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Experience and Innocence tour
 Legs (3): Promo tour, Leg 1: North America, Leg 2: Europe
Shows: 79
  1. My least favorite tour ever. Not even close for me. I got stuck with the terrible US set lists and that left such a bad taste in my mouth.
  2. Originally posted by MoFoNYR15:My least favorite tour ever. Not even close for me. I got stuck with the terrible US set lists and that left such a bad taste in my mouth.
    Oooph. That first leg has got to be one of the biggest bummers ever. ‘Come see the same show as last time with a higher resolution screen’.
  3. Does repeating 5 out of 20 plus songs count as seeing the same show?
  4. That middle section would have broken my heart. It was the 2015 section verbatim. It had no place in 2018. It’s not like the songs just survived to the next tour. They just took a whole block of the show and repeated it. Unforgivable.

  5. Experience + Innocence tour.

    I can see where you're coming from but there's two sides to this argument. The tour was also visiting markets that didn't receive IE, so they wouldn't have seen that tour or sections of songs. It made sense to "catch them up" and give them an overview of both tours.
  6. The E&I was a poorly executed and uninspired repeat of the I&E tour.
    E&I caused a long U2 break for me
  7. Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]
    Oooph. That first leg has got to be one of the biggest bummers ever. ‘Come see the same show as last time with a higher resolution screen’.
    It was bummer when it first occurred. It became a slap in the face when those later sets started taking shape to what it should have been from the start.
  8. Originally posted by MoFoNYR15:[..]
    It was bummer when it first occurred. It became a slap in the face when those later sets started taking shape to what it should have been from the start.
    Yeah exactly, once I saw the Euro sets I felt robbed
  9. It was 4-5 repeated songs in a 24 song set. You all gotta chill.
  10. Originally posted by SJKamal:[..]

    Experience + Innocence tour.

    I can see where you're coming from but there's two sides to this argument. The tour was also visiting markets that didn't receive IE, so they wouldn't have seen that tour or sections of songs. It made sense to "catch them up" and give them an overview of both tours.
    I think you are giving them too much credit. I one hundred percent believe they just didn’t put the rehearsal time in and only got back into the groove when on the road leading to the much superior later setlists.
  11. All ancient history either way.
  12. as a first-hander in Tulsa, I can confirm I was shocked the entire innocence section appeared untouched. Even thou I enjoyed that section in the 12 i+e shows I attended, I do recall being disappointed to see it repeated. I was really looking forward to brand new section inserted in that exact same spot of the show (ie: i was expecting Bono to walk inside the screen with visuals around him ala Cedarwood, to still show off that screen effect, but just done to a diff song, telling a diff experience story).
    I was not disappointed in the show overall- surprise of Wild Horses was great- but that repeated section was definitely chin-scratching. I am usually on the side of u2-apologist, so afterwards I did realize they were playing new cities, and the word innocence was still in the tour name, etc. But for a band that usually doesn't like repeating themselves, and who always dreams up new gags for their lives shows, I was just left surprised, thinking "wow, they must be really proud of this section if they want to keep showing it off" (Which i believe Willie later confirmed, it's a piece of theatre they are most proud of)