Dr Evil wrote:Intimate gigs in small venues beat stadium rock any day. We are all lucky we can see the best band in the world doing their best ever gig at what amounts to the end of the pier show. (Brighton Concorde2, Flowers tour)
So I want to thank the band for totally ****ing up their career. I don't want to spend a week in a tent waiting for tickets to see a few stick figures a mile away, or be deafened by terawatt powered speakers if I am "lucky" enough to get closer.
The sheer improbability of a band with their level of talent, and a back catalog which amounts to most of the greatest songs ever written, playing small venues, makes me wonder if I am living in a simulation.
All they have to do to get famous on the scale of U2 is to play their greatest songs, songs hardly ever heard live if at all. It's amazing that they stick to such a set formula regarding the setlist.
Its funny because both Simple Minds and Big Country tried to "do a U2" by getting Steve Lillywhite in, touring loads in the US, featuring in John Hughes movies, Anton Corbijn photoshoots, political songs...
...yet though both enjoyed the brief fruits of those labours neither were able to buy long lasting periods of popularity. Big Country are no more and Simple Minds are playing the same size venues as the Bunnymen and probably have a website of moaning old bastards going on about the new U2 album and where it all went wrong for the Minds.
So...love 'em or hate 'em U2 did something (I dont know what) other than just "playing the game". To keep selling out Arenas after 20 odd years there must be significant amounts of young(er) people going to the gigs and buying the records. Something about U2 appeals to people...I just cant put my finger on what....
Mr. Brian, I find that offensive.
Scouser's inability to se others' point of view is rather grating.