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Headache, I don’t know if you actually have a problem with logic or if you’re doing some contrarian performance but it’s really very simple: U2 are four members. IF one of those members isn’t present THEN U2 isn’t present You might not have a problem with it. You might even like it. It...

I know, eh? Larry’s barely even in U2! He had to miss some shows back when he was a teenager and before they were a professional band! In fact these shows without Larry may be the most authentic shows they’ve played in decades. They’re getting back to their roots, maaaaaan. Doing things like...

:lol: you’re right and you don’t even know it! Some demos were recorded by 3/4, 2/4, and maybe even 1/4 of the band. That’s why the 1/4 who was absent was feeling insecure and unhappy. Whatever point you think you’re making - that U2 isn’t Bono, Edge, Adam and Larry? that U2 is still U2 if one...

Rick nailed it. I’d love for him to interview one of them because he’s a great interviewer. The comments to the video are just brutal. And they aren’t just sentimental: people understand how important he and drummers in general are. This move seems to have pissed off fans as much as the iTunes...

Oh nothing should be surprising about fans of a band that's said "there's no u2 without the four of us, the magic is in the combination of the four of us" countless times - including in the singer's recent book - being cynical about the motivations of a band who suddenly back track on that idea...

I think they feel the need to do this NOW is because they want the attention for opening the venue, and they want the payday. So, ego and greed. What else could make them think it's reasonable to celebrate their best album without a member being there? It's not tied to an anniversary, so they...

Use a double kick drum - one for each ball

https://twitter.com/neil_mccormick/status/1625199823593869325?cxt=HHwWmsC45Z-o740tAAAA Nice to see people push back on U2’s most shameless bootlicker.

Radiohead avoided success yet have been a consistently massive band for 25 years. Weird! It must have been an accident! You don’t care about Radiohead but the fact remains that they are a hugely popular rock band who has maintained or even surpassed the popularity that they achieved the...

Hey they have a song called Creep you’d probably like, give them a chance But seriously, there is no valid argument against them being a band that carries itself well and is a good role model on how to age while maintaining popularity and integrity.

Hello, and I agree with every word you said. Enjoy lurking. They’re my favourite band to, fwiw. They’ve held that spot for 30 years, and also wish they’d quit. Thom Yorke/Jonny Greenwood/Radiohead are also great role models for being aging band despite being roughly a decade younger than U2...

Where did I say it’s about their recorded output? That’s only part of it. And there are degrees of giving the people what they want. Full-on nostalgia fests are one end like JT30 are at one end. The Bowie show I saw in 2004, where 1/3 of the show was from his two most recent albums is somewhere...

Except that wasn’t the end of life cycle for him. He continued to make records. When an artist plays live they mostly play what people want to hear. Unless you’re Bowie in the 90s, spending years annoying the audience by not playing the hits. And remember that he stopped playing live. And the...

I’d agree if they didn’t try to pass off the acts of nostalgia as acts of relevance

but it needn't be the case. a band or artist becomes a legacy act not by age but by the way they act and by the quality and type of work that they make. being a legacy act is nothing to be proud of, either. it's a pejorative for a reason. one hoped that U2 would avoid that fate, but they've run...

Yes, there are additional people making U2 happen live, but the core has always been the four. And yeah, bands get replacements all the time. U2 weren't one of those bands, though. Until they were. It's disappointing to see them become like every other old rock band in the end. It seemed like...

Sure, pretend that the E Street Band with its almost 50 years of rotating lineups is comparable to a band that's had the same lineup for the same amount of time and has made that a big part of who they are. When they'd say things like it's not U2 if one of them isn't there. Well, it turns out...

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U2 aren’t doing a Vegas residency. Three board members of U2 Inc. are.

If there’s a casino in the venue I hope u2 get a cut of the money rubes decided to donate to a corporation. Larry has medical expenses, after all.

Idiots. It’s also for young and middle aged sellouts and people who never had anything to sell out. Maroon 5, Keith Urban, Garth Brooks, Sting, Katy Perry, Luke Bryan, Usher, Celine Dion, Rod Stewart, Gwen Stefani, Drake, Backstreet Boys…actually that’s a murderers row of relevancy and...

Yes, they tour Dublin and “the music scene” but that doesn’t mean it’s about Dublin’s music scene *more than anything else.* That’s a delusion on your part. It’s about Bono & Edge. They even put it in bold lest any readers have trouble. I honestly don’t know how you twisted that press release...

The doc isn’t about the Dublin music scene, it’s about positioning Bono & Edge as something they’re not in order to be elevate themselves to a status they haven’t earned. U2 isn’t based on a songwriting partnership, it’s based on a band jamming, at least for the 20 year period that produced the...

Negligent to not have him show up for a minute at the most corrupt and reviled of awards shows? It’s in everyone’s interests to stay as far from that embarrassing spectacle as possible.

the bass in particular is very nice. whatever edge brings to the next album, i hope the rhythm section is prominent in the mixes because adam and larry have become excellent players and deserve to have their growth as musicians captured on record.