u2 - Under a Blood Red Sky - Deluxe Edition CD/DVD
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Free Music Review: Wonderful
Hit: 5 Stars
Exciting, breathtaking!! If you love U2 you must have this dvd!! If you don't know U2 yet, you must see this dvd if you love great rock music! It is the best!!Free Music Review: U2`s Show
Hit: 5 Stars
This deluxw edition CD/DVD Under a Blood Red Sky is wonderful, the show in Red Rocks is fantastic. Everybody can buy, it is very good.Free Music Review: Yes!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the U2 i i know and feel in awe with amazing, i wish the cd included all of the songs from the DVD :(Free Music Review: U2 Under a Blood Red Sky
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Well I am a huge U2 fan so anything they put out there I am buying and I love this!Free Music Review: The Concert That Restored My Faith in Rock!
Hit: 4 Stars
Finally on DVD, one of the great rock shows ever!
I wasn't at the well-known Concert at Red Rocks, where U2 played on June 5, 1983, which was, coincidentally, my 23rd birthday.
I was at the show about a week later, in Dallas, where U2 played to an UNsold-out 1200 seat theater, located inside -- get this -- a bowling alley. (Dallas had a really small "underground" rock scene then, and I saw REM, The Pretenders, and even Talking Heads at this unlikely venue. "The Bronco Bowl" was small and intimate and had great sound). The Irish Rockers had never been to Dallas, and had never even had any commercial radio-play there. If you were a North Texan who didn't have MTV, and a lot of people didn't, it was very likely that you'd still never have heard of U2 at all. Not me, though! Having recently been in college in Rochester, NY, I was very aware of U2, and a very big fan by this point. I had all three of their LPs, including the newly released "War". I would have seen them play at Rochester Institute of Technology in '82 if it hadn't been for a huge exam I had to study for the next day.
So here was my first chance to see them live, on The War Tour, with 800 other hard-core believers.
Let me say they did not disappoint. In fact, Bono, Edge, Larry and Adam proceeded to perform the greatest rock concert I have ever seen, before or since. And I have seen everybody (including U2 in later years)! The kids ripped my head clean off! The energy was incredible. The sound, the songs, the stage itself, were all ablaze. Bono went as far to the back of the stage as he could get, and ran, full speed ahead, taking a leaping header into the crowd. That's right! Head first, arms out, like diving in to a pool, landing on the shoulders of astonished fans. I kept blinking my eyes, wondering if I had actually just seen it, or had hallucinated the dive. (On the Red Rocks video, by contrast, he carefully falls backwards in to the crowd). Bono had not yet achieved the God-like and masterful showmanship he would very soon have. At this point, he was flying high on his own energy, like a kid with a brand new rocket-ship. He was always right on the edge of control, at times literally staggering and swaggering, like he was drunk with his power. (By the time I saw them again in 1985, in a 20,000 seat arena, he had learned to channel and control that spirit like a Shaman). In Dallas in `83, it was already clear that Bono was an incredible performer and would-be Superstar.
Speaking of The Edge, his guitar-playing, all shimmery and drony and dreamy, was a total rock revelation for me, myself a young guitarist. I soon went out and bought an analog delay effect like the one he used.
The girl I took with me was one of those people who had never even heard of U2 before that night. On the way out of the show, she thanked me profusely for introducing her to the astonishing Irish Band. Haven't seen her since that night, but, I'll bet all these years later, she's still telling people, "I saw U2 before they were famous!"
So, why do I post this review of "Under a Blood Red Sky", being that I was not at Red Rocks? Well, it's very fortunate for the world of rock music, and U2 fans, that it was filmed. Back in '83, I was really excited when I heard the film was coming out, and that indeed it was shot within days of the show I saw. It captures U2 on the rise to stardom, and why they deservedly became among the greatest bands in history. Of course I bought the 12" record and the VHS video as soon as they came out.
Is Red Rocks as good as the Dallas show I saw? No. It's actually tamer by comparison. (Too bad they didn't film THAT one!). But will Red Rocks mesmerize you? Will it blow your mind?
Might it be the best rock show you've ever seen?
Oh yeah....