NOVEMBER 30: "My VH-1 Awards" / "My Sweet Lord" to George Harrison / Limited Edition Guitar Sales to Aid Musicians Affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita / 129th VERTIGO show!

"Boy" tour - november 30, 1980 - Brighton - UK - Jenkinson´s.

"ATYCLB" promo tour - november 30, 2000 - Los Angeles, CA - Shrine Auditorium. Beautiful Day. U2 performs at the inaugural 'My VH-1 Awards' show.

"Elevation" tour - november 30, 2001 - Atlanta, GA. Bono dedicates 'Kite' to his own dad and to Mike Mills' (of R.E.M.) father, who died this past September. Mills and R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe are attendance tonight. U2 sings 'My Sweet Lord' in tribute to ex-Beatle George Harrison, who died yesterday of cancer at age 58. A male fan is brought on stage to play guitar during 'People Get Ready.' Edge wears black Adidas-shirt this night.

Limited Edition Guitar Sales to Aid Musicians Affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita - November 30, 2007 - Lead partners Gibson Guitar and Guitar Center Music Foundation have spearheaded the initial effort by collaborating on the design, manufacture and sale of an exclusive Gibson guitar with all proceeds going directly to the Music Rising program. The guitar will be available through Guitar Center. The instrument captures the essence of the Gulf Coast's musical tradition. A very limited quantity will be produced with all proceeds benefiting Music Rising and a pledge of $1 million in support. The Gibson Music Rising guitar features hand-painted designs using the colors of Mardi Gras. Each guitar will be individually painted and handmade so no two will be alike. All of the usual plastic parts (back plate, pick guard, toggle cover, truss rod cover) have been replaced by woods from the States affected by the hurricanes and the Music Rising logo, exclusive to this guitar, is etched into the pick guard. harmony-central

129th VERTIGO show - Saitama - Japan - November 30, 2006 - The return of All I Want Is You, which hadn't been performed since 2 March 2006. It regained the position it had held at a few South American songs as concert closer. After songs from Rattle And Hum being almost totally neglected in the earlier stages of the tour, this is the first show since 1 September 2001 (the Slane DVD show) to feature three songs from Rattle And Hum. In other news, The Saints Are Coming was cut for the first time on the fifth leg, making way for Window In The Skies. The First Time was played for just the second time on the fifth leg, and Love And Peace Or Else was left out again, this time making way not for Bad but for One Tree Hill, which continues to remain in the setlist post-Auckland and has moved to the main set after two concerts as the closing song. Furthermore, for only the second time this tour, the "shine like stars" verse was added to the end of With Or Without You (the first instance was 11 October 2005, New York). City Of Blinding Lights / Vertigo / Elevation / Until The End Of The World / New Year's Day / Beautiful Day-Blackbird (snippet) / Angel Of Harlem / The First Time / Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own / One Tree Hill / Sunday Bloody Sunday-Rock The Casbah (snippet) / Bullet The Blue Sky-When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet)-The Hands That Built America (snippet) / Miss Sarajevo / Pride (In The Name Of Love) / Where The Streets Have No Name / One / Encore(s): The Fly / Mysterious Ways / With Or Without You-Shine Like Stars (snippet) / Window In The Skies / Desire / All I Want Is You.
**** See the shrines and the temples of Kyoto - Beautiful Day got the local lyrical makeover tonight, for the second of the two Tokyo shows. Went down pretty well... 'See the world in red and white / See Sigh-tama in front of you tonight / See the shrines and the temples of Kyoto / From Nagasaki to Sapporo / See Japan in its Christmas hour / See us waiting for the Sakura to flower / See the bird with the leaf in her mouth / After the flood all the colours came out....' / It was, not surprisingly, a beautiful night again in the Saitama Super Arena with lots of surprises in the set. Angel of Harlem turned up early, just when you weren't expecting it, followed by The First Time - finishing beautifully with Edge and Bono on the b-stage - and, after a rapturous reading of Sometimes, One Tree Hill, keeping its place in the set for the fourth consecutive night. Later on, Window in the Skies got its second live performance and after a fiercely enthusiastic Desire, another bolt from the blue with All I Want is You .. what a way to finish the show. Adam, Larry and Edge got a Japanese introduction from Bono as the familar piano chords signalled the arrival of New Year's Day and there was special mention for Gavin and Guggi, who had both flown in for tonight's show. As for this audience, well, they also deserve special mention: as one of our U2.Com reviewers put it of last night's show: 'The show of tonight was best in the U2 Japan concerts which I have ever seen. U2 and fan really became one tonight ! By power of songs? power of band? power of fan...' Couldn't have put it better. Photos: Edge and Bono * Edge and Bono * Edge * The band * Adam and Bono
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