WTSHNN Video dialogue
Female Announcer: It’s always good with southern California’s best rock ‘n’ roll U2 Bullet The Blue Sky from the latest release The Joshua Tree the band’s gonna be doing a video shoot in downtown Los Angeles.
Caller: Oh in downtown Los Angeles?
Male Announcer: Yes, there is a, a, in case you’re just joinig us I’m not making this up, 3:30 today, at 7th and Main
Female Announcer: We announced first here in southern California that they were being, ah they were going to be shooting their video here in LA at 7th and Main Street
Male : 7th and Main Streets not one of your more fun neighborhoods, ah and they’ll be shooting ah on top of a uh one story building there.
Female: Alright, so maybe you’ll wanna check it out, but use caution if you do do, go down there because it is like, not one of those delightful neighborhoods
Male: I’m gonna be there. 3:30. I’m gonna go over, I, I don’t care. I can be sucked into this. I’ll be in the video.
Male: C’mon
(In Trailer)
Man In Black=MIB
Voice in trailer?? = VIT
Bono??..sounds like him anyway
MIB: You’re talking about a major thoroughfare at 3:30 in the afternoon. Okay. Ah, what I was explaining to Ben there, is…we would have to go on what is called a “Tach Alert†to get this problem solved. We’re not going to do that.
Male Announcer: And U2 today at 7th and Main. If you haven’t heard about it. You know how hard it is to get U2 tickets.
Female: They are sold out.
Male: Everywhere. Sold out.
Female: They went fast..
MIB: Are you listening to me or am I talking to the room here?
VIT: Well I’m listening, frankly I’m in total understanding with you
Bono: Officer, could I, can I kinda just…
MIB: You cannot, you, you cannot promise me that you’re not gonna have a crowd that reaches limits that we cannot control, you can’t promise me that.
Bono: Absolutely, I, I
MIB: You’re drawing them in by the dozens now.
Radio Male Voice: What we’re gonna do is, we’re gonna show up with about 30,000 people. And we’re gonna give you the gr, the biggest security problem , we’re gonna have like, four, we may have 400, 000 people there. We may have to bring in…
Male Other voice: Ah…
Another male: ...National Guard
MIB: The police department has the authority to shut these locations down.
Bono: I understand absolutely.
MIB: And that is exactly what we are doing. And I apologize to you for having to have all your equipment moved out of here but it’s over as of now.
New Voice-Bono?: Then there’s no compromise?
MIB: There is no compromise
Megaphone guy: And we’re all set. Rolling both cameras.
Male : The word that we got was another radio station went on the air with paranoid warnings, and ah, said things about they’re expecting crowds of 35 row..35,000 rowdy people, and they were expecting the National Guard to be called out and so forth which…
Female: They blew it for us
Male: Which kinda freaked out the, uh, city fathers across the street looking down on top of the liquor store where U2 was ah, was doing the taping, and it was a, ah, a fashion factory with little ladies in there sewing, and, I mean seamtresses going, and there’s “ what is going on here?â€
[Edited on 2006-12-15 by slaneman]
[Edited on 2007-1-10 by slaneman]