Why I’m Going to ONLY 3 eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE shows
I felt this way once before. Back in 2005 during the Vertigo Tour. Not being a fan of HTDAAB, I was kind of over it and sold eight of my sixteen shows. But I bounced back [continue reading]
Larry Mullen
Happy Birthday Larry Mullen Jr! Elevation Providence2 10.31.01 – Larry’s 40th Birthday and my 40th U2 concert and favorite one ever!
Happy Birthday Larry Mullen Jr! 16 years ago today we celebrated your 40th birthday at my 40th U2 show, my favorite concert ever – the Elevation Tour Providence2 [continue reading]
U2 The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 1st leg recap
Everyone keeps asking me how this 30th Anniversary Joshua Tree Tour ranks among other tours. Well for me nothing will ever top the great Elevation Tour of 2001, but this [continue reading]
U2 The Joshua Tree Tour Cleveland 7.1.17 – my 100th U2 show
My 100th U2 show (that’s in 25 years since the ZooTv tour in 1992) was also the last US show on the first leg of this 30th Anniversary Joshua Tree tour. It was [continue reading]
U2 The Joshua Tree Tour Jersey2 6.29.17
To be honest I expected more from the second show in New Jersey, as historically the second show in the same city has been much better than the first. Case in point, Chicago2 [continue reading]
U2 The Joshua Tree Tour Jersey1 6.28.17
Larry loves New York (and New Jersey)! He and the rest of U2 seemed to be having a lot of fun last night at MetLife Stadium. It was a great show with the same set list as the [continue reading]
U2 The Joshua Tree Tour DC 6.20.17
There was a really great energy at the U2 30th Anniversary Joshua Tree show in Washington DC last night. Bono seemed especially pumped. It was cooler than the previous shows [continue reading]
U2 The Joshua Tree Tour Philadelphia 6.18.17
The show in Philly was hot! It was as hot as Louisville, which is crazy for a show in the Northeast. But it was a great show with two firsts: the tour debut of [continue reading]
U2 The Joshua Tree Tour Louisville 6.16.17
The show in Louisville was my halfway point of this leg of the tour, my 5th show of this 30th Anniversary Joshua Tree tour and my 95th U2 show overall. It was a great show, [continue reading]
U2 The Joshua Tree Tour Miami 6.11.17
“Miami hot as hell tonight! Miami hot as hell tonight!” Bono sang at the end of “Beautiful Day” in Miami June 11 on the 30th Anniversary of The Joshua [continue reading]
U2 The Joshua Tree Tour Chicago2 6.4.17
While the first Joshua Tree show in Chicago was intense and exciting as it was my first of the tour, the second show was more relaxed and fun. The audience was more into it [continue reading]
See you June 3rd in Chicago for my start to the U2 Joshua Tree 2017 Tour
If you don’t see me online until June 3rd, don’t be alarmed. With rehearsals about to begin and the tour starting in May, I am going to be hiding from anything [continue reading]
My Favorite Songs from My Favorite Joshua Tree
As I have stated over and over, The Joshua Tree means the world to me. It is the album that got me into U2 in 1987 and is still my favorite 30 years later. Below are 17 [continue reading]
Happy 30th Joshua Tree
It was 30 years ago today, March 9, 1987, U2 released my favorite, and in my opinion, their best album THE JOSHUA TREE. It is truly a part of me. It is ingrained in me. Its [continue reading]
The Joshua Tree 30th Anniversary Shows
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 [continue reading]
U2015 – the iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE tour aka the Dreams Realized tour
2015 was a great year to be a U2 fan. In 2015 I reached a goal that I had set back in 2010, in during the 360 Tour. I published my U2 memoir On the Road with U2 – my [continue reading]
Happy Birthday Larry Mullen Jr!
Today is not a holiday to me because it’s Halloween. Today is a holiday to me because it’s Larry Mullen Jr’s Birthday! It is also the anniversary of my [continue reading]
U2ieTour NYC7&8 July 30-31, 2015 – the final U.S. shows
The seventh U2ieTour show in New York City at Madison Square Garden saw the tour debut of “Satellite of Love” (not played since 1993), Paul Simon singing [continue reading]
U2ieTour NYC5&6 July 26-27, 2015
The fifth U2ieTour show in New York City on July 26, 2015 was the fourth anniversary of the last 360 show in the U.S. That show in Pittsburgh was when Larry hugged me on his [continue reading]
U2ieTour NYC1&2 July 18-19, 2015
What made the first two U2ieTour shows in New York City at Madison Square Garden on July 18 and 19 especially fantastic was that I was not expecting anything – I had no [continue reading]
On the Road With U2 