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2017-05-21 - Pasadena
 Tour: Joshua Tree Tour 2017
Songs played: 22
Audio recordings: 5
  1. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
    No, but there are professional cameramen shooting footage so it can be show on the screens (just as with mostly all tours since 1992).
    In 2005 (and I assume it likely still continues to this day) U2 hire their own concert photographer who attends a fair few shows per tour upon the bands request I believe to document them and anything out of the ordinary that might occur. I know because I met one such person in Dublin 27/6/2005 who was doing just that for the band, and had attended something like 140+ shows if I recall correctly down the years.
  2. Originally posted by Caledonia:[..]
    In 2005 (and I assume it likely still continues to this day) U2 hire their own concert photographer who attends a fair few shows per tour upon the bands request I believe to document them and anything out of the ordinary that might occur. I know because I met one such person in Dublin 27/6/2005 who was doing just that for the band, and had attended something like 140+ shows if I recall correctly down the years.
    That's a valid point.

    Moreover they record proshot footage of most/all of their shows -usually the first 2-4 songs- and that's why proshot recordings surface every now and then. That's the footage that they send as promo to TV and newspapers for them to show. It's all linked together.

    But when they record a live concert for commercial release, oh man you can surely notice that. 20 or more cameras, not just 3-5 as in the rest of the show...
  4. Originally posted by patssox95:[..]
    Sorry, forgot to quote you on my prev post again, but that was for you too. And your emoji use is getting extremely offensive
    sorry...
  5. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
    That's a valid point.

    Moreover they record proshot footage of most/all of their shows -usually the first 2-4 songs- and that's why proshot recordings surface every now and then. That's the footage that they send as promo to TV and newspapers for them to show. It's all linked together.

    But when they record a live concert for commercial release, oh man you can surely notice that. 20 or more cameras, not just 3-5 as in the rest of the show...
    Yeah I love those proshot feeds, there's quite a bunch from Zoo TV.

    I'm not sure that it happens in the same way or on the same scale that it did back around 1987-1993. It certainly seems for this tour and going back through I+E to Elevation at least, they've been making their own electronic press kits of select shows that local media can use.

    I have a feeling on Zoo TV they just let local news crews tap into the show feed for the first 10/15 minutes on select shows before they'd cut the feed on them. On TJT 87 they'd let local news crews in on select shows to the press pit to film themselves as can be seen in that Vancouver 87 clip that was posted the other day.

    On a side note, I heard many many years ago, that Larry *oversaw* the archiving of all the bands live material etc. I don't remember where I heard or read that, or how accurate it is, and we're probably talking 20 years back now. I think I've heard Willie mention before (maybe around 2005) that DVD's are made of every show on the night so the band can assess their performance next day and check stuff etc.
  6. Why are they reducing the setlist for Christ sake the have such a massive back catalogue to choose from ,GnR,Bruce,Pearl Jam,The Cure all do nearly 30 songs a night and aren't charging as much as U2 ,it's pretty disappointing and I wonder is there something going on within the camp ,be it health problems or a lack of enthusiasm about doing a nostalgia tour ,they could easily throw in a few B-sides from that era or song's from R&H ,by U2 standards this is a very short tour so you would expect a decent long show OK we know they probably won't do 30 songs but 25 ,26 is not beyond them.
  7. Originally posted by popmarter:Why are they reducing the setlist for Christ sake the have such a massive back catalogue to choose from ,GnR,Bruce,Pearl Jam,The Cure all do nearly 30 songs a night and aren't charging as much as U2 ,it's pretty disappointing and I wonder is there something going on within the camp ,be it health problems or a lack of enthusiasm about doing a nostalgia tour ,they could easily throw in a few B-sides from that era or song's from R&H ,by U2 standards this is a very short tour so you would expect a decent long show OK we know they probably won't do 30 songs but 25 ,26 is not beyond them.
    I read somewhere that this tour is apart of contract obligations. I do agree, other bands have better setlist mix, Bon Jovi, green day, Bruce Springsteen, ect

    U2 tend to play it safe with setlist's
  8. Originally posted by popmarter:Why are they reducing the setlist for Christ sake the have such a massive back catalogue to choose from ,GnR,Bruce,Pearl Jam,The Cure all do nearly 30 songs a night and aren't charging as much as U2 ,it's pretty disappointing and I wonder is there something going on within the camp ,be it health problems or a lack of enthusiasm about doing a nostalgia tour ,they could easily throw in a few B-sides from that era or song's from R&H ,by U2 standards this is a very short tour so you would expect a decent long show OK we know they probably won't do 30 songs but 25 ,26 is not beyond them.
    Because most of the setlist is unknown to most of the people that go to their concerts. Listening to the Santa Clara's bootleg I was shocked when I first heard them screaming for Beautiful Day.
  9. Well I've listened in to every show except the first night in Pasadena and I'd say last night sounded like the best so far, it's just a shame ASOH was needlessly dropped. Miss Sarajevo was better placed in the setlist and was a better performance in general without the instrumental part before the Pavarotti part. Great to hear the little things back as well. What do people who actually attended multiple nights think?
  10. I pray they patch thhings up before the East Rutherford shows. We need MLK and 40. Setlist seems to get shorter and shorter next thing ya know we will only get 11 Joshua Tree songs and it will be over.
  11. Originally posted by deanallison:Well I've listened in to every show except the first night in Pasadena and I'd say last night sounded like the best so far, it's just a shame ASOH was needlessly dropped. Miss Sarajevo was better placed in the setlist and was a better performance in general without the instrumental part before the Pavarotti part. Great to hear the little things back as well. What do people who actually attended multiple nights think?
    Yes, they have such a big catalogue, why 21, 22 songs? Yes why? We need ASOH every night, that's what all the people want or am I wrong? It's such a great song and a surprise as well. They should end with "40" is the best what they can do after The Little Things. And why not a song from Rattle And Hum, The movie is all about The Joshua Tree Tour 1987. Just play Desire in stead of Elevation in a full band version.
  12. Originally posted by maartenpetra:[..]
    Yes, they have such a big catalogue, why 21, 22 songs? Yes why? We need ASOH every night, that's what all the people want or am I wrong? It's such a great song and a surprise as well. They should end with "40" is the best what they can do after The Little Things. And why not a song from Rattle And Hum, The movie is all about The Joshua Tree Tour 1987. Just play Desire in stead of Elevation in a full band version.
    What do you think though in terms of just the performance itself? I do agree they could play 24 songs at least and add in the likes of 40 or desire and yes ASOH deserves to be played every night they were doing a great job of it I thought but what about how the show flowed last night and how the songs were performed? It sounded like a good quality performance to me and the weak link in Miss Sarajevo was slightly improved without reaching the levels of 360 or the vertigo tour versions however.
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