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  2. blegh nah. why play your best live song ever right at the beginning? it sure was a great opener, but i prefer it midset or as closer for the main set.
  3. Stingray = Best opener ever???... Maybe that's a little bold, having Mofo, Zoo Station, Streets and COBL as contenders, don't you think?
  4. I do like it and all and I welcome it as an opener. That Liam Gallagher swagger on a man his age though. I do like it though but Zoo Station and Mofo are Streets ahead.
  5. Originally posted by LikeASong:Stingray = Best opener ever???... Maybe that's a little bold, having Mofo, Zoo Station, Streets and COBL as contenders, don't you think?


    Stringray is better than COBL as an opener.

    I could never decide what's the best opener ever out of Mofo, Zoo Station and Streets.
  6. Have not seen Stingray live to judge, Vienna will change that, but have to say the current opener looks to me from the videos to be the poorest/weakest opener I have seen

    Best is close between ZOOTV and Pop imo.

  7. Originally posted by germcevoy:I do like it and all and I welcome it as an opener. That Liam Gallagher swagger on a man his age though. I do like it though but Zoo Station and Mofo are Streets ahead.


    Gallagher would spit in the audience. I would take my words with some salt though, just one week ago...
  8. Originally posted by dieder:[..]

    blegh nah. why play your best live song ever right at the beginning? it sure was a great opener, but i prefer it midset or as closer for the main set.


    Then the question remains for this current leg: why do they play their 'supposed best song EVER' right after an instrumental opener?

    Best live song ever for me (my opinion) is Love Is Blindness. I'd love for that to end the show; the lights flashing on Edge when he goes nuts on that solo. Either that or as soon as his solo ends, one drum beat with an incredibly loud cymbal and goes right into Bullet The Blue Sky or God Part II as the ender.

  9. At least you've assumed it
  10. Zoo Station open
    Love is Blindness Closer
  11. Turin. Production rehearsals.

    Groundhog day kicks in as everything starts to blur into one. We get out of bed and come to the stadium, spend the day trying to tick off as much as possible from the endless task list, then go from the stadium to our beds.

    Gavin Friday is with us and made an interesting proposal today. Back in February at a meeting in New York, Bono played me a mad instrumental piece with the suitably loopy title of The Return of the Stingray Guitar. I'd completely forgotten about it until Gav suggested that the band walk on stage to Space Oddity then play this piece live. Consequently, we found ourselves rehearsing yet another possible show opening. It's a completely mental piece of music - like Marc Bolan channelling Brian Eno on Juke Box Jury - and it sounds fantastic over the P.A. Bono was running round the outer ring chanting 'Torino...Torino...' and suddenly you could see that there was no way back.

    We rehearsed a new element for Walk On that replaces the Aung San Suu Kyi masks with lanterns for the walkers, and managed to run through all of the remaining songs to the end of the set.

    There's a new encore-break spaceship made by animator Run Wrake, who has worked on all the U2 tours since PopMart. It features two of his 'meat head' characters in a little flying saucer, coming home from the U2 360 show. In their tiny little craft, one of them is whistling Where the Streets Have No Name as they discuss the gig and how much their feet hurt, before being buzzed by the 360 Space Station stage flying past. The characters speak in machine noise with subtitles, so it's all very pleasantly daft and gets funnier every time you watch it.

    We were due to programme late again and might well have gone til dawn, but fortunately the generator blew up at 3.30am, so we had to go home.


    Blame Gavin


  12. It's ok with me, I quite like Stingray as an opener...what annoys me is the following song in the setlist ("Beautiful BORE" )
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