ApolloQuiet
05-13-2005, 01:24 AM
U2 just finished a 4 night stint in Chicago tonight, and I was at the show. I was wondering if anyone else has seen the Vertigo tour, and what their impressions were.
I thought it was a really good show. They did a lot of older songs, including two off of the October album, and several off of War besides Sunday Bloody Sunday. They also did a bunch of new stuff obviously. The only problems I had with the show was that technically, they had some cool concepts, but they didn't come across that great. I really liked the hanging ball imaging setup, but the show didn't seem to flow smoothly like it did on the Elevation and Zoo TV tours. The other thing I didn't like was on a few of the songs, Bono seemed to forget some words. I've seen them 3 times, and everytime he's messed up the lyrics on 'One'. Oh well.
As for the good songs, 'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own' was brilliant. It's a deep song to begin with, but Bono's voice was in top form tonight as he nailed the bridge. Other highlights were 'With or Without You', 'Beautiful Day', 'Gloria', 'Sunday Bloody Sunday', and when they closed with 'Bad/40'. I heard that at Tuesday's show they were recording it for a soon to be released DVD. Hope it was a good show, but they had to do Vertigo twice, once as the opener, and also as an encore, probably for the recording.
As for the opening band, Kings of Leon, I thought they were amazing. They are a total acquired taste kind of sound, but hopefully will continue to put out good stuff like they did on Aha Shake Heartbreak. Sounded really good live too.
I thought it was a really good show. They did a lot of older songs, including two off of the October album, and several off of War besides Sunday Bloody Sunday. They also did a bunch of new stuff obviously. The only problems I had with the show was that technically, they had some cool concepts, but they didn't come across that great. I really liked the hanging ball imaging setup, but the show didn't seem to flow smoothly like it did on the Elevation and Zoo TV tours. The other thing I didn't like was on a few of the songs, Bono seemed to forget some words. I've seen them 3 times, and everytime he's messed up the lyrics on 'One'. Oh well.
As for the good songs, 'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own' was brilliant. It's a deep song to begin with, but Bono's voice was in top form tonight as he nailed the bridge. Other highlights were 'With or Without You', 'Beautiful Day', 'Gloria', 'Sunday Bloody Sunday', and when they closed with 'Bad/40'. I heard that at Tuesday's show they were recording it for a soon to be released DVD. Hope it was a good show, but they had to do Vertigo twice, once as the opener, and also as an encore, probably for the recording.
As for the opening band, Kings of Leon, I thought they were amazing. They are a total acquired taste kind of sound, but hopefully will continue to put out good stuff like they did on Aha Shake Heartbreak. Sounded really good live too.