U2's Zoo TV tour was the greatest tour of all-time

The belly dancer is Morleigh Steinberg. The Edge started dating her during this tour, they got Married in 2002 and are still together today.

Achtung Baby is their best album imo. I saw U2 live for one of the Rattle and Hum shows in 1987, and then the Pop Mart tour in 1997. I saw Pop Mart twice in 1997, two different cities, Rage Against The Machine opened both shows. All amazing concerts and stage concepts.

I saw this show at the Silverdome. Bono called a local pizza joint and ordered 100 pizzas. Near the end of the show the delivery kid walked on stage (I don't think he knew he'd be up there) with the pies and Bono tossed them into the crowd like Frisbees. I actually got a slice. Wild. Check out the '83 Red Rocks show. Epic!

U2 are known for their live performances, such a great great band. They really are an important band, so glad you're appreciating them!!!

Bono blew out his voice on this tour, but it was worth it. Some of the best shows I have ever seen, by anyone

Welcome to the world created by Achtung Baby, imo the best album ever written

You nailed it, it was a conceptual concert. And it was brilliant. Worked so well. Fun fact, Edge is married to the belly dancer. They met on this tour.

Such a great band! U2 was always on the cutting edge since my young adulthood. Loved seeing these songs live, thank you for this reaction Lee! I enjoyed the hell out of it. Check out Desire by them.

U2 is known to put on a hell of a show. i totally recommend watching the whole zooTV show in sydney but specifically, "bullet the blue sky/running to stand still" and "daddy's going to pay for your crashed car/lemon/with or without you;" all from the zooTV sydney show.

Achtung Baby is an absolutely amazing album, especially given that it's sound was such a "left turn" from the one that championed the band's 80s domination. They literally rewrote their approach to music, and OMG did it work!!!

The whole album is fire,a nice selection of songs

Best description of Edge's guitar style is by Jimmy page who called him a sonic architect.

I saw U2 on the Zoo TV concert tour at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison Wisconsin, and it was GLORIOUS! It was definitely a concept concert, and the displays were amazing! Please listen to U2 and B.B. King performing "When Love Comes To Town" ... pretty PLEASE?!?! Also, "Bullet The Blue Sky" and "Pride (In The Name Of Love" by U2 are fantastic! And in your own time, listen to the studio versions of these two songs. I know you think you've heard "Mysterious Ways", but I bet it sounds better to your ears today than it did then.

U2 - End of the World (live Rosebowl or Slane Castle) U2 - Surrender U2 - Spanish Eyes U2 - Wire U2 - Refugee U2 - Do You Feel Loved U2 - Red Hill Mining Town U2 - Bullet the Blue Sky

I was there at the California Angels stadium in Nov, 1992 , the Zootvtour was like nothing I've ever seen, grandiose.

Saw this U2 show in Philly during their Zoo TV Tour. Apart from the great music, the visual show was amazing! There were huge flaming cauldrons, belly dancers on ramps, lasers galore and VW buses hoisted on cranes and used as moving spotlights. Actually, the whole Achtung Baby album was great and worth a listen if you like U2. Looking forward to the reaction!

Woo hoo! Can't wait! 🤩 Thank you for the time slot

oh also!!! you're right on the money. the tour's concept was inspired by disparate television programming, the desensitizing effect of mass media, and "morning zoo" radio shows. bono had a remote which he used to watch TV during the shows did prank calls (most of the calls involved calling george bush, pizza places, taxi services), video confessionals, a belly dancer (who was the edge's wife!) and so much more. bono also portrayed multiple different characters during the show such as the fly (leather jacket + glasses) that poked fun at people calling him an egomaniac rockstar, mirrorball man (silver lame suit + cowboy hat) which was an overexaggerated portrayal of southern americans. mirrorball man was soon replaced by macphisto (devil horns + gold lame suit) at the end of the tour. and macphisto.. is of course, the devil. self-explanatory. i hope that explains a bit more of the getup and the stage itself.

That’s why U2 are one of the greatest rock band in the history

Fantastic choice from your patreon. I went to this show at Wembley stadium and I gotta say out of the 120 or so gigs I’ve been to this was the best. U2 were at the height of their powers on this tour. Nobody to touch them live imo.

Rock and roll is entertainment 👌 Mad to think this tour was in 92/93. Would still blow your mind today . That’s how far infront Zoo Tv was

This was terrific ... what a jam!

Watched Rory Gallagher last night and this morning U2. The Irish!!❤️.

great show. The studio album produced by Eno, and much of U2 sound

their zoo tv tour changed concert performance not just for them but other bands too like the rolling stones. nobody else did a show like this before this

My favourite band! I just wish I could time travel to experience this tour

Not going to say it was THE best concert tour ever, but it's right up there. I saw Zoo TV in Germany and then a couple of times in London and it was perfect each time. Bombastic? Overblown? Pretentious even? Yeah sure... but it transcended all that. It was awesome, in the purest sense of that word. A sensory overload that just took your breath away and left you euphoric and slack-jawed staring into space as the sound and images flowed through you. Mind-blowing stuff.

Lee, check out U2 on their legendary Red Rocks concert video from 1983! Here's "New Year's Day": kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZtqIodx3m5_IXWg.html

When U2 were way ahead of their time and reached a point in live performance very few others ever have or ever will reach, Pink Floyd, Queen, ACDC, Rolling Stones are the only other bands i have seen that reach the same level.

I was at this concert in Sydney, great band.

U2 earned its rep by putting on great live shows. They're called posers and sellouts and whatever after The Joshua Tree, but they'd ground the shit out of it the hard way before that breakthrough, so I'd say that they have earned everything after.

This whole concert is amazing start to finish. Until the End of the World and then the transition into New Years Day are two of my favorite songs from this concert. You can really just feel the crowd get super pumped up. One of the emotional peaks of the concert is another pair of back to back songs, Running to Stand Still and Where the Streets Have No Name. Their acoustic mini set from the b-stage where they play Angel of Harlem and Stay (far away, so close) is also fantastic.

U2 concerts are always beyond epic! This was my first U2 concert after having been a fan since the Boy album. Achtung Baby is in my car’s cd player right now😎

I saw they 4 times on tour and for me they are amazing. I love Achtung Baby album

While video walls are common place now, this was cutting edge in 1992-93. U2 basically pioneered this stage concept.

It still sounds like the future.

Joshua Tree is U2's greatest album, with War a close second. Thanks Lee.

You are watching bits of one of the greatest tours ever. U2 is a great live band. Once you have the chance listen to some of their studio tracks. They have fantastic production. And Edge is one of those orchestrating guitarists. He layers guitars.

Yes! Been waiting for you to hit up a little U2. Especially Achtung Baby and Zoo Station. It’s like when the Beatles hit the psychedelic era. But, OMG! That performance of Mysterious Ways was just incredible! That dancer, with Bono was everything!

Looking forward to this

Best thing U2 did. Savage and raw. Their best era for me and the only U2 album I ever owned ❤

They are the greatest fuckn band ever! Specially live!

Watch Zoo Station from this show. It’s the opening song and it’s the greatest opening to any concerts ever.

You should just go ahead and watch the entire zoo tv show. It's amazing all the way thru. The section after the B-stage sequence- dirty day, bullet the blue sky, running to a stand still, streets have no name is transcendent.

Hey Lee - I really recommend their official video of "Where The Streets Have No Name". Not only one of my favorite U2 songs, but also an awesome video shoot of their own version of The Beatles rooftop gig, but on top of a liquor store in downtown LA. Seeing the surprise of loud rock ambushing the neighborhood and the mayhem that ensued is just priceless !

Until the end of the world/new years day from this show

The background to the album Achtung Baby was the fall of the Berlin Wall and consequently the end of the Cold War; The album was recorded in Berlin. ZOO TV dealt with the media coverage of the Iraq War, which was broadcast directly on US and British television in particular, and generally with the slogan overstimulation on television; media George Orwell. During the Outdoor Zoo TV Tour, war broke out in Yugoslavia. During the Bologna concert, Bono went directly to the war zone in Sarajevo, primarily to inform Europeans and the whole world about the civilian tragedy. The Zoo TV tour was groundbreaking at the time, a multimedia show, a departure into concert gigantism, but also a tightrope walk. You can also fall, something U2 had to experience themselves. After The Sphere we are waiting for the next album and we ask ourselves, does The Edge still want/can compose rock?!?

I saw U2 a couple of times in Europe. But these Zoo TV shows were mind-blowing. My friend knew one of their roadies. The stage took 7 semi trucks to move.

Perfect reaction bro! This DVD is totally awesome. Check out Bullet The Blue Sky - Running To Stand Still - Where The Streets Have No Name

I love U2. They were in my top 5 favorite bands but i guess over time they’ve dropped down to 8 or 9). I’ve seen them live 3 times. I missed the Zooropa tour but saw the next one, Popmart. There’s a song from that tour that is very emotional named “Please”. Bono sings his heart out. The live version from the dvd from Mexico City is the one you want.

Great reaction! You should react to Until the end of the world and New Year’s Day from this concert. You just made my day! Thank you! ❤

You should watch zoo station u2 live Sydney best opening for any concert

Yeah, it’s a conceptual concert. Maybe not the first but it might be. Bono certainly grabs some Bowie inspiration by stepping into different characters throughout the show but nobody had ever taken on the topic of media and technology before. This was such a weird and amazing time from about 92 - 96. The internet kind of exist but nobody realy knows what it is.. most people have never sent an email but within a year almost everyone will do it all the time. Only the .1% have cell phones but everyone will within two or three years. We are only 2 or three years away from Napster and file sharing and the end of the traditional music model..ohh and the world’s second largest super power disintegrates overnight. All of this is going on and U2 are trying to figure out where it’s going and what it media means and has meant to the world. It’s also insane and impossible to understand how crazy it was for U2 to make this album and put on this huge gregarious glorious show. For more than a decade they were known as the earnest, serious, 3 chords and the truth kind of band and then they do this and it’s fucking amazing. I am not comparing Taylor Swift to U2 but it’s the only artist I can think of right now who has that kind of world wide, can fill a stadium anywhere in the world for a decade level of stardom. Now imagine that at the end of her current tour, she waves goodbye and says..I’m taking a break but I will be back and I will be different. Then two years later she releases a psychedelic heavy metal dance album. It’s something totally new to mainstream radio and her fanbase…now imagine that album turns into one of the best albums ever made. That might not even be enough of an exaggeration to do the truth justice. We have gotten used to things changing and moving and evolving faster and faster but up until the early nineties the world was really just moving from stop light to stop light. This is the point in history where we exited onto the interstate, downshifting and merging into a new flow, and Achtung Baby is CD you just slid into the deck for the ride.

Ah, the song that knocked Bryan Adams Everything I Do off #1 in the UK .... finally!

Two more U2 recommendations: Drownin' Man 'n God Part II (dedicated to John Lennon.)

MK Ultra? Not sure Bono was really involved 😂

U2 reinvented concerts, love or hate them, they push the boundaries of music, sometimes it doesn't come off. But fuck me at least they don't keep churning out the same sound like other bands, who have hit album and keep doing the same

You missed “ Even better than a real thing”

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Really annoying youtube image stabilization

I like U2. A lot of people do not, thinking Bono and even the Edge and the band in general, as pretentious. Vocalist Scott Stapp of Creed has an ego liked you described.

U2 were at peak pretention point here. That said, The Edge is an underrated guitarist - there's far more to his playing than delay

They slowed down the tempo on mysterious ways... I didn't like it.

A concert with a theme: also known as a musical. I know I’ll get hate for this, but this is one of my least favorite U2 periods. I also saw the Zoo TV stop in Philadelphia, and the whole thing just seemed so… rehearsed. It’s just personal preference, but I guess I just like my rock and roll concerts to have some spontaneity to them. That show, you could practically see Edge counting down to a point in a song when “Here’s where I do my little jump in the air each night”. And of all the superlatives I’ve seen tossed Bono’s way, “genuine” has never been one of them, particularly when he’s literally masquerading as an alter ego. Achtung Baby is loaded with good and great songs, with a few actual masterpieces thrown in to boot. But that whole tour just seemed disingenuous. And I know that was partially the point. They were “mocking” the artifice of the rock n’ roll lifestyle. My problem was that they maybe did too good a job of that, where it seemed that rather than ridiculing it, they accidentally steered into embracing it.