What was the last thing they did in terms of crowd engagement that actually worked and made the show better?
-JT30 had nothing
-I&E had Periscope, usually during boring songs and sort of a worthless endeavor
-360 had...the masks / kids on stage during Walk On? But even that wasn't an audience-wide engagement.
-Vertigo didn't have anything to the best of my knowledge, aside from Bono asking for cell phone donations during One, that hardly counts
-Elevation didn't have anything to the best of my knowledge
-PopMart didn't have anything to the best of my knowledge -ZooTV had the video confessional
Are we really looking all the way back to '93 for the last time some audience-wide engagement thing worked?
Since Zoo TV they have embraced the very latest developments in technology for their tours this is no different .
Thank you.
I understand the point that others have raised about Zoo TV being performed with more of a sense of irony than this new AR feature seems to be...but still, part of the point of Zoo TV (and PopMart) was the band embracing more of the fun and ridiculousness of rock and roll, right? Even Larry said “some of this bullshit is pretty cool.” And it made for two of their most legendary tours.
Sounds about right for a “gimmick” that will allow all of us to experience Bono as Frank Sinatra crooning “love is all we have left” from the moon... = pure entertainment.
looks creepy and everybody is gonna have issues with it and I dont even get me started on how this is gonna kill even more the mood with the cellphones up in the air