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2016-10-05 - Daly City
 Tour: Various Dates
Songs played: 15
Audio recordings: 1
Videos: 1
  1. re-visiting this very timely Bullet performance, it got me wondering about the gigantic video screen used for this event.
    Screens this big aren't just sitting around to use, and neither is the video content used on it. So it seems some amount of pre-planning/work was done for this. Infact, I've never seen this much stage production put into a promo appearance by them (the iHeart Vegas screens were used by every band on the night, and not a U2 thing).

    I know that previously this was to be promo shows for the new eXperience album (before timeline was pushed back), so was this screen already developed as the idea for the future eXperience tour? Surely not for the indoor arena tour that was booked (and 1 date leaked before it was cancelled), as this screen would not have fit indoors. But I remember interview articles before this had band stating they were considering taking the iNNocence tour outdoors next (continuing legs, which would likely have been under the name eXperience). So perhaps this screen was originally designed/planned in late 2015/early 2016 for that outdoor idea (before outdoors idea was seemingly abandoned, in favour of booking indoor dates fall/winter 2016 that also went on to be abandoned).
    And then the screen production saved over (and updated with all the 16K elements) to be used for the new idea of the 2017 Joshua Tree outdoor tour. The Dreamforce video does seem to indicate that the size of the screen was similar to what we saw on TJT (by comparing scale of band set-up/drums), thou perhaps increased in size by 2017.

    Anyone remember any details on this screen? Or info or comments on the TJT screen development that links it back to this performance?
  2. For Joshua Tree 2017.

    The initial conversations... started sometime in October (2016). The first designs were shown in December, the concept was finalized in February, and rehearsals started in April.

    “That’s probably the quickest you can turn around a stadium show of that scale," says Ric Lipson, a senior associate at Stufish who headed the Joshua Tree project. It usually takes somewhere between 8-12 weeks for a relatively normal set to be built.
    Is an LED screen really that hard to source for something like Dreamfest? Just keep adding panels to make it that size. Rent everything. The screen in 2019 was different to what they had in 2017, whether that was hired I don't know but makes sense for a 15 shows. For Dreamfest they brought with them Vertigo Tour b-stages.

  3. The Dreamfest screen was no where near the size of what was used on The Joshua Tree tour. You have to remember the Vertigo stage fit in the center of a stadium with plenty of room on either size. Thus the stage wasn't as wide as The Joshua Tree tour where it stretched most of the way across a stadium.

    Went back and looked at some of my photos from Dreamfest. It definitely wasn't the same high resolution as the Joshua Tree screen either. Definitely could see the individual pixels etc. You could see those on The Joshua Tree tour as well at some stages, but it was more noticeable at Dreamfest from what I can remember and from looking at my photos.

    So maybe it inspired what they did with The Joshua Tree, but likely something they just borrowed for the event. Maybe from another production...like Madonna borrowed the Elevation stage for her MDNA tour.