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Author:  Godzilla1960 [ Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:36 pm ]
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The North American leg of the U2 is came to an end yesterday. I saw them a couple of weeks ago in Tampa and it was quite an impressive display of art and technology.

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At one point the band had a live hook up with the founder of Cirque du Soleil, who was up on the space station. So between this guy who spent $35 million to take a trip to a space station, the $30 million, 19 story set that takes 400 guys three day to set up, with its video screen composed of a million parts, and a moment during the show when 70,000 people turned on their powerful, little personal computing/communications devices, and "waved them around like they just don't care," I realized that none of the science fiction books I read when I was a kid in the late '60s and '70s predicted this particular future that we now live in.

If you couldn't make the show, the band has posted a film of their Rose Bowl show from a few days ago.

http://www.youtube.com/user/U2official? ... 4QLFVrZ-fw
Author:  Crosscheck [ Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:15 pm ]
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What's the carbon footprint?






;)
Author:  Godzilla1960 [ Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:24 pm ]
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Crosscheck wrote:
What's the carbon footprint?
;)


HUGE

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They have three of these massive stages. I hear they are going to leave them around the world as permanent concert venues.
Author:  Crosscheck [ Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:32 pm ]
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Just screwing with ya ;)

That kind of reminds me of Pink Floyd in the early 90's with all the extracurricular effects and props.
Although U2 did raise the bar with the ZooTV tour and the giant video wall.

/I've never seen them personally
Author:  Godzilla1960 [ Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:37 pm ]
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Crosscheck wrote:
Just screwing with ya ;)

I thought the very same thing as I was coming out of the show and I saw several stretch hum-vees lined up in the parking lot and all the trash the audience left behind. We collective stomped on the environment for that show.
Author:  Skyline_BNR34 [ Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:53 pm ]
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I heard it takes like 140 tractor trailers to haul the stage around.
Author:  acrossthelines [ Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:29 am ]
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My history prof saw them in Chicago a few weeks ago on a Sunday night, and in class that Monday all we did was discuss major influential figures in American music. :lol: The first half of that was spent discussing only U2. I felt like a nerd because I am pretty sure that I know a lot more about them than he does, and I would not even classify myself as a fan. It was mainly a conversation between the two of us lol. Nobody else knew enough to comment.

I would love to see them before I die. They've always been up there on my list.
Author:  Sneaky E [ Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:03 pm ]
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U2 is so cool :D
Author:  BagBoy [ Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:27 pm ]
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I wonder if the Elitist approves of U2!
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