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So I'm watching the Super Bowl the other night and all of a sudden this ad comes up and it's like,
what is this?
The thing with the sphere and all of a sudden it says U2 playing in Las Vegas.
And it's like, why does U2 have a Super Bowl ad?
It's a 15 second thing.
So then I go on the next day and I start looking and it says Las Vegas, U2 confirms 2023 Las Vegas
residency, AP U2 returning to the stage at Las Vegas minus one of the quartet.
CNN, YouTube
announces upcoming Vegas residency with a Super Bowl commercial.
Rolling Stone, YouTube Blanc Jose
Las Vegas MSG sphere with Octoon Baby shows.
USA Today, U2 2023 Las Vegas residency without Larry
Mullen Jr.
I start thinking, wait a minute, what?
Wait, Larry Mullen Jr.
is not playing with U2
on this residency?
What's this about?
So next day comes out, my buddy Rich, who's a huge U2 fan,
as I am, says to me, did you see the thing about U2?
And I said, yeah, what's the deal?
He goes,
I don't know.
It's pretty weird, right?
I said, yeah, it's ridiculously weird.
Then my brother John calls me, huge U2 fan.
He's like, what's up with Larry Mullen Jr.
not playing?
And I was like, yeah, this is ridiculous.
Larry Mullen Jr.
started the band at Temple Mount High
School in Dublin, 1976.
They're going to do a residency playing a record that came out in 1991
that really had so many original drum grooves, starting with the first tune, Zoo Station,
the snare sounds, the grooves, Mysterious Ways, had all these hip hop influences.
I mean, this is
really a drum record centering around Larry Mullen Jr.
So apparently they got some fill-in guy because
Larry Mullen Jr.
has had some kind of surgery or has to get surgery.
He can't do the gig.
So I started looking at it.
I started reading some stuff.
Bono is giving the reasons why they're
doing this.
We don't want to let people down, at least of all our audience.
The truth is we miss
them as much as they appear to miss us.
Our audience was always the fifth member of the band,
the audience being people like me.
Bottom line, YouTube hasn't played a live gig since December
2019 and we need to get back on stage and see those faces again.
Okay, so they're going to go
out and play without Larry Mullen.
Now, I was at Veterans Stadium on September 3rd, 1992 for the
Ak-Tung Baby Tour, which was one of the greatest concerts I've ever seen.
I went to see U2 in 2006
with my wife.
It was our honeymoon that they played at Aloha Stadium with Pearl Jam opening.
I've mentioned this before.
People are like, Rick, you're a U2 fan.
Yeah, I've been a U2 fan
for decades and decades.
And U2 is Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.
That is the
band.
It has never changed.
YouTube made another blunder like this back in 2014.
They did this big
thing with Tim Cook.
They put that record Songs of Innocence on anyone's iPhone, iPod, anything that
had iTunes, they put it out there for free.
And Apple, look at this thing here.
It says,
Apple makes it easier to delete the new U2 album from iTunes libraries.
They had to come out with
something to get rid of it.
People that worked at the Apple bar here at the Genius Bar would tell
me, oh my God, people keep coming in wanting us to take off this record from their thing.
And I
said, well, why don't they just not listen to it?
No, they were so mad about it because it was so
intrusive.
Now whose idea was that?
Well, YouTube's original manager, Paul McGinnis, retired in 2013.
They had gotten a new manager then, and this was his first thing that he was involved with.
Now a smart manager would have said, I don't think this is a good idea to do this.
But no one told
him that.
No one was honest with them.
Now they have another new manager, okay?
And this is the
first thing that they're doing.
Oh, I have a great idea.
Let's go out, or maybe U2 came up with this
idea.
Let's go out and do this gig in Las Vegas.
We'll do this residency and make tons of money,
and we'll do it without Larry Mullen Jr.
We'll do it with some fill-in drummer, right?
Then this new
manager, he's getting a cut of that 20%.
That's how much managers get, right?
What other money's
coming in besides the live gigs?
No one's telling them, you know what?
Probably not a good idea to do
a gig without your drummer of 45 years.
And if you think about the first records, boy, October,
War, Under a Blood Red Sky, which was a live version.
Then they did Unforgettable Fire.
Then
they did Wide Awake in America, which was a four-song EP.
Then they did The Joshua Tree.
Then they did Rattle and Hum.
Some people say that was a big misstep.
I'm not one of those people.
Then they did Octung Baby, and that was monumental.
Joshua Tree, Octung Baby,
those were monumental records.
Unforgettable Fire, War, amazing records.
So they paid probably a couple million dollars to do this 15-second ad that was actually part of a
three-minute and 45-second video.
So in this three-minute and 45-second video, they show a
bunch of U2 fans and how long they've been following them.
The first guy is a 62-year-old
carpenter that's been following them since 1980.
That's somebody like me.
Then they have this kid that's 33 that's been following them since 1999.
Then they have a
woman that's been a fan since 2021.
And then they have another woman that's been a fan since 2013.
Now, all these people are fans of Octung Baby, which came out in 1991.
I'm sure there are new
U2 fans, but U2 fans that are fans of Octung Baby, that album in particular, and that's the thing
they're going to go and see in Las Vegas, I frankly find that hard to believe.
At what point
is enough enough?
The Police, 1978 to 1984.
That was it.
Yeah, they came [F] back and they did a few
shows, but that was it.
They [G] call it quits.
The Beatles, essentially 1964.
Okay, 1962 to [F] 1970,
done.
[N] No more gigs.
End of the band.
Yes, some bands replace people and go on,
but not after, let's see, 43 years?
No, I mean, they started in 76.
And now they're replacing
Larry Mullen Jr.
because they have to get out and see people?
Come on, guys.
Really?
Really?
If no one's going to tell them the truth to their face, or at least their opinion,
I'm going to give them my opinion.
They can do with it what they like.
Please leave a comment.
what is this?
The thing with the sphere and all of a sudden it says U2 playing in Las Vegas.
And it's like, why does U2 have a Super Bowl ad?
It's a 15 second thing.
So then I go on the next day and I start looking and it says Las Vegas, U2 confirms 2023 Las Vegas
residency, AP U2 returning to the stage at Las Vegas minus one of the quartet.
CNN, YouTube
announces upcoming Vegas residency with a Super Bowl commercial.
Rolling Stone, YouTube Blanc Jose
Las Vegas MSG sphere with Octoon Baby shows.
USA Today, U2 2023 Las Vegas residency without Larry
Mullen Jr.
I start thinking, wait a minute, what?
Wait, Larry Mullen Jr.
is not playing with U2
on this residency?
What's this about?
So next day comes out, my buddy Rich, who's a huge U2 fan,
as I am, says to me, did you see the thing about U2?
And I said, yeah, what's the deal?
He goes,
I don't know.
It's pretty weird, right?
I said, yeah, it's ridiculously weird.
Then my brother John calls me, huge U2 fan.
He's like, what's up with Larry Mullen Jr.
not playing?
And I was like, yeah, this is ridiculous.
Larry Mullen Jr.
started the band at Temple Mount High
School in Dublin, 1976.
They're going to do a residency playing a record that came out in 1991
that really had so many original drum grooves, starting with the first tune, Zoo Station,
the snare sounds, the grooves, Mysterious Ways, had all these hip hop influences.
I mean, this is
really a drum record centering around Larry Mullen Jr.
So apparently they got some fill-in guy because
Larry Mullen Jr.
has had some kind of surgery or has to get surgery.
He can't do the gig.
So I started looking at it.
I started reading some stuff.
Bono is giving the reasons why they're
doing this.
We don't want to let people down, at least of all our audience.
The truth is we miss
them as much as they appear to miss us.
Our audience was always the fifth member of the band,
the audience being people like me.
Bottom line, YouTube hasn't played a live gig since December
2019 and we need to get back on stage and see those faces again.
Okay, so they're going to go
out and play without Larry Mullen.
Now, I was at Veterans Stadium on September 3rd, 1992 for the
Ak-Tung Baby Tour, which was one of the greatest concerts I've ever seen.
I went to see U2 in 2006
with my wife.
It was our honeymoon that they played at Aloha Stadium with Pearl Jam opening.
I've mentioned this before.
People are like, Rick, you're a U2 fan.
Yeah, I've been a U2 fan
for decades and decades.
And U2 is Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.
That is the
band.
It has never changed.
YouTube made another blunder like this back in 2014.
They did this big
thing with Tim Cook.
They put that record Songs of Innocence on anyone's iPhone, iPod, anything that
had iTunes, they put it out there for free.
And Apple, look at this thing here.
It says,
Apple makes it easier to delete the new U2 album from iTunes libraries.
They had to come out with
something to get rid of it.
People that worked at the Apple bar here at the Genius Bar would tell
me, oh my God, people keep coming in wanting us to take off this record from their thing.
And I
said, well, why don't they just not listen to it?
No, they were so mad about it because it was so
intrusive.
Now whose idea was that?
Well, YouTube's original manager, Paul McGinnis, retired in 2013.
They had gotten a new manager then, and this was his first thing that he was involved with.
Now a smart manager would have said, I don't think this is a good idea to do this.
But no one told
him that.
No one was honest with them.
Now they have another new manager, okay?
And this is the
first thing that they're doing.
Oh, I have a great idea.
Let's go out, or maybe U2 came up with this
idea.
Let's go out and do this gig in Las Vegas.
We'll do this residency and make tons of money,
and we'll do it without Larry Mullen Jr.
We'll do it with some fill-in drummer, right?
Then this new
manager, he's getting a cut of that 20%.
That's how much managers get, right?
What other money's
coming in besides the live gigs?
No one's telling them, you know what?
Probably not a good idea to do
a gig without your drummer of 45 years.
And if you think about the first records, boy, October,
War, Under a Blood Red Sky, which was a live version.
Then they did Unforgettable Fire.
Then
they did Wide Awake in America, which was a four-song EP.
Then they did The Joshua Tree.
Then they did Rattle and Hum.
Some people say that was a big misstep.
I'm not one of those people.
Then they did Octung Baby, and that was monumental.
Joshua Tree, Octung Baby,
those were monumental records.
Unforgettable Fire, War, amazing records.
So they paid probably a couple million dollars to do this 15-second ad that was actually part of a
three-minute and 45-second video.
So in this three-minute and 45-second video, they show a
bunch of U2 fans and how long they've been following them.
The first guy is a 62-year-old
carpenter that's been following them since 1980.
That's somebody like me.
Then they have this kid that's 33 that's been following them since 1999.
Then they have a
woman that's been a fan since 2021.
And then they have another woman that's been a fan since 2013.
Now, all these people are fans of Octung Baby, which came out in 1991.
I'm sure there are new
U2 fans, but U2 fans that are fans of Octung Baby, that album in particular, and that's the thing
they're going to go and see in Las Vegas, I frankly find that hard to believe.
At what point
is enough enough?
The Police, 1978 to 1984.
That was it.
Yeah, they came [F] back and they did a few
shows, but that was it.
They [G] call it quits.
The Beatles, essentially 1964.
Okay, 1962 to [F] 1970,
done.
[N] No more gigs.
End of the band.
Yes, some bands replace people and go on,
but not after, let's see, 43 years?
No, I mean, they started in 76.
And now they're replacing
Larry Mullen Jr.
because they have to get out and see people?
Come on, guys.
Really?
Really?
If no one's going to tell them the truth to their face, or at least their opinion,
I'm going to give them my opinion.
They can do with it what they like.
Please leave a comment.
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So I'm watching the Super Bowl the other night and all of a sudden this ad comes up and it's like,
what is this?
The thing with the sphere and all of a sudden it says U2 playing in Las Vegas.
And it's like, why does U2 have a Super Bowl ad?
It's a 15 second thing.
So then I go on the next day and I start looking and it says Las Vegas, U2 confirms 2023 Las Vegas
residency, AP U2 returning to the stage at Las Vegas minus one of the quartet.
CNN, YouTube
announces upcoming Vegas residency with a Super Bowl commercial.
Rolling Stone, YouTube Blanc Jose
Las Vegas _ MSG sphere with Octoon Baby shows.
USA Today, U2 _ _ 2023 Las Vegas residency without Larry
Mullen Jr.
I start thinking, wait a minute, what?
Wait, Larry Mullen Jr.
is not playing with U2
on this residency?
What's this about?
So _ next day comes out, my buddy Rich, who's a huge U2 fan,
as I am, _ says to me, did you see the thing about U2?
And I said, yeah, what's the deal?
He goes,
I don't know.
It's _ pretty weird, right?
I said, yeah, it's ridiculously weird.
Then my brother John calls me, huge U2 fan.
He's like, what's up with Larry Mullen Jr.
not playing?
And I was like, yeah, this is ridiculous.
Larry Mullen Jr.
started the band at Temple Mount High
School in Dublin, _ _ 1976.
They're going to do a residency playing a record that came out in 1991
that really had so many original drum grooves, starting with the first tune, Zoo Station,
the snare sounds, the grooves, Mysterious Ways, had all these hip hop influences.
I mean, this is
really a drum record centering around Larry Mullen Jr.
So apparently they got some fill-in guy because
Larry Mullen Jr.
has had some kind of surgery or has to get surgery.
He can't do the gig.
So I started looking at it.
I started reading some stuff.
Bono is giving the reasons why they're
doing this.
We don't want to let people down, at least of all our audience.
The truth is we miss
them as much as they appear to miss us.
Our audience was always the fifth member of the band,
the audience being people like me.
Bottom line, YouTube hasn't played a live gig since December
2019 and we need to get back on stage and see those faces again.
Okay, _ so they're going to go
out and play without Larry Mullen.
Now, I was at Veterans Stadium on _ September 3rd, 1992 for the
Ak-Tung Baby Tour, which was one of the greatest concerts I've ever seen.
I went to see U2 in 2006
with my wife.
It was our honeymoon that they played at Aloha Stadium with Pearl Jam opening.
I've mentioned this before.
People are like, Rick, you're a U2 fan.
Yeah, I've been a U2 fan
for decades and decades.
And U2 is Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.
That is the
band.
It has never changed.
YouTube made another blunder like this back in 2014.
They did this big
thing with Tim Cook.
They put that record Songs of Innocence on anyone's iPhone, iPod, anything that
had iTunes, they put it out there for free.
And Apple, look at this thing here.
It says,
Apple makes it easier to delete the new U2 album from iTunes libraries.
They had to come out with
something to get rid of it.
People that worked at the Apple bar here at the Genius Bar would tell
me, oh my God, people keep coming in wanting us to take off this record from their thing.
And I
said, well, why don't they just not listen to it?
No, they were so mad about it because it was so
intrusive.
Now whose idea was that?
Well, YouTube's original manager, Paul McGinnis, retired in 2013.
They had gotten a new manager then, and this was his first thing that he was involved with.
Now a smart manager would have said, I don't think this is a good idea to do this.
_ But no one told
him that.
No one was honest with them.
Now they have another new manager, okay?
And this is the
first thing that they're doing.
Oh, I have a great idea.
Let's go out, or maybe U2 came up with this
idea.
Let's go out and do this gig in Las Vegas.
We'll do this residency and make tons of money,
and we'll do it without Larry Mullen Jr.
We'll do it with some fill-in drummer, right?
Then this new
manager, he's getting a cut of that 20%.
That's how much managers get, right?
What other money's
coming in besides the live gigs?
No one's telling them, you know what?
Probably not a good idea to do
a gig without your drummer of 45 years.
And if you think about the first records, boy, October, _ _
War, Under a Blood Red Sky, which was a live version.
Then they did Unforgettable Fire.
Then
they did Wide Awake in America, which was a four-song EP.
Then they did The Joshua Tree.
Then they did Rattle and Hum.
Some people say that was a big misstep.
I'm not one of those people.
Then they did Octung Baby, _ and that was monumental.
Joshua Tree, Octung Baby,
those were monumental records.
Unforgettable Fire, War, _ amazing records.
So they paid probably a couple million dollars to do this 15-second ad that was actually part of a
three-minute and 45-second video.
So in this three-minute and 45-second video, they show a
bunch of U2 fans and how long they've been following them.
The first guy is a 62-year-old
carpenter that's been following them since 1980.
That's somebody like me.
Then they have this kid that's 33 that's been following them since 1999. _
Then they have a
woman that's been a fan since 2021.
And then they have another woman that's been a fan since 2013.
Now, all these people are fans of Octung Baby, which came out in 1991.
_ I'm sure there are new
U2 fans, but U2 fans that are fans of Octung Baby, that album in particular, and that's the thing
they're going to go and see in Las Vegas, _ _ I frankly find that hard to believe.
At what point
is enough enough?
The Police, 1978 to 1984.
That was it.
Yeah, they came [F] back and they did a few
shows, but that was it.
They [G] call it quits.
The Beatles, _ essentially 1964.
Okay, 1962 to [F] 1970,
done.
[N] No more gigs.
_ End of the band.
Yes, some bands replace people and go on,
but not after, let's see, 43 _ _ years?
No, I mean, they started in 76.
_ And now they're replacing
Larry Mullen Jr.
because they have to get out and see people?
Come on, guys.
Really?
_ Really?
If no one's going to tell them the truth to their face, or at least their opinion,
I'm going to give them my opinion.
_ _ They can do with it what they like.
Please leave a comment.
what is this?
The thing with the sphere and all of a sudden it says U2 playing in Las Vegas.
And it's like, why does U2 have a Super Bowl ad?
It's a 15 second thing.
So then I go on the next day and I start looking and it says Las Vegas, U2 confirms 2023 Las Vegas
residency, AP U2 returning to the stage at Las Vegas minus one of the quartet.
CNN, YouTube
announces upcoming Vegas residency with a Super Bowl commercial.
Rolling Stone, YouTube Blanc Jose
Las Vegas _ MSG sphere with Octoon Baby shows.
USA Today, U2 _ _ 2023 Las Vegas residency without Larry
Mullen Jr.
I start thinking, wait a minute, what?
Wait, Larry Mullen Jr.
is not playing with U2
on this residency?
What's this about?
So _ next day comes out, my buddy Rich, who's a huge U2 fan,
as I am, _ says to me, did you see the thing about U2?
And I said, yeah, what's the deal?
He goes,
I don't know.
It's _ pretty weird, right?
I said, yeah, it's ridiculously weird.
Then my brother John calls me, huge U2 fan.
He's like, what's up with Larry Mullen Jr.
not playing?
And I was like, yeah, this is ridiculous.
Larry Mullen Jr.
started the band at Temple Mount High
School in Dublin, _ _ 1976.
They're going to do a residency playing a record that came out in 1991
that really had so many original drum grooves, starting with the first tune, Zoo Station,
the snare sounds, the grooves, Mysterious Ways, had all these hip hop influences.
I mean, this is
really a drum record centering around Larry Mullen Jr.
So apparently they got some fill-in guy because
Larry Mullen Jr.
has had some kind of surgery or has to get surgery.
He can't do the gig.
So I started looking at it.
I started reading some stuff.
Bono is giving the reasons why they're
doing this.
We don't want to let people down, at least of all our audience.
The truth is we miss
them as much as they appear to miss us.
Our audience was always the fifth member of the band,
the audience being people like me.
Bottom line, YouTube hasn't played a live gig since December
2019 and we need to get back on stage and see those faces again.
Okay, _ so they're going to go
out and play without Larry Mullen.
Now, I was at Veterans Stadium on _ September 3rd, 1992 for the
Ak-Tung Baby Tour, which was one of the greatest concerts I've ever seen.
I went to see U2 in 2006
with my wife.
It was our honeymoon that they played at Aloha Stadium with Pearl Jam opening.
I've mentioned this before.
People are like, Rick, you're a U2 fan.
Yeah, I've been a U2 fan
for decades and decades.
And U2 is Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.
That is the
band.
It has never changed.
YouTube made another blunder like this back in 2014.
They did this big
thing with Tim Cook.
They put that record Songs of Innocence on anyone's iPhone, iPod, anything that
had iTunes, they put it out there for free.
And Apple, look at this thing here.
It says,
Apple makes it easier to delete the new U2 album from iTunes libraries.
They had to come out with
something to get rid of it.
People that worked at the Apple bar here at the Genius Bar would tell
me, oh my God, people keep coming in wanting us to take off this record from their thing.
And I
said, well, why don't they just not listen to it?
No, they were so mad about it because it was so
intrusive.
Now whose idea was that?
Well, YouTube's original manager, Paul McGinnis, retired in 2013.
They had gotten a new manager then, and this was his first thing that he was involved with.
Now a smart manager would have said, I don't think this is a good idea to do this.
_ But no one told
him that.
No one was honest with them.
Now they have another new manager, okay?
And this is the
first thing that they're doing.
Oh, I have a great idea.
Let's go out, or maybe U2 came up with this
idea.
Let's go out and do this gig in Las Vegas.
We'll do this residency and make tons of money,
and we'll do it without Larry Mullen Jr.
We'll do it with some fill-in drummer, right?
Then this new
manager, he's getting a cut of that 20%.
That's how much managers get, right?
What other money's
coming in besides the live gigs?
No one's telling them, you know what?
Probably not a good idea to do
a gig without your drummer of 45 years.
And if you think about the first records, boy, October, _ _
War, Under a Blood Red Sky, which was a live version.
Then they did Unforgettable Fire.
Then
they did Wide Awake in America, which was a four-song EP.
Then they did The Joshua Tree.
Then they did Rattle and Hum.
Some people say that was a big misstep.
I'm not one of those people.
Then they did Octung Baby, _ and that was monumental.
Joshua Tree, Octung Baby,
those were monumental records.
Unforgettable Fire, War, _ amazing records.
So they paid probably a couple million dollars to do this 15-second ad that was actually part of a
three-minute and 45-second video.
So in this three-minute and 45-second video, they show a
bunch of U2 fans and how long they've been following them.
The first guy is a 62-year-old
carpenter that's been following them since 1980.
That's somebody like me.
Then they have this kid that's 33 that's been following them since 1999. _
Then they have a
woman that's been a fan since 2021.
And then they have another woman that's been a fan since 2013.
Now, all these people are fans of Octung Baby, which came out in 1991.
_ I'm sure there are new
U2 fans, but U2 fans that are fans of Octung Baby, that album in particular, and that's the thing
they're going to go and see in Las Vegas, _ _ I frankly find that hard to believe.
At what point
is enough enough?
The Police, 1978 to 1984.
That was it.
Yeah, they came [F] back and they did a few
shows, but that was it.
They [G] call it quits.
The Beatles, _ essentially 1964.
Okay, 1962 to [F] 1970,
done.
[N] No more gigs.
_ End of the band.
Yes, some bands replace people and go on,
but not after, let's see, 43 _ _ years?
No, I mean, they started in 76.
_ And now they're replacing
Larry Mullen Jr.
because they have to get out and see people?
Come on, guys.
Really?
_ Really?
If no one's going to tell them the truth to their face, or at least their opinion,
I'm going to give them my opinion.
_ _ They can do with it what they like.
Please leave a comment.