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U2 – Mysterious Ways

An evening pause: Stay with it for what is made to appear as an impromptu addition of an audience member dancing. She steals the show.

It might be improvised, but if it was, it happened repeatedly, at different places, sometimes with a girl that looks identical to this one. I suspect they pre-planned it each time, but no matter, it works quite well this time, for sure.

Hat tip Cotour.

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7 comments

  • wayne

    Foo Fighters cover “Tom Sawyer”
    w/ vox by audience member Brian (2015)
    https://youtu.be/aDWfMv3BloE
    7:33

  • @Wayne: the precis doesn’t do the clip nearly enough justice. That dude, is like, a god. The comments are fun, too.

  • Alex Andrite

    uh … nope.
    As Lenny Bruce once said …
    T … and A….

    uh nope. not for me.
    once perhaps.

    uh nope now.

  • wayne

    Blair-
    went back and read some comments– hilarious.
    Alex–
    stereotypically attracted young lady, just not my type. Have definitely seen her face before.
    shifting gears entirely….
    Stone Temple Pilots:
    “Plush” Soho Square park-bench, London (1993 ITV “The Beat”)
    https://youtu.be/JlQKPwmw_Zs?t=211

  • Cotour

    Alex Andrite:

    Once your testosterone dials down, its na nope, you can look at it and walk away.

    But that is not the condition of human beings, both male and female as a general rule from the age of 14 to 40 or so.

    “IT” is what makes the world go round, “IT” is where the future of humanity comes from.

  • Tom

    The Commodore’s saw this one decades ago on their mast radar: She’s a brick …. house.

  • Richard M

    In a world where even the Rolling Stones still tour, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that U2 still hits the road, too. Obviously there’s still enough people (with deeper pocketbooks than they had when The Joshua Tree was first released) willing to pay for the tickets to make it a profitable enterprise.

    Still, there’s a surreal quality to it, not unlike visiting a taxidermist’s shop.

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