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Great show.
They've got so many albums now, that they can't just choose a bunch of great songs, they have to carefully pick one or two from each record. They played quite a few from their latest, though. A nice surprise was "Electric Co." Very cool. That was the fourth song, right after "Elevation." I was particularly looking forward to that one, and it was the one song that was disappointing. There was something about it that wasn't right. Didn't sound too good. I was a little disappointed that they usually chose the less heavy songs from the earlier records. "One" and "Who's going to Ride Your Wild Horses" from Achtung Baby - I would have preferred "The Fly" or "Even Better Than the Real Thing" (aw man, I just found out they did "The Fly" and "Zoo Station" in Toronto!) Zooropa gave us "The First Time." I don't think they did anything from Pop. "Miss Sarajevo" from their Passengers project - Bono did Pavorotti's part (it worked). "With or Without You," "Where the Streets Have No Name" from Joshua Tree. Getting the feeling that it was a mellow show? Okay, they had their share of rocking songs, like "Pride" and "Bullet the Blue Sky," but not much in the way of power.
It sounded like they hadn't rehearsed "Wild Horses." Bono started singing but didn't know the words. He had to confere with Edge for a minute.
The lighting was very cool. They had curtains that were lowered and raised, at the back of the stage, that were made of lights. They looked like four inch light bulbs, but each one was a pixel. It was like a transparent video screen, but it didn't have resolution to do much more than patterns. It looked very cool. And there were circular lines of colored lights in the floor. The spirals would chase each other around the stage. They had four smallish but high resolution video screens above the stage, where they would show the bandmembers.
The sound wasn't as good as it should have been. The bass (guitar and drums) was too low. It was mostly just rumbling. Edge's more unorthodox sounds didn't come over very well. Too soft or too piercing. Other than that, the sound was good.
Opening the show was Dashboard Confessional. I was impressed by the first song, but after that most everything sounded alike. The closed with a song I've heard on the radio, but forget the title.
It was raining, so I dropped Cyn off at the front doors while I found parking. I forgot that she had the cash, so I had to drive about six blocks away to find street parking. My jacket is still wet. And the water brought out the mothball smell (surplus). And it was freezing cold in the arena. Cindy held my wet jacket in her lap, along with the program I bought (because I was standing a lot, I guess). And she had to walk the six blocks back to the car, in the rain, on her bad feet (she had done a six mile AIDS-walk in the afternoon). So she gets the Trooper Award!
09/25/2005 Bradley Center - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
City Of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, Elevation, The Electric Co., The Ocean, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / In A Little While (snippet), Beautiful Day, Miracle Drug, Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own, Love And Peace Or Else, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Bullet The Blue Sky / The Hands That Built America (snippet) / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet), Miss Sarajevo, Pride (In The Name Of Love), Where The Streets Have No Name, One / Ol' Man River (snippet)
encores: The First Time, Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, With Or Without You, All Because Of You, Yahweh, 40
Strange, I don't remember "40".
They've got so many albums now, that they can't just choose a bunch of great songs, they have to carefully pick one or two from each record. They played quite a few from their latest, though. A nice surprise was "Electric Co." Very cool. That was the fourth song, right after "Elevation." I was particularly looking forward to that one, and it was the one song that was disappointing. There was something about it that wasn't right. Didn't sound too good. I was a little disappointed that they usually chose the less heavy songs from the earlier records. "One" and "Who's going to Ride Your Wild Horses" from Achtung Baby - I would have preferred "The Fly" or "Even Better Than the Real Thing" (aw man, I just found out they did "The Fly" and "Zoo Station" in Toronto!) Zooropa gave us "The First Time." I don't think they did anything from Pop. "Miss Sarajevo" from their Passengers project - Bono did Pavorotti's part (it worked). "With or Without You," "Where the Streets Have No Name" from Joshua Tree. Getting the feeling that it was a mellow show? Okay, they had their share of rocking songs, like "Pride" and "Bullet the Blue Sky," but not much in the way of power.
It sounded like they hadn't rehearsed "Wild Horses." Bono started singing but didn't know the words. He had to confere with Edge for a minute.
The lighting was very cool. They had curtains that were lowered and raised, at the back of the stage, that were made of lights. They looked like four inch light bulbs, but each one was a pixel. It was like a transparent video screen, but it didn't have resolution to do much more than patterns. It looked very cool. And there were circular lines of colored lights in the floor. The spirals would chase each other around the stage. They had four smallish but high resolution video screens above the stage, where they would show the bandmembers.
The sound wasn't as good as it should have been. The bass (guitar and drums) was too low. It was mostly just rumbling. Edge's more unorthodox sounds didn't come over very well. Too soft or too piercing. Other than that, the sound was good.
Opening the show was Dashboard Confessional. I was impressed by the first song, but after that most everything sounded alike. The closed with a song I've heard on the radio, but forget the title.
It was raining, so I dropped Cyn off at the front doors while I found parking. I forgot that she had the cash, so I had to drive about six blocks away to find street parking. My jacket is still wet. And the water brought out the mothball smell (surplus). And it was freezing cold in the arena. Cindy held my wet jacket in her lap, along with the program I bought (because I was standing a lot, I guess). And she had to walk the six blocks back to the car, in the rain, on her bad feet (she had done a six mile AIDS-walk in the afternoon). So she gets the Trooper Award!
09/25/2005 Bradley Center - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
City Of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, Elevation, The Electric Co., The Ocean, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / In A Little While (snippet), Beautiful Day, Miracle Drug, Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own, Love And Peace Or Else, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Bullet The Blue Sky / The Hands That Built America (snippet) / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet), Miss Sarajevo, Pride (In The Name Of Love), Where The Streets Have No Name, One / Ol' Man River (snippet)
encores: The First Time, Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, With Or Without You, All Because Of You, Yahweh, 40
Strange, I don't remember "40".
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Date: 2005-09-26 05:15 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 05:52 pm (UTC)From:Why does that chouice surprise you? Because they're a lot more tame than most of U2's openers? Like Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprasy, Fun Lovin' Criminals or Kanye West? I thought they were a pretty good fit with the kind of music U2 is making now.
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Date: 2005-09-26 08:38 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 09:26 pm (UTC)From:They've also had the Pixies and Big Audio Dynamite II open.
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Date: 2005-09-27 03:05 am (UTC)From: