If knowing about the existence of an itinerary book for WAR tour was a huge surprise, imagine how I felt when I knew about this one. We are talking about OCTOBER tour which means 1981-82.
The tour had 3 legs in Europe and 2 in the USA with a total of 102 shows but.... 2 of the European legs were really short with only 5 and 9 shows. How many itineraries for this tour should exist? Answer might be 5 but I have confirmed with someone who worked on the tour, that leg 3 Europe had no itinerary at all. It was just 5 shows and 3 of them where in Ireland so they decided not to print itineraries for the staff. Conclusion: A maximum of 4 different itineraries were issued for the OCTOBER tour.
This OCTOBER tour itinerary that I'm showing covers the 1982 North American leg of the tour. That was the 4th leg of the tour and travelled across the States for a month and a half during February and March 1982.
Concert dates go from a first one at SS President Riverboat in New Orleans on February 11th to a final show at San Francisco Civic Center on March 30th.
As usual, the book is including a day to day coverage of the tour, a list of all the companies working on the tour (Travel Agents, Press and promotion, PA, Lighting, Tracking,....), a list of contact information (management, Promoter,...) and a detailed page for every day on the road with all the info on travelling, hotels, soundchecks,....
On one of the pages there is some writing that gives some details about interviews that Bono, Edge and Adam were having on that day.
Another amazing detail is that the band and tour staff were traveling by rented cars or vans when the distances weren't too big. For instance they used three 4 door sedans rented from Herth to drive from Hartford to Armherts, about 52 miles.
All in all an amazing way of touring if we compare it to nowadays.
Hopefully I can find some other books from this tour very soon. Till then...enjoy !
UPDATE: On July 18th 2015, Bono signed my copy of this itinerary in front of MSG in New York before the U2 show.
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