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  1. I thought here we could remember the vertigo tour in full!
  2. I was just recalling that we were at the 20 year anniversary for the first "public" show of the dress rehearsal on 3/26/2005.

    Fond memories of this tour. At the young age of 18, I did a few rehearsal days at sports arena, and then the first ten shows of the tour and five in the fall. Taped them all. All on my paycheck from Taco Bell!
  4. Wow, that was a fast 20 years!! Great memories of the Vertigo Tour, saw it 3 times.
  5. I've just finished watching the first 2 shows at San Diego Sports Arena,dug out my dvd collection can't believe it's 20 years since I watched these 1st time around,really good concerts,An Cat Dubh,Zoo Station returning for the first time since Zoo TV and all the new stuff from HTDAAB.
    Gonna move onto the Anaheim shows this weekend,wonder if I'll stick with it throughout the year!
  7. I went to my first U2 show in July 2005, at the age of 11. For that reason alone, this is a special one.

    Listening back to these shows after 20 years (as I've been doing in the past few months) I can't say I'd rate this tour too highly. Conceptually it doubled down on many elements of Elevation Tour (reviving early songs and deep cuts, bringing in a lot of the personal and the political, a fairly similar indoors stage setup), but somehow was less spot on with most of them this time (i.e. the political elements - by the Vertigo tour they really started to weigh on the show and bring it down a little bit, especially Bono's speeches before One or the way they turned Streets into a pro-Africa manifesto to the detriment of the song). It also had the fundamental problem of promoting a pretty average album.

    Still, there's plenty of good stuff in those shows - the way Vertigo brought the house down almost every time it was played, The Electric Co. being given plenty of spotlight, Miss Sarajevo stunning everyone into silence each night, the mostly fun and somewhat unpredictable encores. Although I enjoyed the Zoo Station/The Fly ones the most, and the short-lived Discotheque-led encore of course - I'm still perplexed why they dropped it, I guess they just decided to follow the acoustic encore route.
  8. Great tour on paper but not one I ever revisit (bar some of the 2004 promo appearances). The 2005 European leg was particularly dull. I had a ticket for Dublin 1 but I was sixteen and nobody else had a ticket. I sold it for a few quid and have never really regretted it.
  9. Originally posted by germcevoy:Great tour on paper but not one I ever revisit (bar some of the 2004 promo appearances). The 2005 European leg was particularly dull. I had a ticket for Dublin 1 but I was sixteen and nobody else had a ticket. I sold it for a few quid and have never really regretted it.
    I thought it was a fantastic tour atmosphere was electric at the gigs I saw and the band knocked it out of the park ,it was one of the few tours where the fans knew and sang along to the new songs can't say that about 360,I&E or E&I where most people were mainly silent when they played songs from No line,SOI and SOE.
  10. Enjoyed it at the time but it wasn’t memorable. There are more moments I recall from other tours before then and afterwards. Among my bootlegs, it’s probably the tour I listen to least.
  11. 2006 shows were great.
  12. Remember when they switched up the opening to Love and Peace Or Else,going off memory I thought they'd only done it a couple of times during the really early shows but just checking the setlists it went off and on until the end of Leg 1.