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With them normally allowing four days between shows but two on either side of Bonnaroo, I'm guessing that their set is going straight from stadium to stadium and we get a performance with little stage or light customization.
I have a feeling this is going to be our Hey Jude moment of 2017...
Not gonna lie, every time I watch them play that song I get chills when the intro riff kicks in. A part of me is hoping they make Friday shitty or just load up the What Stage so I could try to get in the pit.
Or if they do Chance > U2 I'll just get a spot by the rail.
Post by livesbydryshampoo on Jan 9, 2017 21:05:17 GMT -5
First of all, I am STUNNED this thread is so short! I was expecting flaming fire flames everywhere on the front page. I have mostly stayed away from Inforoo since last June since I gave birth to my perfect baby angel daughter in August and have been assuming that life-altering experience would preclude me from making the trek from Ohio to Tennessee for my 7th straight Bonnaroo. That was before U2 was confirmed. Now I'm texting my mom friends to see whether I can make it a couple nights away when Baby Girl is 10 months old without weaning her, and wondering whether the Centeroo security will try to confiscate my manual breast pump. Can I fly in on Friday, convince my siblings to set up a tent for Jesioneka and I, then pack up and drop one of their cars at the Nashville airport on Sunday since there aren't exit shuttles that day? Can I pack what I need for two days at Roo into a carry-on after slowly upgrading over the years from four people in a 2004 Saturn Ion to two-three in a Subaru Forester and accommodate all our gear?
I digress.
The Joshua Tree and I were born just two months apart in 1987. This was the first album, and the first band, that I ever became obsessively fixated with - saving money from my coffee shop gig and haunting the local used record shops to compile their entire catalog in my childhood bedroom (CDs at the time - like most aging millenials of a certain alt caliber, I now pretend to understand and collect vinyl). We're talking the B Sides, the Batman soundtrack for that one song... anything I could get my hands on. My AIM screenname was "brittheartsU2" and I named my first car Larry Lumina after Larry Mullen Jr. I took part in an annual Christmas gift exchanges with other rabid admirers around the world on U2 fan site atU2 of U2-themed ornaments and other such treasures. My mom spent an inordinate amount of time and money that she certainly did not have planned for my Christmas gifts that year on a U2 edition iPod. Before the days of Amazon's ubiquity, this entailed calling a number of retailers and finally having it privately shipped from a tiny shop in New York. I still have the damn thing, but it's a Vertigo-themed brick buried in an IKEA Expedit bin somewhere in our guest room.
Then, lo and behold, that same year.... Bono et al decided to make their way to Cleveland. I remember tickets selling out and a rumor that a new section of seating at the Q was going to be released on a Saturday morning when I was working another high school gig at a local optometrist's office. Pulling through for me again, my mom dropped another wad of cash beyond what our family normally spent on Christmas for the second year in a row.. and didn't even GO TO THE CONCERT. (Damn did that woman teach me about a mother's love). She sent Dad and I, who took the Rapid into downtown and made one of the best father-daughter memories we have to date.
I am not an arena rock girl. My Bonnafamily will be the first to tell you that I generally sleep through the headliner sets to save energy for late night (particularly the old white dude rocker sets). That cold December 2005 night in Cleveland, despite being miles from the stage, I did not feel that I was at an arena rock show of some generic radio band. The breadth and depth of their song selections did not disappoint, spanning from a smattering of the then-current Vertigo, to each and every of their previous reinventions to that date. A space so large had never felt so small to me and I rode the high for weeks afterwards, and in fact still have chills thinking about it today. My dad also slipped me an underage beer or two, which just lends another little tinge of conspiratorial nostalgia to the whole event.
12 years and one U2 Encyclopedia later, I am trying to move personal mountains to get to this show. (Side note on the encyclopedia: I have worked in state government for the last near-decade and the only thing I have ever said to our state's governor - because I am not remotely important but did get to sit in on a couple meetings with him early in my career - was "Oh wow! *Gestured to U2 Encyclopedia on his coffee table* I have that book, I LOVE U2!" Crickets commenced). I will admit I know little about the last two albums and have not even listened to many of my favorites in full for years, but I am having a pretty incredible night introducing my partner to Bad, Tomorrow, Shadows & Tall Trees, The First Time, Who's Gonna Ride.... and realizing how these lyrics and the emotions these songs stirred in my teenage heart have stayed with me. Staring at the Sun taught me what the word "intransigence" means, for god's sake. Staring at my baby sleeping on the monitor in the next room, after dancing to Joshua Tree with her giggling in the living room while her dad cooked dinner, is showing me new evolutions of what these songs mean to me.
This Irish quartet and this damn festival mean so much to me. U2 sparked my love of music and Bonnaroo has sustained it, and created a space for me to spend nearly a week straight with my dear husband and our siblings and friends every year away from the rest of the world and whatever day-to-day worries normally keep us apart. I will of course be aiming to find tickets for Dad and I to the final North American tour show in Cleveland and do everything I can to share that experience with him, but I can't imagine not sharing this event on The Farm with the love of my life, little brother, and sweet little sis-in-law if I have the chance. I have always hoped but never dreamed that I would read an announcement like this.
So lit. Pit with all friends and the people that become my friends over the course of 3 hours. You can see U2 anywhere but you can only see ROO 2 at THE FARM.
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Post by marquee_mark on Jan 9, 2017 21:23:16 GMT -5
I'm not a huge fan of U2 and don't know any of their stuff other than their radio hits. However I know a friend who got dragged to a U2 show by his mom. He went in not expecting much and left a huge U2 fan swearing they put on one of the coolest shows he saw in a long time. So I'm excited to see what they bring to the farm.
Something I was talking about with my dad when I was back home: U2 have gotta be the longest running band of any note to keep the same lineup for their entire existence, right?
Something I was talking about with my dad when I was back home: U2 have gotta be the longest running band of any note to keep the same lineup for their entire existence, right?
Depends on your definition of "any note." ZZ Top has kept the same lineup for its entire run. Rush made one album with another drummer but the Peart-Lifeson-Lee lineup has survived 40 years. But yeah, it's a rare thing.
Something I was talking about with my dad when I was back home: U2 have gotta be the longest running band of any note to keep the same lineup for their entire existence, right?
Depends on your definition of "any note." ZZ Top has kept the same lineup for its entire run. Rush made one album with another drummer but the Peart-Lifeson-Lee lineup has survived 40 years. But yeah, it's a rare thing.
According to Wikipedia, ZZ Top also had a couple of minor lineup changes pre-success. So I'm giving official crown to U2. Still very impressive for ZZ Top and Rush seeing as how those kinds of changes are pretty standard for young bands
Depends on your definition of "any note." ZZ Top has kept the same lineup for its entire run. Rush made one album with another drummer but the Peart-Lifeson-Lee lineup has survived 40 years. But yeah, it's a rare thing.
According to Wikipedia, ZZ Top also had a couple of minor lineup changes pre-success. So I'm giving official crown to U2. Still very impressive for ZZ Top and Rush seeing as how those kinds of changes are pretty standard for young bands
Here's the real stunner: Weird Al Yankovic. He's added extra members over the years as the production got bigger but John Shwartz, Jay West, and Steve Jay have been his core band since 1982.
According to Wikipedia, ZZ Top also had a couple of minor lineup changes pre-success. So I'm giving official crown to U2. Still very impressive for ZZ Top and Rush seeing as how those kinds of changes are pretty standard for young bands
Here's the real stunner: Weird Al Yankovic. He's added extra members over the years as the production got bigger but John Shwartz, Jay West, and Steve Jay have been his core band since 1982.
Oh good. We're back to the Weird Al Yankovic is a band conversation.
Here's the real stunner: Weird Al Yankovic. He's added extra members over the years as the production got bigger but John Shwartz, Jay West, and Steve Jay have been his core band since 1982.
Oh good. We're back to the Weird Al Yankovic is a band conversation.
Someone posted this story on Inforoo on Facebook. I thought it was kind of funny.
"I was in DC the summer before my senior year of high school and he was on the hill working on something....not sure now what is was anywho....The Edge and himself were getting into their car I raised my hand and waved both fellas looked me....The Edge waved....What did Bono do he tapped his assistant on the shoulder and him wave at me!!! I had tickets for their show in DC a few days later I immediately got rid of them and have refused to buy any of their records......I was a huge fan until then.....I was a heartbroken 16 year old"
With them normally allowing four days between shows but two on either side of Bonnaroo, I'm guessing that their set is going straight from stadium to stadium and we get a performance with little stage or light customization.
Count on the full production. Those longer four day gaps are due to additional shows that'll go on sale after the first batch sells out.
With them normally allowing four days between shows but two on either side of Bonnaroo, I'm guessing that their set is going straight from stadium to stadium and we get a performance with little stage or light customization.
Count on the full production. Those longer four day gaps are due to additional shows that'll go on sale after the first batch sells out.
You make a good point. Perhaps they have decided that they're sure they're only doing one show in Pittsburgh. Maybe they're running with two road crews. You certainly would think that they factored in Bonnaroo in their tour itinerary.
I suspect that you're wrong but I hope you're not.
Count on the full production. Those longer four day gaps are due to additional shows that'll go on sale after the first batch sells out.
You make a good point. Perhaps they have decided that they're sure they're only doing one show in Pittsburgh. Maybe they're running with two road crews. You certainly would think that they factored in Bonnaroo in their tour itinerary.
I suspect that you're wrong but I hope you're not.
The last stadium tour they did they had 2 stages, and 2 crews to help with making sure everything was setup in each city prior to them arriving.
yeah i mean i feel U2 is good at filling out that ticket sales gap caused last year by an underwhelming lineup. but they're not relevant at all anymore and most of the first billed acts from other years are or they are an immortal kind of act that isn't denied its precedence by anyone. and if so nothing close to how people are griped about these goons. i mean honestly i cant think of band in their racket thats more of turn off for this position. all be it that they're huge, there was nothing about them that was cutting edge or trendy still to this day that usually brings a huge act to bonnaroo.
I have no idea what you are trying to say.
Can you list some "relevant" potential headliners of which you would approve?
Judging by the seating charts at the stadium shows, it looks like U2 is going back to an end-stage setup. Also, it looks like there's a mini walkway with a second stage shaped like a joshua tree in the crowd. I don't know if they'll try to pull this off at Roo but it'd be pretty cool.
First of all, I am STUNNED this thread is so short! I was expecting flaming fire flames everywhere on the front page. I have mostly stayed away from Inforoo since last June since I gave birth to my perfect baby angel daughter in August and have been assuming that life-altering experience would preclude me from making the trek from Ohio to Tennessee for my 7th straight Bonnaroo. That was before U2 was confirmed. Now I'm texting my mom friends to see whether I can make it a couple nights away when Baby Girl is 10 months old without weaning her, and wondering whether the Centeroo security will try to confiscate my manual breast pump. Can I fly in on Friday, convince my siblings to set up a tent for Jesioneka and I, then pack up and drop one of their cars at the Nashville airport on Sunday since there aren't exit shuttles that day? Can I pack what I need for two days at Roo into a carry-on after slowly upgrading over the years from four people in a 2004 Saturn Ion to two-three in a Subaru Forester and accommodate all our gear?
I digress.
The Joshua Tree and I were born just two months apart in 1987. This was the first album, and the first band, that I ever became obsessively fixated with - saving money from my coffee shop gig and haunting the local used record shops to compile their entire catalog in my childhood bedroom (CDs at the time - like most aging millenials of a certain alt caliber, I now pretend to understand and collect vinyl). We're talking the B Sides, the Batman soundtrack for that one song... anything I could get my hands on. My AIM screenname was "brittheartsU2" and I named my first car Larry Lumina after Larry Mullen Jr. I took part in an annual Christmas gift exchanges with other rabid admirers around the world on U2 fan site atU2 of U2-themed ornaments and other such treasures. My mom spent an inordinate amount of time and money that she certainly did not have planned for my Christmas gifts that year on a U2 edition iPod. Before the days of Amazon's ubiquity, this entailed calling a number of retailers and finally having it privately shipped from a tiny shop in New York. I still have the damn thing, but it's a Vertigo-themed brick buried in an IKEA Expedit bin somewhere in our guest room.
Then, lo and behold, that same year.... Bono et al decided to make their way to Cleveland. I remember tickets selling out and a rumor that a new section of seating at the Q was going to be released on a Saturday morning when I was working another high school gig at a local optometrist's office. Pulling through for me again, my mom dropped another wad of cash beyond what our family normally spent on Christmas for the second year in a row.. and didn't even GO TO THE CONCERT. (Damn did that woman teach me about a mother's love). She sent Dad and I, who took the Rapid into downtown and made one of the best father-daughter memories we have to date.
I am not an arena rock girl. My Bonnafamily will be the first to tell you that I generally sleep through the headliner sets to save energy for late night (particularly the old white dude rocker sets). That cold December 2005 night in Cleveland, despite being miles from the stage, I did not feel that I was at an arena rock show of some generic radio band. The breadth and depth of their song selections did not disappoint, spanning from a smattering of the then-current Vertigo, to each and every of their previous reinventions to that date. A space so large had never felt so small to me and I rode the high for weeks afterwards, and in fact still have chills thinking about it today. My dad also slipped me an underage beer or two, which just lends another little tinge of conspiratorial nostalgia to the whole event.
12 years and one U2 Encyclopedia later, I am trying to move personal mountains to get to this show. (Side note on the encyclopedia: I have worked in state government for the last near-decade and the only thing I have ever said to our state's governor - because I am not remotely important but did get to sit in on a couple meetings with him early in my career - was "Oh wow! *Gestured to U2 Encyclopedia on his coffee table* I have that book, I LOVE U2!" Crickets commenced). I will admit I know little about the last two albums and have not even listened to many of my favorites in full for years, but I am having a pretty incredible night introducing my partner to Bad, Tomorrow, Shadows & Tall Trees, The First Time, Who's Gonna Ride.... and realizing how these lyrics and the emotions these songs stirred in my teenage heart have stayed with me. Staring at the Sun taught me what the word "intransigence" means, for god's sake. Staring at my baby sleeping on the monitor in the next room, after dancing to Joshua Tree with her giggling in the living room while her dad cooked dinner, is showing me new evolutions of what these songs mean to me.
This Irish quartet and this damn festival mean so much to me. U2 sparked my love of music and Bonnaroo has sustained it, and created a space for me to spend nearly a week straight with my dear husband and our siblings and friends every year away from the rest of the world and whatever day-to-day worries normally keep us apart. I will of course be aiming to find tickets for Dad and I to the final North American tour show in Cleveland and do everything I can to share that experience with him, but I can't imagine not sharing this event on The Farm with the love of my life, little brother, and sweet little sis-in-law if I have the chance. I have always hoped but never dreamed that I would read an announcement like this.
EDIT: TL;DR: I love U2, see ya on the Farm.
Love ya, B. I remember you calling me and holding the phone up to hear some horribly distorted U2 song in 2005. God I wish I could do Roo with you this year. I would rail it with you all day. But CLE will be a blast.
So now that we got our first confirmation from Roo themselves. What do you all anticipate the show will be like? Just read the interview on Rolling Stone today and it looks like they may not do the album front-to-back but change the running order as well as playing other songs as well.
They're doing the album front-to-back -- their sets just may not start with the album and instead have a handful of songs before and then a handful of songs after.
yeah i mean i feel U2 is good at filling out that ticket sales gap caused last year by an underwhelming lineup. but they're not relevant at all anymore
Relevant these days: Marshmello, Lil Yachty, Major Lazer
I have to say, im honestly shocked that anyone could thumb their nose at the U2 booking. I suppose that its always possible that you had to be there. Joshua Tree is a treasure of an album. Ive only seen them once (the our where Florence opened for them) They are showmen to the highest level and have a catalog.
If memory serves they had Stacey Pullen play before them (not sure you would call this opening) during one of their tours. The one sin they've seem to have committed is putting their record on everyones phones without asking.
I was all set to go to the Lancing, MI show before it was postponed. That in itself was a huge disappointment.
Fast forward to yesterday I was reading the Wiki page about the tour and saw they brought Florence + The Machine on for 4 shows that got rescheduled and Spartan Stadium was one of them.
Post by klimfactor on Jan 11, 2017 13:21:47 GMT -5
People who are interested in the U2 show should go back and check out the documentary Rattle and Hum if they haven't previously seen it. I loved it back in the day, and part of it was filmed while they were touring The Joshua Tree in the states. To this day, some of the performances still give me goosebumps.
Post by NotMitchelBade on Jan 11, 2017 16:02:44 GMT -5
I don't know much U2 and don't like what I've heard, but (unlike most around here) I'm open to having my mind changed. Someone tell me why I should like them and where to start, and I'll dig in. I want to be convinced!
