Live at Red Rocks [Remastered]

If you want to see how U2 interacted with their audience--very literally--before they became so huge and multi-media driven in their live shows... this is a very intimate view of that relationship. The music is grand, the audience honestly swept off their feet... A great moment in time, this show, that came to define U2's live presence as much as further personified the Red Rocks experience, itself.

This is still a great concert to watch after 24 years! However, I think the filmakers should have chosen a better day, weather-wise, to videotape this show, because the camera shows many picture imperfections due to the weather at the time. Throughout the video, there are thick streaking black lines across the picture that I can only describe as images that look like branches (no joke!). It seems evident from one particular camera on stage with the band, almost as if there's something on the lens.

When and if they release this show on DVD, it needs to be cleaned up considerably. But for now, this being all that's available, it's still a classic U2 concert, before the band sold out to their '90's "pop" image!

Don't have much to add, except that when the DVD of this is eventually released, I hope they add back in the extra songs -- I remember seeing this on Showtime a few times the fall after it was filmed and it was much longer than this.

Those of us who were in high school (I was in 9th grade when this aired originally) remember how great it was to discover U2 because they sounded like nothing else on the airwaves at the time. Haven't listened to them seriously since "Zooropa" but this video and the accompanying LP (yes, I still have this on vinyl!) are always a great trip down memory lane. And the music still stands up -- all these years later.

As another reviewer mentioned, this was their transition time. They were still a great punk/new wave band; MTV actually played music videos back then, and "New Years Day" was one they played 5 or 6 times a day. Even though it was kind of hoky, I loved that video and still do.

I saw them in Norfolk on this tour, and they were about what you'd expect: fantastic, silly (Bono had and still has that self-conscious, self-righteous air that I still find completely forgivable).

And, now that I live in Colorado and go to Red Rocks several times a year (most years), I wanted to go rent this and watch it. After all, it's NEW YEARS DAY today (2007). Blockbuster didn't have it, couldn't get it. Netflix doesn't have it. Surely Amazon has it, I thought. WRONG. Come on guys, somebody. Release this on DVD. It's one of your best concerts.

Oh, and by the way, I've seen it on VHS before.

If you've always liked U2, you'll probably love this. If you think Achtung Baby or Pop were their best albums, you might not. But try to check it out anyway. War: the best album they ever did. This came from the "War Tour".

It's been over a month and I still haven't received the video I'm wondering if I'll ever get it. Very upset that still haven't received the video.