Originally posted by LikeASong:By the way, Harry, thanks for poiting out Vertigo, BD, etc... but I was actually thinking of "older" songs, until 1997 at maximum. It's normal that they have retained BD's original key or even Vertigo (even though I believe it was dropped to Eb sometimes? Might be wrong again, huh...), after all they've been performed in "just" two or three tours... But I was wondering about older tours, with 4 or more tours. Pride has changed, NYD has changed, Streets has (surprisingly for me) changed, SBS has changed, that kind of stuff. Maybe 40 is the only one (and Party Girl, as I told on the original post) who has retained its original key ever since...
Virtually 100% certain they've never changed key for Vertigo, but yeah I know stuff like BD were fairly safe in staying the same etc.
like I said at the time, I was just thinking 'out loud' on here, so to speak. NYD? I'm pretty much certain that NYD's never changed, fairly sure it's always been in Ab minor, so actually that would be one example of a song that's always retained the same key both live and on the album, i.e. one that has stayed the same throughout. That said, if anyone's got proof to the contrary, fair dues lol, but I'm pretty much absolutely certain it's never been subject to a key change because it wasn't until the Elevation tour that they started using guitars in standard tuning on stage. Everything was in Eb tuning apart from Edge's alternative tuning for Unforgettable Fire, I'm pretty much confident on that? 