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  1. Well, perhaps they should just give it a try! What can they loose?

  2. Ahem, Elevation & Lovetown? It's not like those tours had a particular theme, it was just different forms of rock'n'roll being played out, and great it was too.
    Originally posted by gavinfriday:ever seen a Springsteen concert? No theme, no frills, just 3 hours of pure rock, 30 songs in a row. It wouldbe really innovative for our boys to play such a show

    How could it be innovative if someone's already done it beforehand lol?
  3. Originally posted by WojBhoy:[..]
    Ahem, Elevation & Lovetown? It's not like those tours had a particular theme, it was just different forms of rock'n'roll being played out, and great it was too.
    [..]
    How could it be innovative if someone's already done it beforehand lol?


    Springsteen is great, but most of the shows are a bit the same and some of his songs are not that great live.
  4. Originally posted by WojBhoy:[..]
    Ahem, Elevation & Lovetown? It's not like those tours had a particular theme, it was just different forms of rock'n'roll being played out, and great it was too.
    [..]
    How could it be innovative if someone's already done it beforehand lol?


    Are you studying law at uni Harry?

  5. Society Culture and Media actually lol...I don't mean to nitpick, but sometimes I can't help myself
  6. Originally posted by dieder:[..]

    Springsteen is great, but most of the shows are a bit the same and some of his songs are not that great live.


  7. I'd like another elevation-like theme, guess that might be the most possible.

    another spectacle a la zoo tv would be great, of course, but I don't know whether they can pull something like that off again who knows.


  8. SOME of the songs. Don't get me wrong, I'm very keen on his work. But a U2-concert has so much more to offer than just playing great songs.
  9. I'd also go for the Elevation / Lovetown - "Theme" . Even the Vertigo tour with the "Boy"-references and the big political lean was cool. Just don't let get Bono on a preaching tour. As much as I love what he's doing, it was sometimes a bit too much preaching at the concerts if you know what I mean.

    But what the heck....as long as they play BAD and ONE TREE HILL on one of my (hopefully) concerts, I'm good with everything else.

  10. I would love for the lights to come in a deep blue and all the screens to light up bright white (vs the red for Streets) and them to launch into 'Mercy'. If that song hasn't changed too much since we know it anyway.

    I take it back, you guys make a good point. Lovetown did have a theme I think but more about the music than the tour and Elevation's theme I think WAS to strip things down to the basics as opposed to no theme.....but I digress.

    What quite a few ppl seem to be sidetracked with is that U2 is not Bruce Springsteen. As Paul McGuiness once said, theatrics are to a U2 show what poetry is to their music. White flag waving, samurai drum banging, mirrorball-suit suit singing, boxer-hoodie/gas-mask/muscle-suit donning, devilish prank calling, atomic symbolism, fake-commercial adverts, trusistic pandering (beLIEve?).....such drama brought up in a Bruce Springsteen concert or at a Coldplay show would conclude with open stare and jaws. But at a U2 show, no one is too surprised because this is the boys, this is who they are and we love it.

    So please, enough with the Bruce Springsteen comparisons. U2 is not trying to be the E-street band.

    (nine inch nails on the other hand....).
  11. Originally posted by rmann83:I would love for the lights to come in a deep blue and all the screens to light up bright white (vs the red for Streets) and them to launch into 'Mercy'. If that song hasn't changed too much since we know it anyway.

    I take it back, you guys make a good point. Lovetown did have a theme I think but more about the music than the tour and Elevation's theme I think WAS to strip things down to the basics as opposed to no theme.....but I digress.

    What quite a few ppl seem to be sidetracked with is that U2 is not Bruce Springsteen. As Paul McGuiness once said, theatrics are to a U2 show what poetry is to their music. White flag waving, samurai drum banging, mirrorball-suit suit singing, boxer-hoodie/gas-mask/muscle-suit donning, devilish prank calling, atomic symbolism, fake-commercial adverts, trusistic pandering (beLIEve?).....such drama brought up in a Bruce Springsteen concert or at a Coldplay show would conclude with open stare and jaws. But at a U2 show, no one is too surprised because this is the boys, this is who they are and we love it.

    So please, enough with the Bruce Springsteen comparisons. U2 is not trying to be the E-street band.

    (nine inch nails on the other hand....).



    wow, absolutely well-said
  12. Originally posted by rmann83:I would love for the lights to come in a deep blue and all the screens to light up bright white (vs the red for Streets) and them to launch into 'Mercy'. If that song hasn't changed too much since we know it anyway.

    Who's to say Mercy's ever gonna see the light of day other than as a well-known B-side? I know what you mean, it would be cool, but still...I'm just a bit of a Mercy pessimist lol...(not to mention I think it's a bit overrated compared to other songs...but that's opinion for you)



    No one said they were lol, I think the point was just being made regarding tours more about the music than trying to get a message through the music...
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