Originally posted by popmarter:[..]
No you're incorrect they first played it on the Popmart tour in Sarajevo which was nearly 6 months into the tour an Edge acapella version which lets face it wasn't what most ppl wanted .Going back further it was only played 39 times out of a possible 156 on the Zoo tv tour and wasn't played at all on the Lovetown tour .
Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
It wasn’t played at every show on 360 but possibly missed just the one I’ve previously mentioned at Brussels.
Originally posted by Welsh_Edge:[..]
Being incredibly picky: That exact guitar has only been used for Little Things, no Mofo/Zoo Station. The original one was sold for $298,000-ish
Originally posted by popmarter:The band really need to start extending the shows GnR were doing 3-4 hours a night on a 2 year tour recently and playing minimum 35 songs nobody left feeling short changed .U2 have such an impressive back catalogue that they could easily do a 30 song setlist although highly unlikely as they seem to like the less is more approach while charging top dollar but I think they will need to take a dramatically different approach on this tour for it to work some of the old stalwards need to be given a rest and bring in some old gems such as Discoteque,The Fly ,Love is Blindness, Gloria Desire ,if the show has too much SOE and SOI it could be a disaster but usually they know how to make it work and have a balance that pleases most.
Originally posted by popmarter:[..]
Absolutely not there's a reason Please hasn't been played in 20 years bar one or two occasions and that's because most ppl don't wanna hear it.U2 mostly play what works and appeals to most at the gig not to appease a few die hard who wanna hear obscure songs that are gonna drag the show down.Any album that didn't do well in the US is never played live anymore No line and POP were duds state side not that they were bad songs but the Americans just didn't get it hence their refusal to play them unfortunately .
Originally posted by WideAwakeBadBoy:[..]
Ahh you're right!! I really love that story, where les Paul re-created the guitar with all the scratches and dents etc and sent it to the edge without him knowing about it (over simplified but it's a long story with nerdy guitar bits and quite off topic) But I had forgotten about that, was it not used for NYD on TJT 2017??
Originally posted by maartenpetra:Doesn't anaybody read this from U2 songs: Bono has spoken about The Joshua Tree marking the end of innocence for the band, and everything that came next was experience. The Innocence and Experience tour featured a lot of earlier songs, and The Joshua Tree 2017 tour was set up with early songs to start the shows, then The Joshua Tree, and then more recent material after. * If the focus of this tour is more on the Experience era, that would be the material that came after The Joshua Tree.* In Rolling Stone, The Edge mentioned that he would like to play songs from Songs of Innocence again, and that they may take a break from the material from The Joshua Tree. So I guess songs of the 80's era are finished. It's a pitty. Maybe starting from R&H songs like Desire, hopefully. But I'm also in for The Fly.
Originally posted by ferrari:I hope U2 will play for about 2,5 hours. +25 songs, a good mix of SOE and SOI and 10 consisting of POP, AB, ATYCLB, HTDAB, NLOTH. But knowing U2, this is wishful thinking.
But I also hope they don't choose the easy way and will play more rarly heared songs. Originally posted by snortier:[..]
I think this makes sense and will make E+I more about AB, POP, ATYCLB, Vertigo and NLOTH....so a lot of songs to choose from...
Originally posted by Ricku2:[..]
On I+E they only played 4 songs from the pre Joshua Tree era (including SBS and Pride) on the opening night, so I'm not sure that whole Innocence and Experience thing makes a big difference.
