![]() ![]() U2's November has also included the 30th anniversary of their hit 1991 album, Achtung Baby. "It's more more about enjoying the experience of writing and having no expectations or limitations on the process." "I'm just having so much fun writing and not necessarily having to think about where it's going to go," he explains. "We are firmly locked in the tower of song and working away on a bunch of new things," The Edge reveals. A year after completing the iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE and eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour cycle, The Joshua Tree Tour 2019 concluded with a fourth leg in countries of Oceania and Asia.Earlier this month, U2 returned with a new tune called "Your Song Saved My Life." As guitarist The Edge tells Rolling Stone, there's more where that came from. * U2 later added a third leg to The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 that extended into October, with additional dates in the United States, Mexico City, and stadiums across South America. The Joshua Tree hopes to bring this sentiment to the masses one more time. As the river, you say that love will find a way.” The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 teaches us the idea of America - its openness to others - is still intact, but in grave danger of damming that river for good. The English translation for Luciano Pavarotti’s solo in the song pleads, “Beyond the borders and the thirsty lands. And you can’t put up a wall against love. ![]() An acknowledgement that Syrians are not our enemies, but are humans, like us, who are looking for community, safety, and love. The most emotional moment occurs during “Miss Sarajevo” - one of several celebratory odes to womankind during the show - in which a young Syrian girl named Omaima fills up the screen and implores the audience not for compassion, but more importantly, for understanding. And with Seattle rock philanthropist Eddie Vedder’s guest vocals on “Mothers Of The Disappeared,” and subsequent cheers for his appearance, is any indication - most people are on U2’s side. Anger towards what he and his administration represent is scattered throughout the show. And if you don’t know that U2 never backs down from their left-of-center and human rights centric stances, and highly motivating calls for action against atrocities in poverty, the AIDS epidemic, equal rights for women, and more - or if you are bothered by it - then, one must wonder: is U2 the band for you? Trump appears (Bono recently stated that the current “president” isn’t welcome at the shows, but his voters are), but not in the way you would expect. ![]() With 57-year-old singer Bono who seemingly has a voice that constantly improves with age, a fit and powerful rhythm anchor in Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr., and The Edge, who has rearranged some of The Joshua Tree songs in ways you never thought possible. It works so well in the context of the story of America (one that is actually told through the songs on The Joshua Tree), that you forget the album came out so long ago, when things were… different?Īnd during this show - with its absurdly beautiful cinematic presentation complimenting the songs on an 8K high definition stadium-wide screen, and a Joshua tree imprint B-stage (the concert B-stage-with-catwalk being a concept U2 invented) bringing at least 40% of the impossibly intimate performance out to the “real” fans - U2 delivers. Only this time, an unusual one in our history, they are assigned into celebrating the 30th anniversary of a full album, played in sequence. Whether it’s in their playing, their chops, the enormity of the stage and production, or the message they are trying to convey. ![]() Never predictable - and always intentional (even with setlist mainstays that “non-fans” expect to hear) - U2 has a penchant for attempting to top their creations, tour after tour, for over four decades. While Vancouver acted as an unveiling of the band’s latest brilliant and beautiful artistic statement, the second show in Seattle served as a perfect refinement that will most likely take a few twists and turns by the tour’s end* in Europe this July. I was immensely inspired last weekend after attending the opening shows of U2’s The Joshua Tree Tour 2017. ![]()
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