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« on: July 17, 2011, 10:12:01 AM »
My brother and I will be witnessing this in now a matter of hours at Busch Stadium:

https://blogs.suntimes.com/music/U2_Chicago2_72dpi.jpg

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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2011, 10:13:35 AM »
Epic stuff!

Have a great time :tup
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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2011, 10:15:40 AM »
I was on the floor for it. Epic shit, my man. Have a good time.

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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2011, 10:32:48 AM »
Thanks, guys! :coolio

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« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2011, 10:46:57 AM »
Nice man, give us a review!

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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2011, 10:57:59 AM »
In b4 either "lol U2 is garbage" or "lol I WAAAAAAAAALK BESIDE YOOOOOOOU" :neverusethis:

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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2011, 10:58:17 AM »
We'll make history, honey you and I
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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2011, 11:09:37 AM »
Where are you seats(?)?

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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2011, 11:12:00 AM »
I came in this thread thinking it would be about Dexter. Looks epic though, have fun!

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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2011, 11:16:03 AM »
I'm old, I thought it was a thread about Rod Stewart.  :biggrin:

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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #10 on: July 17, 2011, 11:18:10 AM »
Wow! What is that thing over the stage?
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« Reply #11 on: July 17, 2011, 11:25:33 AM »
That's both ridiculous and amazing that one band can draw in that many people.

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« Reply #12 on: July 17, 2011, 11:31:06 AM »
Seeing that show was like a religious experience!

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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #15 on: July 17, 2011, 12:00:38 PM »
We'll make history, honey you and I

I started singing this when I read the title.

Edit: Except it was A.D. 1928.

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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #16 on: July 17, 2011, 12:01:26 PM »
We'll make history, honey you and I

I started singing this when I read the title.

Thank you, I knew I couldn't be the only one. :lol

But yeah, that looks like a fucking stellar setup.
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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #17 on: July 17, 2011, 12:51:44 PM »
Looks awesome!  Say what you want about U2, but that is epic.  The photo has just become my wallpaper.

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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #18 on: July 17, 2011, 01:23:05 PM »
Enjoy hearing Edge's lush guitar playing.  My favorite part of watching them live.
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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #19 on: July 17, 2011, 02:09:21 PM »
Where are you seats(?)?

https://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/atoz/u2_seating_chart_st_louis_360_tour.jpg

Section 152. 

Those are superb seats.

Agreed!  Just to the left of dead center, not too far back to where you can't see anything, but elevated enough to see over the GA folks on the ground.  Plus, it is around 100 today, so tonight will still be pretty damn warm, and having seats as opposed to being on the ground will be an advantage as far as staying cool.

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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #20 on: July 17, 2011, 02:15:45 PM »
That's really funny. That's exactly where my mom and step dad sat when we went and saw this. I didn't want to sit that far back (even though you do have a superb view), and all the while, we were talking to one of the guards and we hinted at letting me down, and he seemed pretty cool with it, so he told me to follow a press guy down, saying I was his nephew. :lol Pretty cool experience.

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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #21 on: July 18, 2011, 12:11:40 AM »
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« Reply #22 on: July 18, 2011, 12:55:21 AM »
You know, part of me wants to talk shit because I don't like U2, and I can't fathom how they've become the biggest band in the world.

Then I look at pictures like that, and it shuts me up.
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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #23 on: July 18, 2011, 08:04:51 AM »
Wow.  All I can say right now is wow. 

Set list:

1) Even Better Than The Real Thing
2) The Fly
3) Mysterious Ways
4) Until The End Of The World
5) I Will Follow
6) Get On Your Boots
7) I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Many Rivers to Cross (snippet)
8 ) Stay (Faraway, So Close!) (acoustic with just Bono and The Edge)
9) Beautiful Day /Space Oddiy (snippet)
10) Elevation
11) Pride (In The Name Of Love)
12) Miss Sarajevo
13) Zooropa
14) City of Blinding Lights
15) Vertigo
16) I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (dance remix version) / Discotheque (snippet) / Life During Wartime (snippet) / Psycho Killer (snippet)
17) Sunday Bloody Sunday
18) Scarlet
19) Walk On
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20) One
21) Hallelujah (snippet) / Where The Streets Have No Name
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22) Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
23) With or Without You
24) Moment of Surrender

And I don't take many pics at concerts, as I prefer to rock out instead of spending too much time messing with my cell, but I did take these two:






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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #24 on: July 18, 2011, 08:07:19 AM »
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me. 

I'd love to hear that live.
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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #25 on: July 18, 2011, 08:11:57 AM »
I would have rather gotten Ultraviolet (which occupied that first spot in the last encore trilogy for probably 75% of the 360 tour), but Hold Me, Thrill Me... was really nice, too.  The set list was nice and balanced; 7 songs from the 80s, 9 songs from the 90s and 8 songs from the 00s.

I went absolutely bananas during Zooropa.  I was one of the few people standing to it in my section and singing along, but I didn't care.  I joked to my brother at one point during it that 51,000 people right now are going, "What song is this?" :lol :lol :lol  The total crowd count was just shy of 53,000.

And I can finally say I have had my face completely melted off by Where the Streets Have No Name live. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy


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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #26 on: July 18, 2011, 08:31:03 AM »
I would have rather gotten Ultraviolet (which occupied that first spot in the last encore trilogy for probably 75% of the 360 tour), but Hold Me, Thrill Me... was really nice, too.  The set list was nice and balanced; 7 songs from the 80s, 9 songs from the 90s and 8 songs from the 00s.

I went absolutely bananas during Zooropa.  I was one of the few people standing to it in my section and singing along, but I didn't care.  I joked to my brother at one point during it that 51,000 people right now are going, "What song is this?" :lol :lol :lol  The total crowd count was just shy of 53,000.

And I can finally say I have had my face completely melted off by Where the Streets Have No Name live. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy



Streets was amazing live, goosebumps thinking about it.

edit: I can't quote

Went searching for the set list when I saw it..

Breathe
Get On Your Boots
Magnificent
Mysterious Ways
Beautiful Day
("Blackbird" snippet)
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
("Dirty Old Town" snippet)
Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
No Line on the Horizon
Elevation
In A Little While
Unknown Caller
Until The End Of The World
The Unforgettable Fire
City Of Blinding Lights
("Mofo" snippet)
Vertigo
I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
("Thank You (Falettinme Be … more)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
("Rock The Casbah" snippet)
MLK
Walk On
("You'll Never Walk Alone" snippet)

Encore:
One
("Amazing Grace" snippet)
Where The Streets Have No Name
("All You Need Is Love" snippet)

Encore 2:
Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
With Or Without You
Moment of Surrender

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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #27 on: July 18, 2011, 09:21:41 AM »
Yeah, the set list really changed quite a bit over the course of the 2-year tour.  I love Magnificent and Unknown Caller from the last album the most, and neither were played last night, but so much of what they did play came off tremendously, so how can anyone complain? 

It is comical to read some of the U2 fan sites where some complain that they play too many hits and not enough deeper cuts, but the hits are what gets a crowd that large going.  When you are that popular AND playing in front of 50 thousand plus, you have to play a lot of your biggest and well-known songs.  Sure, the diehards love hearing Zooropa and Miss Sarajevo, but Sunday Bloody Sunday and Streets are what make everyone go ballistic.

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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #28 on: July 18, 2011, 09:49:57 AM »
That's beyond awesome. I'm not the hugest U2 fan but their shows really seem like an experience. I'd love to see them one day.

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« Reply #29 on: July 18, 2011, 09:51:17 AM »
In b4 either "lol U2 is garbage" or "lol I WAAAAAAAAALK BESIDE YOOOOOOOU" :neverusethis:
Bad call.

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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #30 on: July 18, 2011, 10:32:32 AM »
I'm old, I thought it was a thread about Rod Stewart.  :biggrin:

Have fun!!

yup I'm still humming that damn song....

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Re: Tonight's the night
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Re: Tonight's the night
« Reply #32 on: July 18, 2011, 06:19:25 PM »
 :omg: Holy cow! What a show that must have been.
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Re: The U2 thread - What Do You Want?
« Reply #33 on: July 18, 2011, 11:59:43 PM »
It was.  One of the many great things is there were so many moments where the entire crowd sang along:

-The chorus to I Will Follow.
-The entire first verse and chorus of I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For.
-The "woooooo-oooooo"s in Elevation.
-IN THE NAME OF LOVE!!!!!
-"Oh.  You.  Look.  So Beautiful!" in City of Blinding Lights.
-All of the spanish lyrics in Vertigo (a song I am not wild about, but was fun live).
-About half of One. :lol
-The "ooooooohhhhhhh"s near the end of With or Without You.
-The "oh-oh-ooooooo-oooh"s in Moment of Surrender.

And others I cannot recall off hand. :coolio

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Re: The U2 thread - What Do You Want?
« Reply #34 on: July 19, 2011, 02:05:59 PM »
One of the coolest moments of Sunday night's show (around 2:20 or so):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKZsd4DC2lQ&feature=related

Too bad the shirtless guys weren't lined up in the right order (to spell out U 2 3 6 0), but it was still cool as hell. :coolio