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  1. After seeing this tour, I'd be pretty okay with them not releasing a DVD as well. Not because I've seen it, but because it's just not different enough from I&E to warrant one.

    DVDs U2 should put out and should have already put out a long time ago that would make me way more excited than a DVD from this tour:

    -Full Unforgettable Fire show (buy the rights back to the Dortmund tape and release the whole show, or perhaps something from '85 when the shows got really magical)
    -Full Tempe show from the Joshua Tree tour (we know it exists)
    -New Years 1989 show (we know it was filmed)
    -An early ZooTV show (a touch-up of the Stockholm show would be good enough for me)

    I could go on.
  2. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:After seeing this tour, I'd be pretty okay with them not releasing a DVD as well. Not because I've seen it, but because it's just not different enough from I&E to warrant one.

    DVDs U2 should put out and should have already put out a long time ago that would make me way more excited than a DVD from this tour:

    -Full Unforgettable Fire show (buy the rights back to the Dortmund tape and release the whole show, or perhaps something from '85 when the shows got really magical)
    -Full Tempe show from the Joshua Tree tour (we know it exists)
    -New Years 1989 show (we know it was filmed)
    -An early ZooTV show (a touch-up of the Stockholm show would be good enough for me)

    I could go on.
    Another 360 tour film from 2010 and/or 2011
  4. As Alex @rattleandhum1988 points out, it would just not be innovative enough. It's not because of my "setlist blues" as @BigGiRL says. I have no reason not to believe those who've seen the show in person and say it rocks big time, you gotta be there, you have to live it, bla bla. I'm sure they're being honest and they really loved it. But I don't think releasing a DVD/BluRay which shares 56% of the songs and 99% of the stage, setup and moves with the previous one released 2 years ago would be lame and lazy.
  5. Originally posted by LikeASong:As Alex @rattleandhum1988 points out, it would just not be innovative enough. It's not because of my "setlist blues" as @BigGiRL says. I have no reason not to believe those who've seen the show in person and say it rocks big time, you gotta be there, you have to live it, bla bla. I'm sure they're being honest and they really loved it. But I don't think releasing a DVD/BluRay which shares 56% of the songs and 99% of the stage, setup and moves with the previous one released 2 years ago would be lame and lazy.
    It is pretty simple. Don't buy it then.
  6. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:After seeing this tour, I'd be pretty okay with them not releasing a DVD as well. Not because I've seen it, but because it's just not different enough from I&E to warrant one.

    DVDs U2 should put out and should have already put out a long time ago that would make me way more excited than a DVD from this tour:

    -Full Unforgettable Fire show (buy the rights back to the Dortmund tape and release the whole show, or perhaps something from '85 when the shows got really magical)
    -Full Tempe show from the Joshua Tree tour (we know it exists)
    -New Years 1989 show (we know it was filmed)
    -An early ZooTV show (a touch-up of the Stockholm show would be good enough for me)

    I could go on.
    RattleandHum1988, I totally agree with you! The TJT'87 itself does not have a decent record (Paris without "Streets" is not worth it).
    And they (U2) have a lot of archived material, the Tempe'87 show, ZooTV'92 material, TUF'84 / 85. It would be amazing these releases.
    But I find interesting an EITour record for the 8 new songs. But it really is the same show of 2015, only with the exchange of some songs. But actually, I'm more anxious about a Blu-Ray from the TJT-17 than from this current tour'18.
  7. I would LOVE a dvd from a 2011 360 show. Such an awesome setlist and "show", and so different from the 2009 shows too.

    Originally posted by LikeASong:As Alex @rattleandhum1988 points out, it would just not be innovative enough. It's not because of my "setlist blues" as @BigGiRL says. I have no reason not to believe those who've seen the show in person and say it rocks big time, you gotta be there, you have to live it, bla bla. I'm sure they're being honest and they really loved it. But I don't think releasing a DVD/BluRay which shares 56% of the songs and 99% of the stage, setup and moves with the previous one released 2 years ago would be lame and lazy.
    I went to four shows on the Innocence tour, and one show recently on the current tour, and as much as I'd like to say "you gotta be there, you gotta live it" - it was disappointing in real-time. The amount of recycled "content" in the current show from the last tour was so apparent, I was physically bored, and that's NEVER happened at a U2 show. Even a "casual" fan I know who went to one of the Innocence shows expressed the same opinion, and that was even before I volunteered my own. Sorry to anyone who's offended by that

    I get this opinion, but to me if there's a chance U2 could release something else instead, I'd way prefer the alternative.

    If anything, U2 should've just waited on the dvd from the last tour and then done one big one after THIS tour. They could have even done what Coldplay did with the Mylo tour DVD. Have a bunch of different videos from different shows, and have some documentary stuff interspersed.

    I also want to say, and this could be because I've been to shows on the last three tours, but I feel as though U2 concert DVDs haven't had great "direction" in a while. For example, there's something about the Slane dvd specifically that feels extremely cinematic to me, like it's a movie, not just a concert film. Meanwhile, the Innocence DVD feels like a football game to watch. This goes for a number of U2 DVDs actually, even ZooTV Sydney to a degree. Meanwhile, you see some of the concert footage from the Outside Broadcast TV Production, and it's fucking PHENOMENAL. Start at 2:35 to see what I mean:
  8. Can get what you are saying, but it does not count for all fans. That's not the way i look at it. I would love a dvd from current tour, just to be able to watch it and maybe some memories.
  9. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
    I would LOVE a dvd from a 2011 360 show. Such an awesome setlist and "show", and so different from the 2009 shows too.

    [..]
    I went to four shows on the Innocence tour, and one show recently on the current tour, and as much as I'd like to say "you gotta be there, you gotta live it" - it was disappointing in real-time. The amount of recycled "content" in the current show from the last tour was so apparent, I was physically bored, and that's NEVER happened at a U2 show. Even a "casual" fan I know who went to one of the Innocence shows expressed the same opinion, and that was even before I volunteered my own. Sorry to anyone who's offended by that

    [..]
    I get this opinion, but to me if there's a chance U2 could release something else instead, I'd way prefer the alternative.

    If anything, U2 should've just waited on the dvd from the last tour and then done one big one after THIS tour. They could have even done what Coldplay did with the Mylo tour DVD. Have a bunch of different videos from different shows, and have some documentary stuff interspersed.

    I also want to say, and this could be because I've been to shows on the last three tours, but I feel as though U2 concert DVDs haven't had great "direction" in a while. For example, there's something about the Slane dvd specifically that feels extremely cinematic to me, like it's a movie, not just a concert film. Meanwhile, the Innocence DVD feels like a football game to watch. This goes for a number of U2 DVDs actually, even ZooTV Sydney to a degree. Meanwhile, you see some of the concert footage from the Outside Broadcast TV Production, and it's fucking PHENOMENAL. Start at 2:35 to see what I mean:
    [YouTube Video]
    They are probably doing like the album, they go together and Experience bookends the Innocence portion on album and concert Blu Ray. It is their art and I think that is their view on it. You were bored. I saw both and enjoyed both thoroughly and think Experience is a completely different vibe from Innocence. It is all about perspective I guess.

    I think we will still get some type of Blu Ray from JT 2017. When that will be is the question. A lot of the older stuff people want released just are not going to happen unless there is some type of anniversary edition of something (IE Lovetown Pro shot official is not happening, at least anytime soon if ever). They would have released the older stuff already if they had wanted to.
  10. Yeah, I won't.

    Which doesn't interfere with the fact that I prefer the band not to release it.
  11. Been a fan 35 years, I will buy a show filmed / recorded in my hometown and so would anyone else, I still don't understand the complaining, they played 8 new songs, a couple of classics, a few rockers, different arrangements of songs and Acrobat... Isn't that what fans would want from a video release ?

    I would bet folding money that there will be additional footage or maybe even the JT30 show packaged together with some documentary footage and some extra tracks in a deluxe release, possibly a box set.


    IMHO
  12. Two shows in one? One can dream, right... ;h

    but yeah, I totally get why you'd buy it. I totally get why anyone'd buy it. I just wouldn't.