U2's new Songs of iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour had barely just begun when it almost had to end. During the show's kickoff in Vancouver, guitarist The Edge stumbled off the end of the stage, and though he quickly recovered, he opened up that it could have been a disastrous quick end to the live shows.
In what appeared to be a casual moment, with The Edge just strolling along the stage, The Edge just slipped off the side of the stage as he lost track of where he was on the platform.
"It was a moment of reverie where I just completely lost track of where I was on the stage," he said in an extended tour preview and interview with CBS Sunday Morning.
And though The Edge ended up being perfectly fine, the band realized that the fall could have marked the end of the tour.
"I was sick in the pit of my stomach, 'cause I knew what was down there," bassist Adam Clayton said.
Lucky enough for U2, The Edge was perfectly OK, and the incident is now something that U2 can laugh off.
"It could have been the shortest tour in history," The Edge commented, while Bono was thinking a little more about some much needed vacation time. "I was thinking about days off, myself," he joked.
The Edge's fall off the Vancouver stage avoided disaster, but it wasn't the first miss for U2 ahead of its 2015 tour. In November 2014, Bono suffered a bicycle crash in New York City's Central Park, causing him serious injuries. The frontman is still unable to bend his fingers or play the guitar.
