Re: vh1

Robbie Robinson ([email protected])
Fri, 11 Dec 1998 17:03:44 -0800

> Wireland
> ok so i realize that there might be a million posts
> about the show, but i enjoyed it immensley, except
> for the part when they said pop was a failure.
> and bono talking about the "crap band" in the end
> answers all our questions about what he meant when
> he supposedley said that on MTV earlier. did anyone
> stay up late enough to watch their broadcast of the
> U2 live at Red Rocks at midnight? i noticed that the
> vh1 people put the names of the songs on the bottom
> right of the screen, but what pissed me off is that
> they got the names wrong! i think they said october
> was new years day, and some other ones were completely
> wrong too. anybody else notice this?
> i won't go on and on about the legends show, but i
> really did love it. who was the narrator and what did
> he have to do with U2?
>
> in the name of love,
> Kris- who is lovin' that baby picture of bono!

Hi Kris,

I think the names of the songs were placed there on
the origional video. It's a long standing boo-boo.
What kind of irritated me a bit is that I think they
showed the edited down version of the Red Rocks show
to fit it into and hour. Ye just have to buy the video
to get the whole thing I guess.
I didn't mind the mention of Popmart's less than fantastic
start too much. I think they explained it as well as they
could in the limited time they had. It was sort of Ooophs!
We not just locked, but cemented, ourselves into a timeschedule
where we were rushed to finish the album and we didn't have
enought time to learn the songs well enough for the first shows.
We're sure not gonna do *that* again, buddy boy!
It was very good and accurate when they said that by the time
of the second leg of the tour (Europe) U2 were well rehershed
and firing on all cylinders. It didn't ignore that fact like
a lot of the lazy-ass American media did. With Bill Flanagan
as the executive producer of the show, I knew it would be
great. No way would he let it be anything else. He knows U2
and is a great friend. I, also, don't think that if anyone
else had made the show they would have pointed out how the
friendship of the four is basic to the existence and greatness
of U2. Only somebody that close to them is likely to notice it.

Robbie

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