I prefer actual bootleg recordings of concerts over commercial releases in a lot of cases. The commercial releases edit out a lot of banter, false starts, etc. They also tend to re-engineer into a studio session. When you get these raw live performances, and leave in all the flaws and "extras", it helps, I think, to bring to the Live experience. That's what I like.
As for U2
I honestly thought that the 360 Tour was mediocre. Not really one of my favorites. Mind you, I think seeing that stage would have been larger than life, but that's it. I think my favorite Tour of theirs would still have to be the original ZooTV Tour, followed by the Elevation Tour, then the Joshua Tree Tour, and the Unforgettable Fire Tour. I think that 360 really comes out just after that, maybe. Hard to tell. I will say that their latest tour, the Innocence one, from what I've seen and heard so far, comes in dead last.
They're great live, but I'm still trying to figure out why they feel the need to do a tour hawking a 30-year-old album that sounded dated five years after it came out, much less 30. Depeche Mode didn't feel the need to do that last year with the 30-year anniversary of "Black Celebration," which is a MUCH better album than "Joshua Tree" could ever hope to be. Seems to me like U2 has a bad case of "we need to prop up our overly bloated egos by reminding people of what we were 30 years ago."
ReplyDeleteI mean, I like the band, but this upcoming tour just smacks of desperation.
You said it....
Delete@KidChaos2: i LOVE your blog, and your comments.
ReplyDeleteWell, also for me the 360 was mediocre, and for the at the FIRST place there is (and always will be) the ZOO TV Tour.
But hey man, i was in Campobvolo (Italy) in 1997, POP MART TOUR,....what a GIG !
Thaank you for being you
ReplyDelete