U2 Tour Dates - Now Official! — Page 166

I'm so far from overachieving it's not even funny. I've had all day Sunday, Monday, and today to write a 6 page paper, and I'm only seeing the light at the end of the tunnel now!! And it's most certainly not my best work. I've got many, many quotes and chunks that I've paraphrased (all diligently cited, of course)...there's just a lot more of that than of "me" in the paper. It's not like "QUUUOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...[a bunch more O's]...OOOOTE" me "QUOOOOOOOOOOTE." I've written better papers, but it's about working-class Victorian motherhood! How much could I realistically invest in it?!??! ZZZZZzzzzzzzz.

And it sounds like SeattleII was indeed a hell of a show. Gloria, Bad (w/ Ruby Tuesday, you biotch!) OotS, the first tour Vertigox2...and all from GA, a couple deep outside the elipse. Yeah.

I do think, if pressed to pick, I'd almost be tempted to say Brooklyn was my favorite show. I mean, it was my first, and for as few songs as it was, it was a great set (sad when they pulled out more surprises in an 11 songs set than they have for most of the tour...who would have expected IWF, OOC, and She's a Mystery to Me?!?! I'd never even heard SAMTM!!!) Plus, my fab location and the skyline, and the crazy energy from the crowd (we started the chorus of 40 on our own when they left before the encore!!! That was an AMAZING moment!)

I don't really know how I'd rank our 3 shows. They really did all have great moments. None of them were as jaw-droppingly dynamic as we'd hyped them up to be, but we got at least 3 songs at every single show that weren't played at any of the others we attended. Several of those weren't played at any of the others MSG shows at all. I think they were a smidge hard on them...and I think everyone knows by now that they don't shake things up a whole lot. I got something like a dozen new songs in those 3 shows, so I have no complaints there!

How's the l*w s****l business going, btw?!?!?


ETA: Whoa, bi-polar, much?!?!? Crazy just came in and was all like "Hey, how's it going? How are your midterms going? Gotta go crunch some numbers for my audit class, so I'll see ya later! Have a good one!"...*cricket*...*cricket* WTF?!?!? I wonder if she is bi-polar?!?!? Weird.

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Updated On: 10/19/05 at 08:46 PM

LMFAO at your ETA. I hope you gave her the cold shoulder! Doooo it Maaaabel. Doooo it!

BTW, WTF? CBGB is still open?? I thought they had closed! And it's on the Bowery, which is really close to where we were "Coach bag?? Coach bag??"-ing it on Canal, right? Looks like I've got to plan another trip!

[watches as Mabel hides the guest passes and sofa underneath her bunk bed, kicking dish soap and toilet paper out with the dustmites]

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I've asked you three or four times but I've got pre-mature Alzheimer's (did I ever tell you?) so I'll ask again - how much are you paying now and how much does a single cost? Hmm? Hmm? It's only one semester left!

That's right, I DO remember the floor shaking like CRAZY on Monday! Even during the lamer songs where I could actually focus on the photo-taking, everything was trembling! But my lasting memories were of the big black pole that obstructed our view of our lovah, Adam, and the collective audience response of, "How long to sing th--Larry's gone, let's go home!"


ETA: Is www.macphisto.net Axver's site? They've got crazy details on the number of times a song's been played and the first and last time it was performed, updated within the last day or two! Talk about a hobby!

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Updated On: 10/19/05 at 09:16 PM

Durr, okay, since I can't will myself to part with $25 on a fake Rent shirt, but I want something Rent-ish to wear to the movie, I'm looking at possible CBGB tees. Any suggestions?

http://search.ebay.ca/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&from=R10&satitle=cbgb+shirt&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&bs=Search&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&coaction=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D3&sadis=200&fpos=ZIP%2FPostal&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=


Jesus, $2000 more for a single? Screw that then, and if your future roomie becomes unbearable, splurge on yourself with the $2k you saved! (You know...$2k will MORE than buy your airfare to Vancouver, PLUS all the spending money you'll ever need!)

I would say our last seats (300-level directly behind) and 400-level seats were probably my favorite - even sitting directly behind gave us a better view than either of the side-views did!

I'm going to check out the streaming thing right now - have they started COBL yet? How is it being streamed?

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Do you have the link for the stream? I'm going through the threads and someone is saying something about iTunes?

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I'm a total computer retard. You said "streaming" and I'm all, "Wuh?" I just saw the thread title and my eyes glazed. (Which is partially the reason why I have no MSG boots yet - they're all 'torrent this' and 'torrent that', and I don't have a clue what a torrent is!!!!)

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F*CKers - of course NOW no one decides to answer my question and that thread dies.

From what I gather, you can open WMP, go to File-->Open URL--> C&P https://live.g0rman.com:8000 into it, and it should work. I don't know if it's "g0rman" or "gorman" that should really be in there, but neither is working for me. Et tu?


ETA: On the bright side, the setlist isn't looking too exciting today:











*SPOILERS, #1ELPHIE!!!!!!!! [Some of them are made up though so if you catch a glimpse, it really doesn't mean anything! Just an inside joke between me and my best pal, Mabel. You know, the one you met first and thought, oh, sure, we'll be BFF forever. But then I showed up on the scene and she's totally forgotten about you! She didn't tell me so herself, but that's because, she, you know, forgot.]




















SETLIST:

1. City Of Blinding Lights
2. Vertigo
3. Elevation
4. I Will Follow
5. Electric Co. / Send In The Clowns Snippet / See Me Feel Me...Snippet
6. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / In A Little While Snippet
7. Beautiful Day / Many Rivers To Cross
8. Miracle Drug
9. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own / Torna A Surriento (snippet)
10. Love & Peace Or Else
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday / Father Abraham Snippet
12. Bullet The Blue Sky
13. Gloria/The Ocean snippet
14. Crumbs/Fast Cars medley with Miss Sarajevo operatic ending

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Updated On: 10/20/05 at 10:00 PM

Nope. I think it's supposed to be "gorman" and not "g0rman" (at least, wmp is humoring me for a few more seconds when I enter that in) - I think only 64 ppl can listen at one time, and that may be why we can't sign on. I suppose I'll have to satisfy myself with any one of the many boots you've supplied me. Perhaps I'll pop in a DVD tonight? (Oh, forgot to tell you I did have that entire stash in my suitcase, so I got the Boy DVD and all the others!)

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Try putting this in: http://live.gorman.com:8000 instead of modblog.

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Okay, we feel pretty similar about Larry (bugger off, Larry, you uncongenial prat!), but this photo made me a tad moist.



Sometimes you gotta give props to the scary PLEBA girls.

You know, where's Grownupgroupie been lately??? Didn't she say she was hitting the 11/5 show?

And has Namo been keeping up to date on the setlists and going-ons? (Probably not - I think he said he didn't follow the setlists leading up to his crazy Boston concert either.)




So final setlist for tonight was:





*spoilers*











1. City Of Blinding Lights
2. Vertigo
3. Elevation
4. I Will Follow
5. Electric Co. / Send In The Clowns Snippet / See Me Feel Me...(Snippet)
6. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / In A Little While (Snippet)
7. Beautiful Day / Many Rivers To Cross (Snippet)
8. Miracle Drug
9. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own / Torna A Surriento (Snippet)
10. Love & Peace Or Else
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday / Father Abraham (Snippet)
12. Bullet The Blue Sky / Hands That Built America (Snippet) / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (Snippet)
13. Miss Sarajevo

HUMAN RIGHTS VIDEO

14. Pride (In The Name Of )
15. Where The Streets Have No Name
16. One / Old Man River (Snippet)
ENCORE
17. First Time
18. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
19. With Or Without You

20. All Because Of You
21. Yahweh
22. 40

Yawn. Not lighting my hair on fire over missing the streaming audio, although hearing "First Time" would've been nice. Is Miss Sarajevo a permanent fixture now? Oh, and can I add ABOY onto the list of HTDAAB songs that I can live without hearing again? I think that list is growing longer than the list of songs I WANT to hear from HTDAAB! (Miracle Drug, STYCMIOYO, Yahweh, ABOY, M&aW, Crumbs - well, maybe those two just once, so I can say I heard the whole CD - vs. Vertigo, LAPOE, COBL, Fast Cars, OotS, One Step Closer - ooh, a tie!)



You know I've become a jaded U2 concert-goer/setlist follower when I actually kind of wish we'd heard Discotheque and...hell...really, any Pop stuff just to mix things up. Who'dathunk the day would come when I'd say that??

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I like the cover - he looks as if he's just woken up.

Glad to hear the concerts were kinda mediocre. They sucked, right? I missed absolutely nothing, right?

How did these MSG shows compare to the rest of the tour, do ya
think? Was Tiff's Seattle one the best? Are we only counting North American dates? If you could've picked just one show to be at, from the whole tour so far, what would it be?

Does Seattle beat their home shows in Dublin, or any of the other European concerts? When you look at the whole picture, 10/08 kinda sucked, right?

I'm still semi-kicking myself - I bet you two would have let nothing stand in your path! I'm a bad U2 fan.

*scurries back to the arms of Billie Joe*

Updated On: 10/20/05 at 06:10 PM

Ellie's a whore.

So how 'bout that killer concert last Saturday, huh? Wasn't it AMAZING? Too bad Mabel's not online so I have NO ONE to reminisce with!

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Yeah, I really would've rather even Discotheque than MD. I like MD on the CD, but live, it's just SUCH a momentum-killer. (And not just because it's a ballad - U2 has many slow songs that are rather anthemic and keep the energy up - a la With Or Without You or Stuck.) When I read the lyrics, I'm reminded of what a potent song it is, but live, it's just so booooring.

I think my Seattle one was more of less voted the best show of the first leg until Chicago IV (or was it Boston?) came along a few weeks later - but Seattle was known for having crazy energy, the kickass Achtung encore and the first Vertigo2.

If I could've picked one show to be at, it would still be Seattle2, or that Chicago/Boston one I was referring to. Or the Dublin2 concert that Jez went to. Or Brooklyn Bridge (if that counts).

But I'm just so darn happy at seeing a U2 concert at Madison Square Garden...10/8 and 10/14 were quite terrif. (And you missed K***e, you lucky dog. I think I started cracking up once his stupid face appeared on the mondo monitors overhead, didn't I?)

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