MY LETTER TO U2-1987 I saw you guys on the Joshua Tree tour in 1987 at MTSU-Middle Tennessee State University Saturday November 28th 1987. The Bodeans opened up for you. I remember at the time Larry had a crush on Wynonna Judd and she came out and sang a duo with Bono! I didn't have tickets to the show. A friend of mine drove us 3 hours from East Tennessee to see the show. We bought tickets at the box office for $18.50. We ended up 8th row center stage! I remember back then the band held back tickets for fans who were willing to make the drive and couldn't get tickets via phone or record store locations. Thanks again to Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr for making a special album and tour! I was 18 and had just graduated High School that year! All the Best! Gary Lagstrom
This is a pretty amazing piece of footage. I’ve seen live aid 85 clips for years, but always the same angle. It was nice to see a bit of behind the scenes from then as well. I wasn’t alive quite yet then, but wish I could go back in time to a u2 concert in the 80s.
Not to compare with nowadays emails. These were probably BBS systems (like Fidonet) - they were not so rare in the mid/late 80s and early 90s. Or they used CompuServe that was already in the 80s a growing network system. In the 90s CompuServe and AOL were the biggest networks and existed quite a while next to the internet that started in 92/93.
The crazy thing , I am from Brazil , and juse 8 years later U2 landed in our land to perform. How we were out of the circuit of shows and events. Today, the things are different. I saw u2 two times here and Brazilians , many people, are fan of them , more than in Ireland. I lived in Ireland, and how they became an enemy for that society, very odd.
Paul McGuinness says here that they'll be touring for the next 12 months - that would have taken them to the middle of 1988. It never happened, they stopped in December of that year.
MY LETTER TO U2-1987
I saw you guys on the Joshua Tree tour in 1987 at MTSU-Middle Tennessee State University Saturday November 28th 1987. The Bodeans opened up for you. I remember at the time Larry had a crush on Wynonna Judd and she came out and sang a duo with Bono!
I didn't have tickets to the show. A friend of mine drove us 3 hours from East Tennessee to see the show. We bought tickets at the box office for $18.50. We ended up 8th row center stage!
I remember back then the band held back tickets for fans who were willing to make the drive and couldn't get tickets via phone or record store locations.
Thanks again to Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr for making a special album and tour! I was 18 and had just graduated High School that year!
All the Best!
Gary Lagstrom
@ObamaFromKenya unfortunately no
This is amazing! Thank you for sharing this.
This is a pretty amazing piece of footage. I’ve seen live aid 85 clips for years, but always the same angle. It was nice to see a bit of behind the scenes from then as well. I wasn’t alive quite yet then, but wish I could go back in time to a u2 concert in the 80s.
Very nice footage, thank you. Lou Reed supporting act for U2, that must have been amazingly crazy...
min 4:45 "we email them what we want...." This is 1986!
Yes , thought I was hearing things.
Not to compare with nowadays emails. These were probably BBS systems (like Fidonet) - they were not so rare in the mid/late 80s and early 90s. Or they used CompuServe that was already in the 80s a growing network system. In the 90s CompuServe and AOL were the biggest networks and existed quite a while next to the internet that started in 92/93.
June '87
Sooo good
What a time
great upload bro ☝️
Entertaining piece of history. It's cool that street video in Las Vegas is echoed with the completely opposite production vibe at The Sphere.
THIS IS BEAUTIFUL
Larry tem um sorriso mais lindo que já vi ❤
The crazy thing , I am from Brazil , and juse 8 years later U2 landed in our land to perform. How we were out of the circuit of shows and events. Today, the things are different. I saw u2 two times here and Brazilians , many people, are fan of them , more than in Ireland. I lived in Ireland, and how they became an enemy for that society, very odd.
Never seen Larry so animated in an interview, a little more than “Larry likes to play drums”
6:01 BOOM
4:27 johnny greenwood
Good spot. Writing Idioteque on the fax machine 👍
Paul McGuinness says here that they'll be touring for the next 12 months - that would have taken them to the middle of 1988. It never happened, they stopped in December of that year.
I want to know what their name badge system was for Ireland LOL.