U2 Tour Dates - Now Official! — Page 68

Oh my GOD, Mabel! I just checked Vegas - replace your "2" with a "7"!! Yes, $175 for the cheapest seat!! There are tickets that are MORE EXPENSIVE than U2?!?!?! Good GOD!

I think my budget for McCartney will be, like, US$60 after fees. U2 is a bigger deal to me (not that that makes me a lesser fan than you, Ellie, for I don't think you're even considering going, are you?? *smirk*), but it seems like it would be a total waste to be in NYC 2 days after a Beatle played in the same venue! (Do you think he'll be seeing Lennon?? Weren't things tense with him and Yoko regarding the whole, "Lennon & McCartney" vs. "McCartney & Lennon" kerfuffle? So maybe not.)

I'm still in shock over $175 for the cheapest MGM seat! Extortion!

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Figured I'd post this now before I forget it later...

USA TODAY...
--U2 won't have to get up early to kick off the summer music segments for Good Morning America (live, 7 a.m. ET). The ABC morning show will join the Irish supergroup on its Vertigo tour, then broadcast five songs May 20. Other acts, which will perform live, include Rascal Flatts (May 27); Shakira (June 3); Santana (June 10); Ringo Starr (June 17); Jesse McCartney (June 24); Fantasia (July 22); Clay Aiken (July 29); Jessica Simpson (Aug. 5); and Keith Urban (Aug. 12). Avril Lavigne closes the series Aug. 26.

There are also rumors floating around that they may play live in Times Square or Bryant Park on the 20th. I'm selfishly hoping it's just a pre-taped segment, because there's NO WAY I can be in the city on the 20th. I'm leaving NYC for NH on the 8th, have the Boston concert on the 24th, and am supposed to be going back to NY for work Memorial Day weekend. I just can't see another trip back and forth in that 2 week period. Though I'll seriously be in a mighty pissy mood that day if I find out I'm missing out. Any way you can go in and catch it, Elphie, if it's for real??

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This is very true, Elphie! I should just be thrilled that I caught the Brooklyn Bridge show (though the fact that it was SO amazing just makes it a pisser that I'd have to miss another, similar concert!) It just kills me that I'd be so close, and yet so far away. It'd be like them having a concert in Boston Common a week after I came back to NYC.

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Yeah, I saw that too...chose to ignore it. *shakes head*

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Damn, I guess Harford wasn't announced. Here's the list I found on murmurs.com (copied from Billboard):

Sept. 16: Miami (American Airlines Arena)
Sept. 17: Tampa, Fla. (St. Pete Times Forum)
Sept. 20: Atlanta (Philips Arena)
Sept. 22: Philadelphia (Wachovia Center)
Sept. 26: Boston (FleetCenter)
Oct. 4-5: New York (Madison Square Garden)
Oct. 8: Washington, D.C. (MCI Center)
Oct. 10: Toronto (Air Canada Centre)
Oct. 14: Detroit (Palace at Auburn Hills)
Oct. 18: Chicago (United Center)
Oct. 22: Columbus, Ohio (Value City Arena)
Oct. 23: Milwaukee (Bradley Center)
Oct. 26: St. Paul, Minn. (Xcel Energy Center)
Oct. 27: Des Moines, Iowa (Wells Fargo Arena)
Oct. 30: Omaha, Neb. (Qwest Center)
Nov. 1: Denver (Pepsi Center)
Nov. 3: Seattle (Key Arena)
Nov. 4: Portland, Ore. (Rose Garden)
Nov. 7: San Jose, Calif. (HP Pavilion)
Nov. 11: Anaheim, Calif. (Arrowhead Pond)
Nov. 16: Sacramento, Calif. (Arco Arena)
Nov. 19: Houston (Toyota Center)
Nov. 20: Dallas (American Airlines Center)
Nov. 23: Phoenix (Glendale Arena)
Nov. 25-26: Las Vegas (MGM Grand Garden)
Nov. 29: Los Angeles (Staples Center)

What a pisser.

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Touché.

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I think "Bad" would excite me more. I was listening to it again today on my way to work and wailing away. Mangled that song, but my spirit was in it...and that's what counts, right?


5 more days until Seattle! At this time on Monday, they'll probably be in the middle of their set and I'll be chilling in the ellipse. I just hope my digital camera can come in!

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Of course Bad would excite me more too, but I think She's a Mystery to me is a great song. And its another new one that they haven't played on this tour yet, which is always good!

Tiff, I'm jealous you're seeing them so soon. I'm already fantasizing about MSG, which is a month away!

I'm off ladies. It was a long evening (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and then College Night at the Met for the new Diane Arbus exhibit that went until after midnight)

<---Extremely bitter that the wench at the door refused to give me the gift bag going in (a lovely Met bag that could totally be used on a daily basis w/ a hardcover book of Arbus' work and who knows what else) insisting that we'd get them on the way out. LIAR! Of course they were all gone by the time we left. I totally should have gone in for the food, and left getting the bags, and just gone back to catch the exhibit later. It was probably a $50 book!!! Damn.

Anyway, good night!

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Chitty was actually kind of fun. I'd never seen the movie, and I think it would have been quite the trip if I had (reliving old childhood memories...with Raul no less!) But, for $20 (last row in the balcony) it was worth it for the spectacle, happy go lucky music, and some pretty good performances (Raul, Marc, Jan Maxwell, etc)

I couldn't see exactly what the book was, but I'd imagine it was a book of Diane Arbus' photography (since it was for her retrospective of work at the Met). All I know was it was good sized, hard cover, pristine in plastic.

Oh, and the bag was actually pretty cute. It wasn't a paper bag, but kind of like a quality version of the bags that they give you in the gift shop. It was red w/ Met Museum written in white all over it...kind of vinyl material (it was like this bag I bought at the Bway Flea Market last year).

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Groupie, I sent an e-mail to that eBay seller, and he said that he'd still be sending them out. I'd love to get my AnaheimI show, but if he doesn't send it, I'm sure I can do a straight up trade for it. Oh, and if he doesn't send them out, I DO have your show on CD, so you'll be able to get it one way or another!

Oh yeah...The Wiggles?!?!? I feel for ya! The little boy that I watched a couple of times over the winter break is a Wiggles fanatic. If I heard Play Your Guitar w/ Murray one more time, I thought I was going to scratch my eyes out!!!

Have a blast seeing Elton John (when's that?) and I'll be keeping good thoughts for Gracie (and your for being up to the task of playing the bad guy!)

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Paul who? McCarthy? *chuckle*

I want to see Elton too. I'd love to go to LV and see him & Celine - that would be amazing. As it is, I'll have to make do with Green Day on Sunday. Oh well.

Updated On: 4/21/05 at 07:19 PM