Gazza Wrote:
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> Bjornulf
>
> The Edge's daughter has leukaemia..which was the
> reason they postponed the start of their US tour
> last spring and also the Aussie dates a few months
> ago.
>
> If someone chooses to announce a
> cancellation/postponement for 'private or health
> reasons', then thats reasonable and it doesnt need
> to be scrutinised.
>
> The Stones, didnt give ANY reason for changing
> their mind about rescheduling certain shows. Thats
> the difference. Had they done so and stated health
> reasons or something, no one would have any
> justification for complaint.
well, keith did fall out of the coconut tree lol

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U2 Blows. Always did, always will. Especially that Bono idiot.

Lorenz Wrote:
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> Well, the Stones use very little playback on
> Sympathy, just those drums.
> Playbacks have a huge part in a U2 show.

One of the few things that made worth the ticket price for me for the "On Stage" crap was watching Charlie drumming in the dark on SFD, yes there's a tape but Charlie's there too.

U2 is not in the same class as the Stones, never have, never will. The fact that some people here like 'em (no judgement here) doesn't put them in the same league.

Hey wuudy they U2 actually hides a guy under the stage. What for so people in the audience think the four up there are creating all the music of the keyboard or is it because of there egos and nobody but them can be on there stage. The four World saviors!

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The Stones also hide Blondie behind the stage for the first few songs, by the way.


Belgrade-Bucharest-Budapest-Brno

I don't know Beelyboy were they. I did not set that gig up did you the superbowl. By the way the superbowl was a marketing thing not there tour!

Perhaps should follow the example, and do what Bowie tried to do in 74...only ONE person on stage, while the rest is hiding behind a black wall.
The question is....who should be on stage? Mick? Charlie? Chuck?

The Edge was in New Orleans in the Spring making suprise appearances at gigs and raising money to buy musicians new instruments.

Slick Wrote:
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> Gazza Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Bjornulf
> >
> > The Edge's daughter has leukaemia..which was
> the
> > reason they postponed the start of their US
> tour
> > last spring and also the Aussie dates a few
> months
> > ago.
> >
> > If someone chooses to announce a
> > cancellation/postponement for 'private or
> health
> > reasons', then thats reasonable and it doesnt
> need
> > to be scrutinised.
> >
> > The Stones, didnt give ANY reason for changing
> > their mind about rescheduling certain shows.
> Thats
> > the difference. Had they done so and stated
> health
> > reasons or something, no one would have any
> > justification for complaint.
> well, keith did fall out of the coconut tree lol


uh...no..that was the reason why they announced the delay to the start of the tour, when they rescheduled some shows for later this summer and postponed others to an unspecified future date

it WASNT the reason for the subsequent cancellations of the shows that were initially 'postponed', eg Barcelona, Madrid, Gothenburg etc. They just said they couldnt reschedule them

curtisdavis Wrote:
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> U2 sucks ,they are the most overrated band in
> historty followed buy Nirvana,Guns an Roses,and
> Pearl Jam,I respest there ability to be boring
> year after year,only okay songs IMO,New Years Day
> and Bullet to Blue Sky,the only reason I like
> those songs is they are more Rock and Roll...the
> rest, just not my taste....

This is an astounding post. I would place my Stones background/knowledge somewhere in the "expert but not insane" category; own every official release, and seen them about 25 times in various cities around the world, and they are clearly my favorite band. I can accept that Nirvana and Guns n' Roses are overrated, if only because their productive period was so limited (despite the fact that these two groups produced four of the best rock releases of the 90's and that GnR at their peak was a fantastic blues based rock and roll band). But to ignore the tremendous productivity of U2 (Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby were records of the year, and their recent releases have been terrific) and Pearl Jam (Ten, Vs., Vitology, Yield, and 6 years of official boots featuring blistering versions of their album tracks and *ahem* remarkably varied setlists) tells me that you are just not listening. These may be the two best live bands touring today, and don't make me compare the Edge or Mike McReady to current day Keef and Ron.

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Gazza Wrote:
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> it WASNT the reason for the subsequent
> cancellations of the shows that were initially
> 'postponed', eg Barcelona, Madrid, Gothenburg etc.
> They just said they couldnt reschedule them


Maybe they couldn't???

JumpingKentFlash

drbryant. I have to beg to differ with you. U2 is HORRIBLE IN CONCERT! Although i can handle some of there studio work. I've seen over 500 concert and i would have to say U2 is amongst THE WORST. Why because The edge plays the same lick and pedal the whole night it's very repatisious.

Sorry drbryant i forgot. The boots i've heard of U2 are Horrible too. I forgot about Bono's poetry it's a very bad rendition of Jim morrison. I mean Morrison was on LSD and his poetry blow's Bono's sick poetry away sorry.

Please don't make me compare the Stones to Pearl Jam,come on people;just because they opened for the stones don't mean they are good.It does' not matter they change the setlist,every song they add or take out sucks.And Eddie Vedders vocals don't even deserve a mention...I can not sit threw a whole U2 album to save my life,except POP,because it sounded unlike anything they had done before,But Pearl Jam,all I have to do is see the name.....

u2 is a great band

and the live shows are amazing

glimmer twin 81, I guess you like Broken Record's.

dunno what you mean?

I don't listen to U2 music only when I am obliged to. Though I admit they are a strong band. I don't know if U2 manage its crisis better than the Stones as I understand they had not comittments beyond those cancelled shows. U2 never told their audience they would come back , nor did The Stones. What is a fact is that U2 sell out 2 stadiums when The Stones hardly sell one. U2 did not tour Europe during the Worldcup. Yes, The Stones should follow U2. First of all by cutting their ticket prices drastically. I hope for this Band that U2 has no plan to perform gigs in Spring / Summer 2O07 in Europe. Turning Point somewhere, but it's difficult to acknewlege this ( we call it in French : " passage de témoin " ). The funniest being they 've got the same CEO / CFO. The Stones should fire him. I can easily imagine Mick's face in front of the list of shows U2 is going to perform in Australia / New Zealand.

I guess your not old enough. When record's used to have scatch's on them they would get stuck on the same word you know repeating itself. So they were called broken record's like the Edge repeating the same lick the whole night no diversity.

well i am 25 so i know vinyl

whatever you mean the egde might be one of the best bandguitarists in the world

I saw U2 Vertigo Tour in Brussels...
To everyone who said the Stones were bad in A'dam... Please, go to U2... You'll be longing for the Stones!
Sound in Brussels was BAD! And I am not going to a rock concert to hear some would be rocker preach between every song... He even dared to ask to send an sms and pay in this way 1 euro for 'the good goal'... Hey, I thought I went to a rock concert, I was not waiting for a new live8... I wanted some rock'n'roll!!
And what about this boring poses of pope-bono??
On top of all, they played Vertigo twice... What would be our comments on setlists if the Stones played a song 2x in 1 concert?

i have seen a lot of great u2 shows
and especially the elevation tour where they only played
arenas was awesome

U2 has copied everything Finacialy from the stones even down to there family trust's. By the way phd i've followed them the stones around the world and every city seem's to have a dual about the stones versus U2 since there on the same world path. Funny thing is every city in the world's newspaper say there no comparison when it comes to a live show. STONES WIN han's down!

Beelyboy Wrote:
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> weren't all the endless background singers hiding
> under the stage at the superbowl? and just as
> well. a step in the right direction!
> now if they turn their mikes off....

beely's on today!

Wow glimmer twin 81, We had a thread here about Rollg Stone magazine and how terrible that magazine has become. The funny thing is i don't think The edge has ever made the top ten in his whole career.

well freak i think you have a right on your own opinion

bv Wrote:
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> they have probably never been in jail, they have a
> nice little story but they are not really sex
> drugs and rock'n'roll.


Band doesen`t need to copy Stones to be a good band. They are young compared with the Stones. And from their generation there is no band that come close to their suxsess. It is not my favourite band, but something have they done right.