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U2 - So Cruel
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Achtung Baby (1991)
  1. Originally posted by MattG:[..]
    I'd guess after approx 30 years we'd have at least heard about it by now.

    I suppose you never know who's relative has an old cassette tape with 1991-09-15 U2 scrawled on the label, buried at the bottom of a bin somewhere.
    Or someone could have pretend uploaded the bootleg from another show. And to that l say:
  2. Sweetheart, your So Cruel!
  3. If I was U2 and I wanted to dip into the archives or at least make sense of their live history I would hire someone from U2START or some other live chronology website!
  4. Originally posted by DerBFreund:It was never performed in full band. Bono did sing an acoustic full lyrics version twice, but none of them were recorded, sadly


    It was performed at Hershey during the outdoor broadcast leg in 1992 at soundcheck as a full band.
  5. That, as you pointed out, was a soundcheck. It never graduated to full concert
  6. I tried to 'clean up' that Hershey recording (no offence meant to the original taper who did an excellent job thanks) for my own collection of recordings.

    Feel free to have a listen and even to lambaste if you want to

  8. Originally posted by MattG:[..]
    Kills me that this bootleg isn't available. Grew up a mile or so from this venue and would love to hear this historic performance of So Cruel.

    At this point is it just assumed it was not taped?


    Hey same here! Spent some time living in Frankfort. You don’t happen to play (or have played) hockey at the 80th Ave roller hockey rink do you?
  9. Originally posted by miryclay:If I was U2 and I wanted to dip into the archives or at least make sense of their live history I would hire someone from U2START or some other live chronology website!
    u2start is just a collection of everything . They better get someone from U2gigs or U2songs for example... and of course we should never forget about the late Pimm Jal.. his book is still the best thing ever produced by a U2 fan and often used as a reference by U2 and it's crewmembers
  10. I absolutely love this song I really like the album version but I really love the version where Bono plays it on from the sky down solo
  11. For me, the best lyrics Bono has ever written and highly worthy of being recast as an acoustic version in the set list. From the Sky Down hints at what would possible.
  12. Originally posted by Kevtn74:I absolutely love this song I really like the album version but I really love the version where Bono plays it on from the sky down solo
    Bono played it *wrong during FTSD.