u2songs.com: Running to Stand Still
Communication => Off-Topic Banter => Topic started by: Carl on September 25, 2004, 04:34:01 AM
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So... who are you? The few, the proud, the registered.
Just a bit about yourself and why you registered (especially if you haven't posted and don't really intend to). Afraid someone will take your username? Did you feel pity on us and decide to swell the ranks?
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Since nobody took the bait, I'll bite first:
I'm Rob. I'll try to keep this short and sweet (though that doesn't happen too often with me!).
I'm 23, from Philadelphia, and I'm the co-founder and list manager over at the U2PhillyFans yahoogroup.
I've been a U2 fan since just after Pop passed through town, so my first live experiences weren't until Elevation came to Philly. Saw them five times in 2001 (thrice in Philly, twice in NYC). Was GA for 4 shows. Am very proud of my photos (and even prouder to have one published in the updated U2 Live: A Concert Documentary, though it's not the one I would have chosen). Very much looking forward to the next tour.
I am a ravenous U2 bootleg hound; I've just started to get into DVD trading. I'm also a collecting freak - I find myself buying vinyl even though I almost never play 'em, for example.
I'm not one to post a lot, but I do have spare time at work often, and I do intend to cruise around the forums when I can.
And yes, yes, I did feel pity for y'all. =P
Sincerely, a ranks-sweller. =)
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...I won't look dorky. So I'll go next ;)
Hmm. Who am I...lets see. I'm 20, I'm a political science education major at the University of Tennessee (that's in Knoxville). I spend a lot of time with my boyfriend and online bothering Aaron (which I've been doing since I was 15..wow, anyway..)
Hmm. I first heard U2 at a Popmart concert in Clemson, SC. I was forced to go by my grandmother, but boy am I glad she made me go. Of course I fell in love right then and there and have been obsessed ever since. I saw them again on Popmart in Atlanta that fall and then I saw 4 elevation shows (Atlanta, Indianapolis, Baltimore, and Atlanta again) and made some good friends through those. I look forward to selling my soul and anything else not bolted down to try to raise money for this tour ;) Incidentally my favorite song on HTDAAB is City of Blinding Light or maybe Yahweh now. Or maybe Miracle Drug. Or maybe...you get the picture ;)
I guess I can wrap it up now, I've bored you long enough.
Love,
Stefanie :)
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@Rob... I have no worries accepting pity posts. :) Looks like we got into the band around the same time. While it is a shame to have missed ZooTV and Popmart, at least we had a great back catalogue to sort through eh?
@Stef... the story has been told, though not on here. Perhaps you can cut and paste from an old rewired post or something. Bothering Aaron online is a favorite pastime of mine as well, too bad he always seems to be getting urgent calls from work. Hmmm.... :)
My little bio is up here:
http://www.u2wanderer.org/twoshots/carl.html
It was based around Aaron's, but I found the third person voice rather amusing, and uh, got a little carried away. For reference his more "professional" bio is here:
http://www.u2wanderer.org/twoshots/aaron.html
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- Who is she?
She's a Chinese international students studing in Australia. She changed 4 majors in 6 semesters. Currently, she's a HRM student.
- Why she registered?
She was annoied by the actions taken on fan sites recently, and felt a bit guilty for only taking from these hard working guys, but never give a thank word in her past.
- A bit about her U2 history[/color]
A real good story! She bets U2 gonna love it.
One day she went to a local music shop (when she was in China), she bought 5 DVDs and asked for 20% discount. The shop owner refused her but gave her a copy of U2's CD instead. An unauthorized or illegal copy, whatever word you like. She was upset by the greedy shop owner, but she did listen to that CD, and fell in love with the band who made the music. (the worst thing finally happend.)
- 3 good thing of this year
Passed all exams; the new album finally released; going home in December.
- 3 bad thing of this year
Passed all exams in pity results; the new album finally released, but fan sites are down; going home in December but the ticket is too expensive.
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4 am in the morning, I think I'd better get some sleep before the sun rise. :)
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1) Who am I:
My name's Ugo Coppola. I was born on December 21, 1970, I'm Italian and I teach English in a secondary school to 24 very nice kids. :-)
2) Why I registered:
Because I don't like to simply pass through forums, lurking and occasionally posting replies. When I enter a forum (and this is just one of the many forums I'm registered to...) I like to be fully active in it. And if this implies registering, I just couldn't ask for anything better. :-)
3) Why I post here:
I don't think I can be defined an U2 fan. I listen to them just as much as I listen to a jillion other people and a jillion other kinds of music. But I'm very keen on lyrics. Being Italian, I usually get most of 'em but not all, so fansites (especially well-kept ones, like this), are often a great help. And I try to do my best to repay them for their help, by posting in the forums - especially, of course, in the sections concerning lyrics. :-)
[Modificato il 2004-12-6 da Ugo1970]
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1. Who am I?
Dave and am from Canada. I completed uni with a major in history. I am 28 and have been a U2 fan for 18 years. (might not last much longer).
2. Why I registered? (so late)
I am a memeber of another forum and this site was mention because someone thought (U2 PM) it would be a good idea to shut down fan sites because of lyrics etc.... I will continue to visit your site as I have only just started to go through it all.
3. Why I Post here:
I wanted to show my support for those who put in a lot of their own time and money into creating these sites for us to enjoy.
Thank you and I hope everything works out for you.
Until the next time,
Canuck
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Hello all, my name is James. I am a long time U2 fan, but a new U2 fanatic. I have collecting in my blood and never realized before how collectable U2 can be. So much stuff. So little money to spend on it all.
Anyway, my first experience with U2 was back in late 87. My cousin let me borrow his JT record. I was 12 at the time, and I remember playing the record on my Fisher Price turntable. I sat there trying to figure out the words. I just remember becoming hooked. I never wanted to give him the record back, but eventually I had to. I purchased the casette tape soon after. If you were to ask me what I was listening to at that age, I would have just said JT... nothing else (well maybe a bit of UABRS, my second purchase). I must have listened to that tape a million times over and over, beginning to end. I never listened to it without listening to the whole thing. I never just played one song, it was all or nothing. It breaks my heart to think about it, but as time has gone by, I no longer have that tape, although I bet if I ever found my old walkman, it would be in there... it never left it. By my freshman year, I purchased JT on CD. AB came out my junior year of high school and I tried like mad to get tickets to a show (in Lexington, KY where I lived), but to no avail.
To be completely honest, U2 lost me during the 90s. I continued to listen to JT fairly often, but the "newer" stuff never really captured my attention. Ocasionally I would listen to Rattle and Hum, The Unforgettable Fire, or War. But that was it. I didn't buy Zooropa or Pop when they came out. By the time ATYCLB came out, I was dating my (then) future wife. She had purchased ATYCLB and I gave it a listen. I thought it was pretty good, but nothing more.
Then one day last summer, I pulled out JT (which I hadn't listened to for at least 6 years) and went for a drive. What can I say? I fell in love with the album all over again. On my way home from the drive I decided to stop at a Circuit City and buy the RaH DVD. I really enjoyed the movie, and could feel myself becoming more of a fan. Soon after I purchased Live at Slane Castle. That did it for me, and made me an official fanatic. Since then, I have gone back and bought all the U2 stuff I can get my hands on (CD singles, all their CD albums, vinyl albums and singles, VHS cassettes, DVDs, etc.). I have yet to see a U2 show, but I eagerly await one this time round. Nothing is going to stop me this time.
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Originally posted by jimbo913
Hello all, my name is James. I am a long time U2 fan, but a new U2 fanatic. I have collecting in my blood and never realized before how collectable U2 can be. So much stuff. So little money to spend on it all.
Anyway, my first experience with U2 was back in late 87. My cousin let me borrow his JT record. I was 12 at the time, and I remember playing the record on my Fisher Price turntable. I sat there trying to figure out the words. I just remember becoming hooked. I never wanted to give him the record back, but eventually I had to. I purchased the casette tape soon after. If you were to ask me what I was listening to at that age, I would have just said JT... nothing else (well maybe a bit of UABRS, my second purchase). I must have listened to that tape a million times over and over, beginning to end. I never listened to it without listening to the whole thing. I never just played one song, it was all or nothing. It breaks my heart to think about it, but as time has gone by, I no longer have that tape, although I bet if I ever found my old walkman, it would be in there... it never left it. By my freshman year, I purchased JT on CD. AB came out my junior year of high school and I tried like mad to get tickets to a show (in Lexington, KY where I lived), but to no avail.
To be completely honest, U2 lost me during the 90s. I continued to listen to JT fairly often, but the "newer" stuff never really captured my attention. Ocasionally I would listen to Rattle and Hum, The Unforgettable Fire, or War. But that was it. I didn't buy Zooropa or Pop when they came out. By the time ATYCLB came out, I was dating my (then) future wife. She had purchased ATYCLB and I gave it a listen. I thought it was pretty good, but nothing more.
Then one day last summer, I pulled out JT (which I hadn't listened to for at least 6 years) and went for a drive. What can I say? I fell in love with the album all over again. On my way home from the drive I decided to stop at a Circuit City and buy the RaH DVD. I really enjoyed the movie, and could feel myself becoming more of a fan. Soon after I purchased Live at Slane Castle. That did it for me, and made me an official fanatic. Since then, I have gone back and bought all the U2 stuff I can get my hands on (CD singles, all their CD albums, vinyl albums and singles, VHS cassettes, DVDs, etc.). I have yet to see a U2 show, but I eagerly await one this time round. Nothing is going to stop me this time.
Wow...what a long journey...welcome home. :D
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Originally posted by Butter7
Wow...what a long journey...welcome home. :D
Home... that's where the hurt is ;)
A good story, it's always interesting to see what really draws people into the band. For me it was the Best of 80-90 driving me to check out some live mp3s online... SBS from R&H, One from Modena, Ultraviolet from ZooTV Washington DC, and Exit from Joshua Tree in Flames boot. Each song was so different from the studio versions I was just blown away. My interest in how songs change live (a big reason why I decided to get into the lyrics transcription thing) began then, and it has been a wonderful musical journey.
@Canuck - nice to see you here, thanks for the support. I hope their aren't any hard feelings about me being the one that put an end to the 100% Canadian blurb this site used to sport.
@Butter - what is HRM? Harmful Robot Monkeys? Healthy rat milkshakes?? And what were your 3 previous majors?
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Originally posted by Carl
@Butter - what is HRM? Harmful Robot Monkeys? Healthy rat milkshakes?? And what were your 3 previous majors?
HRM = Human Resource Management.
My 3 previouse majors are:
1. International Trade
2. International Economic and Trade
3.Electronic Commerce.
Well, I better tell you why I changed them before you ask. ;)
The first time I chose that as my major because it's the only major my previouse Uni offered without Math. and PE.
Then I changed to the second major because I transfered to another Uni, and they didn't have that major, and they still haven't.
Then I changed to the third one not because I interested in it, but I have to apply for an Australian Student Visa, and they said I have to study some thing which related to my previous study.
Then after one semester, I changed it again, because i don't like it.
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carl:
Yeah, live is were it is at. I have always been a huge fan of live performances. That is where a band proves its worth. Anyone can make a an album (not necessarily a good album though). But few shine in the live atmosphere. That is why I was drawn to bands like the Grateful Dead, moe., phish, etc. Yeah, most lump them in with drug users and the like, but those bands could perform on stage like no other. But they couldn't make a good studio album to save their life.
But U2 has it all, talent on stage, and talent in the studio. Often it seems you have one or the other (and in some cases neither).
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Hi everyone. I was meaning to write for a while but got bogged down in work which happens rather often to me so I am going to be a bit irregular in attendance.
My name is Thomas and I am a tutor in Old Testament at a theological college in London involved in training ministers for the Church of England and other organisations. Today was the last day of our teaching term and one of my students gave me a present to show his appreciation for my Psalms class: the pocket canon edition of the book of Psalms which has a short introduction written by Bono. I had meant to get that for a while...
My love for U2 has been slow in coming. I know actually very little about music, contemporary or otherwise, but have been dimly aware of U2 from early on (a friend of mine was a U2 fan). When I lived in Israel for a year, the only movie I went to see was Rattle & Hum - that must have been in 1989 - and I loved it. But I was not in the habit of buying music (for sound financial reasons!) and the first U2 album I bought was ATYCLB, then the love just kept growing and I got the Best of... albums and earlier CDs and tapes. I saw U2 perform live only once and that very recently when they premiered a number of HTDAAB songs on Top of the Pops here in London - I knew about it only thanks to a student who in the coffee break told me all about this gig and I was incredibly lucky to end up chatting to someone who had a spare ticket!
As a biblical scholar I am trained in reading texts and love reflecting on lyrics. So the care taken over the lyrics here was what first attracted me to this site.
I call myself Between Two Worlds because that phrase was prompted in my mind by "The Wanderer". I have sometimes felt like "a wanderer between two worlds" (and used that very phrase) - e.g., the world of academic scholarship and the world of the church, the world of poetic imagination and logical argument...
I've probably said enough so just to round off the picture: I was born in 1969 in Germany, married in 1992, came to England in 1993 and have a daughter (born 1999) and son (born 2001).
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I really liked his introduction to the book of Psalms. Besides the kind of tongue in cheek "david was the first bluesman, railing against God" (I think) he had some really great thoughts in there. I bought it as a present for someone and highlighted some passages I particularly liked.
It's an interesting name and it's always great to get some input from someone who knows what they're talking about and comes from a different perspective than me (I'm areligious). It'd be nice to get more discussion going in the interpretation section but I've been pretty busy and am kind of iffy about the whole lyrics thing at the moment.
You should enjoy this blog if you're not already familiar with it:
http://u2sermons.blogspot.com/
On a side note I may be picking up German sometime soon. :)
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Hi, my name is Mike and I consider myself a U2 fan(atic) since first watching the Boston DVD. I was a professional musician in a previous life (classical guitar and musicology) and am currently a custom audio/video designer. This has allowed me to combine a love of music with a real paying job.
I've only been scanning the fan forums for a couple months but I thoroughly enjoy reading everyone's posts. I'm always amazed at the depth of people's knowledge about bootlegs and b-sides, etc. and having spent a few years buried in music libraries I really appreciate their efforts. Some of you guys deserve honorary doctorates.
At my age (grandfather)I find it hard to admit to my peers the connection I feel to this band. I guess a part of me is still living in the 60's when music was everything. For me it's all about the live DVD's and whatever live gigs I get off the web or TV. I watch them all the time. I love to watch the subtle cues they give each other. I've met quite a few fans and given them a U2 show in our theater room. My coworkers are naturally sick of U2 at this point! I knew I'd lost it when I'd come home and put on headphones and play "Rattle and Hum" until l fell asleep. Being from Chicagoland originally, I was always a big blues fan and had seen BB King a bunch of times. I never knew Bono wrote that song for BB! (ah, we have Edge to play the chords)
I was going nuts with sympathetic nerves the day they played at Clinton's Library and could barely watch Edge and Bono perform in the rain. That was no mean feat to fret a wet guitar and play in tune. These guys are the best live rock band.
After watching the Slane DVD I was totally destroyed. I didn't even notice the bonus MW with his daughter(?) for a week. That blew me away. As did Edge's guitar work.
I too am fascinated at the evolution of their songs as they first begin performing them and am baffled and delighted to watch Bono wrestle with a live performance. How's it going to come out this time? That's the point! And Bono's mutterings drive me crazy.
I'm rambling. Love u2wanderer.
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This introductions page proves very interesting - how we come from different parts of the world (even worlds?) and latch on to different things... Thanks Carl for the http://u2sermons.blogspot.com/ of which I was unaware!
I ought to try translating some U2 lyrics into German. I've once translated a sonnet by John Milton (On My Blindess) and was amazed how much the translation process helped me appreciate the poem. Should not have been surprised, of course, it's one of the reasons we teach our students Greek and Hebrew. But finding the time...
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My name is Patrick and I am an American living in Europe the last 8 years. Currently, I am living in Denmark and didn't get any tickets to the upcoming U2 show in Copenhagen!
BUT...I am a life-time U2 person. I am not a fanatic in the normal sense, I don't get get everything they have ever produced(merchandise) but I live for their music and I have for 21 years.
I saw U2 20 years ago during the Unforgettable Fire tour and have listened to them since before War. I must say that in a time of alot of CRAP music one thing can be sure. U2 will always put out high quality music, something to be proud of and expect.
I registered because it is nice to be apart of something that has meant alot to me U2.
If you want to know what it was like seeing New Year's Day and Two Hearts Beat as One as new released videos feel free to ask!
anyway cheers,
Patrick
[Edited on 2005-2-13 by den_mark_98]
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Yes, tell us about it, Patrick!
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I've been putting off posting in this thread until I have something profound to say, but since that's never going to happen...
I'm Brad. I'm 32 and I'm a Developmental/Behavioral Pediatrician. I've moved all over the US getting my education: Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle. I'm currently in Biloxi, MS because that's where my career path has led me, but I'll eventually be moving back to the west coast.
My first exposure to U2 was "Pride," but I really fell in love with the band with the release of The Joshua Tree.
I registered because I've been hanging around behind the scenes here for years. I've provided some of the discography scans for Aaron, and I also bug him whenever I find an ommission or error on the site.
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Hi everybody!
I'm a new member :)
I'm a huge U2 fan since 1987, when I was only 11.
Hope we'll soon be friends and exchange interesting ideas about our fav band.
Lots of love
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Hi !!!!! I´m form Brazil, Ãt's my 1st post here. I've became a U2 fan since I´ve got The Joshua Tree about 14 or 15 years ago!! My uncle gave it me before he dies. But I´ve knew U2 before when I heard New Years Day em I was 9. Sinceraly, à think I was born as an U2 fan hehe. I'm a member of a U2 braziliam fa club called U2BR ( www.u2br.com ) . An old dream became true to me this year: I was in the Vertigo world tour last Februery in São Paulo, my first tour: It was incredible !!!! . Please come to visit us
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Good to see the boards still open! I have been MIA for awhile. I moved from Tennessee to Virginia last summer and started a new job. Unfortunately this new job doesn't allow for me to hang out here all day like my last job. I was jamming out this morning to some U2 and decided to pop in.
Keep up the great work!!!!
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@jimbo913- if you ever come up to the DC area dinner's on me!
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Hi, hello! My name is Josipa, I come from Croatia, for any of you that don't know where that is...Europe, right above the Adriatic sea and Italy...well, I'm a u2 fan since, well, who counts, but nearly 10 yrs...me and my buddys made croatian web site about u2, feel free to check it out, although it's in croatian (u2croatia (http://www.u2croatia.net)) and also a international one (u2discotheque (http://www.u2discotheque.com))...you're all welcome...
I'm a huge u2wanderer site fan, all you need to know is right there, lyrics, albums, interesting facts...love it!
well, that's all falks...4 now...huge hello from croatia!
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Hey Slaneman, sorry for my looong delay in posting. I might just take you up on that!
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wow. did i forget to post here?! ::)
OK so I suck at forums in general...I'll try to fill in here, but in the meantime I thought I'd bump this up to see if anyone else is around that wanted to say hello!!
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I thought I'd bump this up to see if anyone else is around that wanted to say hello!!
So hello everyone! My name is Mikhail and i'm from Russia. Nice to see you all, this wonderful place with many-many information about greatest band in the world. :D
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My name is JD, I'm 22. I remember they used to play Pride, Still Haven't Found, With or Without You, Mysterious Ways, and One on the radio when I was little, so for years that was all I knew of their stuff. Having listened now to just about every song they've done, it was a good selection to be introduced with.
Around late 2003 I got both their Best Of albums, and in 2004 or 2005 I got the U2 iPod and "Complete" digital box set. I saw them live in Boston on 2005 Dec 5. I previously downloaded torrents of most of the songs the box set was missing, but I really prefer having hard copies (and legal ones, at that) of my music collection, so I deleted all the songs I didn't legally own and started looking for them in print. That's when I found this website, which has been invaluable in writing up my "Completing U2" checklist.
I'm not a fan of live recordings, I feel like you really have to be there for a live performance to work. When I listen to a live CD I hear my favorite songs with uneven instrument levels, crowd noise, and occasionally fumbled lyrics. That said, some songs were made so much better the way they were played live and I wish there were some proper studio recordings of them in that style.
I like the whole gamut of U2's work; there's so much variety in sound that it's hard to pick a single favorite song. But my favorite album is probably Rattle and Hum.
That's a whole lot of stuff about me, and you're probably sick of it by now, so I guess I'll stop.
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OK so i'm Aaron. I started this place out on some freebie webpage provider in 1995 as a class project - so we date roughly to April 1995. I was finishing my chemistry degree and needed an easy course to get through the year, and ended up learning about webpages. I got bonus points for actually uploading the site on the web as "Aaron's U2 Site".
I then went off to do an Engineering degree. And I would eventually take a job in Engineering which landed me in the quiet backwoods of Nova Scotia where this iteration of the site was born...I had lots of time on my hands, and this provided me with a means of staying sane...
Other than the U2 stuff? Huge fan of Neil Gaiman as a writer. I still read comic books, and have hung out at the head offices of DC Comics with friends who work there more than once. I like sci-fi. Star Wars was one of the first movies I ever saw...if not the first...I also have a bit of an artsy side and do sketch, water colour paint, and work with acrylics from time to time. And I love fussing about with this website, as well as doing some work on my concert review site over at ajsams.com
U2? Got hooked in 1983 hearing the final crowd during "40" on UABRS. It was a while later I fell into full fan mode...buying a single for WTSHNN and realizing there were extra songs on there pretty much pulled me into collecting. I've helped out with Pimm's concert book (last edition) and Matt's U2: A Diary and also helped out with (uncredited) the discography in the back of "U2: The Complete Guide to their Music" by Graham / van Oosten de Boer.
I've seen them 29 times at the current date since 1997. Dublin to Honolulu. And based on the fine album I'm hearing right now, I'll probably see them just a few times this tour...
Favorite album? Zooropa in summer. Unforgettable Fire in winter.
Favorite song? Running to Stand Still.
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Hey, hey! Pull your family and yourself around the campfire, good friends, because my ego's in need of a self-stroking! My name is Travis and I'll be 37 on June 24th (that makes me a Cancer, with Sagittarius Moon and Leo Rising, for those of you into that kind of thing). I'm only 37 on the outside, though; my heart and soul came across a rare vial of the elixir of Life and hasn't yet made it past age 16. I was born and raised, and currently live, in Tulsa, OK, USA, though I'm convinced I don't have a country bone in my body (maybe there is some trace country marrow in one, though; it took a long, long time for me to fall in love with "Love Rescue Me", but I eventually did). I grew up believing I would be a film director; as everything from finances to geography to the whole "wife and two kids" cliche had their respective rounds in the ring with me, I've had to settle for a still-rather-satisfying life as a new hire training instructor at the nation's fifth largest wireless provider.
I have a collector's metality/neurosis already, so this site has been the most natural fit for me I've ever encountered on the Web, and if it were to one day perish from the Earth, you cannot imagine the dark depths of depression and insanity to which I'd be plunged. My love affair with U2 began when I was all of 9-10 years old, when the nacent MTV featured the video of a group of ragtag, puffy coifed Irish lads performing a song called "Gloria" in heavy rotation. A song which had all the rock energy of, say, The J. Geils Band (the first LP I ever purchased was FREEZE FRAME), but with a power, majesty and scope to the song and lyrics unlike anything available on Top 40 radio...or even the rapidly aging stuff my mother listened to from the already calcified decades of the '70s and '60s. My appreciation of them grew with "New Year's Day", "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "Pride" but it wasn't until the truly life-altering, transcendant arrival of "Where the Streets Have No Name" that I became "married" to the music of U2 and knew unequivocably that I had found the band that would define the soundtrack of my life forevermore. Due in very large part to the guidance of this powerhouse site, I have just this week collected my 220th 221st and 222nd U2-and-U2-related CD, the U2.com fan club exclusive MEDIUM, RARE AND REMASTERED the 2-track and 3-track European singles for "Magnificent" (but, sorry, my collector tastes run strictly digital--no vinyl or tape for me).
My collector mentality has also been responsible for my amassment of 1,800 Blu-rays and DVDs, nearly every Stephen King book in hardback, as well as enough STAR TREK memorabilia to build a fort to protect myself from nuclear fallout. With the solitary exclusion of the death penalty (I'll pull the lever myself, if someone ever touches my family), I'm a devout liberal. I have a wicked, deeply sarcastic and non-PC sense of humor (which has led to my banning from a couple of other non-U2 sites, but I see no issue with the quality of discussion here). Lastly, those who read the forums at @U2.com may remember a rather robust thread I started there last year, inquiring whether or not I was the only agnostic/atheist fan of U2 (only to find precious proof that the U.S. is quite a bit more hung up on that kind of thing than Europe). I'm eternally grateful to all the contributors of this amazing site; in fact, I tried to submit some information over a year ago on some titles I have that are still missing from this site (most notably, a Japanese CD called THE BAND AID SPECIAL with, to my knowledge, the only digital appearances of the "Do They Know It's Christmas?" 12" Mix and "Feed the World") but never received any reply of interest. So, if someone knows how I can get info to the people here that want it and need it, let me know...good to be with you all!
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Hello,
My name is Heather and I live in Edmonton. I have lurked for a while here, so I figured I better register and introduce myself properly.
Been a U2 fan since 1984, and saw them first live, 18 years ago this month, on the ZooTV tour. I have seen 5 concerts, the last one in Vegas '09, and will see 5 more (holy cow) in 2011; Seattle, Edgemonton, Winnipeg, and Montreal I and II.
Nice to meet you!
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welcome aboard Heather! :-)
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What's up everyone? I've been a fan of the band for approximately seventeen years, with War being the spark that lit my internal fire. I have evolved into a collecting machine, although my physical collection has not been expanding at the rate I would prefer, purely due to monetary reasons. I've had the courtesy of briefly meeting Bono (x2), Edge, and Larry, however, Adam continues to evade me. ;) Being inside the heart on Elevation, approximately 5 feet away from the band, solidified my love for U2, was truly an unforgettable experience, and was one of standout memories as I look back upon my love for music in general. The St. Louis show on Elevation was by far the best live U2 experience (of my ten shows to date), and the worst was the first night in Chicago on the Vertigo Tour. At the Chicago show, the band was clearly preparing to shoot the DVD on subsequent nights, and lacked their usual connection with the fans. I'm looking forward to the Boys putting out some new material, and am looking forward to interacting with all of you!
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Welcome, newbies!
(Hey look, we've got a girl!)
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::: I've noticed that I never post an introduction in this thread...and I will:
I'm the mexican guy
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