Showing posts with label U2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U2. Show all posts
Monday, April 20, 2020

Say what? Look, it's a pandemic parking garage painting innovation.

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I still like my idea better (December 4, 2016). --- My State Street Parking Garage public art dream. Even better: Hang a Tr...
Sunday, March 17, 2019

Achtung Grandpa: Growing up and getting old with or without U2.

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There was a piece in The Guardian today from a fashion designer advising what not to wear if you're a man over 50 . Crossing over ...
Wednesday, September 06, 2017

In cases of complicity in crimes against humanity, it may be time to "walk on."

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Awkward, indeed. The new U2 single is out, and an album will follow in December, but it comes at a time when one of Bono's most hig...
Tuesday, August 08, 2017

30 years ago today: It was about Cork, the Irish experience and U2 -- and the craic was lovely.

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Previously: 30 years ago today: Skibbereen, Baltimore and our last days in the Irish countryside. --- Day 114 ... Friday, August 7 B...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

30 years ago today: Genesis live in Budapest on June 18, 1987.

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Arriving in Hungary thirty years ago for a stay that lasted almost the entire month of June, I had many potential activities in mind, but...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

The Joshua Tree at 30? Okay, fine, but what I'd give to hear U2 perform Pop all the way through for its 20th anniversary.

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U2's Pop Mart tour came through Prague on August 14, 1997. I was at Strahov Stadium  for the garish spectacle of lemons, space ships ...
Monday, March 20, 2017

Running to Stand Still.

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I suppose it comes as no surprise that the last few weeks for me have been surreal , a word implying a state of heightened non-reality, n...
Monday, February 06, 2017

Many readers had not been born the last time U2 came to Louisville.

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It stands to reason that this U2 clip from Werchter (Belgium) in July of 1982 would be familiar to anyone who saw the band in Louisville ...
Sunday, December 04, 2016

My State Street Parking Garage public art dream.

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Even better: Hang a Trabi right in the center. Zoo TV Tour
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

"If the door is open it isn't theft ... you can't return to where you've never left."

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For those who retain an interest in U2 and are familiar with the group's most recent release, this 15-minute podcast details the crea...
Monday, January 19, 2015

Dr. King, Pa Hibbard and some Public Enemy.

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With characteristic tone deafness, several Southern Indiana school systems ( including NA-FC ) are using MLK Day as a snow make-up day. I ca...
Monday, December 29, 2014

Roger's Year in Music 2014, No. 3: Songs of Innocence, by U2.

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You've read it and heard it many times before: I'm Roger, and this is U2. We're the same age, and we've grown up together...
Monday, February 03, 2014

Halftime show? C,mon, it should have been an entire performance.

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Not Bruno Mars and the Peppers, silly reader, but the best halftime show ever. Just bring back U2 every year, let the group play a whol...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

"Ordinary Love": Of U2, me and great times.

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I'm an unreconstructed, unrepentant, unembarrassed fan of U2. I accept it as unimpeachably and undeniably axiomatic that the world i...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Travel Music 4: In the open air with Genesis and U2, 1987.

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The trip in 1987 covered quite a lot of ground over a period of four months. It also offered the first opportunity to witness major musical ...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

Songs about work 1: "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For."

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This highly touted young band from Ireland was just hitting it big worldwide in the summer of 1987, when Barrie Ottersbach and the not-yet...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

Achtung Baby and the greatest rock reinvention.

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It was roughly three weeks before Christmas in 1991. My afternoon classes were over, and a brisk stroll into the old town landed me at the Z...
Friday, January 04, 2008

Ruminations just for the hell of it.

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I feel like I've cornered the market on introspection here of late. Much of it owes to the opportunity to catch up on reading during the...
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