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  1. I've been feeling quite nostalgic lately as I realized I've been a fan for nearly 30 years. It's been a long and amazing trip and I'm so glad I've followed them.

    I'm wondering what was the album or song or concert that did it for you. What turned you into a fan? And why?

    I detail the beginning of my journey on my blog (AchtungNinja.com) and why they made my life a little better.
  2. U2 at Slane Castle film
  3. Best Of 1990-2000 DVD
  4. Originally posted by AchtungNinja:I've been feeling quite nostalgic lately as I realized I've been a fan for nearly 30 years. It's been a long and amazing trip and I'm so glad I've followed them.

    I'm wondering what was the album or song or concert that did it for you. What turned you into a fan? And why?

    I detail the beginning of my journey on my blog (AchtungNinja.com) and why they made my life a little better.
    That is some really powerful story right there, Richard. Thanks for sharing it with us. I really became a part of your life for a few minutes. Your dad's illness and departure, you taking shelter in music, becoming a little obsessed over The Joshua Tree (who wouldn't?), then the epic Save The Yuppies mini-concert at a privileged position and then the proper JT stadium show with you not knowing almost anything about rock concerts... Wow. Thanks a lot, seriously.


    I became a fan in my mother's womb. My parents were and are U2 fans so my path was already set before I was born I don't have exciting stories of discovering U2 like you all - I have just grown with them.
  5. Becoming a fan....I can tell you how U2 came into my life and how they came to stay. THE fan I became maaaaaany years later. but this band has always played a huge part in my life.

    When I was 5, my brother watched a music show on west German TV (I was born in GDR). That was 1986 and they showed the SBS clip of Red Rocks and I was completely fascinated by how angry that young man was and mostly be the drumbeat. (I did not understand him of course.)
    One and a half year later, being a first grader, I came home from school while my brother was coyping a vinyl to cassette and I just stood there and heard one of the most beautiful things I ever heard. I still haven't found what I'm looking for is still one of my evergreens when it comes to U2.

    I had no idea of course, that this was the same band and on the cover I just saw 4 angry, quite ugly dressed men.
    Years later, after the change, my brother again popped into the door with a CD in hand, that showed a Trabi on the cover.
    For no particular reason I knew it was U2 and a little after we got MTV and after all these years I saw this Red Rocks clip again. ANd I knew, it was U2 and I knew the songtitle.
    In 1993 I bought TJT, AB and Zooropa on vinyl (whcih I lost later). I had posters on my wall and swore to myself: whenever they come here and play, I'll be there.
    Which has been the only case in 1997 - never again and before they played in any other East German city. There I was, 16 years old, completely alone at the ticket counter on the day, the presale started and the seller looked at me like an alien when I asked for a U2 ticket.

    I took me 13 years to get to another U2 show then. It was actually NLOTH that brought me back to this band - of course I listened to them all the time, but that was the final hardcore fan call. Without NLOTH I wouldn't do multicams today, I wouldn't know any of you and would have missed quite some lovely peeps in my life. And 8 amazing U2 shows since.

    The one reason, U2 have always been there was simply - they had the perfect song for any mood. Whatever happened to me, U2 had a song that helped me through. And there were quite some hard times.
    Til today, their songs make me smile, when I'm happy and let me cry, when I'm sad. These songs, they are the anchor you just need sometimes. They don't ask, they don't judge, they are just there for you. And no other band can do that like U2, Edge's play and Bonos lyrics.

    Ooops, a bit more text. Sorry
  6. All That You Can't Leave Behind and Boston 2001, when I was 2
  7. Age 10, heard a weird song called Lemon from a group called U2. Hated it at first, but my uncle kept playing it, so I started liking it. Then I saved lunch money to buy my first cassette and decided to buy Zooropa for 80 pesos (nowadays you can't even buy 3 avocados with that money). Then I discovered other songs that I also hated at first or frankly scared me, like the weird whispers at the beginning of Zooropa. But the more I played it, the more I liked those weird songs that I couldn't understand a thing what they were about.
    The fact that my aunt freaked out every time I played the cassette was just the icing on the cake.
  8. City Of Blinding Lights at the Rose Bowl...
  9. When I Look At The World. Still my favourite song on that entire album next to Wild Honey and Peace On Earth.
  10. Mysterious ways. Heard that in the background of a movie channel.
  11. The clip of Sunday Bloody Sunday at Red Rocks in 1985. Next the song The Unforgettable Fire on the radio.
  12. Actually, I know the exact date of me becoming a U2 fan: 1 January 1990. The New Year's concert in Dublin was namely broadcast live to a couple of post-Communist countries, including my home country Czechoslovakia. So just about six weeks after the regime ended in my country, I was able to listen to U2 on the radio (I hadn't known their music, just had seen a photo of them in a magazine and thought they might be interesting). I nearly fainted when I heard Bono say my country's name in Pride.
    I still have the tape I made on that day, awful quality by today's standards but it has priceless emotional value for me.
    So I was over the moon when I managed to get a ticket to a U2 concert in Dublin's 3Arena last year - the exact place where my devotion to U2 started back in 1990.
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