U2 Innocence And Experience Tour 2015 Opening At San Jose. 4

It was an inspirational, surreal experience to be present on U2 INNOCENCE + EXPERIENCE TOUR 2015 first opening show in USA, San Jose, California, on... more

by Tanya Filichkin

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U2 Innocence And Experience Tour 2015 Opening At San Jose. 4

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Tanya Filichkin

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It was an inspirational, surreal experience to be present on U2 INNOCENCE + EXPERIENCE TOUR 2015 first opening show in USA, San Jose, California, on May 19th.
As USA Today mentioned in their review next day: A U2 show comes with heightened expectations and an almost euphoric anticipation for a cultural touchstone. It's an impossibly high bar to meet. For more than two hours, the seminal Irish rock band did just that. A blistering start and finish book-ended a tech-tinged show that is bombastic, brilliantly absurd arena rock...
Four stages covering much of the arena floor afforded fans to be near Bono, guitarist The Edge, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. at any given time.
The fifth "member" of U2 was the oblong-shaped LED screen that greatly assisted the first half of the show, offering stunning visuals to enliven newer material that the capacity crowd was unfamiliar with.
But there were slices of heart and humanity. A lovely new ballad, Every Breaking Wave, showed off Bono's incomparable voice. The rousing Where the Street Has No Name punctuated the encore...
The live staples of a U2 show were still there, in their soul-lifting glory, along with eye-popping pyrotechnics and some Bono preaching. After 40 years together, U2 reached that impossibly high bar. Again./ USA Today

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June 9th, 2015