I wasn’t allowed to go to concerts until I graduated high school, so I missed U2’s Joshua Tree Tour in 1987 (coincidentally or as a result of The Joshua Tree is my favorite album). I had to wait five years to see U2 in concert. So my musical journey on the road with U2 started on the [continue reading]
I did not want a U2 tour in 2017 – I wasn’t ready for it. After the last tour in 2015, I have distanced myself from listening to U2 – as I do after every tour. I get so entrenched (aka obsessed) I just have to go away for a while and dream it all up again. Also I have my 2017 [continue reading]
Around 2pm yesterday U2 posted on Facebook there was going to be a concert in Times Square in New York City at 7:30pm. It was dubbed “U2 minus 1” because Larry, Edge and Adam were playing without Bono. This was to be the first time U2 will play as U2 without Bono. Chris Martin of [continue reading]
I have never been to a U2 concert in a Y city or Y venue, so I chose the only ‘Y‘ U2 relation that I could think of – “Yahweh.” While the song is not one of my favorites and it comes from one of my least favorite U2 albums How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, it does have [continue reading]
Please stay with me on this one as there are no U2 concerts I have attended that were in an X city or at an X venue. So instead of reviewing my favorite ‘X‘ U2 concert (since one does not exist), I am going to describe the X-Factor of a U2 show. That is, what makes a U2 concert so [continue reading]
I am going to use a little creative license with this post and combine two concerts into one, making both U2 shows in Washington DC at RFK Stadium on the ZooTv Tour on August 15-16, 1992 my favorite ‘W‘ U2 concert. I feel justified in doing so because in all honestly I cannot remember [continue reading]
My favorite ‘V‘ U2 concert was also my last on the Zoo Tv Tour at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 3, 1992. There were two shows in Philadelphia and I was supposed to go to both, but was I moving back to College Park so I only went to the second one. I guess [continue reading]
Ironically there is no ‘U‘ U2 concert I have attended to pick as my favorite, but I did go to the 360 show in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 24, 2011 at Rice Eccles Stadium at the University of Utah. This wasn’t one of my favorite shows, but part of one of my favorite songs, [continue reading]
The U2 concert in Tampa, Florida on November 10, 1997 at Houlihans Stadium was my favorite of the Popmart tour, and my favorite ‘T’ U2 concert overall. It was at this show that my Larry (wait for it) was almost replaced by Bono in my heart – I said almost. I traveled to Florida [continue reading]
The U2 360 show in St. Louis was amazing! Definitely one of my favorites, along with Anaheim2 and Chicago. Even though it was a standard set list and there was no “Out of Control” or “One Tree Hill,” the band and the audience had such a great energy. Bono was especially [continue reading]
The U2 360 show at Carter-Finley Stadium (on the campus of NC State) on October 3, 2009 is my choice for my favorite ‘R’ U2 concert, mainly because it was my birthday show (technically it was the night before my birthday). This is what I wrote that night, We arrived at the stadium just [continue reading]
The U2 360 show in Seattle at Qwest Field on June 4, 2011 was better than the previous two shows I had been to in Denver and Salt Lake City. Even though it was the same set list, the audience was much more into it, the band was having a blast and actually seemed a little more into as well, Lenny [continue reading]
The U2 360 show in Pittsburgh on July 26, 2011 is one of my favorite concerts. It was my final U2 360 show, my 16th of that leg of the tour, my 24th of the 360 tour and my 75th U2 show overall. This last U.S. show ended on amazing high note, more than I could have hoped for, more than I imagined [continue reading]
The U2 360 show in Oakland, California at McAfee Coliseum on June 7, 2011 was an easy pick for my favorite ‘O’ U2 concert. But not because it was an amazing concert. It wasn’t. It had the same set list as the previous three shows. What made Oakland one of my favorite U2 360 shows [continue reading]
The U2 360 show in Nashville was fantastic, which was a nice reward for the long trafficy 16-hour drive I had from Miami the day before the show. It was the 50th day on my U2 360 across America tour, my 10th show that leg of the tour, my 69th U2 show overall and the 100th show of the entire 360 [continue reading]
I went to the first show and the final show of the Elevation Tour. It is the only time I have ever done this, part of the reason the Elevation Tour will always be so very special to me. The final show of the Elevation Tour at the American Airlines Arena in Miami on December 2, 2001 was just [continue reading]
Providence2 Elevation was and is my favorite U2 show ever. I doubt there will ever be another night like it. That was Larry’s 40th Birthday show, so obviously it was special to me. Larry walked over to me twice during the show. First to give me the champagne the band had been drinking and then [continue reading]
I chose the Elevation show in Lexington, Kentucky on May 4, 2001 at Rupp Arena as my favorite ‘K‘ U2 concert because I had no other ‘K’ show to choose from. It is not one of my favorite concerts or even one of my favorite Elevation shows. But apparently at the time, I loved [continue reading]
The first show in New Jersey on Elevation was one of my favorites of the tour. It was at that concert I had my first encounter with Larry Mullen Jr. I would have two more great encounters with Larry on the Elevation tour, but you always remember your first. I can’t really remember the actual [continue reading]
The Elevation show in Tampa on December 1, 2001 was a great time, not necessarily because of the concert itself, but rather because of the great time I had with my friends in the GA line camping out overnight. For this reason, I chose this Elevation show at the Ice Palace as my favorite U2 concert [continue reading]
On the Road With U2 