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2018-05-15 - Inglewood
 Tour: Experience and Innocence tour
Songs played: 28
Audio recordings: 4
  1. Originally posted by Document:[..]
    I don't know the floor was pretty jammed up and hard to deal with last year during the Rose Bowl Show for the JT17 show.

    Any way's, I was pretty excited to hear the younger fans sing out the lyrics to the new songs as well as the old... that was fun. The guy behind me I think must've gotten into them during the HTDAAB period, cause he went nuts for ABOY.
    A friend (very casual fan), only has both greatest hits albums and HTDAAB.

    My son (19) has been force fed all albums since he was a kid, yet the song he likes the most is Blinding Lights.

    (IMHO, on a similar level of nostalgia, U2's recent albums are way better than we tend to think. Maybe we'll see in 20-30 years...)

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    What's the crowd response on Wolves? it always seems to me like people really owned that song, but haven't been there to check.
  2. Originally posted by MattG:From what I understand the margins were slim based on how expensive the production was to tour - and the fact that is routinely thrown around is that they made more on merchandise sales than they did on ticket sale profits.


    They broke even during the tour I believe. The tour promoter – I think his name was Michael Cohl, also promoter for Rolling Stones – wanted U2 to hit a profit of up to $100 million, but that obviously never happened. Don't know what the ramifications of that was.

    Merchandise was always a cash cow. Paul McGuinness had that famous quote of, "If we never sold out of all the merchandise on Zoo TV, we would have been fucked." The condoms were a useful tool then.
  3. Compilations of all my footage from last night with time stamps
  4. Originally posted by Bloodraven:[..]
    A friend (very casual fan), only has both greatest hits albums and HTDAAB.

    My son (19) has been force fed all albums since he was a kid, yet the song he likes the most is Blinding Lights.

    (IMHO, on a similar level of nostalgia, U2's recent albums are way better than we tend to think. Maybe we'll see in 20-30 years...)

    ---

    What's the crowd response on Wolves? it always seems to me like people really owned that song, but haven't been there to check.
    Oh yeah, when I was in Vegas, there were two young women maybe in their late teens, early 20's, and they were going wild for Wolves... They had their fists in the air pumping and shouting the lyrics.... that was great to see.
  5. Originally posted by blueeyedboy:[..]
    where were you in the crowd? If you were anywhere from the main stage to the b-stage, you were sardines... about 100 feet back from the b-stage, you could your beer down and dance. at least in miami...


    For the JT17 I was to the right of the E-Stage, near Larry's drum kit. Yes, we were packed, and I was concerend cause my sister-in-law brought her 8 year old for her first U2 show. They left right away and partied in the back... my wife and I stayed for half of the JT songs until some women who was clearly on something kept grabbing my wife, screaming for her friend... and then when Bono gave a shout out about Chris Cornell (last year) she yelled "Where's Chris Cornell, this isn't Chris Cornell (during Running To Stand Still).... Ugh, I had to bolt to the back during the second half.... pissing people off while we jammed our ways out of the crowd.
  8. Originally posted by Document:[..]


    For the JT17 I was to the right of the E-Stage, near Larry's drum kit. Yes, we were packed, and I was concerend cause my sister-in-law brought her 8 year old for her first U2 show. They left right away and partied in the back... my wife and I stayed for half of the JT songs until some women who was clearly on something kept grabbing my wife, screaming for her friend... and then when Bono gave a shout out about Chris Cornell (last year) she yelled "Where's Chris Cornell, this isn't Chris Cornell (during Running To Stand Still).... Ugh, I had to bolt to the back during the second half.... pissing people off while we jammed our ways out of the crowd.


    Tomorrow is Chris's one year death anniversary. I was at Pasadena too and it was a great moment when they played BHS before SBS over the PA. A really, really great moment.
  12. Friend met Edge in GA line at LA yesterday