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1. U2's ZOO TV traveled America in 52 semi-trailers, carrying 1,200 tons of
equipment. The tour used over 200 locally supplied labourers, required 12
forklifts and a 120-foot 40-ton crane.
2. In Tempe, Arizona U2 Sound Engineer Joe O'Herlihy celebrated his
twentieth wedding anniversary with his wife Marion.
3. The two days U2 spent at Sun Devil's Stadium in Tempe, Arizona saw the
heaviest rainfall in the area for five years -- since the last time U2
played the stadium.
4. In Chicago U2 got a message from a member of the Bill Clinton
Presidential Campaign Team that he would be happy to meet them. They were
staying in the same hotel as him and, after a show, at about three in the
morning, decided to knock him up. Unfortunately he was fast asleep --
according to the ranks of security patrolling the hotel. But next morning
the band got a message from his entourage to say he had some time later in
the day, and so they did get to meet. Edge: "He cam round and we sat down
with him and chatted about a few things and he struck me as pretty much what
he appears to be." But after he was elected President the band had to
decline an invitation to play at his Washington Inauguration. Edge: "It's
very dodgy to become too closely associated with politicians. We've had
approaches over the years from a few politicians. We can support issues but
not the candidate."
5. Two of the Trabants from the ZOO TV Tour later found fame of their own
when they were featured on national TV in England on BBC1's Tomorrow's World
in a special programme about Entertainment Technology.
6. At the four nights in Mexico City a new phenomenon was apparently created
when, instead of merely holding up their lighters to express appreciation,
the 22,000 fans began clicking them on and off to the rhythm of the songs.
Not exactly the Mexican Wave but an excited lighting director said this
phenomenon is one to be encouraged.
7. The sound system on the ZOO TV tour utilized over 1 million watts of
power and had a total weight of 60,000 lbs. -- about 30 tons. There were two
separate monitor mix positions, each with two consoles providing 160 channel
input capacity. There were 26 on stage mixes and 60 separate monitor
speakers. The P.A. system was comprised of 176 speaker enclosures of various
types utilizing 312 18" woofers, 592 10" mid-range speakers and 604 high
frequency drivers. Front of house had three 40-channel consoles with a total
input capability of 120 channels. It is a Clair Brothers sound system.
8. This is an example of a set-list from the ZOO TV tour by U2.
9. ZOO TV's traveling army included over 180 members traveling in 12 buses
as well as a 40-passenger chartered jet.
10. For the Freddie Mercury Tribute concert in April, U2 satellited across a
live version of Until The End of the World. They were performing in Tacoma
at the time of the concert -- but in the interval the tribute concert was
broadcast live to U2's Tacoma fans from England.
11. Edge, about those Trabbies? "It's a surreal thing, they might as well be
goldfish."
12. Four generators were used to power the ZOO TV show, using in excess of 3
miles of cable. These generators could provide enough power to run two city
blocks of homes.
13. Malcolm Gerrie, producer of the ZOO TV special aired at the end of 1992
in 37 countries, said: "Zoo Television is a programme about television, made
by television, for television . debunking television." The suitably
preposterous press blurb from Channel Four in England ran as follows: "More
anarchic than the Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, more intimate than In Bed
With Madonna, more tongue in cheek than The Rocky Horror Picture Show, ZOO
TV Featuring U2 promises to be the 'mother of all entertainment specials'.
Pop and TV merge in a glorious orgy of over-indulgence as the mega-rock
stars take control of the hype and media machine that made them and push it
to the breaking point." Right .
14. Pee Wee Herman and Arnold Schwarzenegger both turned up in the ZOO.
15. Bono: "I don't know what ZOO TV is, so I guess it must be art."
16. The Edge's mum and dad came to the ZOO TV shows in Los Angeles and
Vancouver.
17. At most rock shows the press photographers count themselves lucky if
they get access to the security pit in front of the stage. During the ZOO TV
tour, photographers were sometimes invited into the 'scissor-lift' -- a
mobile platform -- which lifted them up the side of the stage where The Fly
would then perform right into their unbelievable lenses. The precise meaning
of the moment was made clear to the audience by a large electronic sign
flashing the words 'PHOTO OPPORTUNITY'.
18. The second show at Dodger's Stadium, Los Angeles was on Halloween. TV
Spook-Vamp 'Elvira' joined the show live by satellite to sing Happy Birthday
to Larry.
19. U2 played the first rock show at Atlanta's spanking new Georgia Dome.
Sadly the house technicians had not quite worked out the finer points of how
to turn off all the lights in the building so some lights remained on for
the first fifteen minutes of the show. A visit to the roof by U2 stage
manager Rocco Reedy and his trusty hammer solved the problem.
20. Mandy Shaki, 17 and Jennifer Lind, 17 are U2 fans in Vancouver who came
along to both stadium shows in the city. Mandy has been getting her
Propaganda for 6 years. Her highlight of 1992 was in April at the indoor
Vancouver show: "The ZOO TV concept is music, TV, information. it's
everything in excess."
21. Early on in the tour Larry and one of U2's security team acquired a pair
of Harley Davidson Motorcycles. While everyone else drove or flew between
shows, Larry often rode the trip on his Harley.
22. "Against a backdrop of flickering TV screens, Day-Glo Trabants and a
bank of technology on Edge's side of the stage that looks like NASA Mission
Control, Bono prowls the boards in a gold lame suit that harks back to
vintage Elvis." (Sean O'Hagan in The Face).
23. The Fly made it to the cover of the British edition of Vogue Magazine,
along with supermodel Christy Turlington. Bono was the first male to grace
the cover of the top fashion mag since Terence Stamp nearly three decades
before.
24. The very first song performed on the Outside Broadcast leg of the ZOO TV
tour was 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' in Hershey, Pennsylvania. It was an
experimental opening for the show and one that was not repeated.
25. The video release, Achtung Baby, The Videos, the Cameos and a whole lot
of Interference claims to offer the viewer 'the truth, the whole truth and
nothing like the truth'. Apparently what you see is what you get and what
you see is 1.31 inches of videotape per second. As well as a whole lot of
interference the video also contains some songs including, Even Better Than
The Real Thing directed by Kevin Godley; Mysterious Ways directed by
Stephane Sednaoui; One directed by Anton Corbijn; The Fly directed by
Ritchie Smyth and Jon Klein, Even Better Than The Real Thing directed by
Ritchie Smyth; One directed by Mark Pellington; Even Better Than The Real
Thing directed by Armando Gallo and Kampah; One directed by Phil Joanou;
Until The End of the World directed by Ritchie Smyth; and a whole lot of
interference generally directed by Maurice Linnane.
26. Building the ZOO TV show took a minimum of 200 men and women over 40
hours to set up and required 12 mobile office trailers.
27. At the 'Brit Awards' in February, the annual ceremony of the British
record industry in London, the chairman insisted on having the category of
'Best Live Act 1992' in order to honour U2 for the ZOO TV tour. The band
returned the compliment by flying across to receive it.
28. ZOO TV video crew member, Richard Davis has got two grandchildren.
29. The fourth show in Mexico City was the last show for Ellen Darst who has
worked with U2 for twelve years as Paul McGuinness's Management Associate in
the USA. Ellen moves on to work with Elektra Records and will be much missed
by all.
30. Press For Action: If you were a member of the press visiting the ZOO TV
show you would be provided with the following helpful information by Dave
Lemmink, Chief Engineer, ZOO TV. ZOO TV will provide the following for all
US and Canadian tour dates: 15 Composite NTSC baseband video feeds. Press
Box connector is BNC female. 15 line-level mono audio feeds. Press box
connector is XLR male. ZOO TV does NOT provide AC power so please come
prepared with battery powered equipment. Please check your equipment before
leaving your studio and bring all necessary interconnect cables, our
engineers are extremely busy prior to the show. Also note that many of the
newer one-piece BetaCam ENG units will not accept an external video input.
We cannot provide any taped video material without prior arrangements with
U2 production management.
31. The surnames of the truck drivers on the ZOO TV tour were Herbert, Rich,
Sallee, Jones, Stevens, Liss, Abbate, Harrison, McGeough, Lawson, Bjorklund,
Bain, Kueblar, Plumley, Froneck, Hadley, Mederos, Lorenzana, Dodson,
Puckett, Davis, Hereford, Marshall and Dipaola.
32. The singer came undone during one show. Edge recalls: "Bono split his
pants one night midway through the set and he ended up asking a girl in the
audience to gaffa tape him back together to finish the show. That was
funny." Another night: "We got mugged by two girls that jumped up on
stage -- they were like six-foot-three model types and full of energy. They
basically jumped on Bono and myself on the b-stage like big Alsatian puppies
completely out of control."
33. Peter 'Willie' Williams received the industry award of 'Lighting
Designer of the Year' for the design of the ZOO TV show.
34. Members of the 'Emergency Broadcast Network' (who made, amongst other
things, the now infamous video clip of George Bush singing 'We Will Rock
You') brought their Satellite Dish Projector to Yankee Stadium in New York.
They brought their large dish into the stadium and set it up on the roof of
the mixer tower, all without the aid of any tickets or working passes. When
asked how they achieved such a feat, EBN's Gardener Post replied, "We're
just so used to functioning without official credentials. Last year we did
the whole Lollapalooza tour without passes of any sort."
35. When U2 tickets went on sale in Los Angeles, Pacific Bell telephone
company reported an incomprehensible 54 million phone call attempts in four
hours, as re-dial buttons were pressed again and again.
36. EuroPop techno veterans Kraftwerk joined U2 for one show in Manchester,
UK, as a protest gig against the Sellafield Nuclear Plant in the north of
England.
37. A ZOO TV interview with Propaganda: (We will reprint this in its
entirety at a later date.)
38. Shows in Milan, Italy, were postponed by a day, due to a vital truck
breaking down somewhere in the Pyrenees Mountains.
39. At the (very small) ASU activities center in Tempe, Arizona, Bono kicked
a cup of water from the stage which remained full as it sailed over the
crowd and landed directly on the lighting console. The console instantly
ceased to function.
40. A mini-TV station was set up under the stage in each city where ZOO TV
played, using live satellite broadcasts during the show. Bono used a channel
changer to choose stations from the satellite feed. The video director,
Carol Dodds, used a custom system developed for the tour by Philips
Interactive Media called Cdi. It was the first time this kind of media has
been used in a live show. She had 12 laser disc players, monitors containing
the live television feeds and 5 camera systems which she mixed on site
during each show. It was a flexible system which could be changed nightly.
There were four mega video screens, four Philips Video-Walls and 36 video
monitors. The discs contained footage created by Kevin Godley, Brian Eno,
Mark Pellington, Peter Williams, Carol Dodds and Emergency Broadcast
Networks (EBN). There were also 18 projectors in use and a video crew of 18
people assisting Ms. Dodds.
41. The estate of Keith Haring gave U2 permission to reproduce Haring's
famous 'Radiant Baby' logo on one of the Trabants. Thank You.
42. The ZOO TV Tour started in Lakeland, Florida (by Walt Disney World),
rehearsed in Hershey, Pennsylvania (a theme park) and finished the U.S. leg
at Anaheim, California (by Disneyland). Is this significant?
43. At what other rock show do the audience get pizza thrown in for free? On
several stops on the ZOO TV Tour, Bono took advantage of a conveniently
placed telephone to call the local dial-a-pizza during the show. Sometimes
for the entire audience. That was if he wasn't calling for a chat on a live
sex-line, doing some Home Shopping or trying to get through for a chin wag
with the President of the United States of America.
44. The stage set included 11 Trabant cars, two of which were suspended over
the stage; all had lights inside and out. The Trabant was the People's Car
of East Germany, and each one in the show was owned and used by East German
families prior to the fall of the Eastern bloc. The cars are made of
compressed cardboard, originally weighed 400lbs each and cost around $300.
They were structurally modified and now weigh over 2,000lbs each. They are
decorated with artwork designed by Catherine Owens, Rene Castro and Peter
Williams.
45. Heavy Duty is the name of one of the gallant gentlemen who drove the
tour buses as the ZOO trundled across America. Normally the comprehensively
tattooed Heavy drives a 39 Chevrolet at his 20 acre home in Tennessee where
ha has a 115 year old house which he has been restoring. He has also toured
with Paul McCartney, Paul Simon and The Grateful Dead. He says, "I enjoyed
U2 the most. I've been a fan of theirs since day one, since I was buying
imports of their records before they were released in the States." His
favourite U2 song of the moment is The Fly. He estimates that his $500,000
bus, with a party of up to 12 crew members on board -- two lounges,
bathroom, kitchen and all modern cons -- traveled approaching 40,000 miles
by the end of the Outside Broadcast Leg of the ZOO TV Tour. He saw the show
about 40 times and claims that "it gets better every time." He can't see
them all as he has to sleep in preparation for overnight drives after some
concerts. "What I like about this group is that they have time to talk to
you," he says. "Some other acts can be arrogant of snobbish, maybe they
think the crew is beneath them but it's the crew that makes the show look
good each night." He got a particular kick out of the Los Angeles show where
the company included Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery, Mel Gibson, Billy Idol,
Sean Penn, Winona Ryder and Julia Roberts: "Hell, almost everybody in
Hollywood was there, there were more stars than there were at the Oscars."
46. ZOO TV opened wide its very ironic arms to the media, which is a tiring
business for the media's appetite is never sated. Edge: "I feel more and
more like a politician on a campaign, constantly at the mercy of the media,
doing interviews, being filmed. ZOO TV is life imitating art imitating
politics."
47. Benny and Bjorn from ABBA joined U2 on stage in Stockholm for a
rendition of 'Dancing Queen' beneath the revolving mirrorball Trabant. The
show was being broadcast live to just one house, the home of competition
winner John Harris of Nottinghamshire in England.
48. There was a fifteen-strong team of catering staff feeding the animal on
the ZOO tour.
49. Robert Hilburn the Pop Music Critic of the Los Angeles Times wrote after
the two LA shows on the ZOO TV tour that the "Irish quartet demonstrated
once again why it is the only contemporary band with the ambition and talent
to once have been considered on the same levels as the Beatles." He said
that the "elaborate video-monitor system delivers such a startling sense of
intimacy and immediacy to the proceedings that it may become the standard
for stadium concerts in the '90's."
50. Greenpeace were present at all the ZOO TV shows. Kerry Mahoney and Kate
Adams from Greenpeace traveled to each venue and worked with local members
setting up tables for fund raising and information.
51. Three Grove-man lifts are used during the show.
52. Golf carts are used in some US stadiums to transport people around them
because they are so vast. A golf cart from the Yankee Stadium show was
found, later that night, abandoned in central Manhattan.
53. U2's Outside Broadcast video system includes a vast array of broadcast
television production and projection equipment which filled two 48-foot
semi-trailers and was run by a crew of 18 people. The production carried an
entire video broadcast facility with the capacity for uplink/downlink and
on-site editing. Some of the features of the system are: 23 inputs
including: 4 Ikegami HL-55A CCD cameras with component CCU's. 1 POV camera.
10 Pioneer 8000 laserdisc playback decks. 4 3/4" and Betacam SP playback
decks. 2 'BonoCams' (handheld video cameras). 1 Satellite dish and receiver.
1 Philips CD-I Player. 47 simultaneous outputs including: 4 15' x 20' rear
projection screens using 18 GE Talaria 5055 HB light valve projectors. 4
Philips 4 x 3 'Vidiwall' video walls. 36 27" Barco monitors. 1 Press feed. 1
Auxiliary video feed (for stadiums with JumboTrons, DiamondVision, etc). 1
Satellite uplink feed. The system is run by 4 Personal Computers with
customized hardware and software built specifically for the ZOO TV Tour. A
crew of three engineers control the system electronics from beneath the
stage. The director and assistant director call the show from their perch on
the second level of mix platform in the Front of House. They can view all
the screens and also monitor all the system inputs from a remote switching
console located in this position. Video projectionists control the video
projectors from positions as high as 60 feet behind the large video screens
flanking and hanging above the stage. The entire video system is worth over
3.5m US dollars. Typical system set-up time is approximately 10 hours and it
is packed in racks and cases that fit under the performance stage. (And all
this information comes to you from Dave Lemmink, Chief Engineer, ZOO TV.)
54. One fine day at rehearsals the entire scaffolding crew decided to shave
their heads. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
55. Before the show every night on the Outside Broadcast Leg of the ZOO TV
Tour, U2 fans could enter the Video Confessional -- a lavishly converted
portaloo -- and record a confession to camera. If it made the grade during
playback while the show was running, it was aired to the entire audience
right before the encore of the concert.
56. ZOO TV is not a concept but a way of life claimed The Edge. A way of
life requires form of hard currency -- this was it. (Bono Bucks -- Not
Shown)
57. You saw it here first. No sooner had the ZOO TV station ceased
transmission for the winter, than British television programmes started
unashamedly jumping on the bandwagon with Jonathan Ross' Saturday Night Zoo
and the emergence of the ZOO TV phenomenon. The Face magazine, documenting
the emergence of the genre in the UK, felt moved to emphasize that 'ZOO TV
isn't anything to do with U2'. Hmmm.
58. Important implement in order to keep the ZOO station clean. (Photo of
vacuum cleaner (Hoover) not shown.)
59. Edge talking whilst in catering marquee before the show in San
Francisco: "I think ZOO TV can go further. I don't mean bigger -- but it can
be pushed further along the lines it is developing already. We make
discoveries every now and again -- like Emergency Broadcast Network, a group
of video artists on the East Coast, who did the George Bush, 'We Will Rock
You' sequence. I think we can take it further -- it's not as zoo as it can
be. There are still some wild, unorthodox, unpredictable, furry animals to
go in this zoo. We've a very a-la-carte attitude to technology, we find our
own use for it. We're not interested in helping technology develop for the
betterment of humankind so much as we are in using what is out there for our
own selfish, fascist ends. Mostly what we do is abuse it by doing things
with it that it wasn't designed to do -- that's part of the fun. It's about
trial and error, not necessarily knowing what you want but recognizing it
when it hits you over the head. A lot of our discoveries are made by
accident. And even with the show we tried a lot of things that didn't work.
things that looked good on paper but were disastrous when we came to doing
them. We've just kept the good things. It's all completely subjective, it's
what you end up liking and what you end up thinking is great. What I am
enjoying about this tour is that people are even more mystified than ever
before, not having a clue where we are coming from but still enjoying it. At
times we allow the production to dominate and at times we don't. It's just a
setting, a context for the material. And like any background you get bored
with it after a while so you have to change it. Once the visuals are in
place I don't look at them, I'm thinking about performing the song. The
visuals are there to support the performance and once they are in place I
just concentrate on the performance, I don't really worry about the visuals.
ZOO TV is about ideas, more than about stage sets, the hardware is not what
is important so much as the software.
60. "U2's ZOO TV tour has grown into a thing of rich proportions; groovy,
elevated, sad, but mostly just high on its own sense of the royal daftness
of rock 'n' roll." Stuart Bailie in NME.
61. Without doubt the most overpriced hotel of the tour was in San
Sebastian, Spain. The hotel charged a management associate $1,200.00 for one
long distance phone call. Is this a record?
62. When finally having settled the astronomical bill for the whole touring
party at the San Sebastian hotel, the U2 tour accountant was heard asking
the hotel manager, 'So which part of the hotel do we own now?'
63. Bono only broke two television monitors throughout the entire tour.
64. Rigger Warren Jones from New Zealand, took a day trip from El Paso,
Texas over the border into Mexico. Unfortunately upon his return he
discovered that he had accidentally taken his three year old son's passport
with him instead of his own. Four hours later U.S. immigration officials let
him rejoin the tour.
65. In Vienna, Austria, Axl Rose joined Bono and The Edge on stage for a
rendition of 'Knocking On Heaven's Door.'
66. Counting off the shows. Graffiti in the lighting console. what a long,
strange trip it's been.
67. Without U2's fans there would be. well. empty stadiums. But down at the
front it can be a bit crushed.
68. Edge: "After this is over, I'll be glad to get home again. I might just
get myself a library card and go and read in a library for a while."
CIAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Mirko


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1. Lo ZOO TV degli U2.....etc.....etc....etc....
2. Nel tempio, Arizona.....etc etc etc
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P.S.:    Non mi ringraziate... etc.
Buona domenica!!
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 Quata un'altra volta cosě e ti ringrazierň a fucilate! ^_^
Ehehehehhehhehehehehehehhehe :D
CIAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Mirko

 2. Nel tempio, Arizona.....etc etc etc
Nel tempio? :))))
Hai tradotto una parola e sei riuscito a sbagliarne una!!! :PPP
ehehhehheehehehhe
Sei il mio idolo! :)
CIAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Mirko

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