| The moon has turned red over One Tree Hill. |
[28 November 2006|11:48 pm] |
So, some people have been asking me about my thoughts on the U2 gigs in Auckland and I figured I'd make a bit of an update. Longer reviews will be posted in the coming days on U2-Vertigo-Tour.com's homepage. I don't think anyone I know is going to the four remaining concerts so I'm not worrying about avoiding spoilers or using LJ cuts, and what I'm about to say probably isn't a spoiler for those gigs anyway.
The important part is that the band played One Tree Hill. At both shows. In its full band, electric form. With Edge's extended live solo. For the first time since 9 January 1990.
You better believe that I was excited, not to mention moved. It is quite simply the most emotionally powerful musical thing I have ever heard; lining up for hours upon hours was most certainly worth it. The band played the song flawlessly, Bono's voice was stronger than I expected, and the best part was that at the second of the two shows, One Tree Hill was the very last song. There could not have been a more perfect ending to the show, or to my U2 trek in general.
And now I'm going to say something likely to surprise some of you. I have said before that if I could have my way, I want One Tree Hill to be the last song I ever hear U2 play live. Furthermore, I do not know how the band are meant to top their performance from the second Auckland show. Therefore, unless something truly exceptional happens such as a concert in my hometown or the band starts playing all of Wire, Tomorrow, 11 O'clock Tick Tock, Heartland, Gone, and other unlikely favourites of mine, I will not see U2 live again. It's funny how the only people who have believed me when I've said that elsewhere are the people who were with me at the show and witnessed the performance of One Tree Hill for themselves.
Oh, and on a slightly different note, at the two Auckland gigs, Bono also did his most awesome snippets ever. During the breakdown of Elevation at the first show, Bono sung a few lines of Crowded House's Four Seasons In One Day, and at the same spot during Elevation at the second show, he threw in some of Split Enz's I Got You. As far as I'm concerned, that even tops the few instances from 2001 of Bono snippeting Joy Division's She's Lost Control.
That's about it for now, as I'm really quite tired. Have a good one, folks! |
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[20 February 2006|10:01 pm] |
Anyone fancy doing me a favour?
I'm bringing this question here because I'm utterly baffled. Would anyone be able to identify the snippets Bono sings in the following songs? Each file is just the snippet with the rest of the song edited out, so the files are about 30 seconds long at most. You don't have to be a U2 fan to help because Bono very rarely snippets one U2 song in another. He usually snippets other people's work.
1. Unknown snippet in Bad, 1987-05-04, Worcester (after the file ends, Bono continues to lead the crowd in chanting "sing it, sing it").
2. A different unknown snippet in Bad, 1987-05-09, Hartford,
3. An unknown snippet in Bullet The Blue Sky, East Rutherford: 1997-06-01 and 1997-06-03. I also have examples of this snippet from 1997-06-14, Edmonton and 1997-07-02, Foxboro, but it's even more indecipherable at those two shows.
I'm particularly bothered by #2 because I feel like I recognise it. In all cases, I've Googled whatever lyrics I could comprehend but failed to turn up any results of substance. Bono certainly fails to enunciate, and if anyone can identify these, I expect they'd do so based more on the tune rather than the lyrics.
Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to help! |
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