Living a Gibson Novel

I’m sat at my dining room table, safe and snug at home. I’ve got friends at a bar in Chicago celebrating the start of leg 2 of the 360 Tour. The beauty of technology is I’m chatting with them as if I’m joining them for a pint and I’m patching into the Chicago webcam to get the audio of the rehearsal. (For those of you keeping score, I officially threw in the towel of not knowing anything about the tour about a week or so ago…more on that another time.)

This is going to make me sound far older than I am, but I am just in amazement that I’m living my U2 tour experience without physically being there. This is the first tour since ZooTV that I haven’t been at opening night for a North American start of the tour and it’s driving me nuts. I am totally missing that anticipation and electricity for an opening night. Barcelona’s first night had that element of the unknown that gets the adrenaline jacked sky high – and that’s one of the ultimate U2 highs I’ve enjoyed…the very first night of a tour.

My favorite William Gibson novel is Idoru, and I feel like at the moment we are living in a world eerily similar to what he wrote about 13 years ago.

For those of you out there who grew up always having a computer and always having Internet, then I have to sound like a geezer. But, I got online back in 1994 and I remember what it was like during the ZooTV tour and having to wait for someone’s letter or phone call to find out about a gig. As each U2 tour starts, it’s a great time to take an gander at where we’re at, see how the technology has evolved and improved, and sit back in wonder at how fortunate we are to be living in a time like this. I can’t wait to see what will be available the next go around.

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One Response to “Living a Gibson Novel”

  1. Ababil 12 September 2009 at 8:11 am permalink

    Nice posting i like that