I&E Tour - General tour/all shows discussions (w/spoilers)

Originally posted by Bloodraven:Since everybody sees things different, it's impossible to know how everybody sees something, but as a long time U2 fan who just recently discovered this whole world of bootlegs (and I really don't think I'm in the minority among U2 fans in this regard), I don't believe people is that aware of what represents a "rarity"...

How many fans would have a collection consisting of no more than something like Red Rocks + ZooTV Sydney + Elevation Slane + 360 Rose Bowl (just 3-5 live shows) besides whatever number of studio albums (maybe only the most well known ones)?... I'd guess that that's the majority of fans.

That would mean that they'd have a rather distorted view of what can be considered a "rarity".

Take Ultraviolet for instance... I'd say it'd be common for many fans to listen Achtung Baby regularly and check the Sydney show every once in a while... for all those fans Ultraviolet is/was far from a "rarity".

Just the same way that they don't care how many times some songs have been played in the last 20 years... they're not listening to them (unlike us) every single day in a couple of bootlegs.

My definition of "live rarities" would be either songs never played regularly before, or songs not played recently from the early 80's. Anything from The Joshua Tree onwards that has been played with some regularity in any tour wouldn't really surprise me.

(obviously this is the way I feel about it, I know that most likely everybody in here feels way different about it, but I just wanted to say it )

(this also has to do with getting old... I think of the 90's as if it had happened rather recently, and I see anything from the new millenium as brand new, so I struggle to feel the time gap between tours )

Originally posted by Andrew_C:now each band member has different colored hair (sorry Edge)

Originally posted by Buttons:yes this is very sad, but it could have been worse, thank God its not..

Originally posted by Remy:My hopes:
- The first part of the set is extremely good but short.
- The intermission part is as brilliant as POP's Lemon.

Originally posted by Alvin:[..]
Maybe they mean intermission for 15-20 minutes in the middle of set like Pink Floyd....

Originally posted by LikeASong:Damnit, I got out for a couple of hours and the most breaking news since Bono's accident pop out I havne't been able to read the artible yet but all I've read so far looks good. Also, Miracle Drug being rehearsed gives me good hopes that they eventually ignore One Step Closer. Please please please.

Originally posted by Zooropean:Er......I'm not a negative person, but I am a bit relieved that this is the first tour since 1987 that I have decided not to attend. Nice to see so many new songs, but streets, pride and bad etc have already peaked some years ago.

Bono sounded bored/ lackadaisical singing streets on the 360 tour

-One was rehearsed on Monday. Edge electric guitar with Bono singing only for most of it then the band comes in for the final coda. Like EBW/WOWY I think these are 3 of the 5 songs that will feature strings.

Was just sent an email from another big fan that it was a short 4 song "set" tonight. All repeats, but starting the same SOI song 3 nights in a row looks like they decided their opening song well in advance for the first time since 2001. I'll keep in under wraps for a few more days but I've told Axver PM.

2 nights in a row have had the Better/Desire transition(Larry on kit for both) which is going to a be a killer 1-2 punch early in the set.

Time for a U2Gigs update

...A poster in atu2's forum has reported additional songs rehearsed on Wednesday. It appears that after the four-song set reported by Peter, the band came back for a later session. This included One Step Closer, City Of Blinding Lights, Where The Streets Have No Name, Ordinary Love, The Troubles, and With Or Without You featuring a Love Will Tear Us Apart snippet.

Just got back from the Coliseum. Went down there with a friend and we were lucky enough to hear some songs. We were there for about 45 minutes before they ended. The one thing that shocked me a bit was how loud and how clear it was. We stood outside the front doors but were asked to leave a few times by security. Of course we didn't, we just walked a little further on down.

Here are the songs we heard.

One Step Closer - We got there pretty close to the end but it did sound really good.

City of Blinding Lights - Nothing really seemed to change, but Bono did speak some of the lyrics instead of sing. Maybe he was just saving his voice.

Where the Streets Have No Name - Sounded awesome. Bono was saying some sort of hymn at the beginning which gave me chills. Through the curtains we could see the arena was lit red. Bono didn't sing the full song. The second verse was just the music. Probably saving his voice again.

Ordinary Love - Not a fan of the song and it was at this point security was asking us to leave so not much to report on this one. We just walked further on down and they didn't keep bugging us.

The Troubles - I was very excited to hear this one. The Lykke Li part sounded like the album version and seemed to be recorded. I could make out through the curtain the video screen was lit up and you could see a woman's face and also Bono singing on the screen. Maybe this will be like Lou Reed on the Zoo TV tour for Satellite of Love.

With Or Without You - no big changes. Bono sang the Love Will Tear Us Apart line to end the song.

Really cool to be there and to hear them. The band sounded great and Bono seemed to be in pretty good form. I'm gonna try to get down there again a few more times in the next week.