Bono and Larry talk about the Popmart tour, and about the gigs in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Sarajevo in particular (these interview snippets were broadcast by Swedish television in the program Musikbyrån in 2001)
True. Pop gets better every year. I listened to Velvet Dress this week driving home in the dark. Amazing experience. If God Will Send His Angels too. "It's just you & me & the rain"
Not sure what Bono's talking about. We saw that tour in Chicago and we had an awesome time! It was the 3rd night at solder field and it wasn't completely sold out but they gave the best performance for that weekend because they were so appreciative of the fact that we were all happy they added one more night for the people who couldn't get tickets for the first two nights
He makes stuff up depending on who he's talking to at any given time, don't take it too literally. In this interview he was in Europe buttering up the locals for Euros.
No he's right, many popmart shows that were not sold out in the US, and record sales for POP were poor. Too bad, POP was a great album, but too complex for Americans..
It,s funny, look how much energy, passion, meaning and excitement was in the PoPmart tour and the PoP album yet it was panned by critics who know nothing of nothing and yet every album afterwards was a dreary, dull, lifeless meaningless album without any hint of there greatness from any of there former albums and yet critics loved it. How does that work?
You mean critics had refused to grow when pop came out, and then they just died with the next. Pop was their last great record. Some people call maturity to decadence
Agree the post Pop albums have been dull. I've given up on them doing anything great again. But Pop seemed like they had taken the trashy, Zoo, schtick for an album & tour too far and most importantly there wasn't enough truly great songs on it to stand up to Achtung/Zooropa.
Fan since 81. Saw pop mart in Dallas and thought pretty lame compared to other tours. Did not help that rage against the machine opened and most u2 fans aren’t going to dig that.
What the fuck you sayin! U2 is an American band as much as they're Irish. Unless Red Rocks, or LA, or Joshua Tree nation park moved to shitty Ireland.... I think you should pump your breaks kid.
The PopMart tour was full of half-baked ideas. 0:32 The drive-in screen, the lemon mirrorball, the McDonald's golden arch - what was U2 trying to say? I don't think even they knew. They needed to get back to basics. Luckily for us, 3:42 they did.
Popmart tour sucked! The music sucked compared to ZooTV. The set and costumes were a joke. It was a bad attempt to top Zoo TV which they have never done
It's difficult to top an album like that. But Pop was an okay album, I appreciate it more everytime I listen to it. The tour was for me the same joke as ZooTV. But U2 are always great live, you can't argue about that.
Exactly Robert Hay, Look at the stage that Metallica is using now, and even U2 is using on the current Joshua Tree Tour, it's a blatant rip off of Popmart which was done in 1997. So revolutionary. Granted that nothing from any band will ever top ZOOTV but Popmart was still bloody good.
It's like Popmart in that there is a massive screen covering the end of the stadium. Doesn't have a lemon or an arch though... But in 1997, like you said, the concept of one massive screen like that was not even thought of until u2 decided to do it.
