@@nianfiedler9691Fully agree! Caught 4 myself, one indoor (Sheffield 92), and three outdoor Zooropa gigs (Cologne, Leeds, Dublin #1 in 93)... Simply put The Greatest Show On Earth... nothing will ever touch it.
You nailed it, it was a conceptual concert. And it was brilliant. Worked so well. Fun fact, Edge is married to the belly dancer. They met on this tour.
Achtung Baby is their best album imo. I saw U2 live for one of the Rattle and Hum shows in 1987, and then the Pop Mart tour in 1997. I saw Pop Mart twice in 1997, two different cities, Rage Against The Machine opened both shows. All amazing concerts and stage concepts.
I saw this show in Leeds (England) in 1992 and afterwards I was absolutely shattered physically and mentally from the intense onslaught of the sound and visuals. Amazing, never felt like that before or since.
This was not only a concept concert tour but nothing like this had ever been done before. They reignited rock concert tours by upping the quality, the largeness & the power coming from the stage. The wall of TVs was mind-blowing at the time! This tour almost bankrupted them but they didn't care. They toured with ZooTV for 2 years around the world promoting Achtung Baby....& in the middle of the tour they recorded the album Zooropa. Just a friggin wonderful LIVE band!!
I saw this show at the Silverdome. Bono called a local pizza joint and ordered 100 pizzas. Near the end of the show the delivery kid walked on stage (I don't think he knew he'd be up there) with the pies and Bono tossed them into the crowd like Frisbees. I actually got a slice. Wild. Check out the '83 Red Rocks show. Epic!
Such a great band! U2 was always on the cutting edge since my young adulthood. Loved seeing these songs live, thank you for this reaction Lee! I enjoyed the hell out of it. Check out Desire by them.
U2 is known to put on a hell of a show. i totally recommend watching the whole zooTV show in sydney but specifically, "bullet the blue sky/running to stand still" and "daddy's going to pay for your crashed car/lemon/with or without you;" all from the zooTV sydney show.
When U2 were way ahead of their time and reached a point in live performance very few others ever have or ever will reach, Pink Floyd, Queen, ACDC, Rolling Stones are the only other bands i have seen that reach the same level.
@@DrStrangelove3891 Thank you! The link disappeared, but I checked it out before it did. I remembered seeing it before after I did. They were very young there! Good concert. U2 is a band that have always been just amazing live.
@lauraallen55 I had a feeling you would be here. Last time during the love is blindness we had a good chat if you remember. I'm the one that has Larry's drumsticks. I hope he does the wanderer. Have you ever seen the mysterious ways video with his daughter Eve? Sweet video. Keep up the U2; love😊
It is amazing how relevant Zoo TV is nowadays. The idea with the flashing words on screen was about information overload as 24/7 news channels became the norm in the 90s. Literally just the same nowadays with social media.
Achtung Baby is an absolutely amazing album, especially given that it's sound was such a "left turn" from the one that championed the band's 80s domination. They literally rewrote their approach to music, and OMG did it work!!!
I saw U2 on the Zoo TV concert tour at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison Wisconsin, and it was GLORIOUS! It was definitely a concept concert, and the displays were amazing! Please listen to U2 and B.B. King performing "When Love Comes To Town" ... pretty PLEASE?!?! Also, "Bullet The Blue Sky" and "Pride (In The Name Of Love" by U2 are fantastic! And in your own time, listen to the studio versions of these two songs. I know you think you've heard "Mysterious Ways", but I bet it sounds better to your ears today than it did then.
@@blanetalk I read once that Bono said one of the reasons he didn't double track his vocals is that he can't remember how he sings something from one time to the next. :D You're right that he doesn't need to! Nice to see you again, by the way! It's interesting that we like a lot of the same music. :)
He's done Pride. Someone requested it a month or so ago. I saw it, and his reaction. His reaction was good, and he liked it, but he was kind of saying how it was expected for an 'arena rock band'. I joined his Patreon just so I could request Love is Blindness from ZooTv LMAO! Bullet the Blue Sky is the best song from The Joshua Tree (unpopular opinion though that is lol!), and When Love Comes to Town is soooo good! You can always request one of those ;) I can only afford to request so many per month or I would request so many U2 and Beatles lol! Yes, he would likely enjoy MW and some other U2 more than before now that he's seen a side of U2 he didn't know before. :)
Saw them at the old Wembley Stadium - he called Lady Diana that night and sang Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called To Say I Love You” to her answer phone. Still remember how cold it suddenly got when they played Love Is Blindness, like they planned it or something. Amazing tour. Heard it was costing them so much money to run each day that it only broke even because the merchandise sold well (Zoo Condoms anyone?). Also the first band to have the B stage concept which originally was there just for the video cameras.
You should check out Under a blood red sky (Live at Red Rocks). Bono's voice is beyond belief !! What a concert that must have been. Of course Zoo TV is one of the greatest production ever put together. Brilliant !!
U2 - End of the World (live Rosebowl or Slane Castle) U2 - Surrender U2 - Spanish Eyes U2 - Wire U2 - Refugee U2 - Do You Feel Loved U2 - Red Hill Mining Town U2 - Bullet the Blue Sky
Yes! Been waiting for you to hit up a little U2. Especially Achtung Baby and Zoo Station. It’s like when the Beatles hit the psychedelic era. But, OMG! That performance of Mysterious Ways was just incredible! That dancer, with Bono was everything!
Saw this U2 show in Philly during their Zoo TV Tour. Apart from the great music, the visual show was amazing! There were huge flaming cauldrons, belly dancers on ramps, lasers galore and VW buses hoisted on cranes and used as moving spotlights. Actually, the whole Achtung Baby album was great and worth a listen if you like U2. Looking forward to the reaction!
I would give my left arm so to speak to have been able to see ZooTv! Achtung Baby is such a great album. I've worn out a couple copies of the CD lol! Lee has reacted to Pride and then I requested Love is Blindness from Zoo that he saw last month. I'm working my way through AB/Zoo lol! I need to choose a video for One one of the days...
Lee’s pending video got me to revisit the album for the first time in a hot minute (as they say today). I was going to recommend my favorite tracks, but I couldn’t choose…they are all very good songs and each different. One is a great ballad and became the theme of my life when I was getting divorced and was heart broken…”You act like you never had love, and you want me to go without.” Lee will love this album, especially the percussion in send of the World. Great stuff. U2 was at their zenith!
@@robertmoraga1501 That's interesting that you were going through a divorce at the time a The Edge was as well. Also, U2 were on the verge of splitting up, too. I have this CD on constant rotation in my car, that's how much I love it lol! Lee was introduced to the album with Love is Blindness - *possibly* my favorite from AB. It changes depending what I'm listening to. I try to pick a worst song and usually go with Wild Horses, and then immediately say to myself 'but his vocals are just killer on that, it cant' be the 'worst' anything'. The last three songs are so good. I almost did them as a triple request. Just love Ultraviolet, Acrobat, LiB. Yeah, Lee would really dig Until the End of the World!
@@olias056 How was Pop? I'm not your typical U2 fan in love with The Joshua Tree. I like Achtung Baby, Pop, War, Boy more than that one (save for Bullet the Blue Sky).
Not going to say it was THE best concert tour ever, but it's right up there. I saw Zoo TV in Germany and then a couple of times in London and it was perfect each time. Bombastic? Overblown? Pretentious even? Yeah sure... but it transcended all that. It was awesome, in the purest sense of that word. A sensory overload that just took your breath away and left you euphoric and slack-jawed staring into space as the sound and images flowed through you. Mind-blowing stuff.
@talldarkviking Actually, the old expression is: “God moves in mysterious ways.” Bono didn’t pinch it, per se, rather he adapted/updated it by changing a key word. God -> She. (And if you hear him talk about the meaning of the song, you’ll understand why.)
Fantastic choice from your patreon. I went to this show at Wembley stadium and I gotta say out of the 120 or so gigs I’ve been to this was the best. U2 were at the height of their powers on this tour. Nobody to touch them live imo.
I'm the patron (not patreon 😋) who requested it, thanks! I also requested Love is Blindness and Lee covered that one a month or so ago. :) I never got to see the Zoo tour, sadly. From the looks of it, it had to be their absolute best! I did see them for Elevation, and last December at the Sphere. That was pretty amazing! I agree with you that no one touches them live. They are just so good. Achtung Baby is my favorite album of theirs, by far. :)
@@russellsearch7925 Yep, that was me! In fact, I joined Lee's Patreon in order to request it as he only knew the 'rock arena' side of them. Thank you! So do you. :)
This whole concert is amazing start to finish. Until the End of the World and then the transition into New Years Day are two of my favorite songs from this concert. You can really just feel the crowd get super pumped up. One of the emotional peaks of the concert is another pair of back to back songs, Running to Stand Still and Where the Streets Have No Name. Their acoustic mini set from the b-stage where they play Angel of Harlem and Stay (far away, so close) is also fantastic.
their zoo tv tour changed concert performance not just for them but other bands too like the rolling stones. nobody else did a show like this before this
You are watching bits of one of the greatest tours ever. U2 is a great live band. Once you have the chance listen to some of their studio tracks. They have fantastic production. And Edge is one of those orchestrating guitarists. He layers guitars.
oh also!!! you're right on the money. the tour's concept was inspired by disparate television programming, the desensitizing effect of mass media, and "morning zoo" radio shows. bono had a remote which he used to watch TV during the shows did prank calls (most of the calls involved calling george bush, pizza places, taxi services), video confessionals, a belly dancer (who was the edge's wife!) and so much more. bono also portrayed multiple different characters during the show such as the fly (leather jacket + glasses) that poked fun at people calling him an egomaniac rockstar, mirrorball man (silver lame suit + cowboy hat) which was an overexaggerated portrayal of southern americans. mirrorball man was soon replaced by macphisto (devil horns + gold lame suit) at the end of the tour. and macphisto.. is of course, the devil. self-explanatory. i hope that explains a bit more of the getup and the stage itself.
U2 concerts are always beyond epic! This was my first U2 concert after having been a fan since the Boy album. Achtung Baby is in my car’s cd player right now😎
Soooo jealous! Have seen Elevation and the Sphere, and those were great, but always bemoaned the fact I never saw Zoo. Achtung Baby is always on rotation in my car CD player 😁
@@lauraallen55 it really was great! Honestly, I’ve never been disappointed by U2. I’ve also been to the Elevation and Vertigo concerts. My only regret is not having seen them in the early days.
I saw U2 a couple of times in Europe. But these Zoo TV shows were mind-blowing. My friend knew one of their roadies. The stage took 7 semi trucks to move.
Hey Lee - I really recommend their official video of "Where The Streets Have No Name". Not only one of my favorite U2 songs, but also an awesome video shoot of their own version of The Beatles rooftop gig, but on top of a liquor store in downtown LA. Seeing the surprise of loud rock ambushing the neighborhood and the mayhem that ensued is just priceless !
You should just go ahead and watch the entire zoo tv show. It's amazing all the way thru. The section after the B-stage sequence- dirty day, bullet the blue sky, running to a stand still, streets have no name is transcendent.
I love U2. They were in my top 5 favorite bands but i guess over time they’ve dropped down to 8 or 9). I’ve seen them live 3 times. I missed the Zooropa tour but saw the next one, Popmart. There’s a song from that tour that is very emotional named “Please”. Bono sings his heart out. The live version from the dvd from Mexico City is the one you want.
The background to the album Achtung Baby was the fall of the Berlin Wall and consequently the end of the Cold War; The album was recorded in Berlin. ZOO TV dealt with the media coverage of the Iraq War, which was broadcast directly on US and British television in particular, and generally with the slogan overstimulation on television; media George Orwell. During the Outdoor Zoo TV Tour, war broke out in Yugoslavia. During the Bologna concert, Bono went directly to the war zone in Sarajevo, primarily to inform Europeans and the whole world about the civilian tragedy. The Zoo TV tour was groundbreaking at the time, a multimedia show, a departure into concert gigantism, but also a tightrope walk. You can also fall, something U2 had to experience themselves. After The Sphere we are waiting for the next album and we ask ourselves, does The Edge still want/can compose rock?!?
Note: the edge ended up marrying the belly dancer. Great book by Anthony De Cutis, U2 At The End Of The World, that documents the finishing of achtung baby thruvthe end of the zoo rv tour. thrubthe
U2 earned its rep by putting on great live shows. They're called posers and sellouts and whatever after The Joshua Tree, but they'd ground the shit out of it the hard way before that breakthrough, so I'd say that they have earned everything after.
Have a sense some of these concepts for live performance would have been influenced from some Prince concerts in the late 1980's.Especially the Sign O the Times video concert concepts. Saw U2 at the MCG on this same tour in Australia. around 1993. MCG is fantastic for sport but not ideal for outdoor concerts. U2 were facing a massive grandstand where most of the audience were and I remember the sound was a bit weird. I think sound waves bouncing off the massive grandstand was not ideal but with the weird guitar distortion effects a lot of audience probably thought it was meant to sound that way. I actually enjoyed the video concert recorded in Sydney from the same tour because the sound was nowhere near messed up to the ears.
The concept was Elvis hitting his shit up early doors hence black leather then gold lame jacket at the end channelling Bowie…to tragedy 🔥🔥🔥fuckin genius
@@lauraallen55 I can only hope. It would be fabulous to see him react to those two songs. He said they would go to the front of the line. Fingers are crossed.
Yeah, it’s a conceptual concert. Maybe not the first but it might be. Bono certainly grabs some Bowie inspiration by stepping into different characters throughout the show but nobody had ever taken on the topic of media and technology before. This was such a weird and amazing time from about 92 - 96. The internet kind of exist but nobody realy knows what it is.. most people have never sent an email but within a year almost everyone will do it all the time. Only the .1% have cell phones but everyone will within two or three years. We are only 2 or three years away from Napster and file sharing and the end of the traditional music model..ohh and the world’s second largest super power disintegrates overnight. All of this is going on and U2 are trying to figure out where it’s going and what it media means and has meant to the world. It’s also insane and impossible to understand how crazy it was for U2 to make this album and put on this huge gregarious glorious show. For more than a decade they were known as the earnest, serious, 3 chords and the truth kind of band and then they do this and it’s fucking amazing. I am not comparing Taylor Swift to U2 but it’s the only artist I can think of right now who has that kind of world wide, can fill a stadium anywhere in the world for a decade level of stardom. Now imagine that at the end of her current tour, she waves goodbye and says..I’m taking a break but I will be back and I will be different. Then two years later she releases a psychedelic heavy metal dance album. It’s something totally new to mainstream radio and her fanbase…now imagine that album turns into one of the best albums ever made. That might not even be enough of an exaggeration to do the truth justice. We have gotten used to things changing and moving and evolving faster and faster but up until the early nineties the world was really just moving from stop light to stop light. This is the point in history where we exited onto the interstate, downshifting and merging into a new flow, and Achtung Baby is CD you just slid into the deck for the ride.
U2 reinvented concerts, love or hate them, they push the boundaries of music, sometimes it doesn't come off. But fuck me at least they don't keep churning out the same sound like other bands, who have hit album and keep doing the same
"Mysterious Ways" has some of the dirtiest guitar tone The Edge ever unleashed - even better in the solo on the original track. The contrast between the rattling wah-wah guitar and those bottom keyboard pedal points gets me every time - aurally its a bit like a howling dog running around in a labyrinth of slowly moving mirrors... :) th-cam.com/video/5mP9-FAyjOE/w-d-xo.html And yes, an amazing tour, very visual and with bold concepts. It took real courage to make a fresh start in this way after they had become so huge in the 1980s and produced a string of great albums that still stand up to this day - I remember when "The Fly" came out, as the first single of the "new U2" in the fall of 1991, and some reviewers wrote "this is crap! Bono has completely lost it, even his voice!". No. he hadn't... :)
@@L33Reacts Yes. It was, very. Roger Waters does similar on his giant wall. Or Wall 😂. It’s extremely affecting and effective. With Rog, of course, he has insight into propaganda and brainwashing in some way, and these are major themes he explored. A lot of his music speaks to that. Many of these words and phrases seem out of the programming playbook. But yeah. I’ve seen the MKUltra footage and a lot more similar. I’m fascinated with all that stuff. I find it genuinely disturbing to watch, and to square that it really happened and what we know of actual events and history is to draw odd conclusions about perceived reality.
I like U2. A lot of people do not, thinking Bono and even the Edge and the band in general, as pretentious. Vocalist Scott Stapp of Creed has an ego liked you described.
They were/are. One of my least-favorite records is Joshua Tree. Self-righteous drivel. Early stuff like Sunday Bloody Sunday was brilliant though, as is this ❤
@@mattleppard1964 Were we separated at birth? My favorites of theirs are Achtung Baby far and away over the rest. After that, I like War and Boy. :) I don't really think of them as pretentious, really, but then I know a lot about them as people. Their humanitarian work alone is really something.
@@lauraallen55 That old stuff is gold, but this album was stellar. I’m sure they have done a lot of good - they put their money where their mouths are. Bono is an easy target, whether by accident or design 😂 Above all, they are very talented, but not always my cup of tea. When they worshipped ABBA and played Dancing Queen, they won my heart, though. A homage to the simple but tremendous uniting power of all music ❤️
@@mattleppard1964 Yes, Bono is an easy target. It is by accident, but he is aware that his ego could get the better of him, and he worked on it. A lot of celebrities with big egos think they deserve to feel that way about themselves, but Bono never did. He and the rest really do have a lot of humility. It has to be challenging to become that big. He married and is still married to his childhood sweetheart. That says something in itself. Anyone who loves ABBA can't be all bad!
They were playing into the whole rock star thing. This was their response to being told they took themselves too seriously after The Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum. It was all done for the craic of it.
A concert with a theme: also known as a musical. I know I’ll get hate for this, but this is one of my least favorite U2 periods. I also saw the Zoo TV stop in Philadelphia, and the whole thing just seemed so… rehearsed. It’s just personal preference, but I guess I just like my rock and roll concerts to have some spontaneity to them. That show, you could practically see Edge counting down to a point in a song when “Here’s where I do my little jump in the air each night”. And of all the superlatives I’ve seen tossed Bono’s way, “genuine” has never been one of them, particularly when he’s literally masquerading as an alter ego. Achtung Baby is loaded with good and great songs, with a few actual masterpieces thrown in to boot. But that whole tour just seemed disingenuous. And I know that was partially the point. They were “mocking” the artifice of the rock n’ roll lifestyle. My problem was that they maybe did too good a job of that, where it seemed that rather than ridiculing it, they accidentally steered into embracing it.
No hate (well maybe a little for the diss about Bono), but that is exactly what they were doing - mocking. If they did such a good job of it that they were believed, then that says something about their talent in my book. This was a concept concert. Lee said he thinks Bono is genuine, not that the persona of The Fly or Mr. MacPhisto were. I believe that Bono and the rest of U2 are genuine indeed, based on everything I know about them. It's a shame so many people who truly know little about him think of Bono in the way you apparently do. He is quite a good person as are all of them. I expect they, particularly Bono, have done more good for humanity in general than most celebrities. If you've never heard 'genuine' 'tossed' Bono's way, you must not get into them much because there are a lot of folks who see that in him. It's there if you look and want to see it. ;) You might consider requesting U2 performances that you like. I requested these two plus Love is Blindness from Zoo because Lee had only ever heard their big radio hits. It was a way to show him that there is another side to them that he may like to explore. He happened to love LiB so I requested these two as well. I plan to request a couple more from Zoo as well, so you may want to skip those. After that, I have plans to request some lives from various concerts that I think he will like. I like to get a feel for what a reactor enjoys; thus these specific songs and from this tour were requested.
It was supposed to be dripping in irony. You, apparently, weren’t in on the joke. And if you think bands don’t rehearse almost every “spontaneous” move, I have a bridge to sell you.
It’s not controversial to say that Bono has an image problem. A decent majority of the population thinks he is a humorless, self-important, sanctimonious prat. You can say it’s an intentional act, and that he’s truly a kind-hearted, humble, benevolent philosopher. I’m sure the truth lies somewhere in between. Personally, I think he has some important things to say, and I think he’s generally a force for good in the world. I also think he’d probably be insufferable to have a beer with. As for the seemingly rehearsed performances of U2’s Zoo TV era versus other bands, I think that’s pretty cynical. I also think it’s an incredibly incorrect statement. But even assuming that you’re 100% correct and the vast majority of bands have choreographed their shows, it still doesn’t change my opinion that U2, during that specific era, was so rehearsed that their performances were inauthentic. At least all these other bands you claim are going through specific motions have the skill to make it seem organic. Or maybe you’ve never been to see a decent live band before. I don’t know. But either way, in my opinion, U2 still put on a stiff, unnatural show during the Zoo TV tour. If you liked it, that’s your opinion. It doesn’t make either of us right or wrong. That’s the thing about music. It’s pretty subjective.
@@finnle Every major act is a rehearsed and slick machine. That’s just how it works at that level. Even bands I’ve played in rehearsed every aspect of a gig. Making something look effortless and authentic takes a lot of rehearsal. And apparently Bono is a hoot in real life and genuinely nice.
@@finnle Bono had an image problem. Doesn't make it deserved. ZooTv was very much in * need * of being rehearsed. They were doing something very specific, and it required that, I believe. It was different from anything anyone was doing at the time. If you look at most other U2 performances, they are - by FAR - more spontaneous than most any performer/s I've ever seen. There are loads of videos of live performances out there of theirs showing that to be true. For that reason alone, it tells me that they felt - as I do - that Zoo needed to be rehearsed. They were doing specific things, as specific personas that they wanted to get across. I can't fault them for that. It's far better than to want to convey what they wanted to convey and not rehearse or plan much. I think the show and the message may have easily gotten lost if they hadn't done so much rehearsing what they wanted to get across. Maybe if you read Surrender you will have a better idea of who Bono is. Yes, I believe fully that he is truly a 'kind-hearted, humble, benevolent philosopher'. I say I believe it based on what I know of him as opposed to 'I'm sure of it' as you do. You are * sure * it's somewhere in between when you are lacking evidence. Liking ZooTv isn't an opinion, really. It's more of an emotion or fact of opinion . An opinion would be thinking it was good. I see so many people say 'I love' such and such, and someone else saying they agree. How can one agree another person loves something? Anyway, I digress.
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U2's Zoo TV tour was the greatest tour of all-time
You are correct. Luckily saw it 3 times. One indoors and 2 outdoor stadium shows.
@@nianfiedler9691Fully agree! Caught 4 myself, one indoor (Sheffield 92), and three outdoor Zooropa gigs (Cologne, Leeds, Dublin #1 in 93)... Simply put The Greatest Show On Earth... nothing will ever touch it.
I saw this show in Anaheim, CA.
Edge married the belly dancer from that tour.
@@smackeyeI was at the Leeds show! Rounday park,what a day and night that was,Sterio mc’s we’re supporting if I remember rightly
yeah §§ by far!!
You nailed it, it was a conceptual concert.
And it was brilliant. Worked so well.
Fun fact, Edge is married to the belly dancer. They met on this tour.
U2 are known for their live performances, such a great great band. They really are an important band, so glad you're appreciating them!!!
The belly dancer is Morleigh Steinberg. The Edge started dating her during this tour, they got Married in 2002 and are still together today.
Get the heck out! For real.
@@glenndespres5317 Yup
Achtung Baby is their best album imo. I saw U2 live for one of the Rattle and Hum shows in 1987, and then the Pop Mart tour in 1997. I saw Pop Mart twice in 1997, two different cities, Rage Against The Machine opened both shows. All amazing concerts and stage concepts.
Saw pop mart in clemson sc with rage opening. Rage seemed so small on that stage. Then u2 cane out and just filled the stage completely
Best description of Edge's guitar style is by Jimmy page who called him a sonic architect.
I saw this show in Leeds (England) in 1992 and afterwards I was absolutely shattered physically and mentally from the intense onslaught of the sound and visuals. Amazing, never felt like that before or since.
While video walls are common place now, this was cutting edge in 1992-93. U2 basically pioneered this stage concept.
This was not only a concept concert tour but nothing like this had ever been done before. They reignited rock concert tours by upping the quality, the largeness & the power coming from the stage. The wall of TVs was mind-blowing at the time! This tour almost bankrupted them but they didn't care. They toured with ZooTV for 2 years around the world promoting Achtung Baby....& in the middle of the tour they recorded the album Zooropa. Just a friggin wonderful LIVE band!!
I saw this show at the Silverdome. Bono called a local pizza joint and ordered 100 pizzas. Near the end of the show the delivery kid walked on stage (I don't think he knew he'd be up there) with the pies and Bono tossed them into the crowd like Frisbees. I actually got a slice. Wild. Check out the '83 Red Rocks show. Epic!
That was raw U2 though at Red Rocks - this is a lot more polished,
Bono blew out his voice on this tour, but it was worth it. Some of the best shows I have ever seen, by anyone
Such a great band! U2 was always on the cutting edge since my young adulthood. Loved seeing these songs live, thank you for this reaction Lee! I enjoyed the hell out of it. Check out Desire by them.
Hey dawn!! Glad you enjoyed it. I had a great time with this.
U2 is known to put on a hell of a show. i totally recommend watching the whole zooTV show in sydney but specifically, "bullet the blue sky/running to stand still" and "daddy's going to pay for your crashed car/lemon/with or without you;" all from the zooTV sydney show.
They reprised part of that show on the Vertigo tour with even bigger screens. Mindblowing.
When U2 were way ahead of their time and reached a point in live performance very few others ever have or ever will reach, Pink Floyd, Queen, ACDC, Rolling Stones are the only other bands i have seen that reach the same level.
Woo hoo! Can't wait! 🤩
Thank you for the time slot
This is the concert I meant Laura (edit: link to Rock Werchter 1982 disappeared)
@@DrStrangelove3891 Thank you! The link disappeared, but I checked it out before it did. I remembered seeing it before after I did. They were very young there! Good concert. U2 is a band that have always been just amazing live.
@lauraallen55 I had a feeling you would be here. Last time during the love is blindness we had a good chat if you remember. I'm the one that has Larry's drumsticks. I hope he does the wanderer. Have you ever seen the mysterious ways video with his daughter Eve? Sweet video. Keep up the U2; love😊
Thanks Laura, love it!!!
@@ohfour-seven6228 I didn't know he'd do it so soon, but apparently he really likes this side of them!
It is amazing how relevant Zoo TV is nowadays. The idea with the flashing words on screen was about information overload as 24/7 news channels became the norm in the 90s. Literally just the same nowadays with social media.
Achtung Baby is an absolutely amazing album, especially given that it's sound was such a "left turn" from the one that championed the band's 80s domination. They literally rewrote their approach to music, and OMG did it work!!!
I saw U2 on the Zoo TV concert tour at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison Wisconsin, and it was GLORIOUS! It was definitely a concept concert, and the displays were amazing!
Please listen to U2 and B.B. King performing "When Love Comes To Town" ... pretty PLEASE?!?! Also, "Bullet The Blue Sky" and "Pride (In The Name Of Love" by U2 are fantastic!
And in your own time, listen to the studio versions of these two songs. I know you think you've heard "Mysterious Ways", but I bet it sounds better to your ears today than it did then.
Also, I once heard Rick Beato say that Bono is one of the few vocalists who never doubles himself in studio... he just doesn't need to!
@@blanetalk I read once that Bono said one of the reasons he didn't double track his vocals is that he can't remember how he sings something from one time to the next. :D You're right that he doesn't need to!
Nice to see you again, by the way! It's interesting that we like a lot of the same music. :)
He's done Pride. Someone requested it a month or so ago. I saw it, and his reaction. His reaction was good, and he liked it, but he was kind of saying how it was expected for an 'arena rock band'. I joined his Patreon just so I could request Love is Blindness from ZooTv LMAO!
Bullet the Blue Sky is the best song from The Joshua Tree (unpopular opinion though that is lol!), and When Love Comes to Town is soooo good! You can always request one of those ;) I can only afford to request so many per month or I would request so many U2 and Beatles lol!
Yes, he would likely enjoy MW and some other U2 more than before now that he's seen a side of U2 he didn't know before. :)
Drummer reacts to "(Pride) In The Name of Love" by U2
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Bono is a fantastic vocalist and an even better dude. I tip my hat to him and his work.
The whole album is fire,a nice selection of songs
Running to Stand Still is another gobsmacking performance from that concert! Gives me chills every time.
Lee, check out U2 on their legendary Red Rocks concert video from 1983! Here's "New Year's Day": th-cam.com/video/0tXnyF69d-4/w-d-xo.html
NYD and the concert at Red Rocks is incredible!
Saw them at the old Wembley Stadium - he called Lady Diana that night and sang Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called To Say I Love You” to her answer phone. Still remember how cold it suddenly got when they played Love Is Blindness, like they planned it or something. Amazing tour.
Heard it was costing them so much money to run each day that it only broke even because the merchandise sold well (Zoo Condoms anyone?). Also the first band to have the B stage concept which originally was there just for the video cameras.
This was terrific ... what a jam!
You should check out Under a blood red sky (Live at Red Rocks). Bono's voice is beyond belief !! What a concert that must have been. Of course Zoo TV is one of the greatest production ever put together. Brilliant !!
U2 - End of the World (live Rosebowl or Slane Castle)
U2 - Surrender
U2 - Spanish Eyes
U2 - Wire
U2 - Refugee
U2 - Do You Feel Loved
U2 - Red Hill Mining Town
U2 - Bullet the Blue Sky
Yes! Been waiting for you to hit up a little U2. Especially Achtung Baby and Zoo Station. It’s like when the Beatles hit the psychedelic era.
But, OMG! That performance of Mysterious Ways was just incredible! That dancer, with Bono was everything!
I've been requesting the ZooTv performances as fast as I can afford to lol!
Saw this U2 show in Philly during their Zoo TV Tour. Apart from the great music, the visual show was amazing! There were huge flaming cauldrons, belly dancers on ramps, lasers galore and VW buses hoisted on cranes and used as moving spotlights. Actually, the whole Achtung Baby album was great and worth a listen if you like U2. Looking forward to the reaction!
I would give my left arm so to speak to have been able to see ZooTv! Achtung Baby is such a great album. I've worn out a couple copies of the CD lol! Lee has reacted to Pride and then I requested Love is Blindness from Zoo that he saw last month. I'm working my way through AB/Zoo lol! I need to choose a video for One one of the days...
Lee’s pending video got me to revisit the album for the first time in a hot minute (as they say today). I was going to recommend my favorite tracks, but I couldn’t choose…they are all very good songs and each different. One is a great ballad and became the theme of my life when I was getting divorced and was heart broken…”You act like you never had love, and you want me to go without.” Lee will love this album, especially the percussion in send of the World. Great stuff. U2 was at their zenith!
I saw them for Zoo TV and Pop in St. Louis
@@robertmoraga1501 That's interesting that you were going through a divorce at the time a The Edge was as well. Also, U2 were on the verge of splitting up, too.
I have this CD on constant rotation in my car, that's how much I love it lol!
Lee was introduced to the album with Love is Blindness - *possibly* my favorite from AB. It changes depending what I'm listening to. I try to pick a worst song and usually go with Wild Horses, and then immediately say to myself 'but his vocals are just killer on that, it cant' be the 'worst' anything'.
The last three songs are so good. I almost did them as a triple request. Just love Ultraviolet, Acrobat, LiB.
Yeah, Lee would really dig Until the End of the World!
@@olias056 How was Pop? I'm not your typical U2 fan in love with The Joshua Tree. I like Achtung Baby, Pop, War, Boy more than that one (save for Bullet the Blue Sky).
This tour was for Achtung Baby. The Zooropa album was released during the Zoo TV world tour. The next tour included the giant Lemon on stage
Not going to say it was THE best concert tour ever, but it's right up there. I saw Zoo TV in Germany and then a couple of times in London and it was perfect each time. Bombastic? Overblown? Pretentious even? Yeah sure... but it transcended all that. It was awesome, in the purest sense of that word. A sensory overload that just took your breath away and left you euphoric and slack-jawed staring into space as the sound and images flowed through you. Mind-blowing stuff.
I really have always wished that I could have seen it. Closest I came was at The Sphere last December.
"She moves in mysterious ways..."
It's an old expression - and Bono pinched it 😊
@talldarkviking Actually, the old expression is: “God moves in mysterious ways.” Bono didn’t pinch it, per se, rather he adapted/updated it by changing a key word. God -> She. (And if you hear him talk about the meaning of the song, you’ll understand why.)
Fantastic choice from your patreon. I went to this show at Wembley stadium and I gotta say out of the 120 or so gigs I’ve been to this was the best. U2 were at the height of their powers on this tour. Nobody to touch them live imo.
I'm the patron (not patreon 😋) who requested it, thanks! I also requested Love is Blindness and Lee covered that one a month or so ago. :)
I never got to see the Zoo tour, sadly. From the looks of it, it had to be their absolute best! I did see them for Elevation, and last December at the Sphere. That was pretty amazing! I agree with you that no one touches them live. They are just so good. Achtung Baby is my favorite album of theirs, by far. :)
@@lauraallen55 oh I did wonder if you also requested Love is Blindness, another brilliant choice. You have great taste Laura!!
@@russellsearch7925 Yep, that was me! In fact, I joined Lee's Patreon in order to request it as he only knew the 'rock arena' side of them.
Thank you! So do you. :)
This whole concert is amazing start to finish. Until the End of the World and then the transition into New Years Day are two of my favorite songs from this concert. You can really just feel the crowd get super pumped up.
One of the emotional peaks of the concert is another pair of back to back songs, Running to Stand Still and Where the Streets Have No Name.
Their acoustic mini set from the b-stage where they play Angel of Harlem and Stay (far away, so close) is also fantastic.
great show. The studio album produced by Eno, and much of U2 sound
their zoo tv tour changed concert performance not just for them but other bands too like the rolling stones. nobody else did a show like this before this
The Edge's wife was the first dancer they used for this song. That's how they met. U2 live is always next level.
I was at this concert in Sydney, great band.
My favourite band! I just wish I could time travel to experience this tour
Me too! I so wanted to have seen this.
Welcome to the world created by Achtung Baby, imo the best album ever written
You are correct
@@nianfiedler9691 Two correct answers in a row!
Zoo TV tour was in 1993 but it still looks & sounds better than anything since. Cheers.
The girl belly dancing in this concert became the Edge’s wife. The tour was called “Zoo TV tour”.
u2 doing ver tang n doing it so well, mysterious ways was sublime.........
Changed the game with art
That’s why U2 are one of the greatest rock band in the history
Saw ZooTV 3 times…pinnacle of cool for Western civilization.
Rock and roll is entertainment 👌
Mad to think this tour was in 92/93. Would still blow your mind today . That’s how far infront Zoo Tv was
I was there at the California Angels stadium in Nov, 1992 , the Zootvtour was like nothing I've ever seen, grandiose.
Looking forward to this
You are watching bits of one of the greatest tours ever. U2 is a great live band.
Once you have the chance listen to some of their studio tracks. They have fantastic production. And Edge is one of those orchestrating guitarists. He layers guitars.
oh also!!! you're right on the money. the tour's concept was inspired by disparate television programming, the desensitizing effect of mass media, and "morning zoo" radio shows. bono had a remote which he used to watch TV during the shows did prank calls (most of the calls involved calling george bush, pizza places, taxi services), video confessionals, a belly dancer (who was the edge's wife!) and so much more. bono also portrayed multiple different characters during the show such as the fly (leather jacket + glasses) that poked fun at people calling him an egomaniac rockstar, mirrorball man (silver lame suit + cowboy hat) which was an overexaggerated portrayal of southern americans. mirrorball man was soon replaced by macphisto (devil horns + gold lame suit) at the end of the tour. and macphisto.. is of course, the devil. self-explanatory. i hope that explains a bit more of the getup and the stage itself.
U2 concerts are always beyond epic! This was my first U2 concert after having been a fan since the Boy album. Achtung Baby is in my car’s cd player right now😎
Soooo jealous! Have seen Elevation and the Sphere, and those were great, but always bemoaned the fact I never saw Zoo. Achtung Baby is always on rotation in my car CD player 😁
@@lauraallen55 it really was great! Honestly, I’ve never been disappointed by U2. I’ve also been to the Elevation and Vertigo concerts. My only regret is not having seen them in the early days.
@@leannmiller7153 Same here! I can't imagine them being disappointing really. I so wish I'd seen them back when they were brand new. lol!
Watched Rory Gallagher last night and this morning U2. The Irish!!❤️.
Next one is Gary Moore? :)
Rory Gallagher you say? He will be gracing our screens tomorrow on here as well. How did you know? lol
@@L33Reacts Stop my beating heart!!! No idea he would be on tomorrow...he's a kindred spirit to me. . can't wait... excited to see what you play ❤️
I saw they 4 times on tour and for me they are amazing. I love Achtung Baby album
I saw U2 a couple of times in Europe. But these Zoo TV shows were mind-blowing. My friend knew one of their roadies. The stage took 7 semi trucks to move.
Hey Lee - I really recommend their official video of "Where The Streets Have No Name". Not only one of my favorite U2 songs, but also an awesome video shoot of their own version of The Beatles rooftop gig, but on top of a liquor store in downtown LA. Seeing the surprise of loud rock ambushing the neighborhood and the mayhem that ensued is just priceless !
You should just go ahead and watch the entire zoo tv show. It's amazing all the way thru. The section after the B-stage sequence- dirty day, bullet the blue sky, running to a stand still, streets have no name is transcendent.
I love U2. They were in my top 5 favorite bands but i guess over time they’ve dropped down to 8 or 9). I’ve seen them live 3 times. I missed the Zooropa tour but saw the next one, Popmart. There’s a song from that tour that is very emotional named “Please”. Bono sings his heart out. The live version from the dvd from Mexico City is the one you want.
Joshua Tree is U2's greatest album, with War a close second. Thanks Lee.
Achtung Baby is U2's greatest album with War a not-so-close second lol!
Zoo TV kicked it all off what concerts are today. The screens, the B stage, the things we all take for granted today all stemmed from this tour
Watch Zoo Station from this show. It’s the opening song and it’s the greatest opening to any concerts ever.
I came * this * close to requesting the opener. lol!
Look for Bullet the blue sky (U2) live from Paris, that will blow your mind for sure!
Best thing U2 did. Savage and raw. Their best era for me and the only U2 album I ever owned ❤
I love love love Achtung Baby!
This album and especially ZOOROPA are my favorite U2 albums.
It still sounds like the future.
You may as well watch the whole show now, especially Running to Stand Still/Where the Streets Have No Name.
The background to the album Achtung Baby was the fall of the Berlin Wall and consequently the end of the Cold War; The album was recorded in Berlin. ZOO TV dealt with the media coverage of the Iraq War, which was broadcast directly on US and British television in particular, and generally with the slogan overstimulation on television; media George Orwell. During the Outdoor Zoo TV Tour, war broke out in Yugoslavia. During the Bologna concert, Bono went directly to the war zone in Sarajevo, primarily to inform Europeans and the whole world about the civilian tragedy.
The Zoo TV tour was groundbreaking at the time, a multimedia show, a departure into concert gigantism, but also a tightrope walk. You can also fall, something U2 had to experience themselves.
After The Sphere we are waiting for the next album and we ask ourselves, does The Edge still want/can compose rock?!?
They are the greatest fuckn band ever! Specially live!
No one touches them live, that's for sure!
Note: the edge ended up marrying the belly dancer.
Great book by Anthony De Cutis, U2 At The End Of The World, that documents the finishing of achtung baby thruvthe end of the zoo rv tour. thrubthe
The lady dancing was married to The Edge (guitarist) at the time
You should watch zoo station u2 live Sydney best opening for any concert
I'm requesting them as I can! you could always request one :) Yes, that is the best opening to a show ever!
@@lauraallen55 honestly have him just watch the whole show! It’s just incredible! Once he watches it all we can request Pop Mart live in Mexico
@@BradJensenArt I sent him the DVD!
Best Tour ever!!
U2 earned its rep by putting on great live shows. They're called posers and sellouts and whatever after The Joshua Tree, but they'd ground the shit out of it the hard way before that breakthrough, so I'd say that they have earned everything after.
Until the end of the world/new years day from this show
A 16 year old me was lucky enough to see this tour at Wembley stadium in London
Perfect reaction bro! This DVD is totally awesome. Check out Bullet The Blue Sky - Running To Stand Still - Where The Streets Have No Name
and The Edge married the dancer (Morleigh Steinberg)
Have a sense some of these concepts for live performance would have been influenced from some Prince concerts in the late 1980's.Especially the Sign O the Times video concert concepts. Saw U2 at the MCG on this same tour in Australia. around 1993. MCG is fantastic for sport but not ideal for outdoor concerts. U2 were facing a massive grandstand where most of the audience were and I remember the sound was a bit weird. I think sound waves bouncing off the massive grandstand was not ideal but with the weird guitar distortion effects a lot of audience probably thought it was meant to sound that way. I actually enjoyed the video concert recorded in Sydney from the same tour because the sound was nowhere near messed up to the ears.
The concept was Elvis hitting his shit up early doors hence black leather then gold lame jacket at the end channelling Bowie…to tragedy 🔥🔥🔥fuckin genius
Great reaction! You should react to Until the end of the world and New Year’s Day from this concert. You just made my day! Thank you! ❤
You could always request those? I almost went with those two.
@@lauraallen55 I can only hope. It would be fabulous to see him react to those two songs. He said they would go to the front of the line. Fingers are crossed.
@@anthonyortiz3336 The two I requested here went to the front of the line, but they were PayPal requests.
@@lauraallen55 You would make me happy if you requested those two songs! 😊
@@anthonyortiz3336 I have a long list lol!
Yeah, it’s a conceptual concert. Maybe not the first but it might be. Bono certainly grabs some Bowie inspiration by stepping into different characters throughout the show but nobody had ever taken on the topic of media and technology before.
This was such a weird and amazing time from about 92 - 96. The internet kind of exist but nobody realy knows what it is.. most people have never sent an email but within a year almost everyone will do it all the time. Only the .1% have cell phones but everyone will within two or three years. We are only 2 or three years away from Napster and file sharing and the end of the traditional music model..ohh and the world’s second largest super power disintegrates overnight.
All of this is going on and U2 are trying to figure out where it’s going and what it media means and has meant to the world.
It’s also insane and impossible to understand how crazy it was for U2 to make this album and put on this huge gregarious glorious show. For more than a decade they were known as the earnest, serious, 3 chords and the truth kind of band and then they do this and it’s fucking amazing.
I am not comparing Taylor Swift to U2 but it’s the only artist I can think of right now who has that kind of world wide, can fill a stadium anywhere in the world for a decade level of stardom.
Now imagine that at the end of her current tour, she waves goodbye and says..I’m taking a break but I will be back and I will be different. Then two years later she releases a psychedelic heavy metal dance album. It’s something totally new to mainstream radio and her fanbase…now imagine that album turns into one of the best albums ever made. That might not even be enough of an exaggeration to do the truth justice.
We have gotten used to things changing and moving and evolving faster and faster but up until the early nineties the world was really just moving from stop light to stop light. This is the point in history where we exited onto the interstate, downshifting and merging into a new flow, and Achtung Baby is CD you just slid into the deck for the ride.
Two more U2 recommendations: Drownin' Man 'n God Part II (dedicated to John Lennon.)
Do yourself a favour and go watch the whole concert from Sydney - it will change your perspective on what a live performance looks like
Interesting fact - the Edge married the belly dancer after this performance.
U2 the best band in my life and now the second band in my life is The Warning 🤟😎🖤♨️⚡🇲🇽
The belly dancer is now The Edge's wife.
U2 reinvented concerts, love or hate them, they push the boundaries of music, sometimes it doesn't come off. But fuck me at least they don't keep churning out the same sound like other bands, who have hit album and keep doing the same
"Mysterious Ways" has some of the dirtiest guitar tone The Edge ever unleashed - even better in the solo on the original track. The contrast between the rattling wah-wah guitar and those bottom keyboard pedal points gets me every time - aurally its a bit like a howling dog running around in a labyrinth of slowly moving mirrors... :) th-cam.com/video/5mP9-FAyjOE/w-d-xo.html
And yes, an amazing tour, very visual and with bold concepts. It took real courage to make a fresh start in this way after they had become so huge in the 1980s and produced a string of great albums that still stand up to this day - I remember when "The Fly" came out, as the first single of the "new U2" in the fall of 1991, and some reviewers wrote "this is crap! Bono has completely lost it, even his voice!". No. he hadn't... :)
Really annoying youtube image stabilization
Ah, the song that knocked Bryan Adams Everything I Do off #1 in the UK .... finally!
Edge married the belly dancer.
You missed “ Even better than a real thing”
MK Ultra? Not sure Bono was really involved 😂
I will never not think of that project when I see fast moving text on a screen with a bunch of strange sentences 🥹😂 now I’m a Manchurian candidate lol
@@L33Reacts Yes. It was, very. Roger Waters does similar on his giant wall. Or Wall 😂. It’s extremely affecting and effective. With Rog, of course, he has insight into propaganda and brainwashing in some way, and these are major themes he explored. A lot of his music speaks to that. Many of these words and phrases seem out of the programming playbook.
But yeah. I’ve seen the MKUltra footage and a lot more similar. I’m fascinated with all that stuff. I find it genuinely disturbing to watch, and to square that it really happened and what we know of actual events and history is to draw odd conclusions about perceived reality.
I like U2. A lot of people do not, thinking Bono and even the Edge and the band in general, as pretentious. Vocalist Scott Stapp of Creed has an ego liked you described.
They were/are. One of my least-favorite records is Joshua Tree. Self-righteous drivel. Early stuff like Sunday Bloody Sunday was brilliant though, as is this ❤
@@mattleppard1964 Were we separated at birth? My favorites of theirs are Achtung Baby far and away over the rest. After that, I like War and Boy. :)
I don't really think of them as pretentious, really, but then I know a lot about them as people. Their humanitarian work alone is really something.
@@lauraallen55 That old stuff is gold, but this album was stellar. I’m sure they have done a lot of good - they put their money where their mouths are. Bono is an easy target, whether by accident or design 😂
Above all, they are very talented, but not always my cup of tea.
When they worshipped ABBA and played Dancing Queen, they won my heart, though. A homage to the simple but tremendous uniting power of all music ❤️
@@mattleppard1964 Yes, Bono is an easy target. It is by accident, but he is aware that his ego could get the better of him, and he worked on it. A lot of celebrities with big egos think they deserve to feel that way about themselves, but Bono never did. He and the rest really do have a lot of humility. It has to be challenging to become that big.
He married and is still married to his childhood sweetheart. That says something in itself.
Anyone who loves ABBA can't be all bad!
@@lauraallen55 ❤️
Tokyo Dome 2 nights
Lemon live
Adam clayton
The Edge divorced his wife and then he got married with the dancer
U2 were at peak pretention point here. That said, The Edge is an underrated guitarist - there's far more to his playing than delay
They were playing into the whole rock star thing. This was their response to being told they took themselves too seriously after The Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum. It was all done for the craic of it.
They slowed down the tempo on mysterious ways... I didn't like it.
A concert with a theme: also known as a musical.
I know I’ll get hate for this, but this is one of my least favorite U2 periods. I also saw the Zoo TV stop in Philadelphia, and the whole thing just seemed so… rehearsed. It’s just personal preference, but I guess I just like my rock and roll concerts to have some spontaneity to them. That show, you could practically see Edge counting down to a point in a song when “Here’s where I do my little jump in the air each night”.
And of all the superlatives I’ve seen tossed Bono’s way, “genuine” has never been one of them, particularly when he’s literally masquerading as an alter ego.
Achtung Baby is loaded with good and great songs, with a few actual masterpieces thrown in to boot. But that whole tour just seemed disingenuous. And I know that was partially the point. They were “mocking” the artifice of the rock n’ roll lifestyle. My problem was that they maybe did too good a job of that, where it seemed that rather than ridiculing it, they accidentally steered into embracing it.
No hate (well maybe a little for the diss about Bono), but that is exactly what they were doing - mocking. If they did such a good job of it that they were believed, then that says something about their talent in my book.
This was a concept concert.
Lee said he thinks Bono is genuine, not that the persona of The Fly or Mr. MacPhisto were. I believe that Bono and the rest of U2 are genuine indeed, based on everything I know about them. It's a shame so many people who truly know little about him think of Bono in the way you apparently do. He is quite a good person as are all of them. I expect they, particularly Bono, have done more good for humanity in general than most celebrities. If you've never heard 'genuine' 'tossed' Bono's way, you must not get into them much because there are a lot of folks who see that in him. It's there if you look and want to see it. ;)
You might consider requesting U2 performances that you like. I requested these two plus Love is Blindness from Zoo because Lee had only ever heard their big radio hits. It was a way to show him that there is another side to them that he may like to explore. He happened to love LiB so I requested these two as well. I plan to request a couple more from Zoo as well, so you may want to skip those. After that, I have plans to request some lives from various concerts that I think he will like. I like to get a feel for what a reactor enjoys; thus these specific songs and from this tour were requested.
It was supposed to be dripping in irony. You, apparently, weren’t in on the joke.
And if you think bands don’t rehearse almost every “spontaneous” move, I have a bridge to sell you.
It’s not controversial to say that Bono has an image problem. A decent majority of the population thinks he is a humorless, self-important, sanctimonious prat. You can say it’s an intentional act, and that he’s truly a kind-hearted, humble, benevolent philosopher. I’m sure the truth lies somewhere in between. Personally, I think he has some important things to say, and I think he’s generally a force for good in the world. I also think he’d probably be insufferable to have a beer with.
As for the seemingly rehearsed performances of U2’s Zoo TV era versus other bands, I think that’s pretty cynical. I also think it’s an incredibly incorrect statement. But even assuming that you’re 100% correct and the vast majority of bands have choreographed their shows, it still doesn’t change my opinion that U2, during that specific era, was so rehearsed that their performances were inauthentic. At least all these other bands you claim are going through specific motions have the skill to make it seem organic. Or maybe you’ve never been to see a decent live band before. I don’t know. But either way, in my opinion, U2 still put on a stiff, unnatural show during the Zoo TV tour. If you liked it, that’s your opinion. It doesn’t make either of us right or wrong. That’s the thing about music. It’s pretty subjective.
@@finnle Every major act is a rehearsed and slick machine. That’s just how it works at that level. Even bands I’ve played in rehearsed every aspect of a gig. Making something look effortless and authentic takes a lot of rehearsal.
And apparently Bono is a hoot in real life and genuinely nice.
@@finnle Bono had an image problem. Doesn't make it deserved.
ZooTv was very much in * need * of being rehearsed. They were doing something very specific, and it required that, I believe. It was different from anything anyone was doing at the time. If you look at most other U2 performances, they are - by FAR - more spontaneous than most any performer/s I've ever seen. There are loads of videos of live performances out there of theirs showing that to be true.
For that reason alone, it tells me that they felt - as I do - that Zoo needed to be rehearsed. They were doing specific things, as specific personas that they wanted to get across. I can't fault them for that. It's far better than to want to convey what they wanted to convey and not rehearse or plan much. I think the show and the message may have easily gotten lost if they hadn't done so much rehearsing what they wanted to get across.
Maybe if you read Surrender you will have a better idea of who Bono is. Yes, I believe fully that he is truly a 'kind-hearted, humble, benevolent philosopher'. I say I believe it based on what I know of him as opposed to 'I'm sure of it' as you do. You are * sure * it's somewhere in between when you are lacking evidence.
Liking ZooTv isn't an opinion, really. It's more of an emotion or fact of opinion . An opinion would be thinking it was good. I see so many people say 'I love' such and such, and someone else saying they agree. How can one agree another person loves something? Anyway, I digress.