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  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
    super excited about the sphere venue


  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    helplessdancer said:
    super excited about the sphere venue



    I saw a show in a planetarium once (Sun Ra and the Solar Arkestra) and it was more dome like and obviously smaller, but not a lot different in shape and the sound was amazing! So a larger spherical venue like that I imagine would be pretty amazing.  Hope you get to go!
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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,460
    One of my favorite bands ever. Grew up as a kid listening to my Dad play those early records all the way up to Rattle & Hum. 
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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,889
    45 days for me till I see them in Vegas.
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,604
    Poncier said:
    45 days for me till I see them in Vegas.
    Can’t wait to hear your review my show is not till December 
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  • curmudgeoness
    curmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,130
    I haven't listened to a lot of U2 in recent years -- I'll blame it on iPods and all that modern technology, meaning, I own the CDs but when I go for a run I just have the music I purchase on my phone available... never mind.

    Anyway, recently I've been trying to bring an older friend up to speed on 20th- and 21st-century music. (I think she knows the Beatles and ABBA, and that's basically it.  I introduced her to "Bohemian Rhapsody" the other day, and she thinks Freddie Mercury is a genius.) As a result I've been killing a lot of time on YouTube. I sent her a sampling of U2 the other day, and I have to say, "Pride (In the Name of Love)" remains an astonishing song nearly forty (!) years later. (Also, damn, I'm old.)

    Bono might be rather full of himself, and there are those tax questions, but I'd never, ever, slag on U2 the band. And even though this is a PJ board, and I love PJ, I'll stand solidly by my assertion that "Achtung Baby" is the best album of the 1990s. It's just about perfect. 

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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,889
    curmudgeoness said:
      And even though this is a PJ board, and I love PJ, I'll stand solidly by my assertion that "Achtung Baby" is the best album of the 1990s. It's just about perfect. 

    You won't get any argument from me on that point.
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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,604
    https://www.thespherevegas.com/shows/u2/general-admission-policy
    I like this set up seems easy enough! 
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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,889
    josevolution said:
    https://www.thespherevegas.com/shows/u2/general-admission-policy
    I like this set up seems easy enough! 
    Yep.
    I'm sure the line nazis will try and circumvent the process (the U2 line folks are way worse than the PJ line folks could ever dream of being). But I like the idea of grabbing a band in the morning, going about my day winning countless riches in the casino and returning for show time.
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  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,901
    One of the Vancouver U2 shows I went too, I think on the All that you can't leave behind tour.  It was self run by fans, and I think we had a low enough # to get to the pit at the front, but the line wrapped up around itself like an upside down U, so when the venue opened, the people at the back were right beside the people at the front, and just hopped over the fence, so we didn't get in the pit.

    Veritgo tour was a random scan of your ticket and we got in that year.

    Saw Edmonton on the 360 tour, and it was civil.  I guess Albertan's don't line up.  We showed up around 4:30 and got into the pit section.

    It really is a shame there isn't a better to way to do GA so you people don't line up all day or multiple days.   But I guess it's just saving fans from themselves.. lol.
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,604
    Poncier said:
    josevolution said:
    https://www.thespherevegas.com/shows/u2/general-admission-policy
    I like this set up seems easy enough! 
    Yep.
    I'm sure the line nazis will try and circumvent the process (the U2 line folks are way worse than the PJ line folks could ever dream of being). But I like the idea of grabbing a band in the morning, going about my day winning countless riches in the casino and returning for show time.
    Yeah I’m sure folks will be there by 5am to get those 1st bands I’ll see how it goes with reviews of process before I decide 
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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,889
    What typically happens for U2 (and apparently started happening yesterday for tomorrow's opening show) is there is a private Facebook group of some crazy fans who travel to see lots of shows (what band's fan base would do such a thing lol) and they start a list usually a couple days before show, and it's often not anywhere near the venue (in Foxborough for the 360 tour it was at a Dunkin' Donuts a mile up route 1 as they weren't allowed to do it on venue property) and only those in the know end up on the list. Then they bully their way to the front of line at venue on show day. And often U2's security/management team instructs the venue staff to allow it to happen to avoid conflict.
    It's straight up BS.
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  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,901
    Yah I never liked the, whoever can travel to the venue first and gets a wristband idea either, because it completely blows for people that have to travel.   The best was probably the old way Springsteen shows used to do it.   You'd show up any time during the day, get a number, and you were instructed to come back at 6:30.  They would do a random draw, and that number because the starting number.  Say 900 people got #'s, they pulled 567, the start at 567 go to 900, then start at 1 until the spots ran out.

    The only challenge was that wasn't really about deciding who got in first, as it was deciding who got into the front pit section.  Now that the Springsteen shows are like PJ shows with a small GA pit and then seats, they stopped doing it.
  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,235
    https://youtu.be/FlTLOYV9QZM?si=K6xJsJS6Y8dtdgc6
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,604
    No changes in set list from the 1st night at all! Will they do this set list for the whole residency? I guess since Larry is not drumming they are playing it safe 
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  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,901
    Isn't that normal for u2. Most of the times I've seen them in the past they generally played the set, but might switch out a couple of songs.   They never seemed to be the kind of band that played different setlists every night?
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,604
    Zod said:
    Isn't that normal for u2. Most of the times I've seen them in the past they generally played the set, but might switch out a couple of songs.   They never seemed to be the kind of band that played different setlists every night?
    Yeah I believe it is! I’m hoping as the residency progresses they’d switch it up but it doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen! 
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  • vant0037
    vant0037 Posts: 6,170
    I have to be in Vegas for work and had insomnia recently and on a lark looked up ga tickets for one of the shows and voila, got a pair.  I can’t get to the show until close to show time.  Do I have to lineup and get a wrist band or can I just walk up when I get there?
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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,889
    vant0037 said:
    I have to be in Vegas for work and had insomnia recently and on a lark looked up ga tickets for one of the shows and voila, got a pair.  I can’t get to the show until close to show time.  Do I have to lineup and get a wrist band or can I just walk up when I get there?
    You can just walk in.
    They hand out wristbands staring at 8AM, but it's not a requirement.
    From what I've read so far, even walking in just before showtime, you get a tremendous view in GA. Folks have stated they feel "part of the show" on the floor. The reported number of folks in GA has varied from 1,200 to 1,800. Not sure the actual number, but it's like being in a small but incredibly futuristic club.
    Enjoy.
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  • mr bungle
    mr bungle Posts: 1,423
    Poncier said:
    vant0037 said:
    I have to be in Vegas for work and had insomnia recently and on a lark looked up ga tickets for one of the shows and voila, got a pair.  I can’t get to the show until close to show time.  Do I have to lineup and get a wrist band or can I just walk up when I get there?
    You can just walk in.
    They hand out wristbands staring at 8AM, but it's not a requirement.
    From what I've read so far, even walking in just before showtime, you get a tremendous view in GA. Folks have stated they feel "part of the show" on the floor. The reported number of folks in GA has varied from 1,200 to 1,800. Not sure the actual number, but it's like being in a small but incredibly futuristic club.
    Enjoy.
    Agreed!  From the videos ive seen,  looks pretty wide open on the floor around the sides.  Unless you need to be super close, no need to get there early (kind of like a PJ show).  I have GA in DEC. and plan on enjoying my day and having a great dinner, and roll into the sphere maybe a half an hour berore U2 hit the stage.

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