There have been rumours lately that there will be an anniversary release of the great Under a Blood Red Sky live album. Like the other scheduled U2 remasters, it will probably feature a second disc with rarities. As the final track list is not released, I can only speculate what is on that disc. What would be interesting is to add songs from both the Denver gig, recorded at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and the Loreley Rockpalast festival.
The whole Red Rocks set list was 19 songs long. However, of those 19 only two appear on the Under a Blood Red Sky album. Even the accompanying video doesn´t include all the songs! So, they can right this wrong by putting the concert including the six missing songs on the second disk.
As I wrote earlier, Germany is like the US a big music market. So, this successful festival appearance did in Germany what the Red Rocks gig and it subsequent broadcasts did in the US. Especially, as the whole festival was aired live throughout Germany. As a spin-off, their was a Germany-only single of “40″.
By including both shows, it would give us a chance to compare the various performances. As, there must have been reasons why they chose the Loreley performances over the Red Rocks show. Speculating even further, I would opt to include the Loreley show on a remastered UABRS video. Ideally this remastered video, would include all the 19 songs from the Denver show as well. Well lets wait what the future has in store for us U2 fans.
Tags: Loreley, Red Rocks, U2, Under a Blood Red Sky
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