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Ridiculous. Go to the venue early, and tell them you are getting in line per the venue's rules, and want your place in line respected ahead of the rest of these disrespectful fans.

I couldn't agree more. Offsite lines that only require periodic check-ins are a joke. That's not "putting in your time", and I would be surprised if there were 100 fans at any given show who were willing to sleep outside for 2 days. If that's how these lines were operating, I would have less of an issue with it. Again, some kind of lottery is the only real solution to this mess.

I really like this idea. From what I understand, there are usually only a few hundred people there early in the morning for most shows. Allow lineup to begin at 7:00. Do the lottery at 8:00 and give out 400 numbered wristbands to those people. Everyone arriving after that gets a numbered wristband as they arrive, starting with #401 and is told to come back at 2:00 PM. Maybe for arena shows you do the lottery for the first 200 people. I don't really see a downside to this procedure.

I was just wondering if someone can tell me how late into the afternoon the venue typically allows you to keep chairs in the GA line before they want them put away??

Yes, they are hard tickets. I bought from Ticketmaster for $91.40($75 + $16.40). Sorry, I don't have any to sell but keep checking Ticketmaster every day. Hope you can get some.

Glad to hear you had a positive experience with that GA procedure. Hopefully we'll see something like this on a U2 tour one day. Lol, yes. These fan's extreme obsession distorts the expectations that they have for these bands.

If it was enforced I think it would be great if tour management took over the lineup procedure. I was looking at Bruce Springsteen's GA procedure for last year's show at MetLife(see below). I like it. If anyone attended I would be interested to hear how that worked out. 2:00 p.m. – Parking Lots and Box Office Open. 2:30 p.m. – Approximately 1,000 sequentially numbered wristbands will be distributed. Guests must be present and havea ticket to receive wristband. Guests cannot reserve/pick-up wristbands for other guests. Once you receive a wristband,you do not need to stay in line at the MetLife Gate; however, you must return to the MetLife Gate for the random numberselection at 4:15 p.m. These wristbands will also serve as your floor access wristbands so they should not be removed untilafter the show. 4:30 p.m. – A starting number will be randomly picked by a fan, announced and displayed on a placard at the MetLife Gate.All fans with GA tickets and numbered wristbands should begin lining-up in numerical order in the lane labeled with theirrange of numbers (i.e. 1-99, 100-199, etc.). When beginning the screening process, the fan holding the wristband thatmatches the starting number will be the first in line (i.e. if #’s 1-1000 were distributed and number 818 is drawn, the line would start with 818, then 819, 820, 821 through 1000 then 1-817). When the starting number is announced the linewithin that range will shift accordingly. If you arrive after the wristbands have been distributed or after 4:30 p.m., you will line-up in a secondary line that is firstcome,first-served at the MetLife Gate. There is no place-holding (“saving spots”) in this line. One person = one spot. If youwant to enter the field with a group, you will need to be together when joining the line. The Secondary line will not receivea numbered wristband and will be escorted to the field after the first 1,000 wristbanded guests.

So how did the GA lineup work out? Did "those" fans have their own offsite number/wristband system that they tried to bring to the venue or did the venue run this their own way?

Although the Edge said that they will would play the album in sequence, he added that the final set-list and running order was still to be determined. My guess is they will not only break up the album, but also change the sequence. I predict that they open with some JT songs, play a mix of other older and newer songs, more JT songs, other songs, then an encore with the rest of the JT songs. Something like this... Bullet The Blue Sky I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Red Hill Mining Town In God's Country OTHER SONGS Running To Stand Still Trip Through Your Wires One Tree Hill OTHER SONGS Encore: With Or Without You Mothers Of The Disappeared Where The Streets Have No Name Exit

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So we are doing GA for the first time this tour at East Rutherford and Boston and just wondering what time that we should plan on arriving . I'm curious to hear your experience from past stadium tours with your arrival time and how close you got to the stage. I know that there are so many factors that are involved, such as the tour, venue, etc., but any suggestions on an approximate arrival time to get in the first 5 rows anywhere around the stage?

Every decade his voice has changed, so even 10 years later in 1997 he didn't sing the older songs the same way. But even from a music standpoint, the way they play the older songs live is not always exactly the same either. I just listened to a bootleg show from the I&E tour. The opening set included Gloria, I will Follow, Sunday Bloody Sunday. Bono sounded great. I was surprised by his range on some of those songs. Even when he sings parts of older songs a bit differently it still sounds good and when they play their newer material I wouldn't want to hear his 1987 voice on those songs. The JT songs will make up less than half of the setlist on this tour. So I think the versatility of his voice will allow him to sing the older songs and the newer ones.

Red Hill, One Tree Hill, Acrobat, Please, Yahweh, Wake Up Dead Man

Today Rolling Stone posted an interesting interview with Adam where he discusses the tour, setlist possibilities, and the Experience album. In terms of the setlist, he admits that they haven't started working on it yet but here are a couple of interesting comments... "I spoke to Edge a few weeks ago. He wasn't sure the show was going to start with "Streets" and go right into the album. How do you see that happening? 'We haven't really sat down and worked out the dynamics of it yet, but I suspect it would sit as the crown in the show. I think we would definitely want to open with perhaps something that is not dissimilar to the Songs of Innocence run [where we did our early 1980s songs] and get people in the mood for this thing that's coming and you give some sense of history of where it came from. Then it'll be a scene change. … This is my guess. We won't know until we start playing it around quite a bit. We will either start with "Streets," or end with it, I might think, but there will be a scene change. Whether or not we go completely in sequence, we've yet to work out'..." "I imagine one challenge in playing it in sequence is the four most famous songs are the first four. Then there's seven straight that are lesser-known to a mass audience. Doing them all in a row could be a challenge in a stadium. Do you worry about that? 'Umm … I think we really have to wait and see. I think anyone that's coming to that show clearly knows that record well. What we would need to figure out is whether that's a suite of songs [and] with our new knowledge of 30 years hence we could breathe life into them in a different way, or whether we kind of bundle them together with some other songs that are thematically in keeping with those. Again, I wish I could be more positive with that, but we aren't that far down the line. We have the aspiration, but we haven't quite figured out how it'll happen. But it will happen and we always toy around and experiment until it feels right.'"