U2 The Joshua Tree Tour Leg 3 USA SEPT-DEC 1987 (CREW Itinerary #1)

As we saw in the past, it is not rare that the management issues different itineraries for the same leg. It usually happens that one is for the band and management and the other one for the Crew.

We are now in front of one of those Crew itineraries. They are for those teams that travel in advance to the cities where the band is going to play in a few days.  These people are in charge of building up the stage and getting everything ready for the arrival of the band gear.... and the band themselves.

We have already seen Crew books for Zoo TV,  Zooropa and 360º tours but we never saw one from the The Joshua Tree tour so this is at the moment the oldest Crew itinerary we ever saw.

This book is covering just a part of the final leg of this tour. We also know about a second Crew book also related to this part of the TJ Tour, but the thing is that both books are not enough to cover all this leg so we can think that other Crew books were issued to cover the rest of this leg and probably other parts of this Joshua Tree tour.

In terms of design, this is a very simple book. A total of 45 pink pages are held in a plastic folder with no cover.

On the front page we can read "30 day itinerary SYSTEM A     Nº 1" so this was issued for the first of the different Crew teams that worked on the tour. Also on that front page we see the planning for the dates between September 10th 1987 and October 9th 1987, when they where loading in at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburg.

If we check the planning, the first show for this team was in fact the 4th of this leg.

The first 30 pages of this book are a daily plan where the Crew have all the information regarding every specific day and venue, with timings, hotels and some recommendations for their spare time in the area.

As we can see, this A team is only in charge of three of three of the venues that U2 will visit on this first part of the 3rd leg: Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, JFK Stadium in Philadelphia and Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburg.

After those 30 pages, we find 3 different blocks separated by a yellow page. Those 3 block are dedicated to the three  stadiums the team will visit and I just mentioned above. It is rare that no detailed information about Municipal Stadium in Cleveland appears on this books that seems to be 100% complete.

On those 3 blocks dedicated to each one of the 3 stadiums we can find full information including address, operations manager, promoter details, planning for their works at that stadium, staging information, site facilities, and many other useful information the team might need while building up the U2 stage.

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