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2017-09-22 - San Diego
 Tour: Joshua Tree Tour 2017
Songs played: 23
Audio recordings: 2
Videos: 2
  1. That show was like watching master painter come out and repaint a masterpiece in front of you - beautiful, subtle, powerful, sublime, ecstatic (The Joshua Tree).

    Then the master painter comes back on stage with a box of crayons and scribbles out a stick figure (The Best Thing).

    ...HOW could this be the same band!?!?
  2. It's fair to say given the rest of the album hasn't released yet. The SOE songs have all felt out of context on the JT Tour. I'm certain an identity will solidify with the rest of the album.

    Regarding the painting analogy, the band has had 30 years to turn The Joshua Tree into a masterpiece and you expect the same thing from a song that they've performed for less than 3 weeks? Even the Sistine Chapel started off as rough sketches.


  3. Rough sketch!?!?!?
    How many YEARS have they been working on this "rough sketch" now?
  4. Exactly. These are not the early demo sessions for SOE. They started with the SOI sessions, then 3 more years of waiting, the single is already released! And the song is still a mess.
  5. Mine might have better audio...not that it helps lol.

  6. It’s no bizzare. I’d forgive it a little if they played it on the tree stage perhaps. Otherwise I just don’t know. It sounds like what you would expect them to jam in their dressing room before he show.

    Nicely shot btw.
  7. If I went to see a band who I was in to and they dropped this level of performance of their new single. I’d be tearing them a new one. U2 don’t deserve an exception here.
  9. Originally posted by germcevoy:If I went to see a band who I was in to and they dropped this level of performance of their new single. I’d be tearing them a new one. U2 don’t deserve an exception here.
    I agree. I always said Little Things should have been the only song from the new album to be played on the Joshua Tree Tour. They haven't had enough time to perfect this and now it's sounding flat.
  10. Originally posted by KieranU2:[..]
    I agree. I always said Little Things should have been the only song from the new album to be played on the Joshua Tree Tour. They haven't had enough time to perfect this and now it's sounding flat.
    But in the RS interview Edge said that
    by going back to the rehearsal space and then actually going back to the studio to re-record some of the songs we were able to find a synthesis of the raw band performances and some of the stuff we had created before.


    so what gives? They had all the time to figure out how to play the song live, they even returned to the studio, so I don't think the "lack of time to play it live" is a valid excuse.
  11. Wow that negativity around here. I understand people can dislike that acoustic rendition, but come on, it was simply for them to play a little intimate song, thing which they haven't done at all this tour yet.

    Remember a time when not every show was instantly on the internet for all to see and U2 could just play around with their music once in a while without having fans on forum shit on them ? It's obvious they're not trying to find a new official arrangement of The Best Thing with this acoustic performance. Bono just wanted to do this for his wife probably.

    Besides, the audience seemed to really like it, as I do.
  12. Originally posted by Sev00:Wow that negativity around here. I understand people can dislike that acoustic rendition, but come on, it was simply for them to play a little intimate song, thing which they haven't done at all this tour yet.

    Remember a time when not every show was instantly on the internet for all to see and U2 could just play around with their music once in a while without having fans on forum shit on them ? It's obvious they're not trying to find a new official arrangement of The Best Thing with this acoustic performance. Bono just wanted to do this for his wife probably.

    Besides, the audience seemed to really like it, as I do.
    Amen