This was my fave moment in the show.this was a tough song for them to play live but they kill it here. Making the show bigger and bigger, the music more dynamic, and never being content with just doing the same old thing. I was lucky enough to work a few shows with them over the years and was always impressed at how they kept Watch this and the US Festival performance from the same tour and you see how they worked their asses off every night. It was shows like this that built their live rep and following for the next 10 years and carried them to the top. To please the fans both The Alarm and U2 played a show for ticket holders the next night at the CU-Events Center in Boulder so if you were a diehard fan you got to see 2 shows for the price of one. Most people thought it would rain all day and didn't go to the show so the steps at Red Rocks were about 1/2 full. One thing you can't tell from the video is how small the crowd was for the show. Detailed gear diagrams of the Edge's U2 guitar rig for the 1981 October Tour, War Tour, 49 and the 2009 U2 360 Tour 40 are well-documented. (Barry Fey wound up owning a part of "Rattle and Hum" as well.) The Edge plays electric guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, piano, bass guitar (on '40' and 'Race Against Time') and lap steel guitar. Complete list can be seen here U2 Exclusive: The Edge’s stage setup revealed and here U2: Stage and Studio. Edge owns a total of around 40 tour guitars, and uses up to 20 on a single concert. They still had to split the cost with promoter Barry Fey to cover it. The Edge’s unmistakable guitar sound clean, sharp, incisive, and cutting-Edge became a U2s trademark. Their manager had sunk a significant amount of their tour profits into the video production budget. The Alarm opened, the stage was reset, the pyres lit, and on came U2. The crowd was so small in the afternoon, gates opened at 2pm, that the band came out before soundcheck walking around the venue and spending time chatting with fans. They were all Irish ("Oi-rish) and for them to be concerned about was very telling because they were used to cold & wet conditions. If memory serves the temp was around 50 degrees tops, and the band's crew was really worried about the rain & fog screwing with the band's gear. Get the latest news, reviews and features to your inbox. It was very cold and wet all day with the rain stopping right before the opener. Rig Diagram: The Edge, U2 (1983) From the archives: the guitars, amps and pedals of The Edge, U2 (1983) Image: Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images. ![]() ![]() I was there because I was working as a prod.
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