http://www.thewrap.com/article/u2-no-money-horizon-gamble-9033

When you've got to play 42 concerts and gross 300 million dollars just to break even because of the cost of your 'equipment' (the stage), haven't we lost sight of what 'making music' is all about? Is this why we all wanted to be musicians when we grew up (the fact that we never grew up is incidental)? Somewhere, somehow, something must have gone terribly wrong. Does it really take this much to convince our audience that our music is any good? Man oh man, where will it end? Could be why I've always felt that Rock was more about show than about musical substance.

chas