Originally posted by MattG:[..]
I'm gonna go against the grain and agree with this guy.
Lovetown DOES have some great shows/moments, and yeah the setlists varied, but they did seem like sort of just a hodgepodge to me.
Originally posted by DutchU2Fan:IMO the most Rock and Roll Tour they have done.
Originally posted by msilverz:I agree: Lovetown was the band at the peak of their powers -- especially Bono's voice. He had learned how to sing and to modulate his voice but he had lost none of his power and range. The New Year's Dublin bootleg (which I have on an old silver CD) is probably my single favorite U2 concert recording.
Originally posted by Blue_Room:[..]
Actually he had not learned how to sing. That is why he kept losing his voice on this tour. He had to see a vocal doctor during Lovetown (which it is rumored the soundboard recordings from Dublin came from) who told him he needed to change the way he sang because he was hitting notes 4 or 5 times in a song that opera stars like Pavarotti hit 1 time per show. He basically was destroying his vocal chords on this tour. Listen to God Part II Amsterdam 1989. Ouch it makes my throat hurt just hearing it!
It was a great tour and there are great bootlegs as a result. But Bono could not sustain singing like that.
Originally posted by cesar_garza01:[..]
On that part I agree. Bono's voice was at his best, but his ego was writing checks his vocal chords couldn't cash.
Not to mention he caught a "nasty throat infection" in the Australia gigs.