U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky
U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky | ||||
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Released | 1984 | |||
Recorded | 5 June 1983 | |||
Venue | Red Rocks Amphitheatre (Morrison, Colorado) | |||
Genre | Post-punk | |||
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Gavin Taylor | ||||
Producer | Rick Wurpel, Doug Stewart | |||
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U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky is a
The film was arranged by U2 management to showcase the band's live act and to promote them to American audiences. It depicts the band's performance at Red Rocks on a rain-soaked evening. The concert was almost cancelled because of the inclement weather, but the band had invested in the filming with Island Records and concert promoter Barry Fey and wished to proceed with the gig. The rain and the torch-lit atmosphere of the surroundings made U2's performance dramatic. Segments of U2 Live at Red Rocks were shown in regular rotation on MTV, and were also broadcast on other television networks.
Critics praised the concert and the video, and it subsequently became a best-seller. The video, along with Under a Blood Red Sky, helped establish U2's reputation as remarkable live performers and boosted Red Rocks' stature as a live venue. A remastered edition of U2 Live at Red Rocks was released on DVD in September 2008 with previously unreleased tracks, coinciding with a remastered edition of Under a Blood Red Sky. Rolling Stone selected the film's performance of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" as one of the "50 Moments that Changed the History of Rock and Roll".
Production
Planning and organization
In 1981,
In early 1983, McGuinness contacted Malcolm Gerrie, producer of the British television series The Tube, about shooting a video of U2 at Red Rocks and possibly featuring it on The Tube. Gerrie initially assumed McGuinness was interested in creating a video of a single song; however, McGuinness was hoping to create an hour-long special. Because The Tube was not a "one-band show", Gerrie said he would have to sell the idea to Channel 4 television, but McGuinness insisted on giving Gerrie the rights to the video and letting Channel 4 broadcast the video without payment.[5]
Filming costs were estimated at US$250,000, which included the illumination of the cliffs, a mobile sound recording unit, and a helicopter to film aerial footage.
Fey's corporation, Feyline Productions, coordinated with his production company, TTS, to manage the videotaping.
Weather challenges and preparations
"There was a lot of money riding on this; everything that was in the bank, basically. We were well organised, camera crews all over the gig. We brought extra lighting, searchlights, all kinds of stuff. And then it started to rain. Those were nail-biting times. Many of the crew were advising us to pull out, but in true U2 style, we carried on regardless."
The group's Red Rocks concert was scheduled for 5 June 1983, but poor weather that day threatened to cancel the show.[10] Torrential rain soaked the area, and flash flood warnings were issued.[3] The weather made it difficult for the crew members to transport the band's gear and video equipment through the mountains to the amphitheatre.[11] The conditions also caused many technical problems for the filming and concert crews,[4] hampering stage construction and endangering the safety of those setting up lighting and sound equipment.[6] Crew members used squeegees to keep rain away from the wires,[3] although the assistant of recording engineer Randy Ezratty still received an electrical shock while setting up a lighting truss.[12] Between 15 and 20 fans were already camped out in the venue's front rows early in the morning, and lead singer Bono accommodated them by serving coffee and tea.[2] The Alarm and Divinyls cancelled their opening sets for safety reasons,[13] and many fans thought the entire concert had been cancelled. The show was scheduled for 6:00 p.m., and the band had until 1:00 p.m. to decide whether to move the concert elsewhere or risk the weather worsening, which could have necessitated a cancellation.[3]
U2 and McGuinness thought that too much money had been invested to abort the concert, and they sympathised with the fans who had travelled to the venue in the poor weather. Accordingly, they decided to proceed with the concert as planned.[1][4] Many of the crew were not in agreement and wanted to walk off the set. Ezratty said: "The guys from the American sound company were not at all enamored with being out with this band. I can remember them saying, 'Oh, we could be out with Asia right now!' So they decided to pull the plug on it. They said, 'It's a matter of safety. We're going to pull the system down and we're not going to do it.'"[12] McGuinness dissuaded the crew with an impromptu speech, a moment on which Ezratty recollected: "Paul called everybody down into the bowels of Red Rocks where they fed everybody. It was cold and raining and everybody was shivering, and Paul made a speech, saying in no uncertain terms that we were going to proceed as one, that the band's entire livelihood was riding on this, and that this was one of the most pivotal moments in their career. He said that if it were deemed that this show was in any way possible to happen, it was going to happen, and it was not going to be tolerated that anybody would do anything but add their effort to a successful and positive outcome. I just stood there and went, 'This is so cool. This is like a general rallying the troops.'"[12]
Bono informed the fans waiting outside the venue that the show would be
Filming and post-production
Taylor had a crew of six camera operators, comprising three Denver cinematographers and three others that he brought.[4] Due to the thick fog and heavy rain on the night of the concert, very little aerial footage was suitable for the final edit.[8] Although two "master angle" cameras on tripods provided wide and overview shots, most of the camera operators filmed with hand-held cameras.[4] Much of the concert footage contains red streaks, which was caused by the cameras' tube sensors when they were pointed directly at light sources.[8][4] This prompted a notice on the future home video release informing viewers that the coloured lines in the footage "are a result of special lighting effects, and are not caused by a tape defect or your equipment".[14] The weather was cold enough that steam was coming out of the band members' mouths, and the Edge had difficulty playing guitar because his hands felt "frozen stiff". Drummer Larry Mullen Jr. believes the weather contributed a dramatic atmosphere to the concert.[1] Reduced attendance at the event was largely obscured in the concert footage by the thick mist that filled the air that evening,[10] as well as strategic shots of the crowd.[1] Having seen Bono's interactions with an audience at a show in Gateshead years earlier, Taylor decided to have a thrust built at the front of the Red Rocks stage to reduce the gap between the audience and Bono,[4] and to allow him to be surrounded by fans on three sides.[8] Sound mixing was managed by Steve Lillywhite, who produced U2's first three studio albums. Ezratty's recording company, Effanel Music, was hired to provide their portable multitrack recording system.[12]
Before U2 took the stage, Fey introduced the concert, making a reference to Bob Dylan's live album Hard Rain.[6] The concert itself featured 18 songs,[15] with a set list identical to that of several previous shows on the tour.[16] "Out of Control" opened the 14-song main set, which concluded with "Gloria". A four-song encore followed, with "40" being the final song performed. The band played songs from the tour's supporting album War (1983), as well as material from their first two albums, Boy (1980) and October (1981). "Party Girl"—a B-side from the single "A Celebration" (1982), and the non-album single "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" (1980) were played during the encore.[16]
During the song "The Electric Co.", Bono left the stage and climbed up a lighting rig to display a white flag.[6] In a 2004 interview, the Edge said that Bono "scared the shit out of [him]" by climbing onto the rig and risking electrocution by the live wires in close proximity.[17] Bono said "good night" to the crowd on nearly a half a dozen occasions so that the post-production crew would have several choices of songs with which to end the film.[3] Backstage, the band members were disappointed that the crowd did not initially chant "how long to sing this song?" after the band had left the stage following the final song, "40", which had become a tradition. However, tour manager Dennis Sheehan hid underneath the crowd barrier and began singing the refrain into a microphone without being asked. Eventually, the crowd joined in; the film was edited to disguise the fact that the singing was organised.[1]
The day after the concert, Taylor went into the video editing suite to prepare a promotional video and a rough edit of the concert, while Lillywhite mixed the sound at Caribou Ranch. Ultimately, Taylor completed two separate edits of the concert: the first was an hour-long version for a planned but cancelled UK television broadcast that was instead released on VHS; the second version was the full concert.[4]
Release
Broadcasts and initial home video
The concert was first broadcast on 8, 9 and 10 July 1983 on NBC's radio network
The Red Rocks film was screened at the
U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky was U2's first home video release,
The image of Bono atop the lighting rig during his performance of "The Electric Co." was used as the cover of the video with the text Under a Blood Red Sky.[6][17] The film begins with a brief montage that includes an interview with U2, preparations being made by the concert crew and reactions by anxious fans. The Clannad song "Theme from Harry's Game", which was played after many of U2's shows at the time, is heard in the film's opening montage and during the end credits.[34] The film's subtitle "Under a Blood Red Sky", also the title of the companion live album, originates from a lyric in "New Year's Day". This lyric is not sung in the film; instead Bono sang "under a thundercloud and rain", in reference to the weather conditions.[25]
During the band's performance of "Cry / The Electric Co.", Bono sang excerpts of
Recordings of "Twilight" and "An Cat Dubh" from the concert were featured on U2's single "Sweetest Thing" in 1998.[37] In 2004, the concert recording of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" appeared on the compilation album Carved in Stone Vol. 2: Live at Red Rocks, a charity record to raise funds for the "Preserve the Rocks Fund", which aimed to renovate and preserve Red Rocks Park.[38]
Following the release of the official concert recordings, video and audio bootleg recordings circulated that featured the entirety of the band's performance.[25]
DVD re-release and streaming
In 2005, after Rick Wurpel re-opened his production business, he realised that neither he nor TTS had the master tapes in their inventory and feared that they had been lost.[39] He discovered the Denver City Council possessed the tapes among an inventory of 164 recordings.[40] A former employee of Wurpel had been storing the tapes and intended to dispose of them unless the city was interested.[39] The city had paid her $3,000 for the storage costs and took possession of the tapes.[39] Legal proceedings subsequently ensued to return the tapes to Wurpel and U2.[40]
Barry Fey later signed paperwork for a future
The remastered DVD also features a version of "
On 15 March 2021, U2 announced a concert broadcast series called "The Virtual Road" in partnership with YouTube, by which four of the group's past concert films were remastered and streamed on the band's official YouTube channel for 48 hours each. Live at Red Rocks began streaming on 25 March, with a pre-recorded performance by Irish rock band Fontaines D.C. serving as an "opening act".[44] To coincide with the broadcast event, a four-track EP of songs from Live at Red Rocks was released to streaming services and digital stores.[45]
Reception
Critical reaction
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Source | Rating |
Sunday Herald Sun (2008) | [52][53] |
Video Librarian (2008) | [54] |
Both the concert and the U2 Live at Red Rocks video received positive reviews from critics. In a review of the show, G. Brown of
Following the release of the DVD in 2008,
Commercial performance
In November 1984, the video was nominated for the Best Long Form award at Billboard magazine's Video Music Conference and the performance of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" was nominated for the Best Concert Performance award.[61] When Billboard debuted the Top Music Videocassettes chart (later renamed Top Music Videos) in the 30 March 1985 issue, U2 Live at Red Rocks ranked at number seven.[62] The video was included in the year-end Top Music Videocassettes charts for 1985 and 1987.[63][64] Following the 2008 DVD release, the video re-entered the chart for the first time since 1989, reaching number 3.[65] Overall, U2 Live at Red Rocks spent 152 weeks on the Top Music Videocassettes/Top Music Videos chart.[66] In April 1985, the video appeared on Billboard's Top Videocassette Sales chart at number 29, and remained on the chart for 14 weeks.[67] Billboard attributed the late increase in the video's sales to U2's sold-out Unforgettable Fire Tour, and called it "a textbook example of a group's current status having a direct influence on video sales".[28]
Legacy
U2's Red Rocks concert is often cited as a watershed moment in their history that established their reputation as an exceptional live act.[2] In the liner notes of the remastered version of the film, music journalist Anthony DeCurtis wrote, "this concert set goals for U2 that might have daunted any other young band. But in the shadow of their wild ambitions at Red Rocks, these four boys met, once again, the men of their future, and became who they would become."[42] In 1999, Entertainment Weekly ranked the show 40th on its list of "The 100 Greatest Moments in Rock Music", saying that "the mystic, against-all-odds performance... was a spiritual and commercial breakthrough" that "transformed U2 from college-radio underdogs into A-list rock heroes".[68] In 2004, Rolling Stone called the band's performance of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" from the film one of the "50 Moments that Changed the History of Rock and Roll". The magazine said, "[t]he sight of Bono singing the anti-violence anthem 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' while waving a white flag through crimson mist (created by a combination of wet weather, hot lights and the illumination of those crags) became the defining image of U2's warrior-rock spirit and—shown in heavy rotation on MTV—broke the band nationwide."[17] Director Gavin Taylor said that the video "kick-started their career" and "fired them like a rocket into the sky".[8] A 2005 industry poll of "The World's Greatest Gigs" ranked U2's Red Rocks show the 8th-greatest in rock history.[69] In 2009, Relix named it the 24th-best concert since 1959.[70]
The Denver Post said the concert affirmed Red Rocks Amphitheatre's status as a premier outdoor venue.[2] Rocky Mountain News said that the concert was "[e]asily one of the most famous, acclaimed concerts of the 1980s (if not all time)", and that people who have visited the Amphitheatre ever since have been disappointed to learn that the pyres are not part of the venue and were only used for the U2 concert.[50] Music biographer Dave Thompson said the concert "transformed U2 ... into a very successful rock band", and that without U2, "Red Rocks would be just another smartly lit amphitheater".[71] In 2003, U2 were inducted into the Red Rocks Hall of Fame, which is on display in the venue's visitor center; the amphitheatre's official website states that U2's performance "paved the way for other great artists such as Stevie Nicks, the Moody Blues, John Tesh and Neil Young to record live concert videos at Red Rocks, and helped the Amphitheatre gain its reputation as one of the premier venues in the world".[72]
In June 2007, a U2 tribute band named Under a Blood Red Sky performed a note-for-note recreation of U2's performance at Red Rocks. That same week, the City of Denver unsuccessfully tried to persuade U2 to return to Red Rocks.[73] During the PopMart Tour in 1997, Bono stated that because of low ticket sales for their Denver concert at Mile High Stadium, a return to the more intimate Red Rocks setting held appeal.[74] However, in a 2008 interview, Barry Fey said that he had questioned U2 about performing at Red Rocks again, to which they replied, "Absolutely not".[2] On both occasions, Fey said that U2 could never top their original performance and that returning to Red Rocks would be "foolish" and "a no-win situation" for the group.[2][74]
Track listing
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Personnel
U2
- Bono – lead vocals, guitar on "A Day Without Me"
- The Edge – guitar, piano, backing vocals, lap steel guitar on "Surrender", bass guitar on "40", lead vocals on "Seconds"
- Adam Clayton – bass guitar, guitar on "40", backing vocals on "I Will Follow", "Twilight" and "Out of Control"
- Larry Mullen Jr. – drums, backing vocals
Film crew
- Malcolm Gerrie – production associate
- Paul McGuinness for U2 at Red Rocks Associates – executive producer
- Doug Stewart – producer
- Gavin Taylor – director
- Rick Wurpel – producer
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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References
Notes
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External links
- U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky at IMDb
- U2 Live at Red Rocks at U2.com