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2018-05-22 - Chicago
 Tour: Experience and Innocence tour
Songs played: 26
Audio recordings: 1
  1. This tour reminds me of the 360 tour when they opened with Breathe and really pushed songs from NLOTH in 2009 .. it never really worked in my opinion and crowed wasn't full on in. .. After the broken back incident and the 20th anniversary of AB they came back and played a real Rock and Roll show in 2011..Opened with Even Better and had the crowed the whole time. They need someone to slap some sense into them .. maybe a fall off the stage will help.
  2. Originally posted by blueeyedboy:[..]
    haha... if i complained out loud about my birthday gifts i woulda gotten a backhand to the back of my head for not being grateful!
    oh, totally, but if someone really wants to complain, at least complain when the gifts are for you, not for others


  3. oh dear, wrong again Jagger is 74, bono 58. so 16 years ago the stones were doing a tour that swapped between theatres, arenas and stadiums and varyong the set every night.

    https://www.iorr.org/tour02/index.htm
  4. A suggestion:

    How about if instead of broadcasting tonight's live show, we substitute it with a set list party of a ZOO TV show in Chicago?
    And we do the same for every show the rest of the tour. Instead of linking to a mixlr or the live e+i show, broadcast at the same time of the show, the following ZOO TV tour show.

    We never had the chance of following U2 at their best, so why not now?
    If someone wants to listen to the new-live show, we could perfectly find a mixlr or periscope in twitter, is really not that hard, so it would be better if we had the chance to listening to something more interesting instead.

    Let's just follow the ZOO TV tour, one show at a time, on every night when there's a live show.

    Honest suggestion, really think it would be a good addition.



  6. Ugh... why the need to compare them? if someone wants to watch the Stones, go watch the Stones, if someone wants to watch Taylor Swift, go watch Taylor Swift, if someone wants to watch U2, go watch U2...

    It's like saying "but a subway has ham and a big mac doesn't!" or trying to counter that with "but a subway sometimes doesn't have ham either!"... it just doesn't even make sense!
  7. Can we just start a "Blah Blah Blah - My Turn on the Soapbox" topic?
  8. Yeah fair enough I’ll stop with it. I think it’s inevitable that other bands sometimes come into the discussion though. People do like to compare it’s not a big deal to me I just know who I prefer.
  9. Reading the comments, I can see both sides of the argument. As a hardcore fan who listens to SOE at least once or twice a week, I am incredibly happy that they are playing the new material and ditching classics like Streets or WOWY. Having said that, I attended last nights concert with my husband and brother who are more casual fans and I can tell that they were confused by the production and setlist. It appeared that a big chunk of the crowd was also confused as I was in the GA and people were just standing there not reacting.

    I doubt that U2 will change the setlist/performance. But in my opinion some things that might help:

    I think the start of the show kills the energy. When the lights go off, people are expecting the band, instead we get just Bono doing Love is All We Have Left. The song itself is unusual but then we go to Blackout where the band is behind the screen for 2/3rds of the song. I would instead have the lights go off at the arena, play or have Bono sing LIAWHL behind the screen then reveal the entire band at the beginning of Blackout-- not behind any screens. I also find the transition to Lights of Home following Blackout to be strange. Blackout is a high energy song whereas LOH is not. I would move LOH until much later in the set, maybe after Vertigo? or Acrobat?. I think Blackout should be followed by Your'e the Best Thing, the original version. While I like the acoustic version of Best Thing I think the original version makes more sense live. Another alternative would be Summer of Love after Blackout. SOL is such a danceable/energy song that would fit in after Blackout. I am not sure why they have not played it live. Instead of Best Thing acoustic I would have The Little Things in its spot. Voted as a fan favorite and my absolute favorite on SOE, I am perplexed as to why they have not performed this song on this tour. I also think 13 is a strange way to end the show. Love is Bigger is such an uplifting song that in my opinion would be a better way to end the show. I would switch the order and have 13 follow One then end with Love is Bigger. As much as I love Iris, I would replace Ocean and Iris with something else. I understand that they are a very important part of the narrative in the show but I find it slightly repetitive from SOI tour. Perhaps they could replace those songs with some casual fan friendlier songs. I would also vote for doing the regular version of SBS. Finally, I am also not sure why they stopped performing, Horses especially after they released a clip of them rehearsing it.
  10. Why can't they deliver something like Bad into So Cruel, as an example? Do it on the second show of Chicago. They would blow us away. Why not? Lazy F****!
  11. Originally posted by BonoVox05:Why can't they deliver something like Bad into So Cruel, as an example? Do it on the second show of Chicago. They would blow us away. Why not? Lazy F****!
    Why are they doing the show they want to do instead of the show I want them to do?!

    Surely because they're lazy fuckers, that's why, off course.
  12. Originally posted by BonoVox05:[..]
    That's fine, but i saw U2 in their prime. Now, they are miles away from that. I don't blame them, but it's still a fact. At least to me. There is no energy anymore, they just play down their set, that's it. I could drive to Berlin in about one and a half hour, but i wont, i can't stand this old daddy rock show. I don't wont to see a musical, at least, not from U2.


    I've been to the two Cologne shows in 2015 and the energy level was as high as one could whish, two of the most intense concert experiences I ever experienced.

    Then in 2017, at the first Rome show, the first four songs blew me away and I thought "wow, there's more energy here than I ever experienced in a stadium before". I couldn't see a damn thing, but the crowd was so into it, it was so intense - I'm lost for words.
    Later during those shows (I've been to both Rome shows and Barcelona) the whole stadium went nuts during Elevation and Vertigo. Absolutely nuts, pure madness.

    So maybe those first shows of a tour in the U.S. are not the ones one should judge the tour by, nor U2's ability "to create" a great concert experience.

    (I hope you get what I want to say, I'm german - and my grammar might be horrible as well).
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