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  1. And do you know the right date of this?
    I know just about soundchecking it in Atlanta 19.11.2005
    edit: there are reports, that Mofo was rehearsed in Toronto before third leg and also Lemon and Daddy's Gonna Pay... (source u2gigs)
  2. 2005-06-08 and 09, I think. Not 100% sure, though.
  3. POPMART, least favourite

    Joshua Tree favourite
  4. POPMART, least favourite

    Joshua Tree favourite
  5. Originally posted by germcevoy:Dont know if I have contributed before but it's Vertigo for me. Just stagnant. Elevation with some colour, promoting a weak album, Bono was weak for the most part. Bar a few (and I mean a select few) shows there just doesnt seem to be any fire in the tour. The Boy material was a nice addition, as was One Tree Hill but other than that it just leaves me cold. A very weak official DVD to go with it doesnt help either. Throw in Bono's lengthy speeches, no lights during Streets, losing their balls by not getting Mofo Up and running and dropping Discotheque early and yadda yadda.


    No lights during streets was a crime
  6. Originally posted by germcevoy:Dont know if I have contributed before but it's Vertigo for me. Just stagnant. Elevation with some colour, promoting a weak album, Bono was weak for the most part. Bar a few (and I mean a select few) shows there just doesnt seem to be any fire in the tour. The Boy material was a nice addition, as was One Tree Hill but other than that it just leaves me cold. A very weak official DVD to go with it doesnt help either. Throw in Bono's lengthy speeches, no lights during Streets, losing their balls by not getting Mofo Up and running and dropping Discotheque early and yadda yadda.


    But made up by The Fly as an encore opener and Miss Sarajevo by BONO yeah Vertigo was weak but had a great outdoor stage. Modern day POPmart. (unless 360 owns)
  7. I have only seen Chicago, so I'm indifferent toward it. Bono did sound bad around then though.



  9. Me too. From the tours I've seen, PopMart was the weakest. Has also to do with the fact that I'm not a huge fan of the album Pop. The live-stuff I have from PopMart isn't that great either. On the bootleg of Sarajevo for instance, Bono's voice isn't in the best shape and I hardly ever play it.
  10. Originally posted by Rob1965:Me too. From the tours I've seen, PopMart was the weakest. Has also to do with the fact that I'm not a huge fan of the album Pop. The live-stuff I have from PopMart isn't that great either. On the bootleg of Sarajevo for instance, Bono's voice isn't in the best shape and I hardly ever play it.
    I don't have that problem. I completely LOVE the Pop album, I simply dislike the PopMart tour, with that exactly-the-same setlists night after night, and the weak Bono's voice (not always, but abundantly throughout all the tour)...
  11. I have never seen a bad U2 show or tour. Odd that so many dislike Popmart. But that is their right. They don't have to like everything the band does.

    Question is, do they not like it as it just didn't appeal to them? Or did they not like it as it wasn't The Joshua Tree tour or Zoo tours?

    When I've posed that question in the past to friends, they've agreed that I might have them there.... that they got into the band in 1984-1987 and while ZOOTV was a stretch that they got after 'living with it a bit', POP and POPMART seemed to go 'too far' for them.

    And again, that ifs fair enough. Not everyone is going to like everything that band does, says, writes or releases. But I'd like to think that most fans are open enough to give each song, album tour a chance. And in that, if they feel it doesn't speak to them... maybe revisit it later. Friends I've said that to have smirked at the time and later said: You know, maybe I just wasn't ready for POP when it came out... it's not that bad at all... and then start naming off POP songs they'd love to see U2 play.
  12. Originally posted by anstratdubh1979:I have never seen a bad U2 show or tour. Odd that so many dislike Popmart. But that is their right. They don't have to like everything the band does.

    Question is, do they not like it as it just didn't appeal to them? Or did they not like it as it wasn't The Joshua Tree tour or Zoo tours?



    To me, it's the fact that I'm not a particular fan of the album Pop (and therefore a couple of songs from the live setlist during PopMart). Furthermore, from the shows I've seen, PopMart was the least.
    It wasn't BAD - it wasn't bad at all; it just was the least of them.

    What I did like however, was the stage from PopMart and the hints and sarcasm that were put into it all. Some people say that they went too far with all the sarcasm, started on the ZOO TV tour, but to me that was okay.
    I like a little sarcasm from time to time and U2 is a band with a political statement and that's one of the main reasons why I'm a fan. They dare to step up and speak out.

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