{"id":28952,"date":"2024-03-06T18:02:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T18:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/drummer-bram-van-den-berg-thanks-u2-fans-for-their-support-throughout-sphere-residency\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T18:02:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T18:02:26","slug":"drummer-bram-van-den-berg-thanks-u2-fans-for-their-support-throughout-sphere-residency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/drummer-bram-van-den-berg-thanks-u2-fans-for-their-support-throughout-sphere-residency\/","title":{"rendered":"Drummer Bram van den Berg thanks U2 fans for their support throughout Sphere residency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-06\/Getty_U2Sphere_030624.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Live Nation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Drummer <strong>Bram van den Berg<\/strong>, who sat in for <strong>Larry Mullen Jr.<\/strong> during <strong>U2<\/strong>\u2019s Las Vegas residency, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">U2: UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, is\u00a0thanking U2 fans for the warm welcome he received throughout the residency run.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a post on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/zootopia.u2.com\/forums\/topic\/45564-wham-bam-thank-you-bram\/page\/7\/#comment-1263331\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>U2&#8217;s official forum, Zootopia<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, Bram calls the experience performing with the band an \u201cadventure of a lifetime.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;There was so much love going around during the shows and I felt incredibly supported by the U2 audience,&#8221; he adds. \u201cYou\u2019ve all been so good to me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bram shares that he felt \u201cprivileged\u201d to be included in the shows and that <strong>Bono<\/strong>, <strong>The Edge<\/strong>, <strong>Adam Clayton<\/strong> and Mullen trusted him \u201cto represent their incredible legacy night after night.&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThey say never meet your heroes. But I\u2019m glad I did. Because they turned out to be the sweetest, genuine and hardest working people I\u2019ve ever met,\u201d he writes. \u201cAnd I\u2019m beyond humbled that I got to be part of all of your lives for those two hours and 10 minutes. What an honor!!!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">U2 wrapped up the residency on Saturday, March 2, after 40 shows at the state-of-the-art Vegas venue.\u00a0<\/span>As a thank you to fans, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0NrsRRg8zOw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>shared a new video<\/strong><\/a> from the residency set to their classic \u201cBeautiful Day,&#8221; focusing on the audience and all the fans that came to see them from around the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0NrsRRg8zOw\" title=\"U2 - Beautiful Day (Thank You, Las Vegas) - U2:UV Achtung Baby, Live At Sphere\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Live Nation Drummer Bram van den Berg, who sat in for Larry Mullen Jr. during U2\u2019s Las Vegas residency, U2: UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere, is\u00a0thanking U2 fans for the warm welcome he received throughout the residency run. In a post on U2&#8217;s official forum,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/drummer-bram-van-den-berg-thanks-u2-fans-for-their-support-throughout-sphere-residency\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}