Which is one reason I like Zoo TV so much-it renders not only the performance secondary, but the performers as well.
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And despite indications of advanced pomposity as early on as 1984’s The Unforgettable Fire (most pronounced, of course, on the band’s 1988 concert movie ego-fest Rattle and Hum), U2 has rarely let the event overshadow the music. This is hardly news-it’s been going on at least since Led Zeppelin, and probably further back in the Dark Ages of rock-but U2 came out of a supposed reaction to the pomp and circumstance of ’70s prog overkill. Zoo TV is an Important Event not just because it’s the first tour in several years by one of the biz’s biggest, but because it represents a further step in the evolution of rock music as spectacle. The vista speeding past, I’m thinking, closely parallels my impressions of U2 on this tour: big, romantic. Slumped in the front seat of my Ford Aerostar minivan, I stare out the window at the occasional patches of yellow poppies. Antitank fighter planes swoop low over the cactus, looking, we hope, for someone else. Strange that the desert really does look like a Roadrunner cartoon except in real life, the rock-infested hills are less friendly, looming like scars carved from the unrealistically blue sky.
Axl Rose was at the show, I guess he wanted to hang out with rock stars who are even shorter than him. ” -John Lydon, quoted in Jon Savage’s England’s DreamingĪpril 9, 1992: Rolling through the sun-scrubbed Arizona landscape on the way to Tucson.
“What you can never get in your book is the utter, total boredom of being in a band. In honor of Achtung Baby turning 30, we’re republishing it here. This article originally appeared in the July 1992 issue of SPIN.
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