Originally posted by lanieldanois:(...)
Could they do this?
Originally posted by lanieldanois:I never fail to appreciate how good U2 were as a live band in 1983. The Red Rocks/UABRS album shows it. Of course, they were playing decent sized venues then. In assessing/acknowledging their past, would they ever be brave enough to try something that could truly revitalise them and put them back on a more immediate and creative path?
Namely, a tour consisting of only small club dates where they play with just their instruments and no big tech.
Edge challenges himself to use only a couple of amps, a few delays and distortions and just his Black Strat and one of his Gibson Explorers...and the electric piano.
That tour would consist of NO SINGLES (A sides). Only album / B sides /deep cuts.
No big light show or production. Just the band with the bare bones of tech. Tickets could be sold for an affordable price on a raffle basis with most, if not all, of the money going to causes nominated by the band.
The band's touring carbon footprint would be reduced to perhaps a single truck and the band and crew's own transport. They could afford to present a wildly different setlist every night with no expectations on singles or the tracks casual fans apparently ask for.
It could be an incredibly exciting opportunity. And I'm not talking SOS-style unplugged. I mean PLUG IN AND PLAY! Haha.
It's basically the Anti-Vegas Tour....
A Sort Of Homecoming
Wire
An Cat Dub
Until The End Of The World
Surrender
Twilight
I Fall Down
Love Comes Tumbling
Like A Song
Kite
Another Time, Another Place
Unknown Caller
Red Hill Mining Town
Heartland
Wild Honey
Seconds
Zooropa
Exit
Encore :
Ultra Violet
Tomorrow
The Electric Co.
2nd Encore :
Van Diemen’s Land
Party Girl
Mothers of the Disappeared