U2 on Tour: Our 1992 Cover Story

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Happy birthday to U2's Adam Clayton. Revisit our 1992 cover story about the band, a tour diary that reveals the bigger machine behind the Big Show

Even though my backstage laminate reads “All Access,” I can’t so much as walk by U2’s dressing room without being accosted by one of the two sets of security guards . They keep a blue curtain drawn in front of the dressing room door, for obscure, though doubtless occult-related reasons.

After the show, we drive through the rainy Georgian night to Virginia, past a giant statue of a peach and a tumbledown shack that sells something called “fatback” and advertises steaks and dancing. Which is all, really, anyone could ask for. Profound road-related observation: No matter how fast you go, someone always wants to go faster.Tonight’s concert left me feeling kind of dry. We search for a bar in Chinatown near the hotel, but it’s Sunday night and almost everything is closed.

Afterward, drunks sway through the streets bellowing “rock ‘n’ roll!!” before proudly vomiting in the gutters.was modeled after and break into the theme song, which probably only happens there 35 times a day, judging from the world-weary demeanor of the bartender.Three consecutive nights of karaoke , one in New Jersey where big fat white guys in business suits get up and do Tone Löc’s “Wild Thing” and “Funky Cold Medina,” and two in a bar across from Madison Square Garden in New York.

I spend my time doing some quick calculations, whereby I discover that if Support Act were to scalp its entire daily allotment of U2 tickets at current street prices , instead of giving them to friends and VIPs, it would make a lot more money than it gets paid for playing. Doubtless the band is too lazy to take advantage of my revelation—it would probably babble something about “ethics” instead.

 

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