<p>Any U2 fans here? Just saw them last night–phenomenal concert (as always)! Played just about all my favorites, the sound was great, and it only rained a little bit. Really amazing stage that added to the experience. I’m very tired, but it was worth it!</p>
<p>We saw it at Wembley Stadium in London. Great show, but I have to say the sound quality was not very good at all. I’m glad you had better luck.</p>
<p>My D was at Boston, too, and she said the sound in NJ was much better than in Boston. Guess it depends on the venue.</p>
<p>Love them but have never seen them in person.</p>
<p>Oh, I’d love to see them sometime. Who knows if I ever will? The new venue of choice in Dallas is the new Cowboys Stadium, and depending on where your seats are, the quality of the sound ranges from fair to absolutely horrible.</p>
<p>My kids, with whom I went last night (I’d never got to concerts if it weren’t for them), have been, since 8 this morning, on line back at the stadium with GA tickets, determined to get into the inner area for tonight’s concert. Ah, the energy of youth!</p>
<p>I only saw them many years ago when they were a smallish act and met Bono and Edge (again years ago) at a King Sunny Ade show*. I have no interest in stadium or even large arena shows. BTW, they were very nice guys, hanging out after the show, and I can tell you definitely that the guitar sound in their next album - I think it was Joshua Tree - was influenced by Sunny’s band, particularly by his utterly amazing lead guitarist who came up with truly unusual sounds that cut across the rhythms and reminded me of Hawaiian slack guitar’s almost singing tones.</p>
<p>*King Sunny Ade is the historical main man of Nigerian juju music, which is a very lively dance music with tons of percussion accented by melodies and counter parts that draw on various cultures. You have to see him in a club because you’ll be on your feet dancing the entire time - as Nigerians in the crowd come up on stage and press money to his forehead as he sings. He’ll often have 20 to 30 players jammed on stage jamming and when you’re that close to that much music you’ll understand what a deep groove really is.</p>
<p>GARLAND - where were you sitting? I was there.</p>
<p>I loved the set, but couldn’t stop thinking that it looked like a big Bionicle. (I took lots of pictures for my 7 yo).</p>
<p>I haven’t thought of Bionicles for years!</p>
<p>Section 320, upper endzone opposite the stage. Actually not bad, though they sure looked small from there. </p>
<p>the stage grew on me. When they shot the lots upward to the clouds, it was very cool. And the twinkling lights during With or Without You were beautiful. The sound was really great, too. Bono is in good voice.</p>
<p>Lergnom. Interesting. I’ll look him up.</p>
<p>We brought binoculars, and were glad that we did.</p>
<p>I may have mentioned this in another thread, but anyway: As I said, we saw this concert on a vacation in london with our two teens, both of whom are big U2 fans. The great thing was that I got tickets before we went, and didn’t tell the kids. They didn’t know we were seeing U2 until we were getting off the Tube at Wembley. (I told them we were going to hear some “British band music.”) It was a priceless moment, and raised the value of our parental stock substantially.</p>
<p>Well played, Hunt.</p>
<p>I’d never thought of Joshua Tree being influenced by Ade, but thinking on it, that makes a lot of sense. It’s still my favorite album. </p>
<p>I like U2, but I had to delete them from my exercise collection, most of their songs seem to start with at least a minute of barely audible noise before gradually getting loud and fast.</p>
<p>I have to say, it’s been nice that S2’s favorite groups are not well known in the US, we’ve been able to see them at the Nokia Theater in NYC which is small to begin with and you can get really, really close to the stage if you want as there’s a large standing area in front of the seats.</p>
<p>I love U2. I’m seeing them in Vegas and Los Angeles in October and cannot wait. I’m just bummed that we don’t get Muse as the opening band. I have GA tix as well so I will be spending a lot of time in line. Luckily U2 fans are pretty cool.</p>
<p>Joshua Tree is my favorite, too. And I love the songs on what I still call “side two”, like In God’s Country, One Tree Hill, Red Hill Mining Town, etc., as well as the better known ones on the “first side”. (dating myself here.)</p>
<p>Garland - we were in 325. If only I’d known you were there. 
We did have binoculars, at least.</p>
<p>It’s not my favorite venue for seeing them, but at least they can handle that size better than most. </p>
<p>lergnom, yeah, they’ve actually talked about being influenced by King Sunny Ade (whom we’ve always loved). It came up a lot during the Rattle & Hum filming sessions, and other places too. Glad to know there are more fans out there (hi, mathmom).</p>
<p>My hat’s off to you, Hunt: I wouldn’t have been able to keep my mouth shut about having those tickets.</p>
<p>Missed them in Chicago, but the media had a field day that they’d opened their tour here. Also heard that they had to replace all the sod on Soldier Field the following day after the concert due to the set, etc.</p>
<p>Darn, Harriet. that would have been so much fun!</p>
<p>My brother-in-law was in high school in Kansas City probably in 1981 or so. He was really into music and when U2 came to KC he got bunches of his friends to go to the concert. They were not real well known at that time in the U.S. The students only had to pay $1 to get into the show!</p>