U2 The Joshua Tree Tour Leg 3 Itinerary USA SEPT-DEC 1987

Third and final leg of The Joshua Tree tour means a new itinerary for the tour staff. This time blue is the chosen colour for a cover pretty similar to the previous book from this tour.

It's curious that the title on the three books we saw from this tour reads "The Joshua Tour" forgetting about the word Tree.

On September 7th, band and management leave for the States, where the first show of this 3rd leg is planned for the 10th at Nassau Colisseum in NY after a production rehearsal on the 9th.

This time the group is growing to 26 people involved in Band and Management and more than 70 people in Crew.

If we check the list of shows on this itinerary, we see some differences versus the final concerts of this 3rd and final leg of the The Joshua Tree tour. For example the book lists a second show in Philadelphia, on September 26th which never happened. We can also see that the show in Rochester was planned for October 7th and the one in Buffalo on the 11th. It really happened the opposite: U2 played in Buffalo on the 7th and in Rochester on the 11th.

Finally, there are some shows that are not on the book but were added later on, once the book was printed. U2 played in Oakland (Nov 14th), Murfreesboro (Nov 28th) and two final shows in Tempe (Dec 19th and 20th).

There is a second version of this itinerary that seems to have been printed later so most of these final changes are already solved on that second book. You can find all the details HERE.

During the first part of this 3rd leg, the band rented some houses on Long Island, as they already explain on "U2 by U2". Those houses are used as a base for about a month, travelling to many shows from there. For the shows at Madison Square Graden they flew to NY on helicopter.





After leaving the houses, they spent some days in Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles also travelling to many shows from those locations.

As mentioned before, according to the itinerary the tour ends on December 12th and they all are back home on the 13th. The truth is that they added two shows at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe on December 19th and 20th that were filmed for the "Rattle&Hum" movie.

For those additional dates the staff was given a few paper sheets including all the information related to the dates between December 12th (last show in Hampton) to December 21st (the day after the 2nd show in Tempe).

Final pages on the itinerary book include some Pizza Restaurant adverts and a USA Mileage and Driving Time map.

This was the final leg for The Joshua Tree tour so no more itineraries from that succesfull tour should exist.

Adam Clayton signed my copy of this book in Barcelona in October 2015.

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