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@U2 QOM June 2009: If you could take any one person, living or dead, to a U2 concert, who would you take and why?
@U2,
July 01, 2009
(Each month, @U2 puts a spotlight on U2 fans with our "Question of the Month." We pose a question to our readers and invite answers of 200 words or less. If you're interested in taking part, check our home page to see if the current question is still open. If not, check back shortly after the beginning of next month and we'll have another question ready to be answered!)
-- Sean John Lennon. Because he would never have believed it! -- Laurence Dunne No doubt I would take my best friend Mike who really was the one who got me into U2 (and therefore changed my life), or my best friend Sammy who is the only other person I know that loves and understands my U2 obsession with me! -- Justin Chidester I would take U2's biggest critic: Henry Rollins. This answer may seem strange, but taking him to a U2 show might show him the experience of U2 live. Even if I don't succeed at changing his mind, he will know that the scores of people who attend U2 shows are just as passionate about contemporary issues as he is. -- Ramkumar Ramanathan I'd take Bono's mom. I don't think I need to explain that one. -- Dan from California There are two possible answers to this question for me -- one living, one not. The living would be my 17-year-old son, a wannabe actor -- he and his big sister were raised with U2's music (as my mother raised me with Elvis -- I disliked his music at the time but now it means so much to me) and I want him to see a master at work. No one can possess an audience like Bono can, and I want my son to know the power a performance can hold. The other is Donna -- a coworker and friend who had a thing for Irishmen -- she adored Liam Neeson too, but since she was only five feet tall that obsession led to some mildly risque jokes. She liked U2's music but really liked Larry and his blue eyes (better than Bono's). She died of a heart attack at 56 -- suddenly & without warning. I'd like my friend back, if only for the length of a concert. -- Lisa Andrus Henry Rollins. I'm sure he would hate every minute of it, but maybe, just maybe he'll change his mind about the band and STFU about how much U2 sucks. -- Eric Weiss The one person that I would take to a U2 concert is my Mom. After
I saw U2 for the very first time back in the fall of 2001, all I could do was
talk about the show for several months after that. I was so excited!
I went on and on about how that was the best show I had ever seen. Then
one day she told me, "Well, the next time they come back to town,
I want to go with you." I was first shocked and then ecstatic!
I thought, "My Mom wanted to come to a rock concert with me???" I
couldn't wait for them to come back! -- Allegra I would take my son (15 years old). Because his real name is Bono Vox. The best reason, I think. Don't you? -- Helder dos Anjos This one is easy! I've dreamed of taking my son David to a U2 concert since he was born. He'll be eight years old this fall and we have tickets to the Raleigh, NC show. (And yes, he's named after Paul DAVID Hewson.) It'll be his first concert. This seems to be a tradition in our family as I was around my son's age when my Mom took me to my first concert, Elvis Presley! -- Kim Black If I could take any one person to a U2 show it would be my friend Barbara. She recently lost her only child, Christopher, in Afghanistan and I really feel that a U2 show, with all the emotions and joy and yes, tears, would help her immensely on her road of grief. There is, IMO, nothing more moving or cathartic than the moment at a U2 show where a person just...GETS IT. I have seen it many, many times, in strangers and loved ones and I truly feel it would help my friend. I wish I had an extra ticket for September 12th. -- Jean S.
I would take my brother who died in a car accident in 1987. Because we never went to a rock concert together and I would love to share the experience with him. -- Nancy Briggs If I could take one person who is living or dead to a U2 concert I would have to take Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I would love to take him because he was such a great American and he has INSPI(RED) U2 so much. I think it would be a great way for him to see how much change he has brought to the world. I would love for him to feel the spirit between us fans that you don't get anywhere else besides a U2 concert. Like Bono sings, "we're one but we're not the same" -- it is true yet for those two and a half hours that the boys are on stage we really are "one". I think that Dr. King would be really proud and grateful to see that his dream is still alive and especially now with President Obama, anything is possible for anyone. All you have to do is believe and never give up! -- Elsha Stockseth Bono's mom because she would think it was f***in' sweet. -- spartackle I would take John Lennon and make sure he not only saw the show but met the band, because if any two people in the history of the world should have been friends, those two people are Bono and John Lennon. They are kindred souls who were shafted out of the chance to form the great friendship they surely would have had. Can you imagine (pun intended) what a powerful force they would have been for this world? Indeed, humanity itself was shafted by a madman named Chapman. -- Jennifer Johnston I'd like to go with my mother. Plain and simple. She's the only person who's ever truly made me feel special and unconditionally loved. Plus, she was the only person who ever gave U2 a real chance. Now, U2 is one of her favorites. I bought her a ticket for Atlanta come October. I have her to thank for exposing me to U2 the first time. When I was 7, my mom would loop "Mysterious Ways" on cassette EVERY morning while she got ready for work. It was engraved on my mind permanently from then on on. That's how many times she played that tape! Nowadays I always scold her as to why if she loved "Mysterious Ways" so much, why didn't she just buy Achtung Baby. But she's heard plenty of AB now since I practice on my drums through the whole album at least once a week. Here's to you mom, thanks for planting the bug! -- Matt Catalano
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If
I could take a person living or dead to a U2 concert it would be one of my friends
who hates U2! So they could see that U2 is the best band in the world!