U2: Live at Red Rocks - Under a Blood Red Sky (1983)

the audience applauded

Overrated

One of my all time favorites.

Best movie ever!

Love this piece of musical history. Where my love affair with this fantastic band started all those years ago. 'The rain's great.'

U2 does an early concert at Red Rocks in Colorado. The concert was almost canceled due to rain and low temperatures. The concert went on because they were ready to do a bunch of filming and had sunk so much time and money into it. The result added fog to the mix of location and great music and it made magic.This concert video might well had not been so good without all things including the fog, coming together. Not as polished as later efforts, but you can see a future headliner even at this point in time.They need to get this video out onto DVD in region 1.Worth a rental and a buy

SPOILERS THROUGHOUT: Any U2 fan who has not seen this, is missing a little known treasure. I have watched U2 live at red rocks more times then I can count. It was made long before U2 were ever as big as they are now. It features more of their early music and it takes place at The Red Rocks. It is absolutely electrifying.I was so into this concert I think it spoiled me for "Rattle and Hum". Live At Red Rocks features, not only some of the best music of U2'S career, it illustrates the almost indescribable chemistry that exists between the band members and the charisma that they bring to their live performances. It clearly shows why they became one of the biggest bands in the world. And it does this in a way "Rattle and Hum", at least in my opinion, never really managed to do.The concert footage is fast paced, haunting, and almost dizzying in the sheer electricity that echos throughout. Live At Red Rocks is one of the most extraordinary concerts I've ever seen and could make a U2 fan out of even the most skeptical of viewers. Take a watch if you haven't and lose yourself to some of the most haunting rock music ever created.

Even at this early stage in their US breakthrough U2 were already displaying the elements which have made them one of America's favorite rock acts and Ireland's greatest musical export.This concert recorded in 1983 during their US tour at Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver in Colorado (Near the little town of Morrison which has a great Mexican Restautant called the Morrison Inn!!) showcases most of the early hits from Boy, October and War.Flare and torches blaze at either side of the stage as Bono struts (and steams in the aftermath of a torrential downpour) his way through Gloria, I will follow, 11 O'Clock Tick tock, Party Girl, New Years Day, A blistering version of Sunday Bloody Sunday containing the now immortal introduction of "There's been a lot of talk about this song, maybe, maybe too much talk, This song is not a rebel song. This song is..." and The Electric Co before finishing off with the excellent crowd singalong 40 which fades to the wonderfully atmostheric crowd chant of "How long to sing this song". Edge playes the blues and Larry bates the drums and Adam with a great big blond mullet haircut just acts cool. This is an excellent companion piece to the more mature and sophisticated Rattle and Hum DVD and it would be nice to see this also released on DVD sometime soon.