June 18, 2011: Dash's 1st Concert: U2
U2 Saved by Angry Birds
Technically, U2 was his first concert where he was awake through any portion of it. We took him to a small old theater to see Fleet Foxes, but it was on a Friday night after school. He was asleep, hard, before the opening band started. We were really worried about driving to Anaheim and spending the money on a concert that he would sleep through. He's pretty serious about getting his sleep (consistent protest to the contrary).
Luckily the concert was on a Saturday night and he got a nap in the traffic on the way up.
We arrived during Lenny Kravitz's set. We had full-on nosebleed seats, but, hey, were were there. I set off on a quest for some souvenirs. I secured a youth T-shirt after about forty minutes (they only had a Joshua Tree shirt for Dash, which is ironic because that was the first time I saw U2).
| When we invited Dash to see U2 a month prior, he was less enthusiastic than we anticipated, given his boy-crush on Bono and his miming Bono's stage antics during U2 DVDs.
He perked up a great deal after Lenny's set. The shots to the right are prior to U2.
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| The show opened with "Even Better than the Real Thing" which was good since he's so familiar with it.
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| He was doing well for the first hour or so, but then started pooping out. After a while he was starting to nod off. Uh-oh. What to do... |  |
I break out the i-phone and Angry Birds keeps Dash awake for the remainder of the concert. Good thing, it would have been a shame to miss Elevation, all three of us were belting it out, to the amusement of those around us.
So, I'm not sure what the lasting impression will be, or even if there will be one. But we gave it the old college try. In fact, if it hadn't been for Bono breaking his back and postponing this leg of the tour for a year, we would have missed this go around.
Main Set: Even Better Than The Real Thing, The Fly, Mysterious Ways, Until the End of the World, One, Amazing Grace - Where the Streets Have No Name - All You Need Is Love, I Will Follow, Get On Your Boots - She Loves You, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Stuck In a Moment, Beautiful Day - Space Oddity, Elevation, Pride, Miss Sarajevo, Zooropa, City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo - It's Only Rock and Roll, I'll Go Crazy (remix) - Discotheque - Please, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Scarlet, Walk On - Never Walk
Encore(s): Ultraviolet, With or Without You, Moment of Surrender - Jungleland