U2 Kicks Off Tour With Unadulterated Rock, Straight From the Heart, according to New York Times reviewer Neil Strauss.

If Bono can pull off the stunt he did at the end of last Saturday night's U2 concert in Miami at Slane Castle in August, it would be the most incredible spectacle witnessed on an Irish stage.

Rock superstars U2 launched their first U.S. tour in nearly four years in classic form in Florida on Saturday night, treating 20,000 devoted, delirious fans to a crowd-pleasing mix of old and new songs delivered with their legendary energy, free of the extravagances of their most recent tours.

U2 may be scaling back the multimedia excesses lavished on their elaborate Zoo TV and Popmart tours of the '90s, but the band isn't backpedaling into austere pub gigs