{"id":513,"date":"2006-11-30T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/30\/u2-zoo-tv-live-from-syndey\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T13:34:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:34:41","slug":"u2-zoo-tv-live-from-syndey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/u2-zoo-tv-live-from-syndey\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Know is Wrong: U2: Zoo TV Live From Syndey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If I could build a time machine to take me to see any band in history, it would be a trip to the early 90s to catch U2<\/a> at any point along their legendary Zoo TV tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New to DVD, director David Mallet’s Zoo TV: Live From Sydney<\/em> documents the lads’ performance in Sydney during the aptly named Zoomerang leg. Rewatching the event in the 21st century is interesting; on one hand, it’s almost shocking how far ahead of the curve U2 was in 1993, preaching a pretty weighty post-modern, ironic kill-your-television thesis in front of thousands of rock ‘n’ roll fans each night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But on the other hand, the fixation on cable and satellite TV now looks rather quaint. True cultural desensitization and alienation via media oversaturation came, in the end, from the internet. “Everything you know is wrong”, indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zoo TV was less a rock concert than a carefully choreographed theatrical event. Bono donned multiple costumes and personas throughout each show: a drunken rock star clad in leather and fly shades, a paramilitary guerrilla in fatigues, a gold lam\u00e9 cowboy hat-wearing megachurch televangelist blasting millions of U2 bucks into the audience, and finally emerging as MacPhisto, a kind of washed-up wasted devil tired of life, but still up for a good time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’d hate to see the band’s utility bill at the end of this tour…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Regardless, what’s amazing is that despite all the high-mindedness and avant-garde video art contributed by Brian Eno and Emergency Broadcast Network<\/a>, U2 still managed to put on a truly spectacular rock concert and get millions of people around the globe to come and love every second of it. And for me to buy the DVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I could build a time machine to take me to see any band in history, it would be a trip to the early 90s to catch U2 at any point along their legendary Zoo TV tour. 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