{"id":973406,"date":"2019-11-08T08:42:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T15:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=909888"},"modified":"2019-11-08T08:42:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T15:42:42","slug":"watch-u2-play-an-emotional-one-tree-hill-at-2019-joshua-tree-tour-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-u2-play-an-emotional-one-tree-hill-at-2019-joshua-tree-tour-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch U2 Play an Emotional \u2018One Tree Hill\u2019 at 2019 \u2018Joshua Tree\u2019 Tour Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/u2-joshua-tree-2019.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/u2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_u2\" data-tag=\"u2\">U2<\/a> kicked off their Joshua Tree Tour 2019 at Auckland, New Zealand\u2019s Mount Smart Stadium on Friday evening. It was their first concert since the conclusion of their Experience + Innocence Tour exactly one year ago, and their first time playing any songs from <em>The Joshua Tree<\/em> since the conclusion of the last <em>Joshua Tree<\/em> tour in October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The emotional highpoint of the show came midway through <em>The Joshua Tree<\/em> when Bono spoke to the crowd about Greg Carroll, a young M\u0101ori man they met in Auckland when the group first played there in 1984. He joined their crew and became extremely close to the band. He was even onstage with them at Live Aid making sure Bono\u2019s microphone cords didn\u2019t get tangled when he went into the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Tragically, he died in a motorcycle accident on June 3rd, 1986. The group was just about to begin work on <em>The Joshua Tree<\/em> and they wrote \u201cOne Tree Hill\u201d \u2014 inspired by an actual volcano in Auckland \u2014 in his honor. Days before the Auckland concert this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/entertainment\/music\/117190040\/u2-pay-a-visit-to-one-tree-hill-ahead-of-their-auckland-concerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">U2 went to One Tree Hill<\/a> to honor Carroll.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sort of adopted him, or perhaps it was the other way around,\u201d Bono told the crowd in Auckland. \u201cBut we were very grateful for his companionship over those precious times together. He was taken from us too soon, but in a certain way, he\u2019s still very present. So this is for Greg Carroll.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Much like with the 2017 <em>Joshua Tree<\/em> concerts, U2 began the Auckland show with a their Eighties hits \u201cSunday Bloody Sunday,\u201d \u201cNew Year\u2019s Day,\u201d \u201cBad\u201d and \u201cPride (In the Name of Love)\u201d before playing <em>The Joshua Tree<\/em> straight through. The encore featured songs recorded after <em>The Joshua Tree<\/em>, including \u201cElevation,\u201d \u201cVertigo,\u201d \u201cEvery Breaking Wave\u201d and \u201cEven Better than the Real Thing.\u201d The show wrapped up with \u201cOne.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U2 head over to Australia after playing one more show in Auckland and then the tour will take them to Singapore, Japan and South Korea before wrapping in Mumbai, India, on December 15th.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/u2-one-tree-hill-909888\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U2 kicked off their Joshua Tree Tour 2019 at Auckland, New Zealand\u2019s Mount Smart Stadium on Friday evening. It was their first concert since the conclusion of their Experience + Innocence Tour exactly one year ago, and their first time playing any songs from The Joshua Tree since the conclusion of the last Joshua Tree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 07:16:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}