Okay, folks, still pretty wired as I write this in the wee hours of the morning in spite of a two-hour drive from Boston. Just got in from the U2 show, you see, and it was terrific, fantastic, wonderful, inspiring, and the like. The band adjusted their setlist to include a handful of my favorite songs; they must have had a hunch I was there!
This was my fifth concert with the boys from Dublin and on the way home I was trying to piece together in my head the songs I had heard in previous shows. Thanks to the Internet (and a site called U2tours.com), the following is everything I've seen U2 perform in person. (This is probably more to document my nostalgia than to inform any reader who stumbles onto this blog, but here goes:)
The Unforgettable Fire Tour
Date: April 16, 1985
Venue: The Centrum, Worcester, MA
11 O'Clock Tick Tock
I Will Follow
Seconds
MLK
The Unforgettable Fire
Wire
Two Hearts Beat As One
Sunday Bloody Sunday
The Electric Co.
A Sort Of Homecoming
Bad
October
New Year's Day
Pride
Knocking On Heaven's Door
Gloria
40
The Joshua Tree Tour
Date: September 18, 1987
Venue: Boston Garden, Boston, MA
Where the Streets Have No Name
I Will Follow
Trip Through Your Wires
I Still Haven't Found
MLK
The Unforgettable Fire
Bullet The Blue Sky
Running to Stand Still
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Exit
In God's Country
Help
Helter Skelter
Bad
October
New Year's Day
Pride
One Tree Hill
With Or Without You
Spanish Eyes
Out Of Control
40
Elevation Tour
Date: June 03, 2001
Venue: Civic Center, Hartford, CT
Elevation
Beautiful Day
Until The End Of The World
Mysterious Ways
In My Life/Stuck In A Moment
Kite
Gone
New York
I Will Follow
Sunday Bloody Sunday/Get Up Stand Up
In A Little While
Desire
Stay
Bad/40
Where the Streets Have No Name
Pride
Bullet The Blue Sky
With Or Without You
The Fly
One/She's A Mystery To Me
Walk On
Elevation Tour
Date: October 30, 2001
Venue: Dunkin Donuts Center, Providence, RI
Elevation
Beautiful Day
Until The End Of The World
New Year's Day
Out Of Control
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Stuck In A Moment
Kite
Angel Of Harlem
Please
Bad
Where The Streets Have No Name
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Pride
Bullet the Blue Sky
What's Going On
New York
One
When Will I See You Again
Walk On
Vertigo Tour
Date: May 26, 2005
Venue: Fleet Center, Boston, MA
City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation
Gloria
The Ocean
Beautiful Day/Dream On
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Love And Peace Or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Running To Stand Still
Pride
Where The Streets Have No Name
One
The Fly
Until The End Of The World
With Or Without You
Out Of Control
All Because Of You
Original Of The Species
Bad/40