{"id":637,"date":"2008-01-30T19:13:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T00:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/30\/u23d\/"},"modified":"2022-10-27T11:01:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T15:01:32","slug":"u23d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/u23d\/","title":{"rendered":"U2 in a state called vertigo: U23D"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

U23D<\/em> is actually a fairly traditional concert movie, a mostly straight-up filmed record of a representative show of a single tour. U2<\/a> had already produced one theatrical feature film about themselves (1988’s Rattle and Hum<\/em>), and released numerous productions on video and DVD before and since. So what could have been just another video of the world’s most overexposed band needed to differentiate itself somehow. Turns out the latest 3D technology filling a 40-foot screen consuming your peripheral vision is more than enough to justify its existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3D has come a long way from what I remember as a kid, watching Creature of the Black Lagoon<\/em> on TV with red-and-blue cardboard glasses. At first, the degree of depth is disorienting and headache-inducing, but before too long the brain and eyes adjust. Your perspective is not that of the audience but as if you were standing right on stage with the lads. Sometimes I felt as if I should have been holding a tambourine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a state called vertigo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The old songs I’ve memorized from thousands of plays on LP, tape, CD and now iPod are still great. The martial drumbeat to “Sunday Bloody Sunday” still sends chills down my spine, and I have to admit I even choked up a little during “Pride (In the Name of Love).” I was disappointed by the relative lack of songs from the band’s 90s “postmodern irony” trilogy Achtung Baby<\/em> \/ Zooropa<\/em> \/ Pop<\/em>, but Zoo TV Live in Sydney<\/em><\/a> is a good document of that era. I now have a new appreciation for “Love and Peace or Else,” a new song from How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb <\/em>that hadn’t quite made an impression on me yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One blind Bono sez: Coexist or else<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’m a longtime fan that has never seen U2 live. There was a frustration at every opportunity; if they weren’t sold out, I was too broke, sans car, or all of the above. So U23D<\/em> made a kind of stopgap pilgrimage for me. U2 must be one of the only rock bands to ever preserve the original personnel for so long; here’s hoping they stick together long enough for another tour so I can see them for real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U23D is actually a fairly traditional concert movie, a mostly straight-up filmed record of a representative show of a single tour. U2 had already produced one theatrical feature film about themselves (1988’s Rattle and Hum), and released numerous productions on video and DVD before and since. 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