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Vertigo Tour - 10th year anniversary

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flowerchild

10 years

Originally posted by cesar_garza01:[..]
If all of that fails, there's also 2005-04-24 Seattle , another great boot with LAPOE as opener.

seattle was the one!! thanks, you two, for digging those up for me you all go and take a listen, I loved this boot.

@stripey: on my dad's shoulders...
LikeASong

10 years

Originally posted by cesar_garza01:[..]
If all of that fails, there's also 2005-04-24 Seattle , another great boot with LAPOE as opener.

Damn, forgot Seattle - and that's precisely the one she was looking for! Well done César
bpt3

10 years

Originally posted by cesar_garza01:Believe me, I fully, wholeheartedly support all these political causes, but in Vertigo it was too much. They toned it down in 360 and it was still powerful, with D. Tutu or Aung San Suu Kyi's speeches and a few words between songs. The long speech in the middle of SBS killed the vibe for me.

Agreed here. For me, in comparing how U2 have incorporated political messages into their music over their three "eras" thus far (80s, 90s, 00s-present), in the 80s I appreciated their youthful passion/idealism/rage, in the 90s I loved how they cloaked it in the irony and satire of Zoo TV and PopMart, but on Vertigo especially it was like they became way too serious again politically and forgot everything they learned in the 90s about presentation...I admire the youthful Bono shouting "fuck the revolution" and appreciated the critique of American religious greed via the Mirrorball Man, for instance, but there's a difference between those personas and Bono strutting around with a "Coexist" blindfold on...

With that said...I became a U2 fan right before HTDAAB came out in 2004 but wasn't so hugely into them that I thought about buying tickets for Vertigo in 2005, and now I sometimes still think "What if...?"
flowerchild

10 years

Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
Damn, forgot Seattle - and that's precisely the one she was looking for! Well done César

hehe

listen to bullet and elevation especially, too! true gems

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