What's going on with Desperado and Stratosphere's Insanity?

I saw the thread renewed and was hoping for your review. Our tickets are in December, so I'll probably be the last of us here to see the show. I've listened to a podcast that reviewed it and said it's great. I'm not watching any of the videos online because I want to be surprised by the visuals. (I've seen the setlist, although it's already undergone a few changes.)

On a side note, I was in Vegas a few weeks ago and walked over to the Sphere and viewed it up close. It was of course very impressive. I've pretty much watched the thing being built from just a giant hole in the ground and have been fascinated by watching the progress of it. I stay at the Westin many times per year and have a great view of it and the Ferris Wheel.

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More U2 shows for January and February just went on sale an hour or so ago.

Desperado is still SBNO, to keep it on topic)

Got my tickets for 1/31. It’ll be my second time seeing them there, as I was just there this past Saturday. Review coming for that one, by the way, and wow, was it one heck of an epic concert.

Tommytheduck:

hoping for your review

It was a really weird experience for me. We were GA so about 10 rows back on the floor. Not the closest I've ever been, but still an excellent spot. I can certainly appreciate the spectacle and in many ways it was completely jaw dropping, but with the limited design possibilities (no catwalks, b stages, or other ways to get "into" the audience) the band felt further away. It was very much "4 guys playing in front of a massive screen" type of thing without the innovation or intimacy of the 360 or the i+e and e+i sets.

Also, the songs I absolutely love on AB were all played right out of the gate (setlist spoilers ahead: Zoo Station, Fly, Even Better, Mysterious Ways, One, Until the End of the World are probably all in my top 15 U2 songs and 6 of my 7 favorite songs on the album and were played in that order to start), so, for me the middle part of the setlist was kind of flat. The encore, though kind of a "greatest hits you've heard a million times," set, did work really, really well. So I left the concert feeling it was kind of middle of the road for them.

But in reflection and looking back at some videos I and others have shot, I think I'm beginning to retroactively appreciate the experience more and more. It's kind of like when you look back at a trip and go, "Oh yeah, we did that too. That was really cool. And that other thing was really cool too. Oh and we did that third thing which was awesome." I think once I set aside my expectations of what a U2 concert is (some innovative and immersive set), I can see how it really is an amazing experience in its own right. So I'm definitely excited to go back again and appreciate it (with the kids) for what it is and not what it isn't.

I've watched plenty of videos because, while I would love to go, I'm trying to see a few acts this next year that I've either only seen once or not at all. I thought that the layout looked a little more stiff than when I've seen them in the past. Your label of the set being a little flat in the middle reminds of the Joshua Tree tour in 2018. This is probably sacreliege to a lot of U2 fans, but I love the A-sides on Joshua Tree and I'm less familiar with and don't just absolutely love the B-sides. Since they played in album order, that middle part of the set was a little lost on me. AB was the album that really turned me on to U2 the first go round, so I probably wouldn't have felt the same about this show.

In the very little I've seen, yes, the stage is absolutely tiny. Which is very, very un-U2. It's almost as if they're saying "pay no attention to the men in front of the curtain."

My biggest fear is that our tickets, while pretty close to the band, are actually partly under the overhang of the bulk of the seating. Unfortunately, we didn't realize this while buying, because of the stress of trying to buy 5 tickets next to each other in a block of 2 and 3. (4 ticket limit on purchase.) I don't think we will have a view of the entire screen.

Andy, how was the view of the screen being that close? I feel like it would be like sitting in the front row of a movie theater, where you're actually *too close.

Either way, I'm super excited to be going!

(PopMart tour 2x, both on approx 50 yard line of a football stadium, All That You Can't Leave Behind tour 1x, five feet from the tip of the walkway!)

In a perfect world, if I owned Circus Circus.

I would move Desperado outside the Adventuredome, and loop around the parking lot and the land in back, have Vekoma redo all the transitions and curves, new open hyper trains, and then LED lights and onboard audio like RRR.

But probably at this point cheaper from Scratch.

I had a slight crick in my neck from craning to see the tippy top of the screen, but most of the time I could just turn around to see it. Most of the stuff I wanted to see wasn't so far above my field of view that I had to stop looking at the band. The stage was relatively high compared to the floor, so I was already looking up.

(For reference, this was the 10th time I've seen the band. Elevation in Boston (I'm in a single frame of the time lapse special features on the DVD) from the expensive seats, Elevation in Providence from the tip of the heart (my friend brushed Bono's leg when he came into the crowd), Vertigo in Dallas from the highest possible seat (back to concrete), 360 from Dallas with back to the rail inside the circle, i+e San Jose from cheap seats, then floor (Adam side, about halfway back), JT San Jose from cheap seats, e+i San Jose from cheap seats, then floor (Edge side about 3 people back)).

Thanks everyone for making me feel old. I saw them on the Joshua Tree tour at Three Rivers Stadium.

I was a little young for the original Joshua Tree tour. My shows: 360 in Dallas middle seating level on what I guess was the back corner of the stage, i+e at Madison Square Garden low rows of the upper deck next to the satellite stage (not sure there's a bad seat in the building), JT 2017 in Dallas lower level opposite end of the stadium from the stage. The best part of the JT tour was taking my then 7 year old daughter to her first real concert. The highlight for her was the Lumineers opening because she had been listening to them with me for years before that.

I also saw them at Heinz Field for whatever tour had Interpol as the opener. Both good shows, but I'm not super in to stadium shows so I haven't felt the need to go otherwise.