Never found this video until just now. It’s one of the craziest and most trusting things I’ve ever seen Bono do in concert. Maybe the craziest. And most trusting.
It’s from last year’s 360 concert in Raleigh. Right in the middle of “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” Bono tossed his microphone to a fan in the crowd so that the fan could sing a bit of “People Get Ready.”
I remember watching that unfold on the video screens while I was standing just outside the inner circle area. And my jaw went to the ground. Did he just throw his microphone into the crowd??? He did!! He’s crazy!
And he’s pretty damn trusting, too. Turned into an amazing moment in an amazing show, one of the best moments I’ve ever seen in person at a U2 show.
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Watch a few clips from Under a Blood Red Sky. That’s crazy!
This was just Bono making a young man very happy. Look at the footage after the singing. He wasn’t a half bad singer either heh
I inserted the moment into my paper at the U2 conference the next day as an example! I remember looking (unsuccessfully) for a picture of it online before my session.
I was there, about ten feet to the right. My brother and I just did a double-take, Bono said “be nice,” he was, and the show went on.
We didn’t realize just how amazing this was on top of the already-amazing show until after we did the post-show-grab-some-pizza freakout.
I was there too – and I remember thinking “what if the dude can’t sing”… HA! What a great moment.
Bono is crazy!