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Lee Newman said:
I also think Bono has one of the best voices in rock music. He’s up there with Lanegan for me in the male category. The whole band are low key geniuses too.
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Agree but I never really care for how Bono kind of tones it down live, I'm assuming to save his voice. He'll completely change the tune to a song live just so he doesn't have to go for the high notes.

I don't play the guitar nearly as much as I used to, but when I do it's to mess around with my delay pedal to play some U2 riffs.
 
dbarila said:
I saw the 360 tour twice. Once was the first leg in DC. I took the Metro and the Metro stop for Fed Ex field really means it's a Metro Stop about a mile and a half rom the stadium. So we gook the Metro, walked all the way to the stadium, stood on the floor for the 5 hours or so between arriving at he show, walked the mile and a half back to the metro station which there was a super long line to get in. Then once we were on the train it was so full there was nowhere to sit. I loved the concert but it was probably the longest time I've ever stood in my life.

The 2nd time I saw it was in Baltimore and we had floor tickets again. We were just kind of standing around and a security guard came up to us and asked if we wanted to stand inside the ring because there was plenty of extra room. So we got to watch that one from inside the stage and it was probably one of the best concerts I've ever seen. That was the leg where they opened with a bunch of AB tracks and revived "Zooropa" live.
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I’ve never driven to a concert in my life. Public transport or walk. Anything under 3 miles is grand for a walk, particularly if there a few decent pubs on the way…
 
dbarila said:
I saw the 360 tour twice. Once was the first leg in DC. I took the Metro and the Metro stop for Fed Ex field really means it's a Metro Stop about a mile and a half rom the stadium. So we gook the Metro, walked all the way to the stadium, stood on the floor for the 5 hours or so between arriving at he show, walked the mile and a half back to the metro station which there was a super long line to get in. Then once we were on the train it was so full there was nowhere to sit. I loved the concert but it was probably the longest time I've ever stood in my life.

The 2nd time I saw it was in Baltimore and we had floor tickets again. We were just kind of standing around and a security guard came up to us and asked if we wanted to stand inside the ring because there was plenty of extra room. So we got to watch that one from inside the stage and it was probably one of the best concerts I've ever seen. That was the leg where they opened with a bunch of AB tracks and revived "Zooropa" live.
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When I saw Bowie and Nine Nails on the Inside Out Tour, a staff member came and gave my first wife and I armbands to the front. We made our way up there as Bowie started The Man Who Sold the World.
 
Joe Mac said:
I’ve never driven to a concert in my life. Public transport or walk. Anything under 3 miles is grand for a walk, particularly if there a few decent pubs on the way…
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Unfortunately between Fed Ex Field and the Metro stop there's only swanky condo complexes. Walking a mile and a half if still preferred to sitting in DC Traffic. Although I saw Coldplay at the same stadium a few years ago and carefully planned where I was going to park so I could get out onto the highway and it worked like a charm. DC itself has a great public transportation system. Unfortunately Fed Ex Field is actually just outside DC and has almost not public transportation except a Metro stop that may or may not close before a concert is over.
 
Lee Newman said:
Living in a nicely sprawled urban area, I’ve never lived anywhere close enough to walk to a venue and public transportation in NC as a whole is pretty crappy.
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Yay for urban sprawl, Concrete Island venues, cars, traffic congestion and pollution. USA! USA!

I've never lived within an hour drive of any concert venue so I've always driven, or at least driven to a train station just outside the city (though the older I get, the more I figure if I'm going to do that I might as well just drive all the way to the venue)
 
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Lee Newman said:
Living in a nicely sprawled urban area, I’ve never lived anywhere close enough to walk to a venue and public transportation in NC as a whole is pretty crappy.
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Yeah I could only walk directly when I was a first year student in Manchester and in halls of residence on the inner city campus. Generally everywhere I’ve lived I’ve been able to get a bus, train or tram into the city and I’d happily walk probably up to 4 miles across any of them to get to a venue and you’re generally quicker that way too because of coaches and crowd movement causing a traffic snarl as you get closer to the venue.
 
I was thinking about this the other day. Rock band that were both the most popular and most critically adored at the same time and I am just talking about Rock goups. I almost think U2 might be on list twice. Like in the early 90s and then in the early 00s.

What other groups that would make that lists?

The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Bruce Springsteen
U2
Guns N Roses
Nirvana

I think Pearl Jam, Radiohead, and REM coulda been those types of bands but I feel like they all demurred when given the Opportunity.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
I was thinking about this the other day. Rock band that were both the most popular and most critically adored at the same time and I am just talking about Rock goups. I almost think U2 might be on list twice. Like in the early 90s and then in the early 00s.

What other groups that would make that lists?

The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Bruce Springsteen
U2
Guns N Roses
Nirvana

I think Pearl Jam, Radiohead, and REM coulda been those types of bands but I feel like they all demurred when given the Opportunity.
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U2 were not the most critically adored band in the early 00s. They were the big rock band that remembered to be a big rock band again but the critics weren’t really on board from my memory?
 
Joe Mac said:
U2 were not the most critically adored band in the early 00s. They were the big rock band that remembered to be a big rock band again but the critics weren’t really on board from my memory?
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I thought critics really dug All that You Can’t Leave Behind like AOTY contender. Maybe it wasn’t that big. I was never a giant U2 fan so I would not have taken note at the time but I thought that album was like “no one else wants to be the biggest rock band in the world? Alright, I guess we’ll take the title again” type moment.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
I thought critics really dug All that You Can’t Leave Behind like AOTY contender. Maybe it wasn’t that big. I was never a giant U2 fan so I would not have taken note at the time but I thought that album was like “no one else wants to be the biggest rock band in the world? Alright, I guess we’ll take the title again” type moment.
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I suppose I was reading the likes of NME, who wouldn’t have given u2 much truck ever and certainly since war, but it wasn’t even in their top 50 of 2000.

The acts I remember getting critical acclaim that year were QOTSA, Primal Scream, Radiohead and PJ Harvey.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Critics didn’t like Use Your Illusion 1&2? I was young then but it felt like they were “the band” until Axl kinda imploded and “Smells Like Teen Spirit” dropped.
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Not really. Overblown and Axl’s ego was rampant. November Rain is also the type of song critics despise. They were no doubt still huge but that’s not really the same thing.
 
Joe Mac said:
I suppose I was reading the likes of NME, who wouldn’t have given u2 much truck ever and certainly since war, but it wasn’t even in their top 50 of 2000.

The acts I remember getting critical acclaim that year were QOTSA, Primal Scream, Radiohead and PJ Harvey.
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Same. I think I am not asking the right question. Maybe I just biggest/Important rock band. I think critically I meant more that they were embarrassing themselves.

don’t knows, I was just trying to think of who was “The Band” of different eras within the rock timeline.

Would the Clash be on that list too? They sold out Shea Stadium
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Same. I think I am not asking the right question. Maybe I just biggest/Important rock band. I think critically I meant more that they were embarrassing themselves.

don’t knows, I was just trying to think of who was “The Band” of different eras within the rock timeline.

Would the Clash be on that list too? They sold out Shea Stadium
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It’s a difficult concept and “the world” is hard because it’s more often than not a moniker attached to a British band that breaks the states or the biggest American band who sorta has some kinda of decent following in Europe. And lots of times the two areas are not necessarily in concert on that. In all honestly it’s never been something that’s interested me because I don’t know what it really means or signifies and it’s often attributed to bands who’ve past their most vital and compromised what made them unique to appeal to larger audience.
 
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