stage punching between presets for each song and section of a song.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 15:23 (eight years ago) link
U2 touring "The Joshua Tree" in its entirety this summer. I like the album, but snooze of an idea, and also, they've picked what could be the lamest slate of opening acts (like they need one) imaginable: Mumford & Sons, Lumineers and OneRepublic.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 January 2017 15:30 (seven years ago) link
I would be excited for this if it was "U2 tours the first side of The Joshua Tree"
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 9 January 2017 15:45 (seven years ago) link
Silly idea, shows a complete lack of faith in their new material, please call it a day.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Monday, 9 January 2017 15:47 (seven years ago) link
in fairness, have you heard their new material?
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 9 January 2017 15:49 (seven years ago) link
Yes. I'd have a complete lack of faith in it, too!
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Monday, 9 January 2017 15:50 (seven years ago) link
Each set will be twenty versions of "Trip Through Your Wires" and then they leave without acknowledging the crowd.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 January 2017 15:56 (seven years ago) link
haha that would be awesome
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 9 January 2017 15:59 (seven years ago) link
Tbf, their last tour leaned very heavy on the new album nobody wanted. Like, 7 or 8 songs, I think. So they have faith in their new material, I think they just currently lack new material. Bono's got to eat, and Edge has to keep up those Malibu estate payments.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 January 2017 16:02 (seven years ago) link
have they done the same thing with "Achtung Baby" or is it the first time they do that kind of things ?If so, I predict numerous tours in the coming years !
when did this trend of playing only one album during a tour start ?The first example I have in mind is Brian Wilson/Pet sounds but maybe it was done before...
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 9 January 2017 16:04 (seven years ago) link
I mean, not in the case of bands or artist who only have one album or just play the latest released album, of course !I mean play an older album with all the tracks in the same order, etc.
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 9 January 2017 16:06 (seven years ago) link
they've picked what could be the lamest slate of opening acts (like they need one) imaginable: Mumford & Sons, Lumineers and OneRepublic.
Here's who they had (at various stops) on the original Joshua Tree tour: Lone Justice, The Pretenders, Big Audio Dynamite, UB40, Little Steven, The BoDeans, Mason Ruffner, World Party, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Spear of Destiny, The Waterboys, Hurrah!, Los Lobos, Buckwheat Zydeco, The Pogues, The Alarm, The Silencers, and Lou Reed.
― how's life, Monday, 9 January 2017 16:10 (seven years ago) link
I was just thinking the other day about how they had Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy and Primus open for them on the Achtung Baby tour.
― how's life, Monday, 9 January 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link
public enemy and the sugarcubes opened the dodger stadium achtung baby show i saw
― tylerw, Monday, 9 January 2017 16:12 (seven years ago) link
xps: the one time i saw them, which was on the tour before that, we got the gloriously dirgesome Belfegore
― NickB, Monday, 9 January 2017 16:14 (seven years ago) link
Heh, there's an air of "let's not pick a support act that's going to show us up" about those selections. U2 clearly don't want to end up on ILM's "blew off the stage" thread.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Monday, 9 January 2017 16:15 (seven years ago) link
The first big concert I ever saw was The Joshua Tree tour in Philly, at the Spectrum, in 1987, I think. Opening was some dude named Mason Ruffner.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 January 2017 16:18 (seven years ago) link
xpost there he is, in your list! My man, Mason Ruffner.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 January 2017 16:19 (seven years ago) link
Primus and Disposable Heroes opened the Achtung Baby stop I saw, iirc. I've subsequently seen PJ Harvey and Garbage open up for U2. The latter's amps blew up and they had the crowd sing along with Beatles songs while they replaced them, I think.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 January 2017 16:22 (seven years ago) link
i saw the trompe-le-monde-era pixies; they did not blow U2 off the stage
― mookieproof, Monday, 9 January 2017 16:24 (seven years ago) link
http://tours.atu2.com/opening/this-heat
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Monday, 9 January 2017 16:27 (seven years ago) link
on the popmart tour in Chicago they had Fun Lovin Criminals open, which for a show in a football stadium was just a bit underwhelming.
― nomar, Monday, 9 January 2017 16:28 (seven years ago) link
not sure how this is much different than any other anniversary tour in recent years, cf underworld and springsteen or whoever. also i think the last album that everyone owns in virus format is actually vv good.
― nomar, Monday, 9 January 2017 16:32 (seven years ago) link
Wish I had seen them in Rotterdam with Einstürzende Neubauten opening
― MaresNest, Monday, 9 January 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link
I saw them on the Joshua Tree tour. That was at their peak of popularity in the US. The problem with the show, as I recall, was that everybody in the arena sang along with every word at the top of their lungs, and it was hard to hear the actual band.
They sang 40 all the way to the parking lot, it was a little creepy.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 9 January 2017 16:42 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnxLhKfZ1x4
― MaresNest, Monday, 9 January 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link
^ Talking about their one support date with U2
― MaresNest, Monday, 9 January 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link
excited for bono updating the spoken-word bit in 'bullet the blue sky' for 2k17
― mookieproof, Monday, 9 January 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
Now there is a roster of Greenpeace compilation CD artists.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 9 January 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
― kornrulez6969, Monday, January 9, 2017 11:42 AM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I saw them on that tour too, the same week they were on the cover of Time. The crowd wouldn't shut up. Bono gave a lengthy introduction to Peggy Seeger's "Springhill Mining Disaster," and talked about the 1984-85 British miners strike. After the first verse, Bono said to the crowd, "Shut up for a second, willya? It's not the Beatles up here, it's just U2."
Ah, here it is, at 1:04:43https://youtu.be/zviYtGNNWgs
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 9 January 2017 17:03 (seven years ago) link
Saw them once in 1993, Rotterdam, with Utah Saints as support act.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 9 January 2017 17:09 (seven years ago) link
When I saw them in Paris for the "Achtung Baby" tour, the opening act was... the velvet underground !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 9 January 2017 17:10 (seven years ago) link
Waht
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 9 January 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link
Did they blow U2 off the stage?
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Monday, 9 January 2017 17:12 (seven years ago) link
well, it was in the racecourse and obviously, the sound was lousy.you could hear the songs but the crowd didn't really get into it.I'm still glad I can say I saw the VU live !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 9 January 2017 17:19 (seven years ago) link
is it wrong that i am already looking forward to the 30th anniversary tour of bono's classic jam session with tinariwen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqh6x29bc64
― NickB, Monday, 9 January 2017 17:22 (seven years ago) link
please god let us all live that long
― NickB, Monday, 9 January 2017 17:23 (seven years ago) link