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 Legs (4): Leg 1: North America, Leg 2: Europe, Leg 3: North America, Leg 4: Rest Of The World
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  1. Originally posted by CraigFairlie:The Leeds gig is epic. One of the very best bootlegs.

    I love the Popmart tour. The performance of Mexico DVD is epic, but the dvd is rubbish. Why does it have to be 4:3, it was released in 2007!
    it is 4:3 because it was probably filmed on video tape at that time. You can just adjust your TV to make the picture full screen but of course it may stretch the frame of cut our some of the frame

  3. homers interaction with female approx. 30 seconds in.
    after watching this again perhaps i am being to sensitive..but i suppose you can get backstage with a bag of potatoes..try it let us know
  4. perhaps?
  5. Wow..

    Never thought I'd find an SJW here...


  6. best U2 transition EVER! ..... I could cry even just thinking about it.
  7. I miss Miami most honestly. Not to say I don't miss other parts of Popmart
  8. I went to a very early show ( Clemson) and then a later tour show ( Atlanta )
    Night and day performances. But I think the real failure in of the whole thing was zoo tv was a stretch for most 80's u2 fans. Popmart was just like outer space for those same fans. It was just pushed too far. I liked it for most part. Thought classics sucked on that tour besides Streets. New songs rocked.
    But I think they waited too long to release an album and then it wasn't that great. But we wouldn't have gotten Elevation tour if not for its failures.
    Atlanta show was awesome and had only 40 I think from tour for Hutch.
  9. Originally posted by revjisok:[YouTube Video]
    homers interaction with female approx. 30 seconds in.
    after watching this again perhaps i am being to sensitive..but i suppose you can get backstage with a bag of potatoes..try it let us know
    Way too sensitive I think. That was the scene I thought of when I read your comment earlier and thought "That can't possibly be it."
  10. Originally posted by jasvan:But I think the real failure in of the whole thing was zoo tv was a stretch for most 80's u2 fans. Popmart was just like outer space for those same fans. It was just pushed too far.
    I agree.
    Achtung+Zooropa were a huge departure from the classic U2.
    Pop was pushing too far and while looking at it in retrospective it wasn't really THAT much, back then you didn't know where it would stop ("I signed up to follow a rock band, not an electro-dance thing"), so at the very least people (fans) were very cautious about the whole tour.

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    Also, specially for those who were not U2-aware back then, do you remember how last year the whole Apple release got that huge backslash and everywhere there were people making fun of U2? how it could've been a bit embarrasing saying you were a U2 fan?
    That was very similar to the Pop album era.
    Maybe not that much (thanks social networks for not being around back then), but on the other hand, try filling out stadiums with that backslash.
  11. Originally posted by jasvan:I went to a very early show ( Clemson) and then a later tour show ( Atlanta )
    Night and day performances. But I think the real failure in of the whole thing was zoo tv was a stretch for most 80's u2 fans. Popmart was just like outer space for those same fans. It was just pushed too far. I liked it for most part. Thought classics sucked on that tour besides Streets. New songs rocked.
    But I think they waited too long to release an album and then it wasn't that great. But we wouldn't have gotten Elevation tour if not for its failures.
    Atlanta show was awesome and had only 40 I think from tour for Hutch.
    I was at the Atlanta show. It was awesome. It looks like we have been to a lot of the same shows over the years. Just by my user name you can probably tell I won't agree with you. I thought it was a stunning album, and a stunning tour...it just seemed so odd that the Georgia Dome was so empty. But Pop's failure on the American charts gave the band this false sense of wanting hit records and less focus on the actual quality of the songs themselves. Not to say they have a bunch of bad songs lol. But 360 went from the NLOTH tour to a Greatest Hits tour quickly due to the "failure" of that album. Taking "Breathe" out of the setlist really hurt the show...but I still loved it.
  12. Originally posted by kris_smith87:[..]
    Way too sensitive I think. That was the scene I thought of when I read your comment earlier and thought "That can't possibly be it."
    Agree ...anyway U2 don t count in that moment , is just Homer