U2 "Acrobat" INTENSE! (4K, Live, HQ Audio) / Chicago / May 23rd, 2018

PLEASE SHARE IF YOU LIKE IT, MUCH MORE TO COME! From the Experience & Innocence Tour at the United Center in Chicago in 4K with HQ Audio. Note: This was a most challenging shoot. The floor was packed, and I couldn't see much for several songs, but I grabbed what I could, but some songs from the e-stage are audio only.

[@dodgingdurangos924]

There are U2 classics and there are U2 masterpieces. The entire 'Achtung Baby' album is a masterpiece. They need to perform the rest of these songs more often, not just the popular one (pun intended.)

[@thomasandersen6719]

By far their best album.....an "Achtung Baby" tour would be incredible

[@Maguirearch]

Cruel is the one weak song on that album....I'm not sure they ever played that one live either.... the Joshua Tree hasn't one weak song on it... however in the round I'm still unsure which is the better Album.....after many years listening to the Joshua tree I still think all the hits from it are brilliant as well as classic live tunes like exit, bullet the blue sky and in god's country but now I rate Red Hill mining town and one tree hill are as the best two tracks on that album...... My favourite tunes on achtung baby in rank from first to last are Ultraviolet Ray, Zoo Station, The Fly, Until the end of the world, Acrobat, Even Better than the real thing, Whose gonna ride your wild horses, One, Tryin to throw..., love is blindness, Mysterious Ways, Cruel....I used to hate mysterious ways with a venom especially when it became a hit and was on the radio non stop but I've grown to like it allot more over the years...it still ranks as my third least liked tune on the album but I've grown to like it and also I've now been able to embrace the depressing lyrics and dark musicality of "love is blindness" I like the song...but as I say the other first songs in my list are so so much better ....I still think "Cruel" is one of the worst songs U2 ever did....they should have put a tune like "girl with the spinning head" on the album instead.....or even the wonderful instrumental b-side to the Fly single..."Alex descends into hell for a bottle of milk" (is this "Alex" based on the "A Clockwork Orange" character)

[@Maguirearch]

It's such a pity that they never played this live on the Zoo TV tour when the band was at it's cocky brash most confident swagger...

[@adrianl.6252]

@@Maguirearch For me, Achtung Baby is the U2 album without a single weak song...i cant stand for Joshua Tree, aged badly.

[@Maguirearch]

@@adrianl.6252 cruel is a terrible song...but I suppose everyone has their own tastes

[@HAL_9000__]

Best U2 song ever.

[@wanderalmeida9584]

TRUE!

[@davidlauf1835]

The Edge is an absolute beast... What a great performance.

[@wanderalmeida9584]

"Acrobat" is beautiful! Powerful version, Jesus! Thanks from Brazil.

[@thechronicnoizeco.6675]

The guitar solo was 🔥!

[@Laura-tr3mi]

Es un remolino espectaaaaaaculaaaaaar!!!

[@chosenfaithful9402]

Epic, he knows no different😘

[@rkolarik]

one of the best sogs of U2... for me personally

[@diegocarmona1556]

I think the same!!!

[@inmaculadafontanacandial893]

At last! I've always wanted to listen to this song in live.

[@zezaowill7743]

Amazing music!!!!

[@BrendanMacWade]

Wait, they have played this live? OMG amazing! It's their very best song. The tippity top shelf.

[@youtubeisshit2electricboog635]

Played it live for a WHOLE tour. Saw them play this six times that tour.

[@margaretsch.3609]

Please get to the Sphere to hear this!

[@JorgeMorenojmdesign]

Don't let the bastards grind you down

[@mysticedge4]

3:09 is when the song starts

[@jackyjre5672]

Great song, thanks for sharing. Love seeing the concentration from Edge and Adam at 5:41 on...

[@Laura-tr3mi]

Teerrrrrrrrrible! Adam es lo más!!! Hay una parte que sonrie.

[@KyOte13]

I really wish they would do a ZOO TV 20th Anniversary Tour for Achtung Baby, celebrating this while fantastic era. Can you juat imagine how incredible that would be...? After all the Covid Madness, to get to go out and celebrate Art, Freedom, & bring people back together again? That is what fans want.

[@deshunsmith2580]

It will be 30 years ago now AB and zoo tv tour was in 1991 and 1992 the first time I seen them on tour that year public enemy opened up for them . Good times good times.

[@margaretsch.3609]

So, will you make it to the Sphere and see your dreams come true????

[@DIASDEMUSICA]

Best performance so far in this Tour!!! Great singing of Bono and nice job of Edge, specially in the solo, adding some vibrato to the notes, increidible! thanks for sharing

[@huhuruz77]

Have you`ve seen them all ? :)))

[@mediatrainning3629]

I have seen concerts from U2 in ZOO TV tour in 1992, pop tour 1999, elevation 2001, vertigo, 360, joshua tree tour, an they never played acrobat alive... im pissing in my pants rigth now

[@Thaitanium73]

Yes, U2 had never performed Acrobat live until they played it at the first night of the Experience + Innocence Tour at Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 2, 2018.

[@lonkylaine]

Perfect fit with the city of Chicago. The sound and the lyrics represent well the tension of this violent and dangerous city.

[@user-nf4yv8xk4z]

Great song, great album

[@nicktayloriv310]

Acrobat was glossed over by me when the album dropped, of course I went straight to the singles released. But once I got it together I appreciate this 💎 of a song from this great album and Acrobat is in my top ten U2 songs.

[@RobDucharme]

If they do a Zoo TV "reunion tour" the way they did for JT, holy fuck. I'll remortgage the goddamn house to see that show. lol.

[@KyOte13]

Amen, I would shell our crazy money to experience ZOO TV... I was a little too young at the time, but it would be great if they would do this again for us

[@ObamaFromKenya]

@Rob Ducharme Bono can’t sing, or move, like he did in 1992

[@margaretsch.3609]

So are you on your way to Vegas??

[@RobDucharme]

@@margaretsch.3609 Has the ZooTV reunion been announced yet?

[@23adrock8]

@@RobDucharme it's as close as we are gonna get! (and awesome btw, just went)

[@ThreeToesofFury]

YES! i was sooooooooooooooo hoping you would shoot this show. Thanks Tim!!!!!

[@joseaugustodossantos6488]

U2 É MUITO BOM, É ÓTIMO !

[@MrJeumf]

Favorite song of u2

[@gavinsmithson6668]

Loved this tune been dying to see it played live finally got my wish at mcr 🔥💣

[@jezah80]

Macphisto 2.0 My fuckin favorite song of U2 WHY THEY DIDNT PLAYED ON ZOO TV TOUR???? WHY? WHY WHYYYYY?

[@bumblebity2902]

Song didn't make the cut on the setlist. They rehearsed that song on ZOO TV.

[@Xiako]

The song starts at 3:10

[@osheal]

unreal crap talk at the start :/

[@chosenfaithful9402]

Thank you,, i gave up on the monologue lol

[@chosenfaithful9402]

@@osheal kinda killed the sing for me... or the vibe anyways.. enjoy! lol

[@angelsanddemons4636]

I know there are many beautiful songs to play and two hours of concert are not enough but please add this one more often and not occasionally ✌️

[@rvallenduuk]

Why did it take them 25+ years to start playing this live?

[@rajjain6273]

The bastards were keeping them down.

[@bumblebity2902]

Because album so great, one songs outshadowed others. Acrobat was the intital setlist of the ZOO TV tour, but didn't make the cut.

[@nickcds3419]

That fucking solo 🤘🏼

[@diegocarmona1556]

When the guitar cries with the lyrics of the song, the Edge at its finest. Forever U2 the Best band

[@martinsmith7111]

Nice! Awesome song, awesome album, their best album, no doubt. It's on it own. Some comments on here that So Cruel wasn't so good. My take, it was just a different tempo to a lot of that album, but I liked that. I get to that song on the album and I relax hearing that rhythm bass, sure it wasn't the best on the album but it's still a very good song and I'm glad it's on their. Achtung Baby is one of my Desert Island discs. Should they do an Achtung Baby tour? They did that in 1992, but I'd be first in line if they did it again! Get the shades and peroxide at the ready :)

[@leondon1975]

Mate awesome footage with excellent sound! Thanks for sharing

[@GeorgeMcCauley]

Best of MacPhisto so far on this tour!!

[@richardcolasuonno6931]

When someday I die and though the choice won’t be mine I will miss two things the most: (1) Friends and family and (2) Listening to Achtung Baby.

[@Raffiyork]

good work, thank you!!!

[@osheal]

just play the tune!!!! jeezzzz amazing song :)

[@laszlokottyan1900]

Best!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤

[@artfoursoul]

Realy intense.

[@anthonysclafani3963]

Never really liked Acrobat on the album, but live on this tour I've really come to love it. Great transition into it too, the social commentary on "the truth is dead" transitioned really well into "fear the enemy." The SOE tour is fantastic

[@thomasramirez6956]

That's how I feel about Achtung Baby in general

[@cacildoneto5090]

The Edge and Gibson Les Paul theres not much to say 🤟

[@23adrock8]

he rips the white LP custom.

[@ruybarrosvideos]

Thanks!

[@vilmacoutinho87]

Edge genio❤

[@BD-yd5dl]

nothing like U2 , is it rock'n'roll? , more like the most creative sonic landscapes

[@Maguirearch]

Such a pity they never played this on the early to mid 91 92 Zoo TV tours when the band was at its most confident cocky and arrogant...and bono wore that leather suit and wraparound fly shades...and of course changed from the fly character to the Mr McPhisto during each concert

[@Thatguy55595]

It was rehearsed once in 1992 there’s audio at least of it

[@cqleonardo]

I kinda like it that they didn't play it, I don't think they would get it right... Took 30 years and three tours for them to get Wild Horses right... Imagine Acrobat

[@ausis6214]

@@cqleonardo Wild Horses sounded great during Zoo TV. The Stockholm show was fantastic.

[@russelllamberg]

Awesome!

[@roxanarojascolmenares416]

¡Bono u2 love 😊 😊 😊 😊

[@iamtomkills]

This.

[@oscarbello2733]

The Edge 😎

[@cristian.ilie.018]

360p ? :O ....OH it works now..... 1080p !!!!!

[@leonardoalves7753]

4k????

[@mick2881]

I shudder just of the thougt of no U2!

[@gabyrodz]

Alguien que pueda traducir lo que dice al inicio... Muchas gracias

[@carlofederico]

amazing

[@TurboJimbo]

Mr MacPhisto!!!

[@ruitavares4204]

Gostava de ver os melhor cosetos de u2. Por paulovetry

[@majoneski]

Am I the only one who noticed the screw up at around 4:28?

[@doristhistleton3575]

I’m an. acrobat 🔥🎸🎤🥁

[@mysticedge4]

Doris Thistleton don’t let the bastards grind you down

[@TEO.SPARK68]

Don't believe what you hear Don't believe what you see If you just close your eyes You can feel the enemy When I first met you girl You had fire in your soul What happened your face Of melting in snow Now it looks like this And you can swallow Or you can spit You can throw it up Or choke on it And you can dream So dream out loud You know that your time is coming 'round So don't let the bastards grind you down No, nothing makes sense Nothing seems to fit I know you'd hit out If you only knew who to hit And I'd join the movement If there was one I could believe in Yeah I'd break bread and wine If there was a church I could receive in 'Cause I need it now To take a cup To fill it up To drink it slow I can't let you go I must be an acrobat To talk like this And act like that And you can dream So dream out loud And don't let the bastards grind you down Oh, it hurts baby (What are we going to do now it's all been said) (No new ideas in the house and every book has been read) And I must be an acrobat To talk like this And act like that And you can dream So dream out loud And you can find Your own way out You can build And I can will And you can call I can't wait until You can stash And you can seize In dreams begin Responsibilities And I can love And I can love And I know that the tide is turning 'round So don't let the bastards grind you down

[@travisfitzwater8093]

Bono, I'm still torturing myself for being a super-ass in 2019. U kno . Sincerely.

[@dahliafiend]

This is one of their best songs. Bono should cut the theatrics. People love U2 for their earnestness not camp or theatre. Bono doesn’t sing to match The Edge here at all it feels like he didn’t even try.

[@wewhofly]

Glad Acrobat was finally allowed to join the other Achtung songs as a living child of a real concert. It was wrong not to allow it go to a ZOOTV show though. MacPhisto was my kind of Devil through the 90s but he is getting old because he fails to remember (publicly at least) his other old 'comrade' - George Iraq Bush: “I think we’ve got to cut through the shenanigans of political cartooning and see that some people can have different views and still be principled people.”

[@chrissmith256]

Sometimes Bono just needs to come down and be Paul for us. Brilliant song. Asshole intro.

[@timjohnson8820]

3 minutes of idiocy spewed before they get to the damn song

[@thomasjensen3214]

I agree. A great band, but Bono is bloody annoying between songs!!

[@rightbro]

Why do the guys put up with Bono's stupid act.? They just want to jam.

[@rightbro]

Exactly

[@rightbro]

He sold his soul

[@justinjennings9840]

Demonic.

[@gilbertcolacicco1655]

Unfortunately he will clap his hands for every vaccination and no one will tell him to stop clapping?????

[@jainra]

Not good Latin. Not a true quote. I don't care. Illegitimi non carborundum!!!!

[@marcuscicero9379]

Brother, you betrayed yourself. And that's ok, its about money. In the end its all about the money. But to lose the presence of mind to recognize where you came from and try to pretend that you've somehow arrived at a new destination devoid of your past is embarrassing. Its ok, the rest of us just follow the money. Love ya brother

[@rightbro]

I miss when they used to just rock instead of the cheap theatrics acting evil. If i wanted evil I'd listen to King Diamond.

[@rightbro]

Exactly, what a sell out

[@jennifermaliaandrus6477]

MacPhisto is from Zoo TV in the early nineties … Not sure what “glorious past” you’re thinking of where U2 didn’t have clear political and ethical messages. If you’re looking for “just rock” this is not your band.

[@dancharles6009]

Why can't they write songs like this anymore? The newer stuff is just crap. U2 have lost everything that made them a great band.