They've always been damn integral to The Fly, and 2023 is really damn good but...

There's always this one...

As awesome as The Sphere is U2 (or anyone) will never top ZOO TV.

Zoo Station and it's opening (for the stadium tours especially) was brilliant and beyond anything that hack Roger Waters could come up with.

The Fly was complete overload.

Until The End Of The World was Mozart on steroids with video screens and a wah-wah pedal.

ZOO TV was just a complete change of the medium. Chaotic upheaval with mind numbing pace/content that has become normal.

Somehow U2 predicted and predicated, unknowingly, how the future, since then until now, and for however longer, how technology + attention span + volume/size + sound + vision/content all being slammed together, would be.

Because ever since ZOO TV, media, in general, has been of that chaos; prior to ZOO TV it was grampa's slow version of about to snooze TV.

I've been to quite a few ZooTV shows back in 1992/93 and never before or after I have been to a concert where the setlist was as perfectly structured and paced as on those ZooTV and Zooropa shows in 1992/93, with Dublin 28/08/93 being the absolute perfect concert.
The sensory overload of it all added to the experience and did not take away from the music, it all felt like a huge piece of art, but immersive.
Absolutely mindblowing.

Zoo Tour(s) were also my favorite, although the later ones were technically advanced. Wondering with this tour they're thinking of a return of sorts.

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Zoo Tour(s) were also my favorite, although the later ones were technically advanced. Wondering with this tour they're thinking of a return of sorts.

After the Sphere shows it seems like they're going to record a new album and then in 2025 tour (if they're smart they'll do stadiums but if they're really smart they'll do arenas). They've still got quite a few years left to go so this next album probably won't be their last one.

For whatever reason, they abandoned SONGS OF ASCENT. No actual idea if they recorded anything for it. Perhaps they were going for a trilogy but changed their mind.

I doubt they'll follow in the Stones' footsteps and just keep going for years without anything new, original or not, and playing the same old songs over and over and over for years between a decade of hits comps being released.

Yeah yeah, they don't need the money, just like the Stones, but to keep going, well, they need the money: can you imagine the amount they pay (like the Stones) to rent various stadiums and arenas for one or four shows? They eat that. So they like to make it up, hence sponsors and promoters getting a guarantee.

The Stones rented out the Louisiana Superdome in 1994 for 3 days at something like $100,000 a day and only about 32,000 out of 65,000 or whatever were purchased. I was there and was completely blown away at how empty the Supe was. They certainly made a profit but nowhere close to any other show on the VOODOO tour.

It's no wonder they didn't come back to New Orleans until the summer of 2019 after their first failed Jazz Fest attempt.

I like the song "Mercy". If the album "Songs of Ascent" were any indication of this type material it's a real shame. But yeah, I know their moniker is to keep changing and not live in the past. Although they're doing it right now.

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I like the song "Mercy". If the album "Songs of Ascent" were any indication of this type material it's a real shame. But yeah, I know their moniker is to keep changing and not live in the past. Although they're doing it right now.

Apparently SONGS OF ASCENT is finished, or almost finished, depending on what you find (haven't read anything about it for a while until today LOL) but will most likely be released after their as-yet-recorded noisy rock album.

Cool, good news. I'm curious to hear the album. I suppose the "noisy" album will include Atomic City. It's not a bad track in my opinion. Funny, my Wife immediately said is that Blondie like many others.

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Cool, good news. I'm curious to hear the album. I suppose the "noisy" album will include Atomic City. It's not a bad track in my opinion. Funny, my Wife immediately said is that Blondie like many others.

Atomic City is nowhere near what they're considering in regard to a noisy guitar driven rock album.

Atomic City sounds like a leftover from SOI. They've never released a song that sounded like any prior song to anything else until Atomic City (with exception to their B-sides).

That's probably inevitable. The Stones have done that, to various degree, at times. Mick has been very vocal about not doing that, not verbatim, exactly, yet it's in what he says that he doesn't say that gives it away that they do, even if he has nothing to do with it, which, of course, is a total flip from Keith not having to do with anything sometimes, which has been 100% true, outside of "writing" it.

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As awesome as The Sphere is U2 (or anyone) will never top ZOO TV.

Zoo Station and it's opening (for the stadium tours especially) was brilliant and beyond anything that hack Roger Waters could come up with.

The Fly was complete overload.

Until The End Of The World was Mozart on steroids with video screens and a wah-wah pedal.

ZOO TV was just a complete change of the medium. Chaotic upheaval with mind numbing pace/content that has become normal.

Somehow U2 predicted and predicated, unknowingly, how the future, since then until now, and for however longer, how technology + attention span + volume/size + sound + vision/content all being slammed together, would be.

Because ever since ZOO TV, media, in general, has been of that chaos; prior to ZOO TV it was grampa's slow version of about to snooze TV.

Well said! I hate to admit but I would not be very interested in watching every gig the Stones did on, let's say, the Voodoo Lounge tour but I would definitely watch all concerts from the Zoo TV/Zooropa Tour -- and that was a long tour. I would even add the Pop Tour gigs that were just as good, even if less revolutionary...

I also recommend revisiting Live From Red Rocks. That one gets better with each viewing...

I don't dig Bono's "new" hairdo, though. Reminds me of the hair on Michael Myers' mask.

V-U2 An Immersive Concert Film at Sphere Las Vegas

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[www.u2.com]

[thesphere.com]

So it's filmed at The Sphere and being shown exclusively at The Sphere.

"Let's just take the video we used at the shows and add some additional shots of the band and the crowd and call it a concert movie."

Hmm, so the rest of us are still ass out.

Apparently tickets are $100. Probably wouldn't pay that for a movie.

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Apparently tickets are $100. Probably wouldn't pay that for a movie.

Thats a Cheap ticket for entertainment in Vegas

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Apparently tickets are $100. Probably wouldn't pay that for a movie.

Thats a Cheap ticket for entertainment in Vegas

I'm quite sure, betting conservatively, I could lose that in about 10 minutes at the blackjack table.

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So it's filmed at The Sphere and being shown exclusively at The Sphere.

"Let's just take the video we used at the shows and add some additional shots of the band and the crowd and call it a concert movie."

My guess is this is the second to last show. I think it would be pretty good but $100 is excessive.

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So it's filmed at The Sphere and being shown exclusively at The Sphere.

"Let's just take the video we used at the shows and add some additional shots of the band and the crowd and call it a concert movie."

My guess is this is the second to last show. I think it would be pretty good but $100 is excessive.

It was filmed at shows 37, 38, and 39 out of the 40. The film is apparently 75 minutes, while the show itself was 2 hours.

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So it's filmed at The Sphere and being shown exclusively at The Sphere.

"Let's just take the video we used at the shows and add some additional shots of the band and the crowd and call it a concert movie."

My guess is this is the second to last show. I think it would be pretty good but $100 is excessive.

It was filmed at shows 37, 38, and 39 out of the 40. The film is apparently 75 minutes, while the show itself was 2 hours.

So not very immersive at only 75 minutes then!

Still waiting for them to release the Anton Corbijn concert film from the 2017 JT tour....

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Still waiting for them to release the Anton Corbijn concert film from the 2017 JT tour....

That's more like it. That was a great show/tour.

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Still waiting for them to release the Anton Corbijn concert film from the 2017 JT tour....

That's more like it. That was a great show/tour.

Apparently it was finished in 2018 and was going to be released with a short run in theatres to coincide with the 2019 Australia tour. But... nothing happened.

Maybe they'll release it with the 40 year anniversary of TJT. That seems reasonable at this point.

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Still waiting for them to release the Anton Corbijn concert film from the 2017 JT tour....

That's more like it. That was a great show/tour.

Apparently it was finished in 2018 and was going to be released with a short run in theatres to coincide with the 2019 Australia tour. But... nothing happened.

Maybe they'll release it with the 40 year anniversary of TJT. That seems reasonable at this point.

By fall 2019, there was talk that footage from the 2019 shows was going to be added to the film. I attended the Japan and South Korea shows and met Corbijn in Tokyo, so he very well may have been there to film.

Of course then 2020 releases got postponed and after that this whole project just faded away.

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Still waiting for them to release the Anton Corbijn concert film from the 2017 JT tour....

That's more like it. That was a great show/tour.

Apparently it was finished in 2018 and was going to be released with a short run in theatres to coincide with the 2019 Australia tour. But... nothing happened.

Maybe they'll release it with the 40 year anniversary of TJT. That seems reasonable at this point.

By fall 2019, there was talk that footage from the 2019 shows was going to be added to the film. I attended the Japan and South Korea shows and met Corbijn in Tokyo, so he very well may have been there to film.

Of course then 2020 releases got postponed and after that this whole project just faded away.

So even though it was finished and ready for release... Corbijn wanted to film more!!!???

No wonder it never came out. He's probably still filming for it, maybe time animation of a yucca dying.

I can't imagine why he would do that. You watch any footage of the Stones 1981 tour and, with exception to Keith hitting bum notes for Under My Thumb's intro occasionally, the shows were basically all the same in terms of where Mick ran to, what hat Mick wore when, etc.

Think about LSTNT - they certainly weren't concerned with their performance, they just lumped part of two shows together.

AT THE MAX was a combination of shows - 2 shows in London, one show in Turin, two shows in East Berlin - and fantastically they kept the screwup in IORR. But you can't really tell - it was obviously for the sake of content.

Even with all those shows filmed they still had to mime (it's extremely obvious during Ruby Tuesday, Mick is 300 feet from the microphone! and the intro of Honky Tonk Women, which is horrendous - somehow Keith just couldn't pull it off) to correct things for whatever reason, which makes zero sense since they filmed FIVE SHOWS!!!

The audience watching the U2 movie probably isn't going to be able to tell if they're in Australia, Japan or Canada for this or that song. It's understandable if With Or Without You was best performed at show $ over shows @ and #, which is probably ridiculous anyway, sure.

LIVE FROM SYDNEY is, personally, their best live show release and, ha ha, it's from show two of two - it's one show. They recorded show one as a backup for any errors with the PPV but Adam didn't play.

ELEVATION is fantastic, that's solid, two nights in Boston.

U2 GO HOME is excellent, from show two of two at Slane, an outstanding performance.

VERTIGO is really good, it's two shows from Chicago.

The rest are good. None of them are bad. I just think ZOO TV is the best one of all of them because of its broadness of spectacle, and the B-stage was fantastic, a bit of a breather from the madness (Mick admittedly nicked it for what, just the 1994 Miami show and then for the brilliant BRIDGES tour). If TJT 2017 ever comes out not telling but it will probably be really good as well.

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Still waiting for them to release the Anton Corbijn concert film from the 2017 JT tour....

That's more like it. That was a great show/tour.

Apparently it was finished in 2018 and was going to be released with a short run in theatres to coincide with the 2019 Australia tour. But... nothing happened.

Maybe they'll release it with the 40 year anniversary of TJT. That seems reasonable at this point.

By fall 2019, there was talk that footage from the 2019 shows was going to be added to the film. I attended the Japan and South Korea shows and met Corbijn in Tokyo, so he very well may have been there to film.

Of course then 2020 releases got postponed and after that this whole project just faded away.

So even though it was finished and ready for release... Corbijn wanted to film more!!!???

No wonder it never came out. He's probably still filming for it, maybe time animation of a yucca dying.

I can't imagine why he would do that. You watch any footage of the Stones 1981 tour and, with exception to Keith hitting bum notes for Under My Thumb's intro occasionally, the shows were basically all the same in terms of where Mick ran to, what hat Mick wore when, etc.

Think about LSTNT - they certainly weren't concerned with their performance, they just lumped part of two shows together.

AT THE MAX was a combination of shows - 2 shows in London, one show in Turin, two shows in East Berlin - and fantastically they kept the screwup in IORR. But you can't really tell - it was obviously for the sake of content.

Even with all those shows filmed they still had to mime (it's extremely obvious during Ruby Tuesday, Mick is 300 feet from the microphone! and the intro of Honky Tonk Women, which is horrendous - somehow Keith just couldn't pull it off) to correct things for whatever reason, which makes zero sense since they filmed FIVE SHOWS!!!

The audience watching the U2 movie probably isn't going to be able to tell if they're in Australia, Japan or Canada for this or that song. It's understandable if With Or Without You was best performed at show $ over shows @ and #, which is probably ridiculous anyway, sure.

LIVE FROM SYDNEY is, personally, their best live show release and, ha ha, it's from show two of two - it's one show. They recorded show one as a backup for any errors with the PPV but Adam didn't play.

ELEVATION is fantastic, that's solid, two nights in Boston.

U2 GO HOME is excellent, from show two of two at Slane, an outstanding performance.

VERTIGO is really good, it's two shows from Chicago.

The rest are good. None of them are bad. I just think ZOO TV is the best one of all of them because of its broadness of spectacle, and the B-stage was fantastic, a bit of a breather from the madness (Mick admittedly nicked it for what, just the 1994 Miami show and then for the brilliant BRIDGES tour). If TJT 2017 ever comes out not telling but it will probably be really good as well.

I always liked PopMart Live from Mexico, even though it wasn't a great album, and the whole thing seems a bit overblown, the performance is stellar. I thought that was when they filmed 2 nights and Adam was too sick/hung over do do the first one, so his tech filled in (conveniently wearing the mask for the whole show).

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Still waiting for them to release the Anton Corbijn concert film from the 2017 JT tour....

That's more like it. That was a great show/tour.

Apparently it was finished in 2018 and was going to be released with a short run in theatres to coincide with the 2019 Australia tour. But... nothing happened.

Maybe they'll release it with the 40 year anniversary of TJT. That seems reasonable at this point.

By fall 2019, there was talk that footage from the 2019 shows was going to be added to the film. I attended the Japan and South Korea shows and met Corbijn in Tokyo, so he very well may have been there to film.

Of course then 2020 releases got postponed and after that this whole project just faded away.

So even though it was finished and ready for release... Corbijn wanted to film more!!!???

No wonder it never came out. He's probably still filming for it, maybe time animation of a yucca dying.

I can't imagine why he would do that. You watch any footage of the Stones 1981 tour and, with exception to Keith hitting bum notes for Under My Thumb's intro occasionally, the shows were basically all the same in terms of where Mick ran to, what hat Mick wore when, etc.

Think about LSTNT - they certainly weren't concerned with their performance, they just lumped part of two shows together.

AT THE MAX was a combination of shows - 2 shows in London, one show in Turin, two shows in East Berlin - and fantastically they kept the screwup in IORR. But you can't really tell - it was obviously for the sake of content.

Even with all those shows filmed they still had to mime (it's extremely obvious during Ruby Tuesday, Mick is 300 feet from the microphone! and the intro of Honky Tonk Women, which is horrendous - somehow Keith just couldn't pull it off) to correct things for whatever reason, which makes zero sense since they filmed FIVE SHOWS!!!

The audience watching the U2 movie probably isn't going to be able to tell if they're in Australia, Japan or Canada for this or that song. It's understandable if With Or Without You was best performed at show $ over shows @ and #, which is probably ridiculous anyway, sure.

LIVE FROM SYDNEY is, personally, their best live show release and, ha ha, it's from show two of two - it's one show. They recorded show one as a backup for any errors with the PPV but Adam didn't play.

ELEVATION is fantastic, that's solid, two nights in Boston.

U2 GO HOME is excellent, from show two of two at Slane, an outstanding performance.

VERTIGO is really good, it's two shows from Chicago.

The rest are good. None of them are bad. I just think ZOO TV is the best one of all of them because of its broadness of spectacle, and the B-stage was fantastic, a bit of a breather from the madness (Mick admittedly nicked it for what, just the 1994 Miami show and then for the brilliant BRIDGES tour). If TJT 2017 ever comes out not telling but it will probably be really good as well.

I always liked PopMart Live from Mexico, even though it wasn't a great album, and the whole thing seems a bit overblown, the performance is stellar. I thought that was when they filmed 2 nights and Adam was too sick/hung over do do the first one, so his tech filled in (conveniently wearing the mask for the whole show).

Staring At The Sun acoustic from PopMart was excellent. Album was bad but I remember watching that DVD and thinking the show itself was very good. I feel U2 can usually pull that out with a bad album.

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Still waiting for them to release the Anton Corbijn concert film from the 2017 JT tour....

That's more like it. That was a great show/tour.

Apparently it was finished in 2018 and was going to be released with a short run in theatres to coincide with the 2019 Australia tour. But... nothing happened.

Maybe they'll release it with the 40 year anniversary of TJT. That seems reasonable at this point.

By fall 2019, there was talk that footage from the 2019 shows was going to be added to the film. I attended the Japan and South Korea shows and met Corbijn in Tokyo, so he very well may have been there to film.

Of course then 2020 releases got postponed and after that this whole project just faded away.

So even though it was finished and ready for release... Corbijn wanted to film more!!!???

No wonder it never came out. He's probably still filming for it, maybe time animation of a yucca dying.

I can't imagine why he would do that. You watch any footage of the Stones 1981 tour and, with exception to Keith hitting bum notes for Under My Thumb's intro occasionally, the shows were basically all the same in terms of where Mick ran to, what hat Mick wore when, etc.

Think about LSTNT - they certainly weren't concerned with their performance, they just lumped part of two shows together.

AT THE MAX was a combination of shows - 2 shows in London, one show in Turin, two shows in East Berlin - and fantastically they kept the screwup in IORR. But you can't really tell - it was obviously for the sake of content.

Even with all those shows filmed they still had to mime (it's extremely obvious during Ruby Tuesday, Mick is 300 feet from the microphone! and the intro of Honky Tonk Women, which is horrendous - somehow Keith just couldn't pull it off) to correct things for whatever reason, which makes zero sense since they filmed FIVE SHOWS!!!

The audience watching the U2 movie probably isn't going to be able to tell if they're in Australia, Japan or Canada for this or that song. It's understandable if With Or Without You was best performed at show $ over shows @ and #, which is probably ridiculous anyway, sure.

LIVE FROM SYDNEY is, personally, their best live show release and, ha ha, it's from show two of two - it's one show. They recorded show one as a backup for any errors with the PPV but Adam didn't play.

ELEVATION is fantastic, that's solid, two nights in Boston.

U2 GO HOME is excellent, from show two of two at Slane, an outstanding performance.

VERTIGO is really good, it's two shows from Chicago.

The rest are good. None of them are bad. I just think ZOO TV is the best one of all of them because of its broadness of spectacle, and the B-stage was fantastic, a bit of a breather from the madness (Mick admittedly nicked it for what, just the 1994 Miami show and then for the brilliant BRIDGES tour). If TJT 2017 ever comes out not telling but it will probably be really good as well.

I was fortunate to catch U2 on the Zoo TV tour in Toronto and it ranks as being one of the best shows I've ever seen (especially as I love just about all the tunes off the album they were showcasing: Achtung Baby). I was happy to acquire the Sydney show video from the tour as a lasting memento. However, I think the radio broadcast from Dublin that they did around the same time is better performance wise as they gave it their all for the home town crowd.

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I was fortunate to catch U2 on the Zoo TV tour in Toronto and it ranks as being one of the best shows I've ever seen (especially as I love just about all the tunes off the album they were showcasing: Achtung Baby). I was happy to acquire the Sydney show video from the tour as a lasting memento. However, I think the radio broadcast from Dublin that they did around the same time is better performance wise as they gave it their all for the home town crowd.

They only did two ZOOROPA songs at the Dublin shows - Numb and Stay.

Show 22 (July 7) of the ZOOROPA tour was the first show to have a new song (Numb - the single came out in June, the LP July 5). 9 shows later they debuted Stay! and 3 shows later Zooropa debuted. Next show was Babyface, next show was the last time they would play Zooropa (3 shows!). They dropped Babyface a few shows later, which left what was left of the ZOOROPA tour with just Numb and Stay.

ZOOMERANG and onward (10 shows) they played Daddy's Gonna Pay, Dirty Day, and Lemon and along with Numb and Stay, that was it. Of course I wished they'd played more but for whatever reason they dropped the title track and Babyface,

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I was fortunate to catch U2 on the Zoo TV tour in Toronto and it ranks as being one of the best shows I've ever seen (especially as I love just about all the tunes off the album they were showcasing: Achtung Baby). I was happy to acquire the Sydney show video from the tour as a lasting memento. However, I think the radio broadcast from Dublin that they did around the same time is better performance wise as they gave it their all for the home town crowd.

They only did two ZOOROPA songs at the Dublin shows - Numb and Stay.

Show 22 (July 7) of the ZOOROPA tour was the first show to have a new song (Numb - the single came out in June, the LP July 5). 9 shows later they debuted Stay! and 3 shows later Zooropa debuted. Next show was Babyface, next show was the last time they would play Zooropa (3 shows!). They dropped Babyface a few shows later, which left what was left of the ZOOROPA tour with just Numb and Stay.

ZOOMERANG and onward (10 shows) they played Daddy's Gonna Pay, Dirty Day, and Lemon and along with Numb and Stay, that was it. Of course I wished they'd played more but for whatever reason they dropped the title track and Babyface,

I always thought it was a shame they didn’t persevere with Zooropa (the song) live - the 2011 tour showed it could be a monster, it’s a shame they didn’t do it in their prime. Dublin 8/28/93 is probably the best U2 gig ever.

I won't say whatever about their best gig ever - I love Sydney because of the amount of ZOOROPA songs and they had them down - and never played them again except for Stay and Zooropa (a little bit).

You can hear in the early parts of putting in the new songs, except for Stay, that they were having issues. Babyface didn't gel. Zooropa was a mess. They didn't give them enough time, they gave up.

Which is really weird considering how they played a majority of AB songs from the get go.

They were so amped to record Z but they were reserved about playing those songs live until they figured out which ones worked but Zooropa and Babyface could've worked if they'd stuck with them, given them the time.