Re: Avoiding the stadiums?

****@aol.com wrote

> U2 would do another stadium tour if they had had more success in the
U.S.
>last time out. They did ok, but played in a lot of relatively empty
stadiums.

Why not play arenas in the US and blast stadiums in Europe?? :))))))))) (ok,
I'm just joking)

>When they did the Joshua Tree tour they did what Edge described as a very
>uneconomical thing and oscillated between arenas and stadiums during the
tour.
>The "less is more" philosophy behind the U2 stage set up might have been in
>keeping with a theme with the album, but the truth is they had no money to
do
>much. After the succes of JT, they did have some money, which turned up in
>the ZOO TV tour setup, but they wisely decided to test the economic waters
by
>touring arenas first to find out what kind of response they would get.
After
>the media hyped it, and the album Achtung Baby sold well, they came back
with
>the stadium tour. This was their best tour all things considered. With
POP
>there seemed an almost desperate attempt to hawk tickets (e.g. through VH1)
>before everyone discovered that they didn't like the POP album. I even
>remember the review of the album in Rolling Stone, that at the end tipped
the
>fact that the test market for POP was not very good. This is a shame, for
the
>POP concert is the best an outdoor musical event could be. Those who did
not
>attend will never know what they missed.
> I imagine that no matter what they say, U2 will try and avoided the
>embarrassment of potentially playing to empty stadiums next time and do
what
>they did for the ZOO TV tour. Believe me, if the album does well, and the
>arenas are sold out (which of course they will be), U2 will do another
stadium
>tour. It is in their blood.

I totally agree with you!!! I hope this will come true!
But I hope they'll play a whole stadium toor again!!!

Live is where they live

Nik

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