They had a reputation for being "heavy-handed and pretentious," wrote the St. But by the time they came back in 1997, they were, in the words of a Tampa Tribune headline, "the band that matters" in rock music. U2 had played Tampa several times before the Joshua Tree tour, including gigs at the USF Sun Dome in 1985, Curtis Hixon Hall twice in 1983 and even an old club called the End Zone in 1981. Looking back at that 1987, show, it's interesting to see just how the world saw U2 at the time, and how U2 saw themselves. RELATED: Nostalgia or relevance? U2's 'Joshua Tree' tour aims for both in Tampa Thirty years later, U2 is bringing The Joshua Tree back to Tampa on Wednesday with a 30th anniversary performance at Raymond James Stadium. This was the original Joshua Tree tour, the one that catapulted U2 from big theaters and arenas to stadiums across America.
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