i actually watched it last night. enjoyed it. dave was great as usual...you could tell he was having a number of truly emotional moments.
agreed on the acoustic rendition of bad...that was good. didn't really care all that much of the other live stuff they did in that show but bad was pretty cool.
like jimmy said above, you can't fault bono for getting old...and no one can take away the amazing front man presence he had and the way he could drive melodies in gigantic stadium tours. his voice defines a lot of their sound from their peak. that said, i did find the discussion in the library to be quite amusing and it served to confirm what we have always known about that band...which is that the edge is the driving musical force in their songs and bono puts lyrics on top. when dave asked them how to write a song and the edge said "i start with the chords, all great melodies are born from a good chord progression" and bono tried to disagree and said "what about 'one,' you changed the chords to that just now and it was still great" to which edge responded "no i didn't, i just changed the key" with a confused look at him. i actually lol'd at that.
anyway, made for some nice nostalgia and beautifully shot around dublin. it motivated me for my next musical effort...an orchestral recomposition/rearrangement of my fav u2 song, mothers of the disappeared.