May 6, 1983 was a night I will never forget. My friend and I were about to see U2's third tour in Boston for their War album. We had already seen them on the first tour in the Paradise club, then in the Orpheum for the October tour. By the War album, everyone was starting to get what we had known for at least 2 years, that these guys were incredible and could blow a lot of bands off the stage. And that Boston was their "home crowd." You see, back then U2 was not this soft band like now, with political world peace bullshit, jetting all over the world and having their now mediorce music being secondary. They were just a very tight intense raw youthful punk band. And this night, which you can now listen for yourself, by subscribing to Wolfgang's Vault. This concert will show you what I am talking about. Out of 500+ concerts I have seen, this and the Clash's 2nd American tour stand above as the most intense shows I have ever seen. There is a story to this night as well. My friend and I were locked out of tickets for the first time for our band. We bought tickets from some scalper in the Boston Common. All of a sudden, my friend hisses to me, "walk away quickly!!" I didn't know what he was talking about. Well, the scalper had sold us 3 tickets instead of two. We recovered our money by selling the 3rd. But the story gets better. We hand the tickets to a lady in the Orpheum and she starts walking us in. She walks, she keeps walking, until she reaches the 1st row, then turns right and said "there's your seats!!" 30 seconds later the lights go down and we are about 20 feet from the Edge as they launch into "Out of Control." As youll hear on the broadcast. Bono says, "Ok Boston, you can leave your seats now! This is Out of Control!" Every song in this show has raw punkish energy and listen to the version of "Two Hearts Beat As One" which is about 5X the speed of the album one. This was the end. After
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