Best ever One Tree Hill - U2, Dublin Point Depot

Concert: U2- Dublin Point Depot, 1989-12-26, LoveTown tour.

One Tree Hill is a 182 metre volcanic peak located in Auckland, New Zealand. It is an important memorial place for both Maori and other New Zealanders. The suburb around the base of the hill is also called One Tree Hill. When Auckland was founded as a colonial town a totara tree stood near the summit which gave the hill its name.

The tree was cut down by a white settler in 1852, in an act of vandalism in one account, or for firewood in another. A radiata pine was planted in the 1870s to replace the previous totara.

Until 2000, the lone pine tree stood next to the obelisk. However, this remaining tree was later attacked twice with chainsaws by Maori protesters. The first attack happened on 28 October 1994, the anniversary of the 1835 Declaration of Independence. A second attack on the 5th of October 2000 left the tree unable to recover and so it was removed due to the risk of it dying and falling down.

The summit stands empty at the moment, except for the obelisk. A new nickname, No(ne) Tree Hill, soon became popular.

Irish rock band U2 wrote a song about the hill in their song One Tree Hill, which appeared on their album The Joshua Tree. It was written to honour New Zealander Greg Carroll, an employee of the band who died in a motorcycle accident in Dublin on July 3, 1986.
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The song also includes the massacre that took place in Chile in 1973. Victor Jara was a poet and song writer who was rounded up and taken to a stadium with thousands of other innocent people where they were beaten and killed.

On the morning of September 12, Jara was taken, along with thousands of others, as a prisoner to the Chile Stadium (renamed the Estadio Víctor Jara in September 2003). In the hours and days that followed, many of those detained in the stadium were tortured and killed there by the military forces. Jara was repeatedly beaten and tortured; the bones in his hands were broken as were his ribs. Reports that one of Jara's hands, or both of his hands, had been cut off, are, however, erroneous.[citation needed] Fellow political prisoners have testified that his captors mockingly suggested that he play guitar for them as he lay on the ground. Defiantly, he sang part of a song supporting the Popular Unity coalition.[citation needed] After further beatings, he was machine-gunned on September 15 and his body dumped on a road on the outskirts of Santiago, and then taken to a city morgue.

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• jara

[djonwayne]

Hey Gizzo. I am the happy owner of a mac and it cant open the file. would it be possible to get the Mp3 from you?

[TheGreatGizzo]

@djonwayne haha those macs. Sure I can email it to you. Give me a pm with your emal and I'll send it to you.

[djonwayne]

Is there someone who knows if there is an Mp3 of this version and where to get it?

[TheGreatGizzo]

@djonwayne I got this Mp3 from u2start diot com. Its the best U2 fan bootleg site, and U2 doesn't mind people using it, actually they encourage it as long as you don't try to sell the stuff, haha. some of the concerts have been taken off the site since I have downloaded this and others because of copyrights (by the record companies). To search and download all you need to do is sign up with an email, don't worry there is no spam mail.

[onewithu2]

Agree Agree Bono's voice amazing!!!!! they all sound amazing!!!!Wish they would play this song on the 360 tour!!!!U2 FOREVER!!!!!

[bonovx]

The reason why U2 dont play this so often is that they like this song to remain special as it has a special meaning to them and New Zealand. Gregs death still effects the band and will remain in their hearts.

[explorer32]

it's amazing that music can still bring tears to my eyes.

this sure did...

[LeCutter]

Thanks for all the info, folks. I did not know all this about this song. This is still my favourite U2 song. And the Joshua Tree still remains one of the greatest albums of all time. I have good memories of this song in Joshua National Park in Nevada of all places. Heh. Cheers.

[buckrogersofthe21stM]

One tree hill is now no tree hill thanks to the idiotic modern day Honi Heke. Wake up people to a world that is everyones not just those who think they deserve what they think belongs to them. The tree that stood was older than time and marked the love of a country. A country that is now being torn apart by greed. It was a living thing it was not a flag that marked ownership you moron. Yours regretably Bronson.

[miniongeek1969]

Love this :-) Cheers.

[Eiger6]

Amazing live version of the song; thanks for posting!

[NZFly101]

can i just say, as someone who lives in NZ and is a huge U2 fan, you have created not only a treat for the ears but the eyes aswell. LOVE the visuals you have included aswell. Top Notch!!!

[MegaPoone]

I'd sell everybody's grandmothers just to have been there...

[zvejkal2]

Amazing. Yes.

[lisamarie656]

@MrAedoh So jealous!

[MrAedoh]

One of the cheering voices you hear is mine. I was there that night. My first U2 concert.