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Re: U2 - Acoustic Achtung Babies
North American dates just announced for 2010. James there's your bay area show!!!
June 6th 2010 - Anaheim, CA - Angel Stadium
June 12th 2010 - Denver, CO - Invesco Field
June 16th 2010 - Oakland, CA - Oakland Coliseum
June 20th 2010 - Seattle, WA - Qwest Field
June 23rd 2010 - Edmonton, AB - Commonwealth Stadium
June 30th 2010 - East Lansing, MI Spartan Stadium
July 3rd 2010 - Toronto, ON - Rogers Centre Tues.
July 6th 2010 - Chicago, IL - Soldier Field
July 9th 2010 - Miami, FL - Land Shark Stadium
July 12th 2010 - Philadelphia, PA - Lincoln Financial Field
July 16th 2010 - Montreal, QC - Venue TBA
July 19th 2010 - New York, NY - New Meadowlands Stadium
Re: U2 - Acoustic Achtung Babies
July 3rd 2010 - Toronto, ON - Rogers Centre
they were talkin bout this show on the radio
tickets $40-$250...insane, they'll prolly sell it out in a couple hours too (70,000+ seat venue) ..remember when people like me said gnr could compete? 
my hats to you U2, and you were right bono
Re: U2 - Acoustic Achtung Babies
Bono wrote:July 3rd 2010 - Toronto, ON - Rogers Centre
they were talkin bout this show on the radio
tickets $40-$250...insane, they'll prolly sell it out in a couple hours too (70,000+ seat venue) ..remember when people like me said gnr could compete?
well there was a point in time when I knew I was right but was hoping I could be proven wrong but I don't think that'll ever happen. They already played back to back night in Rogers Center in September to instant sell outs. Yours truely was at both shows
Re: U2 - Acoustic Achtung Babies
North American dates just announced for 2010. James there's your bay area show!!!
June 16th 2010 - Oakland, CA - Oakland Coliseum
I'll be there. This past year or so I have blown off a few concerts I planned on attending, but I am NOT missing that show. I want to see this band while it is still on top of the world. Next time they tour after this, they will all be in their 50s so now is the time.
I have a few issues with their set list, but not to the point where I will skip it.
Re: U2 - Acoustic Achtung Babies
remember when people like me said gnr could compete?
At this point I don't even think a GNR reunion could compete.
U2 has two things going for them:
They have become what the Stones became in 89..... an unstoppable touring juggernaut. The band is willing to lose money while selling out stadiums across the globe just to put on a spectacle unlike ever seen before.
While they are approaching fifty, they are still a relevant act. That is unheard of. Other acts their age are on the nostalgia circuit. They have always refused to live in the past, to the point where tons of old songs never have the chance of being performed.
No one can compete with that.
Re: U2 - Acoustic Achtung Babies
Very true. U2 is pretty much an unstoppable force throughout the world. Few, if any bands can match them.
To a lesser extent, Bon Jovi is aging well as a band too. Although I haven't liked anything they've done since 1989 they can still hang with the best of them.
Re: U2 - Acoustic Achtung Babies
"Bono is disappointed in their latest album's sales, lamenting that No Line On The Horizon "didn't pull off the pop songs." However, he also places some of the blame on a marketplace that holds little promise for the dinosaur-like album format.
"We weren't really in that mindset and we felt that the album was a kind of an almost extinct species, and we should approach it in totality and create a mood and a feeling, and a beginning, middle, and an end," Bono told Spinnermusic.co.uk.
"And I suppose we've made a work that is a bit challenging for people who have grown up on a diet of pop stars."
On a side note, I just saw this quote from Bono about NLOTH and challenging albums. I think Chinese falls in the challenging category and suffered for it.....along with the lack of a true pop rock song for today's radio. Anyhow, thought this was interesting. 
Re: U2 - Acoustic Achtung Babies
"Bono is disappointed in their latest album's sales, lamenting that No Line On The Horizon "didn't pull off the pop songs." However, he also places some of the blame on a marketplace that holds little promise for the dinosaur-like album format.
"We weren't really in that mindset and we felt that the album was a kind of an almost extinct species, and we should approach it in totality and create a mood and a feeling, and a beginning, middle, and an end," Bono told Spinnermusic.co.uk.
"And I suppose we've made a work that is a bit challenging for people who have grown up on a diet of pop stars."On a side note, I just saw this quote from Bono about NLOTH and challenging albums. I think Chinese falls in the challenging category and suffered for it.....along with the lack of a true pop rock song for today's radio. Anyhow, thought this was interesting.
Yeah the entire band was dissapointed in the sales of the album from the stand point that it's gotten rave reviews from critics and fans alike. NLOTH is being hailed as one of their very best albums yet sales don't project that. Fair arguement coudl be said for CD as well, although I never really liked CDas an album it is kind of in the same category as NLOTH as being new and fresh yet nothing in paticular that catches the average listener's ear instantly.
