{"id":2446034,"date":"2019-07-05T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=855481"},"modified":"2019-07-05T08:00:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T14:00:20","slug":"flashback-u2-play-frenetic-out-of-control-on-1981-boy-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/flashback-u2-play-frenetic-out-of-control-on-1981-boy-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: U2 Play Frenetic \u2018Out of Control\u2019 on 1981 \u2018Boy\u2019 Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U2<\/a>\u2019s hardcore fans unearthed an important piece of the band\u2019s history earlier this month with the discovery of an audience recording<\/a> from an August 1979 gig the group played at Dublin\u2019s Dandelion Market. It\u2019s the earliest U2 concert recording known to exist, containing not just early versions of \u201cOut of Control\u201d and \u201cStories For Boys,\u201d but also two songs that have never been heard before: \u201cIn Your Hand\u201d and \u201cConcentration Cramp.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of the songs later appeared on their debut LP Boy<\/em>, released in October 1980. U2 promoted the album with a brief American tour that December before returning in March 1981 for a much longer odyssey that took them to nearly every corner of the country. Professional cameras were rolling when the tour reached San Francisco\u2019s California Hall on May 15th, 1981, and you can watch the band play \u201cOut of Control\u201d right here. Their repertoire was so limited at that point that when audiences called them back for an encore, they had to play \u201cI Will Follow,\u201d \u201cThe Ocean,\u201d and \u201c11 O\u2019Clock Tick Tock\u201d even though they already did them in the main set.<\/p>\n

It was a busy week at the California Hall for acts from Ireland and England. The evening before U2 played, Split Enz appeared and the day after Madness played, one year before they broke big in America with \u201cOur House.\u201d Local San Francisco group Romeo Void opened up for U2, shortly before they had a hit of their own with \u201cNever Say Never.\u201d<\/p>\n

Split Enz and Romeo Void are just distant memories, but U2 is still going strong. They are bringing their Joshua Tree<\/em> anniversary tour back on the road later this year for dates at stadiums in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea. They\u2019ve come a long, long way from the Dandelion Market and California Hall.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U2\u2019s hardcore fans unearthed an important piece of the band\u2019s history earlier this month with the discovery of an audience recording from an August 1979 gig the group played at Dublin\u2019s Dandelion Market. It\u2019s the earliest U2 concert recording known to exist, containing not just early versions of \u201cOut of Control\u201d and \u201cStories For Boys,\u201d […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 23:53:56","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}