U2, Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego, Mon., 28 Apr 1997, 7:00pm
Opener: Rage Against the Machine:
Title
- (incomplete list but correct order)
- People of the Sun
- ...
- Bulls on Parade
- Bullet in the Head
- Killing in the Name
- Freedom
...and now the show...
Title (Album, Track)
- intro: Pop Muzik, PopMart Mix (on Last Night on Earth single)
- Mofo (11,3)
- I Will Follow (1,1)
- Even Better Than the Real Thing (9,2)
- Do You Feel Loved (11,2) -- red carnations on the screen
- Pride (5,2)
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (7,2)
- Last Night on Earth (11,6) -- an animated cartoon
- Gone (11,7) -- Rorschach ink blots on the screen
- Until the End of the World (9,4) -- buildings on the screen represented by rectangles with yellow lines as windows
- If God Will Send His Angels (11,4) -- short, short version, guitar only
- Staring at the Sun (11,5) -- a sun flare with Bono's singing head in the middle
- Daydream Believer (by the Monkees) -- Edge by himself singing along with a karaoke video on the screen
- Miami (11,8) -- Bono walking around the stage and catwalk, fashion show style, singing with a mounted mic, then fade into...
- Bullet the Blue Sky (7,4) -- lights all around the floor shoot up, forming a dome, fighter planes and such on the screen
- Please (11,11) -- nead the end, fades into Sunday Bloody Sunday (3,1)-style drums, then fades into...
- Where the Streets Have No Name (7,1) -- extended play
Encore:
- Interlude: a mix of Lemon (10,4) -- a cartoon UFO lands on the screen, the giant lemon on stage right becomes a lemon-shaped disco ball, moving toward the catwalk as a ladder rises to receive it, opening up as the band looks out and climbs down, starting...
- Discotheque (11,1) -- disco lemon ship continue to spin
- With or Without You (7,3) -- then return to front stage
- Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me (*,1) -- the Bono/Mephisto/Batman symbol and parts of the video for this on the screen
- Mysterious Ways (9,8) -- lava lamp globules on the screen, changing color
- One (9,3) -- Keith Haring-style animation on the screen
Albums:
- 1 Boy
- 3 War
- 5 The Unforgettable Fire
- 7 The Joshua Tree
- 9 Achtung Baby
- 10 Zooropa
- 11 Pop
- * Batman Forever Soundtrack
Animated photo courtesy of The PopMart Super Center.
What can you say? It's *U2*, as they were with the ZooTV/Zooropa Tour, only now instead of several sets of screens, one huge video screen showing lots of different stuff (read the set list for details) a huge yellow arch, and other props. We were supposed to be in section A9, which is the front floor section all the way to the right. When we got there, there was no section A9, instead a staff member to trade our A9 tickets for *A3* tickets (shown below)! The opener Rage Against the Machine rocked at 7, playing a short set from their two major label albums. This was louder than the actual concert, but still kicked ass. We actually saw them from section A4 (dead center), then moved to our actual seats during Pride, so we still got to watch U2 get on stage via the catwalk. Of course U2 rocked as well, playing songs from various albums along with those from Pop. This show was on Monday (*doh*!), 28 Apr (my sister's birthday), the day before two midterms, at Jack Murphy Stadium (now called Qualcomm Stadium), home of the Chargers. This is the first US tour since the ZooTV tour. The Zooropa tour was only in Europe and Australia. I guess that album didn't do incredibly well in the US. But that tour was basically an extension of the ZooTV tour, with additional Zooropa songs. Another Bio test the next morning, but I think I kicked butt on that one too.
