Originally posted by MWSAH:I don't care...if they can't do it without, they can't do it without.
That's what buggers me. I think they could do most stuff without if they dared to. They'd just have to strip a few layers of sound and risk that some will complain about it "not sounding exactly like on record". Why does it have to sound like on record? It doesn't. It's live. It's rock.
At the very least least they should put their additional musicians on stage. Hiding them is ridiculous and cowardly. These guys are around 50 by now, they shouldn't behave that childish. Could an additional musician on stage draw some attention to himself that Bono and the others prefer attracted to themselves? Bono's statements "the show is how we four interact" seem to imply that conclusion. That's poor. The Alarm and Big Country always had their keyboard sidemen visibly on the side or in the back of the stage.
So they have click tracks, IEM, teleprompters, loops, pre- recorded samples AND additional musicians hidden behind some curtains. Well, if U2 are still a great live rock band they find their ways to disguise themselves as self- centered stage pretenders with little confidence in their real abilities and little respect for their audience. Trying to continually fool their concert audiences doesn't add to their credibility, and it doesn't support their christian and humanistic efforts.
C'mon boys, you can do better than that. We know it, you know it. Now go and do it.
Alex
