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  1. I have actually been wondering how U2 could incorporate holograms into their next tour as I feel it could be the next step in tour awesomeness after 360.

    I had been thinking this before the 2Pac thing. Wheat actually gave me the idea was how during the 2008 election CNN correspondents spoke will.I.am via hologram.
  2. Originally posted by kris_smith87:I have actually been wondering how U2 could incorporate holograms into their next tour as I feel it could be the next step in tour awesomeness after 360.


    Oh geez...


    I think U2 will never do that because it's a step away from developing closeness with the audience.
  3. Whether you agree with it or not, it opens up worlds of opportunities for the entertainment industry.
  4. Great idea. Maybe Bruce Springsteen should lose the horn section & create a Clarence Clemons hologram...
  5. Originally posted by kris_smith87:I have actually been wondering how U2 could incorporate holograms into their next tour as I feel it could be the next step in tour awesomeness after 360.

    I had been thinking this before the 2Pac thing. Wheat actually gave me the idea was how during the 2008 election CNN correspondents spoke will.I.am via hologram.

    Oh yes, the duets could be excellent and bringing pavarotti back for miss Sarajevo would be interesting to say the least.
  6. Maybe one day I will get to see The Beatles!

  7. A visual to go along with another backing track?
  8. I don't like it. I just saw the Beach Boys, and at least they just used a simple video for one and audio for another of Carl and Dennis Wilson, and on just two songs. Not all that distracting for a tribute, since it was maybe 9 minutes out of a 140 minute show. Anything more than a song or two would be a bit much. If I outlive U2, I would rather go to a high tech showing of U23D or one of the DVDs than seeing some gimmickery. Should any member of U2 die, it would just not be U2, but I wouldn't mind seeing the band with a replacement in the band, and maybe a one song tribute that was agreed upon by the fallen member before his death. Of course, I would want the surving members to call the band something else...Feedback, Pride, etc...
  10. I didn't necessarily hate the hologram, but it was just really fun at the time while I was there at Coachella. But I agree that there is no substance or real gain from doing a hologram of somebody imo... U2 don't need to do a hologram of anyone ever i think Bono can do the opera for MS and sing the Wanderer if he ever wanted.
  11. There are only a small number of ways that holograms can be incorporated into a live show before you've essentially destroyed live entertainment.

    My argument is quite simple. For people who went to a 360 show, you didn't pay all that money or spend all that time camping in the GA line to listen to a recording of U2. You did all that to see the actual band actually play the songs. Even if you had a seat in the nosebleeds, you still got to see and hear the band play it live. With the Tupac hologram, people are essentially paying the same amount of money (or maybe even more) to listen to a bootleg while watching a puppet dance around. If you like that, good for you. You will be making Dr. Dre and bunch of techs very rich and happy.

    Now the case of the Tupac hologram is an extreme because it was essentially a recording sold as a live act. The only way this type of technology could work is if bands incorporated it into only a few songs, only if it worked to do so and only if the theme of their tour worked for it.

    If U2 wanted to do it, the only time it would have worked is if they decided to perform Satellite Of Love during the 360 Tour and beamed a scratchy hologram of Lou Reed for his part of the song. Granted they already did something along those lines during the ZooTV Tour, but I'm dead serious when I say that this is the ONLY situation where having a hologram would bolster the live experience. If you throw in a hologram just because you want to have it, you'll have just made the show way more expensive while getting practically no benefit from it.
  12. Also, the number one way to wreck a tour is to make it dependent on technology that hasn't been completely mastered yet.

    /obligatory shot at Popmart
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