U2 The Joshua Tree Tour Leg 3 Itinerary USA SEPT-DEC 1987 (Album cover)

It happened again....When I was 100% that only 3 different books were issued to cover The Joshua Tree tour, a fourth and different one came up.

It was in February 2016, almost 30 years after the tour ended. Incredible isn't it?

This new book is covering the 3rd and final leg of The Joshua Tree tour, the one that travelled up and down North America from September to December 1997.

Wait......we already knew about a book covering that third and final leg (see HERE). Yes... I know, but this one has got not only a different cover but also some differences.

This time we have a picture of the band on the cover. It looks similar to the cover of the The Joshua Tree album. At the top of the cover we read "U2 The Joshua Tree" while at the bottom we have a "SEPT-DEC 1987" text.

By checking the content of this book I would say this version was printed some time after the blue cover one. I can say this because the shows list is more accurate, more updated than the list on the "blue" book. All dates here are correct and the only information missing belongs to those 4 shows that were added later, when both versions of the book had already been printed. So again Oakland (Nov 14th), Murfreesboro (Nov 28th) and the two final shows in Tempe (Dec 19th and 20th) are missing on this book.

Apart from the cover and the updated shows list there are a few more differences.

This book includes a two pages summary with the band schedule and another two pages with the management schedule. On the top of those pages we see a date that I would consider as the date when this book was printed. That date is September 14th 1987, a few days after the leg had started.




Those pages include not only the shows and days off but plenty of information such as the venues, capacity, kind of venue (indoor, outdoor and dome), base where they would stay and even the day when they should occupant and leave the rented houses in Long Island. Those pages are also summarizing this leg as a "Total of 46 shows in 97 days" with 28 Indoors, 14 Outdoors and 4 Domes.

Another interesting detail is that there are some "rain dates" on the shows list, just in case some of the shows had to postponed. So we have one on December 4th right after the show in Miami and one on the 6th right after the show in Tampa.

One final difference versus the "blue" book is that this one is also including a list with all the companies involved on this leg. This list was missing on the "blue" book but was delivered to the staff on a separate page.

Once again the U2 itineraries bring amazing surprises that you discover here and there every time you take a look at their pages.

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