***Official U2 Appreciation Thread***

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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Happy Birthday Adam! :)
    Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
  • thefixer9
    thefixer9 Posts: 9,376
    Newch91 wrote:
    Happy Birthday Adam! :)

    Happy, Happy Birthday! :mrgreen:
    Tres Mts- 3/16/2011
    Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
    Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
    Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
    RNDM- 11/27/12

    PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
    incredible exclusive fan club only gifts every year. no bands, that i know of, top what they do, in this regard
  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    helplessdancer wrote:
    incredible exclusive fan club only gifts every year. no bands, that i know of, top what they do, in this regard
    I really want to join the fan club for the live disc, but I don't know about paying $50 to join.
    Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    well sirius is playing live at the bbc from 1983...missed the first 20 minutes :( and this is the last replay...hopefully it will be up somewhere to download
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,703
    g under p wrote:
    After Joshua Tree i can remember this cover.....

    19870427.jpg

    ......I still have it in my all U2 bin in the attic somewhere.

    Peace

    Yeah i can remember that clear as day and then trying to score tickets with no luck at all thru TM but you sure as hell could score tickets to all shows thru the brokers at only 300% up charge from original fee , that's when i had had enough until Pearl Jam came along and gave me hope and treated me like a fan they made me feel important as a paying customer ........
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    norm wrote:
    well sirius is playing live at the bbc from 1983...missed the first 20 minutes :( and this is the last replay...hopefully it will be up somewhere to download
    I hope so.
    Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
  • Popmartijn
    Popmartijn Posts: 382
    Newch91 wrote:
    helplessdancer wrote:
    incredible exclusive fan club only gifts every year. no bands, that i know of, top what they do, in this regard
    I really want to join the fan club for the live disc, but I don't know about paying $50 to join.

    Well, that's up to you. But when you renew your membership after the first year the costs drop to $40. And in general their fan club CDs are pretty good (like the outtakes collection Medium, the remix album Artificial Horizon or the Slane concert). Only last year's fan club CD was a slight disappointed with their Duals album, containing some exclusive songs but also a few that are readilily available on some albums.
  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Popmartijn wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    helplessdancer wrote:
    incredible exclusive fan club only gifts every year. no bands, that i know of, top what they do, in this regard
    I really want to join the fan club for the live disc, but I don't know about paying $50 to join.

    Well, that's up to you. But when you renew your membership after the first year the costs drop to $40. And in general their fan club CDs are pretty good (like the outtakes collection Medium, the remix album Artificial Horizon or the Slane concert). Only last year's fan club CD was a slight disappointed with their Duals album, containing some exclusive songs but also a few that are readilily available on some albums.
    Yeah, I've liked what I've seen from the releases. It seems like this live disc could be released to the public.
    Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    josevolution wrote:
    g under p wrote:
    After Joshua Tree i can remember this cover.....

    19870427.jpg

    ......I still have it in my all U2 bin in the attic somewhere.

    Peace

    Yeah i can remember that clear as day and then trying to score tickets with no luck at all thru TM but you sure as hell could score tickets to all shows thru the brokers at only 300% up charge from original fee , that's when i had had enough until Pearl Jam came along and gave me hope and treated me like a fan they made me feel important as a paying customer ........

    Funny enough it's after this tour and hoopla that I went from obessed fan from the Boy album to casual fan. Way too many fans came out of the woodworks as if they were fans all along. I was lucky to have a connection in the music business to be able to get good seats on that entire tour. Biggest dissappointment was the DC show at RFK Stadium where Bono slipped in the rain in front of 55,000 fans dislocating his shoulder. It was a Sunday Muddy Sunday still had a good time for 5 songs.

    peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Why are they working with a songwriting team?

    http://www.atu2.com/news/report-u2-work ... -falk.html
    Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
  • Popmartijn
    Popmartijn Posts: 382
    For those who are U2.com subscribers, a new preview of the U22 live set is available: All I Want Is You/Love Rescue Me. Look at your account info page to see the download.
  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Saw this posted on Twitter. It's scary how Bono's son looks just like "Boy"(?) Bono.

    http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Bono/Bono+ ... VzqG4pYOpn
    Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    :fp:

    http://www.nme.com/news/u2/63056
    Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
  • thefixer9
    thefixer9 Posts: 9,376
    Newch91 wrote:
    :fp:

    http://www.nme.com/news/u2/63056

    :nono: No U2, No. Bad band.
    Tres Mts- 3/16/2011
    Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
    Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
    Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
    RNDM- 11/27/12

    PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    thefixer9 wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    :fp:

    http://www.nme.com/news/u2/63056

    :nono: No U2, No. Bad band.
    It's mostly Bono, I assume. Just go back to what made them awesome: make ALBUMS, not a collection of singles.
    Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Bono and The Edge's version of "Original of the Species" from the Every Mother Counts 2012 CD.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUWL17B0Ur4

    It's good, but I think I prefer the album version.
    Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Bono, you magnificent SOB.

    http://www.spinner.com/2012/05/17/bono- ... -billions/

    Bono to Become World's Richest Musician After Facebook IPO

    Bono, that guy from U2, is set to become the world's richest musician in the world when Facebook's IPO starts trading tomorrow, NME reports. He will overtake Paul McCartney (that guy from the Beatles) and will likely commemorate the occasion with a very heartfelt "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"

    The Irish singer owns 2.3 percent of the Facebook shares after having purchased them at $90 million in 2009. Now that the company is worth over $100 billion, Bono will be worth more than $1.5 billion. Meanwhile, McCartney is just over worth a measly billion dollars.

    Let this be a lesson for all of us who didn't buy stock in Facebook. At least we can feel superior if, in this particular instance, he counts his money with the grammatically incorrect "Uno, dos, tres, catorce!" (one, two, three, 14 in Spanish).
    Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    thefixer9 wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    :fp:

    http://www.nme.com/news/u2/63056

    :nono: No U2, No. Bad band.

    Who the hell is One Direction never heard of them. Go back to the formula that made albums like The Unforgetable Fire and U2 will seell all the albums they will need.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    g under p wrote:
    thefixer9 wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    :fp:

    http://www.nme.com/news/u2/63056

    :nono: No U2, No. Bad band.

    Who the hell is One Direction never heard of them. Go back to the formula that made albums like The Unforgetable Fire and U2 will seell all the albums they will need.

    Peace
    You don't want to know and I agree.
    Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful

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