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  1. I went twice and I am worried that MY kids will have to work a few extra days in their life time due to the $$$ I spent.
  2. Originally posted by brianjones:Seen 7 shows, this was a money grab folks, plain and simple. This was planned way before the album came out, This tour was so the future generations of the bands kids never have to work. There was no reason to do a 360 tour outside. It just did not wrk.

    It was exciting but its time to move it back into arena's.




    Originally posted by RUMMY:Can't argue too much withh the above comments. All I can say i s that I hope the majority of you attended at least one show. Although I have certainly enjoyed following the tour with many of you, it does not compare to being in the 360 environment.


    This is actually one of the major reasons I considered this tour to be a rousing success. Sure, they brought in the most money of any tour to date, but when you get down to it, The Claw was an engineering feat that allowed the stadiums to MAXIMIZE their capacity. In addition to the increased capacity, they decided to have a lower price bracket. Sure those cheap tickets were most likely nosebleeds, but the 360 Tour allowed the most people to experience the band's live act for the cheapest price. If you think about it, these factors allowed people to see a U2 gig when they may have chosen not to during previous tours for whatever reason.

    Of course, the hardcore fans will always do what it takes to see their band play. I'm talking about your common U2 fan, the guy who hears Beautiful Day on the radio and then notices that the Claw is making a stop in their town in a couple months and decides to buy a ticket.
  3. Enjoyed the tour mostly. 09 particularly stands out as the tour had a purpose with the new material and stage. It felt new. Bono's back injury was then a blessing and a curse. I doubt we would have got any new material without the injury but it then meant that from Turin onwards the tour held no real purpose other than seeing out their bookings. Fair play to the band for fiddling with the setlist and new material to keep it exciting but I lost interest in the tour as a whole after 09.

    That is not to say that individual shows and setlists haven't been great. I just prefer a purpose to the whole thing. But the band got richer and we got Ultraviolet, No Line, Blue Room, Zooropa and North Star.

    The stage is an impressive structure and it $erves it's purpose well. I dislike something about it though. It feels very unnatural standing within it, it's something I find hard to describe but it sometimes just felt like they built something that big just because they could. I look forward to something a bit more traditional next time round.

    Only shame for me is they they never had a go at Drowning Man.

  4. With no disrespect to Bono's overall health, I agree with comments stating that his back injury was a blessing - at least for me as a North American U2 fan. It gave me the chance to see some of those classic '90's songs once again (or for the first time), which they wouldn't have played here in 2010. I am probably in the minority here but I was fine not hearing some of their newer work in a concert setting. It's not that I am not interested in it, I just find that the overall atmosphere loses something when unknown stuff is played - especially in a stadium show where a good number of the people in the crowd are somewhat "casual" fans. I've said this before, many of the attendees at the recent Toronto show weren't even into "Miss Sarajevo" or "Zooropa." It would have been worse if they played complete unknowns like "North Star" or "Mercy." Hopefully these songs will get another chance in a few years time.

    And yes, I would have loved to have heard "Drowning Man." I have always like that song.
  5. Originally posted by germcevoy:Enjoyed the tour mostly. 09 particularly stands out as the tour had a purpose with the new material and stage. It felt new. Bono's back injury was then a blessing and a curse. I doubt we would have got any new material without the injury but it then meant that from Turin onwards the tour held no real purpose other than seeing out their bookings. Fair play to the band for fiddling with the setlist and new material to keep it exciting but I lost interest in the tour as a whole after 09.



    Same here.

    The tour started out amazing and the first leg had a passion in performance that I rarely saw from the post Pop U2. But then the tour fell somehow flat. The 2010 setlists didn't do much for me and the performances didn't match what I saw in 2009. After that, all I saw was Glasto on TV and a youtube video of EBTTRT somewhere in South America, so I can't really judge anything after 2010.

    Solid tour. Probably in my top 5.
  6. In the top 3 for me. What we consider a standard setlist today would've been crazy at the start of the tour, which had great surprises of it's own. Not really interested in it now but that might he the time difference issue. Only bad point of it was they didn't come back to Dublin.

  7. Well, not the "only" bad point in my opinion but it's indeed a HUGE downside...
  8. It's the one that stands out for me I should have said that. What others do you have?

  9. Their lack of confidence on the NLOTH material, the few time that the audience sat on the back of the stage had U2 facing them, opening 30+ shows with an unknown instrumental song plus Beautiful Day (probably their worst opener ever after The Ocean), the lack of presence of October and Pop material (ok, Scarlet after SBS and Discoteque snippet during Crazy... but, you know what I mean)... There are a few.

    That said, this is their best tour since Zoo TV for me. The up's largely exceed the down's
  10. SInce the 1980's.

    1. ZooTV
    2. 360
    3. Elevation
    4. Vertigo
    5. PopMart

    Let me say that I like ALL five tours and I think the main reason I put Vertigo ahead of PopMart was because I attended a Vertigo show.
  11. uhm ranking the tours i attended

    ZooTv
    Joshua
    Elevation
    360
    Unforgettable (:. )
    Popmart
    Vertigo

    from 3rd to 5th positions are pretty exchangeable
  12. New album was planned to be relased a few months ago I think.
    Because If it had,it would be like Zooropa,no need for another tour.
    But now,I am doubting if Bono and company are tired of the touring thing.
    If they are,we are going wait for the next album more than we think but anyway,was the greatest of the tours (economic situation) was the weirdest of the tours (archtiecture ) and it didn't had the greatest of the songs ,but had the runner up.(which is story of my lifee)
    Yeah.
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